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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: psycaz on March 29, 2022, 10:47:06 AM
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They wouldn’t say what they wanted to test nor allow him to witness said test(s) being administered.
Bravo to him for saying NO. He would have done it if he was allowed to watch.
There needs to be be transparency with this stuff.
Link to his Facebook post concerning the issue.
https://www.facebook.com/100044245728560/posts/603647517786767/
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They wouldn’t say what they wanted to test nor allow him to witness said test(s) being administered.
Bravo to him for saying NO. He would have done it if he was allowed to watch.
There needs to be be transparency with this stuff.
Link to his Facebook post concerning the issue.
https://www.facebook.com/100044245728560/posts/603647517786767/
Interested to see how many other players they are doing this with as well. Is it just the Storm guys, just Jason, or does everyone have to go through this? But yeah. Kudos to Jason for standing up for what is right.
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Can't disagree at all with how he handled it. Zero reason for USBC to not be transparent
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The top bowlers need to stick together on this. Require transparency.
That should never be too much to ask.
The bowler and their ball rep (bowler’s decision, not USBC) should be able to view the testing at a minimum.
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Someone already posted the reason weeks ago under the Spectra thread. Just hope it wont be true
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USBC and Storm Products have agreed on a national tournament exclusion rule and ball exchange program for six Storm Products manufactured ball models. The agreement comes after USBC identified the models having a percentage of balls produced below USBC minimum 73D hardness specification. Read more: https://bowl.com/News/NewsDetails.aspx?id=23622337509
USBC's investigation showed a percentage of these ball models measured below the USBC-required hardness level of the approval samples submitted by Storm. Storm collaborated with USBC after being notified of this testing.
The affected models include: Storm Phaze 4, Storm Electrify Solid, Storm Trend 2, 900 Global Altered Reality, 900 Global Wolverine, Roto Grip UFO Alert
Effective March 30, 2022, these balls models are prohibited from use in USBC national tournaments, including but not limited to, the USBC Masters, U.S. Open, USBC Open Championships, USBC Women's Championships, all PWBA Tour events, USBC Junior Gold and Youth Open Championships, USBC Intercollegiate Championships, USBC Team USA Trials, USBC Senior Masters and USBC Senior Queens.
These ball models remain USBC approved. Each USBC competition, whether tournament or league, has the option to adopt USBC's national tournament rule prohibiting use of these balls or to continue to allow their use.
USBC has shared this national tournament rule with Storm and has Storm's support. Storm will offer owners of the affected balls the option to exchange their balls for a new product. Information about the exchange program will be published later this week on StormBowling.com.