thumper, Author at BUTBA

It’s Scoring Central in Sheffield:

14/05/2013 by thumper

The Sheffield Quads is one of the longest running and most popular events in the student bowling calendar, but proved more popular than ever this year as, due to some late rescheduling, it took place the week before the BUCS Tenpin Bowling Championships (the biggest student event of the year), and in the same centre, … Read more

Hull Memorial Trios Report

01/04/2013 by thumper

Steady Scoring at Scunthorpe: The student bowling tour had a long and happy history of running and competing in events at AMF Hull stretching back at least 20 years, consequently we were all sad to see the bowl close, and ever since it did we have held an annual Hull Memorial tournament. This season … Read more

BUCS Championships – Ones to Watch

10/08/201521/02/2013 by thumper

As a preview for this weekend BUCS Championships, our press secretary James Larkin (Thumper) has written an article for BUCS citing the favourites for the championships for this weekend. Find below for the full article or here for the article on the BUCS website.

Ludicrous Loughborough Sixes

28/01/2013 by thumper

You’d be forgiven for thinking that a sixes event might dampen the recent run of high-scoring in BUTBA organised events, but that was definitely not the case this time around! There were no perfect games bowled on this occasion, but the scoring was undoubtedly the highest on record for our tour, of course I should … Read more

Midlands Scratch is Where Its At

10/08/201513/12/2012 by thumper

Not all of our members were down in Romford on Sunday 18^th November 2012, as for the first time in student bowling history, BUTBA has entered a team in the Midland Scratch League (MSL), and the Imperial Trios tournament happened to fall on the same day as round 2 of the MSL!

Incredible Performances at Imperial

10/08/201512/12/2012 by thumper

BUTBA’s third Order of Merit (OoM) tournament of the 2012-3 Season was the Imperial Scratch & Handicapped Trios, which was bowled at The City Pavilion (Rollerbowl) Romford on 18^th November 2012.

Nottingham Never Fails to Deliver

10/08/201506/12/2012 by thumper

BUTBA’s second major tournament of the season, the Nottingham Handicapped Combination Fives, took place at 1st Bowl Nottingham on Sunday 28th October (and included an EGM in the middle of it, to deal with urgent matters that had arisen since the AGM!).

Oiled Down Warwick

26/11/2012 by thumper

The 2012-3 BUTBA season got underway with its first OoM Tournament, the Warwick Scratch Matchplay Doubles, on Saturday 20th October at 1st Bowl Nuneaton. This is the only Scratch OoM tournament that we run, and as such has a habit of throwing up some impressive scores, but unfortunately this season it will be remembered more because of the controversy surrounding it, than because of the events of the tournament itself.

New Season, New BUTBA, Same Old Press Secretary

20/11/201205/11/2012 by thumper

To mark the end of one season of student bowling and the start of the next we held the traditional Masters Weekend of bowling on the 6th and 7th of October 2012. This was comprised of the BUTBA (British Universities Tenpin Bowling Association) Men’s Scratch Masters, the Ladies’ Scratch Masters and the Handicap Masters tournaments on the Saturday (with the Order of Merit Trophy Presentation in the middle of it!), and the BUTBA Student vs Ex-student Challenge Match on the Sunday (with our AGM in the middle of it!), all of which were held at 1st Bowl in Nottingham.

In other words, an awful lot happened over a single weekend, and I’ll do my best to summarise events as succinctly as possible!