I wonder if the stronger mass bias balls Storm has been making since 2006/7 are negatively affecting Pete's game - especially on tv when the conditions can get especially difficult. The stronger the mass bias, the more angular the reaction - something Pete can create all by himself, perhaps more easily than anyone else. When he has used one of those balls on tv in the past few years generally he has had a poor result. The last time he won - 2007 US Open - he was using an Agent, a ball with a symmetric core, for most of the broadcast. His best bowling after that on tv in a loss was at the plastic ball championship - he crushed Chris Barnes and then lost to Jeff Carter - but he was in the pocket the whole game - just left a few too many 10's.