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Color     Purple/Blue
Reaction    Skid/Flip
Veneer    Full Tilt 4.0
Surface    2000 grit Abralon® w/Powerhouse Factory Finish
Core    Bedlam Asymmetric
Weights    12-16

Columbia 300 is creating a little chaos with the Bedlam - the ball you’ve been asking for. Know the ball that gets back from anywhere? This is it - the biggest backending ball in Columbia 300 history. Features a new asymmetric (.018) core as well as a new shell called Full Tilt 4.0. The combination is a tweener’s dream - the ability to hook it with the big boys

This is the ball of the year in my opinion. When people get this in their hands and throw it they will see why. It does everything you would want a great ball to do, clears the front easy, revs up and the midlane and unleashes it on the backend!! also it does it consistantly everytime so it is not over/under reaction you get with other snappy type balls. AND this ball looks incredible!!!!!!!!! I have got so many wows about how awesome it looks. I drilled two of these one with the pin above ring, 45x4x45 with a small hole on axis and this ball has the motion desctibed earlier, used it on scorpion today and ate its lunch! also have one pin below ring drilled 35 x 3 7/8 x 30 and this ball is sick when i need it to start up sooner and peel on patterns like the US open or shark, on the house shot both of these balls are beasts, i personally like the one with the pin up on the house shot for my speed and rev rate, lower rev rates or higher speeds would like the lower pin down with the low hole.All in all this ball I beleive is ball of the year, find out why for yourself August 12!!!
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PAP 4 OVER BY 5/8 UP
REV RATE 350 - 380
BALL SPEED 16 - 19 MPH
Columbia 300 Amateur Staff
Cliff Barnes Pro Shops of Georgia
Brunswick - Macon - Warner Robins
Bowl Depot - Fayetteville Ga
www.cliffbarnesproshop.com
www.columbia300.com

I am not sure anything I write here can justify how good this ball is. When they said they have came out with a ball that comes back from anywhere, they were not kidding!

I applied my favorite drill 4 x 4. Mass bias at 40 degree. This ball is so effortless to get down the lane, but make sure you give it some room cause it will be turning hard. The only thing I have had to throw this on lately was been PBA and sport Patterns. I was a little scared of throwing this on the Viper last week cause of the strong Factory finish is 4000 abralon then Polish.
I took mine down to 1500 and then polished it. WOW. You know that ball from the S company that smells and everyone in the world has? I would put this ball up against it anyday!!

I've had this ball in my bag for about a month.  I actually have drilled two.  I have two totally different reactions.  This fills another gap in the last two years product lines.  The strong asymmetrical was filled with the Full Swing, they were missing skid/flip still. This ball is clean threw the fronts and changes direction harder than any C300 ball in history, since that is the case and I've thrown other stuff for the last few years, the Bedlam would be most similar to the reaction of a raid.  I've tried to trick out a few perfect rivals to get this, they flipped but stopped, the Bedlam keeps going.  I also tried to get another reaction, because the first was so clean I decided to try to get something that got threw the fronts but sometimes you don't want the crazy flip.  I put the MB in my ball track (BE VERY CAREFUL BEFORE DOING THIS AS IT WILL TAKE AWAY MOST OF THE BALL REACTION AND COULD MAKE YOU FLARE OVER THE FINGERS OR THUMB. ASK A TRAINED PRO SHOP PROFESSIONAL IF IT WOULD BE A POSSIBILITY FOR YOUR GAME) this ball is so sweet length and I can hit on it and it just sets.

Layout 1: Pin 5 inches from axis above fingers(on centerline). MB 60 Degrees

Layout 2: Pin 4 1/2 inches from axis below fingers (below ring). MB 105 Degrees ( in first oil ring)

Overall: Very Clean and responds fast when it hits the dry.
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Jason Wunderlich
Columbia 300 Regional Staff
Homestead, PA

I think that this is one of versatile balls out from Columbia.  I feel that i can play any part of the lane with this ball.  I drilled my first one about 4 1/2 by 3.  This one is really strong motion throughout the whole lane. The second one is drilled 5 by 5, this one is longer and strong.  This ball is a great complement to the Full Swing


William Haverland
The Bowling Shop #3
Columbia 300 Staffer

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Drilled 55 x 6 1/4 x 25
speed - low
rev - med


I drilled it with the pin above the mid-finger and MB next to the right of the thumb. I knew from the first shot that this was a great ball. When it looks like it isn't going to make it to the pocket, it suddenly snaps and flushs the pins away. If you're looking for a great ball with lenght and a great backend, the Bedlam is your ball!

nice job Columbia300
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www.sweeteethai.com

Hats off to Chad and the people at Columbia for introducing this ball.  

Besides the cool looking coverstock, this ball will catch people's eyes with its' performance on the lanes as well.  Very clean through the heads and incredible come-back-from-anywhere backend reaction.  Not only will this ball be the favorite of the deep inside players, but the backend motion will allow the strokers to go away from the pocket with the confidence that the ball will recover.
This asymetric core, along with the Full Swing's core, are great additions to the already great line that Columbia is producing.  If a bowler combines the predictable balls of last year with the skid/flip balls of this year, that bowler will have a complete arsenal to compete anywhere on anything.  Thank you Chad and Columbia once again.
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Steven Brinkman
Columbia Amateur Staffer
"Columbia Bowls the World Over"

As a Columbia 300 staff member in the Midwest, I've had the chance to test the Bedlam for several weeks.  I drilled the Bedlam 5x4, which placed the pin about an inch above my ring finger and the MB about 1 ½ inches right of my thumb.  A fairly strong drilling, designed to add length through the fronts and accentuate the back-end motion even more.  I’m a medium-speed player with a higher axis tilt, so I struggle a bit with deep inside-line trajectories.  I can’t tell you enough how excited I was to have this ball added to my arsenal!  

For starters, there’s no questioning the backend reaction of this ball.  It is more angular from the point it changes direction than any previous ball in the C300 lineup.  By creating an increased entry angle into the pocket, I’ve noticed an increased percentage in carry from light-swisher hits.  For my initial testing I left the ball out-of-box which is 2000 abralon sanded plus Powerhouse Factory Finish.  The Bedlam responds very impressively as advertised.  

My additional testing of the Bedlam involved two distinct surface changes.  My first change was to take the cover up to 4000 and then re-polished it with the same Powerhouse Factory Finish.  It’s amazing what just a small surface change can do to ball reaction shape.  What I got was an even more impressive backend motion but it was accompanied by a bit more of an over/under reaction at the breakpoint.  Perhaps with a weaker drilling, this surface preparation would excel but in this particular case I did not prefer it.  My second change was to restore the 2000 abralon finish but this time I left the Factory Finish off.  FANTASTIC!  Suddenly I had ball motion which was boards earlier in the midlane with a strong arc off the spot.  Pin carry was enhanced on both light and half-pocket hits as the pins seemed to be kept lower on the deck as compared to the skid-snap reaction with polish.  This surface also adds to the Bedlam’s versatility, as I’ve had continued success on both THS and sport conditions with this cover combination.  

Thanks to Columbia for another fantastic 2009 release!  


Paul Bober
C300 Amateur Staff
Morton Grove, IL