This is interesting..
They are marketing this as an upper/Mid performance ball, though the coverstock appears to be the next generation up from the XL1350, which is on the Mission X, and uses the same core.. So why a different name?
I mean, it walks like a Mission, talks like a Mission.. Why not call it a Mission?
BL.
Possibly because they've named a whole bunch of balls, Mission "XXXX", and except for the $250k, most don't seem to have been as successful as the original. Like with the Taboo series, you have to be very careful, marketing-wise, how many times "you take the horse to drink from the same trough." Your premium line shouldn't have any "stinkers" in it and if they prove to be such, they've got to be removed as quickly as possible (See Storm Invasion).
I see what you mean, but the other side of that is how many Missions they have made for overseas use. 1.5, Super, Secret, XXX, Realize, Complete, and Amazing, on top of the original, 2.0, Domination/250K, and X. 11 balls total.. I don't know how the overseas releases did, but still.
Plus unlike the other Missions, they're marketing this one as a polished ball. It may be marketed as the replacement for the Innovate, a polished asymmetric. Kind of surprising, though, after the just introduced the Champion, in their super-premium line.
That's the only difference I really see. Everything else after the Mission X is using the GTR coverstock with the exception of the Amazing, which is using the NBT Hybrid coverstock (same cover as the First Blood), and the Complete, which was marketed as a pearl.
I'm really wondering how this compares to the Champion, and also wonder if they are going to put out anything else prior to the season starting in September..
BL.
