1988 Candlepin Bowling Championship - Part 1

[morgan8757]

fran onorato got back at olszta in 1994

[eci4r]

@morgan8757 so what

[sommerssmith]

The electronic scoreboard made it easier for the people at home to remember the scores and even the lead difference between the two competitors. Al Gelio most of the time kept score on it while either Kif Williams or somebody else kept score on the big scoreboard for the people who made it to the tapings. With today's show in Woburn, the computer scoring is even posted for the people on a monitor similar to what is used in lectures. No more writing down the score.

[flames24lightning]

Dan Myrick from Pittsfield drove all that way to Haverhill? My goodness what a hike that is!

[Wolfman12395]

Pittsfield is really not a VERY long drive. I went there back in 2002 and it took just about an hour, and hey, if I had a chance to win $10,000, I'd drive 3 timees that distance! :P

[flames24lightning]

Good point.

[pinseeker84]

How fast wereyou driving? ;)

[soxfan2k4]

you nailed it syntonik

[blueshun]

What's wrong with OwMyHip's comment? He was asking an honest question for god sake.

[OwMyHip]

how does the scoring work in candlepin bowling?

[PshychoticStevo]

Candlepin scores the same way 10 pin scores

[syntonik]

Actually, it's a little different. Since you get 3 shots with candlepin, a "spare" gets you 10 plus a bonus (whereas a strike gets you 10 plus 2 bonus balls), but in using all three, if you clear the deck, you only get 10. Help me out here, Wolfie, I want to make sure my facts are straight. :)

Thx for the post, btw.

[NHChamp88]

Really the only difference in scoring is scoring a ten in candlepin. That is getting all pins down after the third roll. Strikes and spares are scored the same.

[Wolfman12395]

Exactly. The only thing different about the scoring is that there are vertical scoreboards out there today and the ten box is exactly how you described it. :)

[apodino]

Thats another thing I liked about Candlepins, and keeping score on paper is you learned exactly how the scoring actually works. I guarantee you that most of the average ten pin bowlers have no clue how the scoring actually works with automatic scoring being the rule rather than the exception these days.