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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: VxSaUcYxV on January 02, 2009, 07:27:51 PM

Title: Illegal static weight
Post by: VxSaUcYxV on January 02, 2009, 07:27:51 PM
Now, lets say someone has an ounce and a half of thumb. Sure the limit is one ounce, but how much trouble would someone get in if they weighed the ball? Would they just make you put a weight hole in the ball or what? I guess what i am getting at is what is the worst thing that could happen?
Title: Re: Illegal static weight
Post by: BrunsNick on January 03, 2009, 04:06:05 AM
At Nationals, they'll just put a hole in it.
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Title: Re: Illegal static weight
Post by: supersid802 on January 03, 2009, 06:51:26 PM
a huge hole in it
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Title: Re: Illegal static weight
Post by: JustRico on January 03, 2009, 09:11:49 PM
And probably in the wrong spot...

Wonder what the record for the most amount of side or thumb weight, in a ball, that a bowler has tried to check in at Nationals...
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Title: Re: Illegal static weight
Post by: RSalas on January 03, 2009, 09:13:12 PM
In reading this post, the number 4 5/8 comes to mind...
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Title: Re: Illegal static weight
Post by: DON DRAPER on January 03, 2009, 09:39:37 PM
checking for illegal static weights is the least of the usbc's troubles.........
Title: Re: Illegal static weight
Post by: JustRico on January 03, 2009, 09:46:08 PM
Ah, but how much thumb weight?
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Title: Re: Illegal static weight
Post by: Atochabsh on January 04, 2009, 06:26:25 AM
This is an issue that has come up concerning our city tournaments.  If a player suspects an opponent's ball of being illegal, then what's the procedure?  Or lets say someone bowls an Honor Award and are accused of using an illegal ball.  Do you make them weight out that ball? If so, how do you determine WHO is supposed to weigh out that ball and make any weight hole adjustments.  Do you then have to obligate the association to weigh out every ball that cashes or gets an Honor Award? On the spot when the players complete tournament play?  What if the tournament has multiple squads?  How would you get a cashing player to submit the correct ball for weigh in if it were demanded?  How would a tournament committee know which ball was used?  

The only solution is to let it be, or weigh out all the balls brought into the tournament a la Nationals.  I don't know any local association tournaments or other local sanctioned tournaments that check ball specs.  

In reference to the Honor Score, USBC no longer requires the serial number.  They ask if the serial number is on the ball but not what it is (totally useless).   So if someone were to protest a Honor Score because of using an illegal ball, what would the procedure be?  

The whole idea of weight specs is unpolicable.  Unless of course you go to Nationals.

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Title: Re: Illegal static weight
Post by: Crankenstein300 on January 04, 2009, 01:36:08 PM
I really do think they just pick a random spot in the ball at Nats and put a crater in it. I've seen some balls come back into the shop after being at Nats and some of the hole placements have certainly been interesting.