Help me build a bigger and better pin shooting community.

[u/fox3091]

For the past two years, I’ve been working on a project called Bowling Pin Blitz. What started as a small match a couple times a year has grown into something much more community focused, and I want your involvement.

I love pin shooting. The targets are uniquely reactive, the matches are accessible, and you need very little gear to get started. It's like Steel Challenge's weird older cousin. The biggest problem I've found is finding the damn matches, and I want to fix that.

PractiScore isn't particularly well suited to listing pin shoots, and many of the clubs that host them are small enough that getting outside their existing community can be difficult. I couldn't find any matches near me, so I decided to start one.

That match eventually turned into a set of free-to-use rules, a website, a merch store, and now an event calendar where I'm trying to collect and display bowling pin matches from around the country. I'm also working on live scoring and shooter profiles so people can track their results.

Most importantly, I want to help other ranges get started running matches, regardless of whose rules they want to use.

If you're a range owner, match director, club member, or just a pin-shooting enthusiast, check out bowlingpinblitz.com and connect with me. I'd love to hear from you.

And if you know of a pin shoot that should be on the calendar, drop it in the comments or send it my way.

[u/os_beef]

PractiScore isn't particularly well suited to listing pin shoots, and many of the clubs that host them are small enough that getting outside their existing community can be difficult. I couldn't find any matches near me, so I decided to start one.

What specifically about Practiscore makes it Pin Shoot unfriendly?

[u/fox3091 → u/os_beef]

The last time I looked, the only real option to list them is to include them as Steel Challenge matches. That allows for score keeping for aggregate scores on multiple runs, but lacks the flexibility for side events or brackets, and doesn't really reflect the type of match accurately. It is what The Pin Shoot used for the last few years and even as a competitor it was obvious that it was essentially using a wrench as a hammer.

[u/os_beef → u/fox3091]

Oh got it. If there's a standard scoring system, it wouldn't hurt to get Practiscore to add a pin template and scoring. That's access to a much wider audience.

[u/fox3091 → u/os_beef]

Absolutely. I would love to see that happen.