Re: RPI Hockey 2018 - 2019 Part II: We're Just Gonna Complain, Don't Bother Reading
I hardly ever bowl 10 pins anymore but do throw a few candlepin strings here in NE. It's the most frustrating game on earth. Worse than golf. The only fun thing about it getting someone who is a 10 pin hotshot to try and then watch them lose to your 10 year old daughter. It can be that hard... especially since a hook is good in 10 pin and pretty much bad in candlepins.
Final word on bowling... anyone here ever go to PEI and bowl there? They have a game called 5 pin there that is actually kind of fun. It's a sort of a mix of candlepins and duck pins. You get 3 balls per frame and the balls are similar to candlepin balls. The center pin is worth 5 points, the two next to it 3 each and the outermost two are worth two each. A perfect score is 450. Aside from the weirdness of the scoring and size of the pins (kind of a hybrid between other types), the pin setters on the lanes in Charlottetown PEI are unique too. There are only 5 pins on each alley and they are attached at the top via strings. If you get the pins moving around enough, they can become knotted together. It's a pretty interesting game that my daughters really liked.
I was a bowler. It's all about the oil actually... you're correct. Things change though. Did you realize that there is now a 2 handed bowling technique that is apparently the latest thing? I watched a guy doing it and all I could think was... they should make a rule that you have to use one hand. Gets you a lot of hook though.
I hardly ever bowl 10 pins anymore but do throw a few candlepin strings here in NE. It's the most frustrating game on earth. Worse than golf. The only fun thing about it getting someone who is a 10 pin hotshot to try and then watch them lose to your 10 year old daughter. It can be that hard... especially since a hook is good in 10 pin and pretty much bad in candlepins.
Final word on bowling... anyone here ever go to PEI and bowl there? They have a game called 5 pin there that is actually kind of fun. It's a sort of a mix of candlepins and duck pins. You get 3 balls per frame and the balls are similar to candlepin balls. The center pin is worth 5 points, the two next to it 3 each and the outermost two are worth two each. A perfect score is 450. Aside from the weirdness of the scoring and size of the pins (kind of a hybrid between other types), the pin setters on the lanes in Charlottetown PEI are unique too. There are only 5 pins on each alley and they are attached at the top via strings. If you get the pins moving around enough, they can become knotted together. It's a pretty interesting game that my daughters really liked.
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and fix all the small errors. (E.g. for the latter -- Mississauga misspelled for Hayhurst, Bear's last team which should be the Brooks Bandits). 