It appears as of the Friday loser's bracket (8 p.m.) there may be only two Brunswick/Radical/DV8 bowlers: Greg Ostrander (Brunswick) and Mike DeVaney (Radical).

I know there were some notables who cashed: Thomas Smallwood, Sean Rash, WRW Jr.

I think you're right about DeVaney. He was the first that Radical signed. But then he was replaced by Tom Hess. Only one left? Wow. If that's true, I can hear a few of my peers giving me grief next time that I see them.

I think you're right about DeVaney. He was the first that Radical signed. But then he was replaced by Tom Hess. Only one left? Wow. If that's true, I can hear a few of my peers giving me grief next time that I see them.

DeVaney was the first staffer with Radical.  He didn't stay long though.

Who is Brad Angelo with now?

Storm

Looks like Bayt is the only one left. Maximum Bob knocked out Valenta in the losers bracket

Nobody except for you has mentioned Brunswick's showing this week. Granted, it was dismal, I don't think you would have heard anything up here if you wouldn't have said anything.

This leads me to a question I have often pondered. Brunswick has slipped performance wise, imho, since the early-mid 2000's. Aside from Rash, the numbers haven't been there. I would include Ebonite in the convo as well. Since 2011 and the red Mission, they haven't done much of anything. Are the balls behind the likes of Storm or are the bowlers for Storm that much better? 

I think it's fair game to put the question out there. While bowling in an eliminator last weekend, a local pro shop proprietor who has bowled out there nationally and regionally posed some interesting facts to me. Like you TKK, he mentioned aside from Sean Rash, who else do we see making shows? Thomas Smallwood, Jason Sterner, Ryan Ciminelli, and Tom Hess? And out on the PBA 50 circuit, WRW, Parker Bohn and John Petraglia?

He believed Brunswick's coverstocks have been inferior to the likes of Storm/Roto Grip and Motiv in recent years. He maintains equipment alone at that level of competition is worth 10-15 pins. That's the difference between cashing and not cashing. Making shows and not making shows.

Personally, Brunswick and its affiliates has been my equipment of choice since I returned to bowling last year. I've had no interest in using Ebonite/Track/Columbia/Hammer -- that feeling was cemented 20 years ago, although I still have my original Fab Blue and Burgundy Hammer, and a Columbia Black U Dot and Columbia Pearl Dot. I've not been impressed at all by Storm/Roto Grip/Global 300 stuff. I've been curious about Motiv equipment since they seem to produce stuff with good mid-lane and back-end reactions. Perhaps I'm cheap, and I'm not willing to put out that kind of money for Motiv's stuff.

Brunswick doesn't have the bodies storm does. Hard to compete from a pure numbers standpoint. Nothing to see here.

It IS interesting, however, how little you see the free agents throwing Brunswick. I'm a big fan of the mastermind series myself, but I never see them in the hands of free agent pros or the semi-pros that I see in tournaments around here.