So my question is: Have any of you purchased a new ball and just knew instantly that it wasn't to be?
Oh yeah.
For me, it's been something that I know
will be perfect, something I can make work, or was destined to be traded in or a ladybug in the front yard/garden.
The Ebonite Mission X. I had success with the original Mission and the Mission Domination (the latter being a 300 ball), so I wanted to retire the Domination and replace it with this.
Big mistake. It just wouldn't work how I had planned and had it laid out at all. Pulled it and put the Domination back in the bag (which was another mistake, as the pits ate up the ball to where it had to be replaced with a 250K.
)
It was at this point that Ebonite (not EBI) started its downhill slide.
Traded the Mission X in for a Pursuit-S.
The Ebonite Pursuit series. I started with Pursuit-S, when they put out both a symmetric and asymmetric version. Both were just no.. absolutely no. No matter what I did, to it (surface adjustments, plug/redrill), they just wouldn't work. Put the 250K back in the bag, bode time, and traded the Pursuit-S in for the Challenge.
The Ebonite Challenge. I got this ball to work, and fared well with it, but again, the cover started to die quickly on it, and no matter how I revived it, it never performed the same after the first 10 - 15 games OOB.
At that point I switched completely over to Hammer.
Hammer Black Widow Legend. Loved the ball. Loved how the gas mask core creates that killer shape. Unfortunately after a good 15 games I could get a plastic White Dot or Maxim to hook more than this guy.. which was sad, because this was my introduction into the BW series. Luckily, the Red Legend kept the faith.
But yeah.. 2 Ebonite balls after they peaked with their success with the Mission and Mission Domination.. They just weren't it. Looking back, it made sense as to why TJ kept going back to his Gamebreaker.
BL.
