How about a contest? Sure..why not...a Bowling contest no less!

BobaFett72 · June 19, 2008 9:06AM

I did one of these a few months ago for Sh!ts and Giggles... the scores were only practice then, but this time it's for all the glory.

This Saturday in Hartford Ct I will be at Highland Lanes bowling in a DPBA (Duckpin Professional Bowlers Associaiton) Pro-Tour. I rejoined last month after a NINE year abscence.

I was going to do this for the last event, but I didnt want to completely embarass myself. Fortunately I did OK and finished 95th out of 200 entries, nothing to write home about, but I was pleased with my overall experience.

The format of the tournament is such that you bowl 8 games on Saturday, then they take the top 24. If you qualify they do head to head match play then up the ladder finals.

For the sake of the contest the easiest thing to do is to have folks guess what place I'll finish in & what my total pinfall will be. I would expect about 110 to 125 entries for this stop. YOU GET ONE GUESS. Closest without going over wins....total pinfall will be the tiebreaker if folks guess the same place, so make sure you guess a different pinfall total!

Remember, this is duckpins, small ball, short pins and much lower scoring. The cut score SHOULD be close to or just below 1200 (150 per game) depending on scoring conditions etc. I have no idea how the lanes will score as this is the first pro-event ever held there.

so whadya win??
1st Prize: (4) 1991 Score Wax boxes series 1.
2nd Prize: (1) 1990 Fleer Facory Set & 1990 UD Extended set

Bonus prize if the winner is a Cleveland Indians fan

some hints...... my best 8 game score is 1248 and my worst is 998.
the highest I have ever placed is 4th, the lowest....well, we wont go there.

lawnmowerman · June 19, 2008 9:09AM

You will finish 25th (sorry)

edit to add pinfall: 1003

bman90278 · June 19, 2008 9:11AM

58th place , total points 988. Have fun!

prscott933 · June 19, 2008 9:19AM

37th with 1137 pins

zep33 · June 19, 2008 9:22AM

46th and 1087 pins

thanks and good luck to you

HeritageAddict · June 19, 2008 9:29AM

33 & 1127

wrongleg · June 19, 2008 9:31AM

Bowling on these boards. Way Cool.

The wronglegged big ball bowler will guess (if this was just PBA I could guess easier)

1080 56th place.

Hope I'm way short and you win. Good luck.

dan8402 · June 19, 2008 9:38AM

47th and 1138 pins

VitoCo1972 · June 19, 2008 9:41AM

11th - 1224

Edited to say - Best of luck - I love candlepin bowling everytime I get back to Boston (couple times/year). My career high is 129 - tough game.

BunchOBull · June 19, 2008 9:42AM

19th

1287 pin fall

Thanks Leo.

lsutigers1973 · June 19, 2008 9:52AM

29th
1029

dizzle · June 19, 2008 10:10AM

33 and 1133 have fun!

MeteoriteGuy · June 19, 2008 10:25AM

23 - 1212

DrJ · June 19, 2008 10:33AM

34 -- 1187

artistlost · June 19, 2008 10:42AM

21st with 1020

thanks and good luck!

kshorton · June 19, 2008 10:57AM

is this place some form of FLDS congolmeration. do you all.. like do each others kids... and then do your own kid that was born by your daughter/lover to make another kid ? why was 'bowling' mixed in with cards ?

please retain the coolness.

banned item discussion topics:

bowling

I demand thee all to abide by that one.

usmc1986 · June 19, 2008 12:21PM

55th and 1109 pins

Dan
Semper Fi

Bosox1976 · June 19, 2008 12:23PM

40/1044

Don't get Munsoned!

bigfische · June 19, 2008 12:32PM

42
1190

DavidPuddy · June 19, 2008 1:07PM

16th
1098

Indians Fan....

flash300 · June 19, 2008 2:17PM

15 - 4190 your gonna be good

Cubby · June 19, 2008 4:43PM

By total pinfall, I take it that's the 8 game qualifying round?
Or, is it total pinfall, including H2H games?

Davemri · June 19, 2008 9:27PM

57th with 1000 pins

baseballfan · June 19, 2008 9:49PM

48th

1038 pins

thanks and good luck i hope you win it all

BobaFett72 · June 20, 2008 12:30AM

to clarify...

guess the place ill finish...

and the 8 game total pinfall from the qualifying round.

im departing for Hartford shortly; wont be online till sunday night.

keep those guesses coming

ciao for now!

Here's a photo of the BABE duckpin bowling in Baltimore....

perkdog · June 20, 2008 6:57AM

Good luck Leo!

