Wow, im shocked in hearing this.... From my experiences in both winning a melee at the brunswick,DV8,Radical pro shop seminar, and from watching Mr. jonny Petraglia throwing them both himself, both drillied identical. I saw a much much different reaction between these two gems. Perhaps, the total amount of boards covered by Johnny himself, was the same, the Melee had a much smoother and controllable midllane read, than the Dude.... For Him, he set up a cone on the 8board down lane at 47'. The melee nearly knicked the left side of the cone as it came read the mids m,uch sooner before driving thru the 1-2 pocket and finishing right between the 8-9 pins. The dude, was about two boards left of the melee at 47' and about two to three ft longer before making a much sharper almost even flippy move to the 1-2, also exhibiting the same drive thu the nine pin. In fact i remember Johnny specifically saying when testing out balls, he conducts his analysis basing it on how many solid 8 pins he leaves. And for him i believe of all the new releases from the three brunswick corporated companies this past seminar, that the dude was his trickiest ball to adapt confidence with, because of the boat load of solid 8pins it was leaving, whereas he said the melee, was perhaps his favorite, as it exhibited a much more controllable yet continues hard arc...
Btw,i absolutely love the melee i won at that seminar, whereas my boss won the dude, and he gets literral effortless length thru even the driest of heads with it.
Just my two cents.
Take it for whatever it may be worth
Sean
