BrunsRod: Take this as a big learning experience and move on from there. Sounds like you went in with a certain expectation of what the shot would be like and when that didn't come up, you got mentally frustrated which probably crept into your spare game. As hard as it is to try, I don't go into any tournament with an expectation of what the shot will be like. There have been many tournaments where one pair of lanes I'll be able to use an Animal, and another pair I'll have to play a different line with a Barbed Wire.

What about your normal follow through and delivery weren't you able to execute? Was this purely a timing issue or did you have to play the lanes in a style you aren't accustomed to playing? Maybe if you are able to pinpoint what exactly gave you the most trouble you can work on those aspects in practice.

Matt