The answer is simple, really.

40 feet of flat oil and God help us all!

Yeah, went straight up 3 and hit the 6 pin. It was great.

Over here we have 3 PBAX Leagues. 2 on Monday one morning and one evening. However, those two leagues haveabout 8-10 teams of 3 person teams. One Friday Night which is Scratch Junior/Adult league that probally the biggest PBAX League we have about 12 teams or so of 4 person teams.

In the Fall/Winter they cut the PBA Legues just to Mondays and elminate the friday night league.

I seen people come and go with those leagues. I still dont see the higher caliber player joining who is average 220+. It usually the bowler who are in 170-200 range who are joining.

Here in SoCal we have at least 5 or 6 PBAX leagues around here within a 20 mile radius, that run year round, I bowl in 2 of the 5, our trio league has 14 teams (18 for the fall). Also a singles league with 24 teams/bowlers on tuesday nights. Actually there has been a suprisingly number of 220+ THS bowlers that have swallowed their pride and have remained in our leagues without quitting yet.
So just maybe it's a good sign around here anyway.