BTW- 3rd place! 1237 points!

sfmays24 · June 20, 2008 7:05AM

59th place, 1099 pins

mreuter · June 20, 2008 8:00AM

32nd
1189 pins

kadokakid · June 20, 2008 9:23AM

64 1188
Good luck

peace

lawnmowerman · June 20, 2008 10:45AM

did i win yet?

nam812 · June 20, 2008 11:09AM

27th place and 1222 total wood for the 8 game block.

julen23 · June 20, 2008 11:11AM

i'll take door #3 & 3 pounds of uncut peruvian cocaine.

dave

BobaFett72 · June 21, 2008 1:03AM

LOL DAve.

the hotel im staying at has a business center with free computers

(but they charged $9.95 for folks with laptops to use Wifi!) figured I'd bump this up before I head over to the lanes.
I practiced there yesterday and conditions are tough; dry lanes, no oil, old pins, wood lanes and ball curves like a mofo! should be fun for a lot of the southern bowlers who are used to oil and faster scoring houses.

cheers from "delightful" Hartford (when did CT become such a ghetto??)

Leo

Tvac897 · June 21, 2008 2:05AM

Sounds fun.

Piman58 · June 21, 2008 4:53AM

48th place 1110 points

hopefully some Tribe karma will help you better this guess

nam812 · June 22, 2008 11:03AM

No word from Leo yet, maybe he won the whole darn tournament.

lsutigers1973 · June 22, 2008 11:30AM

I am looking at the tourney resultsif anyone know his last name.

Piman58 · June 22, 2008 11:34AM

Don't know Nick, DPBA has not posted the results on their website yet.

lsutigers1973 · June 22, 2008 11:35AM

OOPSIE!!

nam812 · June 22, 2008 11:57AM

<< <i>I found it and it isn't good. 124th out of 125 and totla pinfall of 912
Lou >>

That is not him nor the correct list, unless Leo did not enter as there are no Leo's on the list.

lsutigers1973 · June 22, 2008 12:01PM

There was only one Lou on the list that I could find. It says 2008 Highland Bowl results.

Edit: You have to scroll down to the 3rd page

nam812 · June 22, 2008 12:05PM

Why do you keep insisting that his name is Lou?

Piman58 · June 22, 2008 12:08PM

Who's on first?

lsutigers1973 · June 22, 2008 12:09PM

Thought I read on here that was his name.

lsutigers1973 · June 22, 2008 12:09PM

My bad!! It's Leo. OOPSIES!!

dan8402 · June 22, 2008 12:12PM

Leo Monteiro on lane 10 @ 1:30PM yesterday according to the lane assignments. But, I can't find results yet.

BobaFett72 · June 22, 2008 1:36PM

Hey guys,
results havent posted yet; they probably wont update till Tuesday i hear. my total pins were 980, which is well below my average. I dont know what place i finished as I left town before the last shift bowled. I'm guessing i will be anywhere from 75th to 90th place. Conditions were pretty tough and it was hot as hell at the lanes (80 degrees+ with NO a.c.) made the approaches sticky as hell. I missed too many spare breaks, but even if i picked up every single one I still would have missed the cut by about 50 pins lol.

I did meet a whole group of canucks who ventured down from the great white north...they bowl a 5 pin game and another group bowls rubber band duckpin (giant rubber bands around the pins) some were from Montreal and the others from Ontario. They were all super nice and they invited us to go to Canada and try out their tournaments.

When i have the final numbers and such ill post the winners! Thanks for playing.... we'll do this again next month when I go to Maryland!

Leo

mtcards · June 22, 2008 2:04PM

I should have done this on the results of my PBA Regional Tournament in Smyrna, TN this week. 1672 normally is good enough, but not this week. Have never duck pin bowled so I dont know how the scoring compares

rajah424 · June 22, 2008 2:32PM

they bowl a 5 pin game and another group bowls rubber band duckpin (giant rubber bands around the pins)

Alright, i'll ask. What's the purpose of the rubber bands?

lawnmowerman · June 22, 2008 2:42PM

<< <i>i will be anywhere from 75th to 90th place. >>

You suck! I had big money on you

BobaFett72 · June 22, 2008 4:43PM

"Have never duck pin bowled so I dont know how the scoring compares"

If you never bowled duckpins, and stepped onto the lanes; if you went 100, folks would be impressed

a lot less strikes, and you get 3 balls instead of two. It's crucial to make your spares and pick your wood on the 3rd ball. a "good" average is 130. the absolute best top about at 150 (i think two or three men averaged that high this year)

There has never been a 300 game thrown, the highest is 279.
Throwing a 200 game and a 500 set (3 games) are a pretty big deal.

How about a contest? Sure..why not...a Bowling contest no less!

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