Ours are the gray labeled ones, and I do have to agree with the idea of better carry on light hits.
I do think that these pins seem to fly around quite a bit more. Last night my teammate and I lit the lanes on fire; we were both throwing the ball extremely well. My teammate started out the first game with a 300, then followed with a 269 and a 270 for a nice 839.
Before we started he told me based on his experience that we should be able to score well, but be ready to leave a ton of 9 pins. Obviously that didn't happen to him.
Then there was me: I missed the pocket once all night, and by that I mean that I had ONE shot that wasn't either dead flush or light flush. That one shot came up high and I left a Greek Church in the first game. I shot 243-278-228 for a very good 749, but I left 7 stone 9-pins on the dead flush shots. SEVEN! I also had several strikes where the 9 was taken out by a messenger. What my teammate said was pretty prophetic in my case. I pretty much alternated strikes and 9 pins for the most of the 3rd game.
This was the first night of our summer league. I am happy with a 749, but I can't help but think about how we both bowled well enough that we could have easily both shot 800 on the first night of league as teammates. Would have been cool. Obviously he didn't have any problems with carry, but out of the 4 frames he didn't strike, at least two were shots that "should" have carried. Crazy to think about!
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~SprayNpray
-formerly known as SawFreak