Just got back from rounds 1 and 2, here's my report:

Scores were low as I predicted, way more then I predicted. I thought first would hold around a 220 but I thought 32nd would be around a 207.

The house is hard and with that shot made rections guessworking. With the characteristics of the lanes that tend to play ok outside, I saw just that. There were several players standing right and getting a hard roll on the ball up the first-second arrow directly to the pocket. Most were standing around 30 out to 13. On this line if you got it past 10 it was gone. In fact, I had never seen so many washouts before.  After 2-3 only the pattern got ugly and players that were already playing inside were forced to stand deep to extreme deep. There was some good reactions around 5th arrow. Lefthanders didn't have much of an advantage or righhanders.

I also saw alot of missed spares. Not the the many corner pins missed but saw a few inside single pin spares missed including a 6 pin missed by David Traber and a 9 pin missed by a mile by Billy Oatman. There were alot of splits like big fours and other nice designs. Lots of light/weak pocket splits. One of the most interesting leaves I think I ever seen came from Round 1 when Chris Collins who was struggling and one of the ones that was attempting the "stand right, rev it hard from outside line" had a 2 count on one ball. He hit the 6 and the 9 pin and that was it! Rash nearly cracked up about it and Collins was pretty ticked off which is pretty normal for him.

I doubt there was any 300 games for a 230 was nearly as good as that today. Vandinker came very close and got front 10 for a 289.

Local favorites Chris Barnes was getting some cheers and looked good and even more impressive was Del Ballard who was getting alot of support from the crowd and bowled well and very consistant. Eugene McCune who was on the same pair was impressive with his outside line ball that was working well. I swear I think he throws the most powerful ball out there, even mor then T.Jones (who also bowled great). One funny thing was McCune was going back and forth between outside and hard line and deep inside and cranking with slower speed. He got 3 brooklyn strikes in a row on one game, that was funny.Chris Loschetter, O'Neill, Mike Machuga looked well.

My predictions didn't favor too well. Wiseman never got anything going all day, alot of over under, alot of splits. I thought he could come out firing in round 2 but never did. Who did make the round of 32 from my 4 picks was Delutz and Jones. Carter looked good at times and had a chance but didn't do so hot in round 2.

That's it for now, can't wait for match play tomorrow!