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mumzie

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Is it a sport shot, or isn't it?
« on: August 24, 2004, 06:53:00 PM »
The 2004 WIBC Team Event shot was published as our next week's condition in our sport league.
The president of the league says it's sport compliant. Our member who is on the WIBC National board says it isn't.
I thought that although it was a brutally tough shot, it was NOT sport compliant.
Pattern is here:

http://66.70.217.221/tournaments/2004/WIBC/2004%20WIBC%20Pattern-T-bird.jpg

I have a terrible time reading the graphs unless I have an interpreter.
HELP!!!

Oh - and as far as fair - I have to miss next week, so I don't get the dubious pleasure of bowling on this shot.

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cgilyeat

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Re: Is it a sport shot, or isn't it?
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2004, 06:40:42 AM »
I went to the Kegel site and looked the other graphs for the T-bird pattern, and it appears to me that if you look at the Tape image, that the volume in the middle is slightly more than a 2:1 ratio.  It looks close to being sport complient, but I don't think that it is.  Still a brutal pattern from the looks of it though.

Hammer3003

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Re: Is it a sport shot, or isn't it?
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2004, 02:29:55 PM »
Doesn't look like a terribly hard shot. It might make a little more honest than most house shots.
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mumzie

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Re: Is it a sport shot, or isn't it?
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2004, 09:01:07 PM »
I agree that on paper it doesn't look that terribly difficult. Take the printout, lay it over the shot at ABC Reno, and they look a lot alike. And we all know how easy it is to shoot on the ABC shot. :-)

Actually, I agree. The shot does look easy on paper, and I wish I could be there next week to try it. I have to go out of town on business, and cannot be there - I tried. I really, really, tried.

However the WIBC Team event was an extremely difficult shot. I'm sure Michelle would back me up on that... I would take the queens certified sport shot any day, and 30 pins a game over the team shot. I understand that the team house (Thunderbird in Wichita) had some serious issues with the lane beds that contributed to the horror of the shot - and the little old ladies throwing plastic down the middle didn't help either. But it was horrid. I bowled much better at ABC than I did in WIBC team event. And the second day, although we followed the plastic down the middle crowd, and the pair next to us did not, I shot higher than Cathy Dorin-Lizzie, who was on said pair next to us. That made my day!!!

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mumzie

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Re: Is it a sport shot, or isn't it?
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2004, 07:19:33 PM »
my concern is that the league that will be using the shot is a sport sanctioned league.
That's all.
If it's not compliant, and any honor scores are shot (heaven forbid), they won't be recognized as sport honor scores. That would be a real shame.
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pagnouch

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Re: Is it a sport shot, or isn't it?
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2004, 10:46:20 PM »
The test for a 2 to 1 Sport Shot is 3 board to 7 board both sides and 18 left to 18 right, do the numbers if they come out over 2 to 1 you are not sport compliance. Under that is ok.
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