Great vid. I really enjoyed some of your other vids that showed a few different surface adjustments at 4000, 2000, 1000.  Always great for showing people what surface adjustments can do for ball reaction.

Great vid. I really enjoyed some of your other vids that showed a few different surface adjustments at 4000, 2000, 1000.  Always great for showing people what surface adjustments can do for ball reaction.

Thanks for the feedback.  I will be doing more of the surface adjustment videos in the future.  I agree that it is nice to see what a ball can do at several grits and being able to use a surface scanner has really been nice to prove what the surfaces are at. 

Different house, but same result last night.  819 with a 300 in there.  Its been awhile since I have shot an honor score until throwing this ball.  Could it be the ball? 

Now I'm a bit confused.

Everyone raved about the Scholar at the start of this year. But I've not seen anyone who's shot well with that ball during the tournaments I've bowled. Then the Einstein (hybrid) was introduced and that was hailed as the real deal. There may be some truth to that.  Now there's the Brainiac.

I'm sure I could benefit by having another asymmetric pearl piece, but which one seems to be the better tournament ball?

spencerwatts,

Tournaments with oil?  Einstein at 2000-3000. 

The Brainiac responds aggressively once it finds adequate friction, but on the fresh I have more forgiveness with the Einstein. 

In the conference call I listened to with the various guys at Brunswick, they talked about that.  The Brainiac is designed to fill a gap, not be the same ball as the others.  That gap is when the lanes start transitioning and you want to open up angles, etc.  It's another arrow in the quiver, or another weapon when the lanes start changing.  I do believe it's awesome for what it was designed to do.

The Scholar (and this could be bowler error)  ended up being more sensitive for my game.  Although I really loved it's looks, I had other pieces that I had more confidence in.  My friend, who has more forward roll than I do, has enjoyed the Scholar after a surface adjustment. 

Can anyone shed some light on how both the einstein and the brainiac compare to the genius?