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Title: Regional Special Patterns
Post by: BigB20 on April 13, 2010, 08:11:36 AM
I am going to bowl some regionals this summer and have seen a few of them list the pattern as being a special pattern.  Is there a tendency for these to be of certain characteristics or is it just something that each of these particular tournaments will decide to run?
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Title: Re: Regional Special Patterns
Post by: PWOICantHearU on April 13, 2010, 04:40:49 PM
The pattern for the event has not been selected yet.
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Title: Re: Regional Special Patterns
Post by: riggs on April 14, 2010, 07:00:47 AM
Special means a non-Animal Pattern.  In other words -- World Championship, Dick Weber, Earl Anthony, U.S. Open, etc.
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Title: Re: Regional Special Patterns
Post by: PWOICantHearU on April 14, 2010, 08:45:37 AM
No.  if you look ahead at the regional schedule, especially in my region (East), none of the regionals have a pattern listed, only "special".
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Andrew Hurst
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Title: Re: Regional Special Patterns
Post by: loose5682 on April 14, 2010, 09:02:56 AM
Yup, usually they'll say "special" if the pattern hasn't been decided yet...if it really is a non-animal pattern, they'll be sure to say so, as in the MW Region with Mokena using the Dick Weber pattern for example...
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Title: Re: Regional Special Patterns
Post by: riggs on April 14, 2010, 12:08:37 PM
My bad.  In Midwest we have animal patterns for some tournaments as far ahead as October!
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