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  2. Automatic scorer - Wikipedia

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    An automatic scorer is the computerized scoring system to keep track of scoring in ten-pin bowling. It was introduced en masse in bowling alleys in the 1970s and combined with mechanical pinsetters to detect overturned pins.

  3. Tenpin bowling - Wikipedia

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    The World Bowling scoring system—described as "current frame scoring" [38] —awards pins as follows: A strike is 30 pins, regardless of ensuing rolls' results. A spare is 10 pins, plus the pinfall on first roll of the current frame. An open frame is the total pinfall of the current frame.

  4. Candlepin bowling - Wikipedia

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    The average score was 78. A bowling alley in Windsor, Vermont, United States, in about 1910. Tenpins and duckpins are stored on a shelf behind the pit areas, suggesting that the same bowling lanes were used by the different variations of the sport. A drawing from a 1956 patent issued to the inventors of the first automated candlepin pinsetter.

  5. QubicaAMF Worldwide - Wikipedia

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    QubicaAMF is an American Bowling Manufacturer that provide bowling Equipment. The Bowling Equipment are pinspotters, Automatic Scoring Systems, fun bowling concepts, Bowling Lanes, MINI-bowling lanes, Ball Returns & furniture that are shown in a table.

  6. Pinsetter - Wikipedia

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    A 5-pin bowling pinsetter in use at a bowling alley in Toronto Pinsetters in operation at a bowling alley as seen from behind the lanes. In bowling, a pinsetter or pinspotter is an automated mechanical device that sets bowling pins back in their original positions, returns bowling balls to the front of the alley, and clears fallen pins on the pin deck.

  7. Bowling - Wikipedia

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    On 9 September 1895, the modern standardized rules for tenpin bowling were established in New York City by the new American Bowling Congress (ABC) (later the United States Bowling Congress), who changed the scoring system from a maximum 200 points for 20 balls to a maximum 300 points for 12 balls, and set the maximum ball weight at 16 lb (7.3 ...

  8. Glossary of bowling - Wikipedia

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    Current Frame Scoring System: An alternate scoring system (most recently used in the World Bowling Tour finals) in which any strike is counted as 30 pins, while a spare is counted as 10 pins plus the first ball count in the current frame (example: 8 pins followed by a spare is scored as 18). Open frames count total pinfall in the frame only, as ...

  9. AMF Bowling - Wikipedia

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    A typical US AMF-branded bowling center that uses AMF pinsetters. At the formation of AMF Bowling in 1986, Commonwealth Ventures acquired the 110 AMF-owned bowling centers in the United States and abroad, as well as the 22 centers owned by one of the partners in Commonwealth Ventures, Major League Bowling Corp. Commonwealth then spent nearly $500 million revitalizing the bowling center ...