Actually, whoever told you that you should be able to play up the boards successfully on this pattern is incorrect. If you look at the pattern graph, outside of 10 board is flat, meaning there is no shape to help the ball to the pocket. Once you get inside of 10, the pattern begins to have some shape to it, and the ratios begin to increase, meaning you can find some miss area there. Yes, playing outside is possible, but it's basically like bowling on the flat US Open pattern, you need to be deadly accurate. Why play there when you have some shape in the middle of the lane to help your ball to the pocket? In addition, the low volume makes this pattern break down significantly faster than most others, so you want to be left of the burn spot (for righties) that those you are bowling with/against create. Most players will start just inside the track on this pattern, meaning you want to be left of that.

I myself while bowling some Jr. gold quilifiers and such on these patterns and after bowling PBAx league that the Team USA patterns seem a lot more difficult. If only for the reason that the first transition is about three frams into the game. These patters make you move constantly