I went to the Kegel site and looked the other graphs for the T-bird pattern, and it appears to me that if you look at the Tape image, that the volume in the middle is slightly more than a 2:1 ratio.  It looks close to being sport complient, but I don't think that it is.  Still a brutal pattern from the looks of it though.

I agree that on paper it doesn't look that terribly difficult. Take the printout, lay it over the shot at ABC Reno, and they look a lot alike. And we all know how easy it is to shoot on the ABC shot. :-)

Actually, I agree. The shot does look easy on paper, and I wish I could be there next week to try it. I have to go out of town on business, and cannot be there - I tried. I really, really, tried.

However the WIBC Team event was an extremely difficult shot. I'm sure Michelle would back me up on that... I would take the queens certified sport shot any day, and 30 pins a game over the team shot. I understand that the team house (Thunderbird in Wichita) had some serious issues with the lane beds that contributed to the horror of the shot - and the little old ladies throwing plastic down the middle didn't help either. But it was horrid. I bowled much better at ABC than I did in WIBC team event. And the second day, although we followed the plastic down the middle crowd, and the pair next to us did not, I shot higher than Cathy Dorin-Lizzie, who was on said pair next to us. That made my day!!!

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If winning isn't important,
why do they keep score?
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Vince Lombardi

The test for a 2 to 1 Sport Shot is 3 board to 7 board both sides and 18 left to 18 right, do the numbers if they come out over 2 to 1 you are not sport compliance. Under that is ok.
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