I agree with the last three gentleman above. I love particle balls for tournament play! they are excellent for smoothing out over/under reactions.
I especially love them for control on longer patterns and/or super slick patterns that you may come across unexpectedly, at tournies.
I tend to lay them out in weaker, early roll patterns,,,pin high, cg kicked out slightly. This way if I need more power at the pin-deck, I can add hand as needed!
Thiswas just evident at a tourny I was in this weekend. I switched from going down and in to slightly up the boards, with great success. When two gentlemen behind me noticed my success and attempted to play the same line, both with shiny pearlized pieces, one drilled leverage and the other stacked, they had sporadic success at best. Mostly they were going thru the nose, either chopping or leaving ugly splits. Their ballswere jumping when they sniffed the dry.
As stated above, the surface prep becomes the most important attribute. Too shiny a surface gives you over/under....especially when combined with a stacked layout!
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