Anyone bowl in Wichita this year? Wondering what the conditions are like for the second squads. Understand they are only adding a head pattern to the left overs for anything other than the first squad. Can't figure out why a tournament would do this, but know the Tulsa events do this as well. Doesn't seem to fair for anyone on squads other than the first one of the day. Curious how bad it is unless you get lucky and get a pair that wasn't used on the first squad.

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Bowled last weekend. Even though we were second squad, we had fresh conditions for team. Part of the house had fresh and part were on leftovers with long head pattern. The head pattern almost looked like they were running the full pattern just no buff or strip.

 

Fresh was a good shot and though I made some bad shots early and opened the 10th first two games finished with a average 630. Our anchor rolled 299 first game with a 784 series, but had one guy struggle and knocked us out of any shot at money. He made every adjustment he could think of, but his game is the light hit and for him that would not carry so lots of bad adjustments for splits or 2 pin combos.

 

Doubles and singles we got the overlay and leftovers, while our companion team of  bowlers got fresh next to us. Had a great shot to start rolling 289 with a stubborn 7 pin on the 11th shot then started having some carry issues but finished with 705. Singles had to move from my Train with A surface to the Bank Roll with T and a light scuff with an old 2000 abralon on top. 264 out of the gate, but shot faded had 216 second game but lost carry on right lane from about the 6th frame on and last game right lane was bad for everyone. We had a huge puddle of oil develop right on the break point. To the right was hooking early in the break wouldn't finish. Ended with a bad game of 184 with washout mid game.

 

Our companion team on fresh and 4 guys never saw any transition. Had one guy hit 830 in singles and had a good set in doubles as well. This is exactly the issue I have with any tournament not doing a full recondition. We had maybe 16 lanes in front of us that were used, so those 16 had leftovers and overlay patternt. The rest had fresh, so not everyone even on the squad were bowling the same conditions. I came out ahead in brackets, but the last game of doubles and especially singles hurt a bit. I don't bowl a tounrament to make money in brackets, that is just to maybe cover expenses. Looking forward to Southern next month where they run them every squad and then of course Nationals is all fresh in 2013.

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