Since the PBA is charging $300 for licensing fees, our league switched to these patterns and I've never heard of them. I don't recall all of the, but we bowled on something call the "Bejing" pattenr last noght which was 33' of light oil..

 

Any help we be apprecaited!!

 

Then click "Team USA Experience" in the middle of the page, then click the short, medium, or long pattern fliers for more details.  Our secretary had that she handed out similar to what we got about the PBA leagues several years ago.

 

 

 

 

I never heard about the $300 - we were just told the PBA patterns were no longer offered.  We are switching to the Team USA patterns for the summer as well.  Afterward we'll vote on whether to continue them for the winter.  We're going to do each pattern once, then draw 4 out of a hat to repeat for the remaining weeks.  Our first night is this coming Tuesday, so I can't help you much.  Manzier has a recent post where he described his night on one of the patterns.

 

Edited by Strider on 5/5/2011 at 10:52 AM

Bejing - Think of Cheetah

Seoul - DickWeber ish

London - PBA Shark from 3 years ago

Paris - 47' but don't be afraid it is very light oil

Mexico City - WET!!!

Stockholm - 34' Use Urethane

Athens - 40' plays tough like Chameleon

 

Those are quick snapshots of what I have played on so far.

We are going to start with Bejing this coming Tuesday.  They didn't have it out to practice since we just voted on the patterns that night.  Hopefully they will have it out this weekend since I haven't bowled in two weeks, plus the last week I crushed my ankle early in the 3rd game on Chameleon.  I do normally release the ball very close to my ankle (I tend to nip my sock once or twice a night), but this was a full on hit.  The ball barely made it past the foul line before it went into the gutter.  I guess if it would have been any more square on I could have gathered the ball and got a re-do. 

We bowled on Sydney last night. It's 33 ft but plays much longer. It's somewhat like a shorter version of the U.S. Open pattern.

You read the graph correctly, as that was how it played for most of us. Very flat, there were lots of splits and washouts.

 

It's one of the tightest lines I've played recently.
 

Jeez, the Atlanta pattern was brutal. Very flat from left to right, and the transitions were nasty. I went 157-223-172-212. I started the night with a small swing, but had to move right in the 2nd game because we fought some nasty carrydown (I tried moving left assuming the head oil was going away and I needed to get more push through the front part of the lane. Wrong. It was legitimately carrydown. I even switched to my Nano for more traction!). Then in just a handful of frames that line TOTALLY went away and I got over/under hell. I eventually balled down to my Tropical Heat, moved 10 boards left with my feet, and banked it off the spot I was playing before. Very low-scoring condition for everyone in the league. I only saw a handful of people break 200.

 

Also, for what its' worth, we are only going to bowl on 5 of the patterns in this league, and we drew the patterns out of a hat. Atlanta, Beijing, London, Mexico City, and Paris. So we get a couple long patterns, one really long but really light oil pattern, one 35' shot, and the diabolical Atlanta pattern from last night. Interesting mix.

these are the WTBA patterns... WAY harder than the PBA patterns lol

 

I played  the 33ft pattern last weekend... now THATS an oil pattern!