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WOWZERS

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PBA Central Region Event - Holiday Bowl Struthers Ohio Results
« on: May 14, 2017, 04:36:17 PM »
Was at the finals today of the Regional in Struthers Ohio at beautiful Holiday Bowl. Pattern was 52 feet of Badger. #2 seed JR Redmond struck out in the 10th of the 12th and final game of match play against #1 seed EJ Tackett to force EJ to double and get good count to win (coming into the game, the top 4 bowlers after 8 games of qualifying and 11 games of match play were within 23 pins...EJ was leading Redmond by 6 pins, Kyle Mayberry by 15, and Craig Nidiffer by 23 pins). EJ threw a great first shot but left a swishing 7 giving the win to JR. JR used a Pearl Paradox for the last half or more of match play today and EJ mainly used a Trident.

Notes from what I saw:
Absolutely NOBODY throwing Brunswick poured stuff outside of Smallwood who did not qualify for Sunday. On Sunday, there was ZERO Brunswick poured stuff in the house. NONE. Very surprised honestly.

On Sunday, out of the 12 bowlers, Tom Sorce was using Storm, Kelly Jordan was using 900 Global, Craig Nidiffer is a free agent and used mostly a solid Impulse before momentarily switching to an Octane Carbon before using an original Dare Devil for the last 6+ games.

Everyone else was a Motiv staffer or a EBI 4 brand staffer. Motiv and EBI had a great showing today. 
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Steven

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Re: PBA Central Region Event - Holiday Bowl Struthers Ohio Results
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2017, 07:19:50 PM »
Quote from: Gene J Kanak on May 15, 2017, 11:57:11 AM
I think that it's a bit hasty to make generalizations about the overall usefulness of a company's gear or the success people are having with it based upon one regional stop.

Brunswick/DV8/Radical puts out some good stuff just like every other major manufacturer these days. The days of Company X's stuff all rolls early while Company Y's stuff is skid/flip is past. Just about all of the companies have offerings of different lengths, shapes, response times, etc. They have to or else nobody would buy their stuff anymore.

In the end, I think this was an aberration; you could just as easily go to a regional stop this next weekend and have 10 bowlers in the top 16 using Brunswick/DV8/Radical.

Oh, and to be clear, I'm not a staffer for Brunswick/DV8/Radical or anyone else. They don't need house hacks like me repping their stuff! lol

 
Agreed. I've historically been one of the biggest Brunswick critics on this site, but the connection created here is unfair. The Brunswick/Radical/DV8 equipment I throw is as good as anything else I own.
 
The fact is that Storm and EBI have snatched up the vast majority of pro shops in business and made them "staffers". The two companies have also been aggressive in signing the better local talent that dominate Regionals regardless of what brand they have in their hands. 
 
For whatever reason, Brunswick was slow to do the same. Maybe they were pre occupied with spinning off the bowling ball business and took their eye off what their competition was doing. Whatever the reason, their equipment is now shut out from the majority of better players. 
 
It's going to be a tough climb for them to get back.
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CoorZero

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Re: PBA Central Region Event - Holiday Bowl Struthers Ohio Results
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2017, 08:09:27 PM »
In my area the Mastermind was really popular when it came out. Not much of one ball being widespread since though. I don't really view it as a knock on them either since I know their stuff is good from throwing a lot of it. They tend to go on the rack clearance pretty quickly too and my wallet really likes that.

The Storm family and EBI dominates around here. Mostly the former, but I've been seeing a lot more of the newer pieces from the latter too which is nice. Motiv and the Brunswick family are fairly uncommon. 900 Global, AMF, and anything else is practically nonexistent.
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