Author Topic: Team USA oil pattern (Read 3476 times)

newbie101 · « **on:** December 08, 2011, 03:26:31 AM »

I would like everyone's opinions regarding the team USA sport shot oil pattern.
If you could only pick 8 out of the 12 pattern for your league, which one would you pick and why.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Strider · « **Reply #1 on:** December 08, 2011, 12:24:27 PM »

Are you looking for suggestions to make things the most fair or "easiest" for an entire league full of people or the most challenging for the same group, or...?

Taking out one short, one medium, and one long gets you down to 9 patterns to choose from and only leaves you with one decision.

Sydney is brutal. Short and very flat, gutter is basically out of play. Our league voted to remove it several times just because it's so tough. I kind of liked it after I got a second chance at it.

To me, Bejing and Stockholm played very similar, so I'd remove one of those.

I attacked Atlanta and Athens pretty similar, so I'd remove one of those.

I played Tokyo and Mexico City pretty similar, so I'd remove one of those.

I'd personally keep the shortest (Sydney) and the longest (Paris) just because they are unusual. I guess if I had to remove one one it would be Montreal because it was just a middle of the road pattern.

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Edited by Strider on 12/8/2011 at 3:49 PM

newbie101 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 08, 2011, 01:20:48 PM »

Thank you strider for your suggestion, our league is more of a practice league....trying to learn and improve our game, learning to be accurate with no room for error. So I think we are leaning toward harder shots, maybe throw in one easy pattern after 12 weeks, just get our confidence back after several weeks of frustration.

Our league is only 25 weeks, one pattern for 3 weeks, then we go to the next pattern for another 3 weeks, and so on.

btw, I only saw 12 team USA pattern at bowl.com, can you please direct me where are the other patterns?

Thanks again.

Edited by newbie101 on 12/8/2011 at 2:27 PM

Edited by newbie101 on 12/8/2011 at 2:38 PM

Strider · « **Reply #3 on:** December 08, 2011, 02:50:54 PM »

Sorry, fixed that typo. That 19 was supposed to be 9. There are 12 patterns total, so you already found all of them.

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dmonroe814 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 12, 2011, 05:54:36 AM »

BTW our Sport league bowled on the Medium, then short, then long Team USA patterns last summer. Not really a lot of difference in the groupings, but the short pattern was brutal! Crankers could not get the ball our far enough and the strokers had trouble keeping the speed up to hold the line. If the Crankers threw the ball too hard, it ended up in the channel. If the strokers had too much speed, they picked off the 6-10. If either group slowed the ball too much, it went through the face. Expect a lot of crying on the short patterns. Good luck and smile as you learn humility.

newbie101 wrote on 12/8/2011 2:20 PM:
Thank you strider for your suggestion, our league is more of a practice league....trying to learn and improve our game, learning to be accurate with no room for error. So I think we are leaning toward harder shots, maybe throw in one easy pattern after 12 weeks, just get our confidence back after several weeks of frustration.

Our league is only 25 weeks, one pattern for 3 weeks, then we go to the next pattern for another 3 weeks, and so on.

btw, I only saw 12 team USA pattern at bowl.com, can you please direct me where are the other patterns?

Thanks again.

Edited by newbie101 on 12/8/2011 at 2:27 PM

Edited by newbie101 on 12/8/2011 at 2:38 PM

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