The original Hoinke apparently went the way of the dodo bird after 2008-09. However, someone took it over, scaled it back, and resurrected it.

I was wondering if anyone has bowled in the new Hoinke yet. If so, how are the lane conditions?

I bowled in the original once, about 20 years ago, and remember they put down a reverse block condition. Whether that's still the case or not I don't know. I'm bowling in it again this weekend and would love some help on how to play the lanes. My initial approach is going to be to just find the (length of oil)-31 board then try to hit that breakpoint each time, but if someone has specific info I'd love to hear it.

 What I needed after my very first try at the ABC national event, the team event was fun, walking out thru the curtains while the organist played, made a 17 year real nervous. I think it was Niagra Falls, even though I had made the trip the year before at Memphis, with my fathers team only for doubles and singles…Next year I think was Baltimore,MD.

Followed by Reno, Witchita,Las Vegas,Tulsa,OK., Witchita,KS.,Reno again, then started to bowl with another team. Mobile,AL, and other places.(dont remember).

Usually, the Bowlers journal accompanied the ABC, the tournament was fun, sometimes the conditions were very tough.

One year, after bowling in the host city, my father rented a car and we drove from Buffalo,NY to Cincinnati,OH to bowl in the Hoinke tournament at Western bowl(I think), when we finished that day we were in 14th place overall in the doubles format, which meant about $14,000, but after the tournament ended we netted about $1200 each(nice).

In the early years of the ABC, both travelling teams would fly to a small town in Indiana and drive school buses back to the NW, which usually covered our trip, as we recieved a small payment for doing so. Came in pretty handy for the antique collectors who brought back items from pianos to Coors beer before available outside Denver…Sang a lot of songs down the highway, but when we would stop for the night at a hotel, we would drive into the local town for dinners, just to the see local folks faces as adults filed out of the buses school district  names that they could not pronounce.(pew al-up)

If you have never been to Niagra Falls, you need to see them. Usually at most of the tournaments, we paid to have ourselves video tapped during the event, boy what added pressure, if you messed up, you can relive it the rest of your life. I think it was here in NY that we travelled with only 9 members, so we picked up a local bowler, and he was so nervous, that he had an accident. I had no idea until we were done for the night.