The Bowl Canada Board of Directors held a virtual meeting yesterday to consider options for several items on the bowling calendar. The following should bring you fully up to date on where things stand at this time.....
BOWL CANADA CUP & CLUB 55 CUP CHAMPIONSHIPS
We are sorry to announce that these two Championships have now been cancelled. As we all know, Zones and Provincials are not able to take place, and the extended window for qualifying is not likely to be sufficient.
Bowl Canada will begin issuing Refunds for all entry fees received next week. Watch for a cheque to land at your centre shortly thereafter. Any recently received entry fee cheques that have not yet been deposited will be returned as well.
QUBICA/AMF BOWLING WORLD CUP
The Canadian Qualifier for the Qubica AMF Bowling World Cup is on hold until further notice. Intentions are to hold a National Championship once (and if) reasonable to do so in hopes of fairly determining advancement to the World Finals in November. Stay tuned for updates, though it may be a while before a direction can be set.
BOWL CANADA ANNUAL MEETING
With Nova Scotia in a State of Emergency, our Annual Meeting of Members, scheduled for early June in Halifax, has now been cancelled. In reality... expecting any attendance from our industry (plane fares, accommodation costs, etc.) by early June would be a fool's hope on the heels of this pandemic. So we are switching gears....
For the first time ever,
Bowl Canada's Annual Meeting will be a VIRTUAL meeting for 2020
, and we will be hosting it on either GoToMeeting (our current system) or some other online conferencing service (if more applicable for our needs). You are hereby formally invited to attend. All you need is a computer, tablet or smartphone to participate. You can even join the meeting by telephone, though you won't be able to see the visuals being presented this way.
The meeting is scheduled for June 4th, and more details will be forthcoming in the near future.
A last note on the Meetings... Bowl Canada's Nominating Committee Chair, Past President Todd Britton, invites any member interested in standing for elections at the coming virtual meeting to submit a
nomination form (click here)
.
YBC NATIONALS
As detailed in a previous update, the YBC Nationals have been cancelled in terms of the original May timeline. We are otherwise currently on hold as we see how this pandemic runs its course. We have worked on an alternate timeline, and we are left with one option in early/mid July. The Bowl Canada Board will once again review the situation at their May 5th meeting and decide at that time, based on the information at hand, whether or not it is realistic to proceed with plans or cancel outright. We will keep you updated as more is known.