it is a puzzlement, because I own an embarrassing number of balls - cover most of a garage wall, with a variety of conventional drilling layouts - but I often end up using this Rising SE with this odd layout, simply because the reaction is so strong and so reliable on about any THC/Medium to Wet condition.
And this Rising had a very conventional layout, I think 4-1/2 just above the fingers, before I plugged and redrilled the current layout. With the earlier conventional layout it was just another ball, and now with this odd layout it is my go to ball.