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In Team Championship Series, USBC trying to recreate old World Team Challenge without problems that killed it

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Thursday, October 29, 2020 6:00 pm
In Team Championship Series, USBC trying to recreate old World Team Challenge without problems that killed it
USBC Hall of Famer John Gaines in a screen grab picture from a World Team Challenge broadcast in the mid-1990s.
The old Brunswick World Team Challenge was a great success that ultimately failed due to some clear problems. Those of us who competed in it remember it fondly and tell great stories about it, as several have in various podcasts during the COVID-19 pandemic, while also lamenting the problems that killed it. The biggest problem was the inability to craft equitable rules regarding the make-up of teams due to the sport’s refusal/inability to deal with the absurd notion of...