Our city tournament allows re-entry, and this weekend I will be bowling my second set of singles/doubles.  I bowl at this house normally, but they have put down a different shot for the tournament.  Basically it is your typical league shot (40 ft, some oil outside, but a flood in the middle), but the heads are truly flooded (they are synthetics if that matters).  With 4 bowlers on a pair, and one of them being lefty, I had to start moving right somewhere around the 6th or 7th frame of the first game.  By the end of the first game I had to move about 3 or 4 boards at the target, just to get back to pocket.  It truly seemed ridiculous.  Ordinarilly I would have thought it was just me, but everyone around me was seeing the same thing.  Things just kept getting sloppier, and the break point more inconsistent.

Given a situation where you know you will see a lot of carry-down, how would you attack the lanes.  Would you try to use something solid or dull, to try to soak up oil rather than move it around?  I mean if they put something like 120 units down in the heads, won't a solid ball still cause carry down?  

I've even considered drilling up a particle pearl for the later part of the shift to try to get the ball through the front, while still maintaining some back end reaction.  Second squad was even worse, dry heads, and sloppy backends.  But in general I am more concerned with how I should attack the fresh.  5 and 1/2 games of hunting for a line was kind of frustrating.  You find something, then 3 or 4 games later, it's gone.  I found it very hard to score on, and apparently a lot of others did as well.

Any body have any thoughts?
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dR3w

"I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be. "

I would anticipate the carry down and start moving outside, with the expectation that at any given moment you will be moving back inside.  

The volumn of oil has probably been increased to help with the addition of high level bowlers (and their reactive or particle balls) and making it through two squads or more without reoiling.  

Erin

On a shot like that (I encountered similar breakdown in my local tournament last weekend), I paid a lot of attention to the other righties on my pair and the pair next to me, and saw how their shot changed over time.  That helped me adjust, when I saw a guy start leaving wash outs (one guy left 5 in a row before he decided to move).  That said, I found myself right near the gutter playing straight up the boards.  If I tugged left it would hold in the swamp.  The carry down had me really tugging into my ball, then as the mids began to dry up I went to a pearl particle that was sanded, and it got through the mids better and gave me a beautiful backend swoop that my solid was not.  They both got to the pocket, it's just a matter of entry angle for me, and it worked like a charm.