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Equipment Boards => Storm => Topic started by: sabin300 on October 20, 2008, 04:25:55 AM

Title: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: sabin300 on October 20, 2008, 04:25:55 AM
I think that storm should do a remake of the x-factor! I mean it's the ball that has the most reviews on almost any site. Come on guys, bring back out the x-factor!
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: sabin300 on October 20, 2008, 12:28:14 PM
let's start like a petition, if enough people reply maybe storm (just maybe) could do something about it!
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: mrbowlingnut on October 20, 2008, 12:38:48 PM
They already have the new ball's name is Cell Pearl, I still have X-factor and the new CP is the real deal. My X-factor does not work as well on the newer oils, the CP is what the X-Factor was back in the day.
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: bowler0821 on October 20, 2008, 01:12:27 PM
I agree 100% on this or other ones like the trauma er, too hot, tour power, fired up and that. I want storm to come back out with the hockey stick reaction look. Long(like 59 feet lol) and Strong. Also they remade the 2 infernos, orig danger zone, the one, and a few others why not.
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Edited on 10/20/2008 1:13 PM
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: los2003 on October 20, 2008, 01:21:20 PM
I haven't thrown a lot of storm stuff since then.. the el nino series was great and the original x factor..
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: Monster Pike on October 20, 2008, 04:07:56 PM
I have yet to throw one, but judging by the ebay prices for a NIB that this must have been one heck of a ball.
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: Pozz on October 20, 2008, 04:09:41 PM
I wish they would bring back the X-factor Vertigo.  Best ball I have ever thrown.
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: sevenpin63 on October 20, 2008, 04:14:28 PM


   Yes bring back the X-Factor it was one great ball, wish I never gave that ball away.or the deuce it was just as good.
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: Stormkid84 on October 20, 2008, 04:21:15 PM
I would love to see the RAD core in a newer coverstock like the reactor or R2S.  That is the only asymmetrical core that I ever matched up with.  Bring it back!!!
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: 302efi on October 20, 2008, 04:26:01 PM
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I agree 100% on this or other ones like the trauma er, too hot, tour power, fired up and that. I want storm to come back out with the hockey stick reaction look. Long(like 59 feet lol) and Strong.


Agreed 1000000% !!!
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: FBM357 on October 20, 2008, 05:00:15 PM
Reactor coverstock = "Hell-a-Strong"
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: sabin300 on October 20, 2008, 06:37:19 PM
yeah, the rad core with newer coverstock would be amazing... But keep the x-factor line name!!!
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: Necromancer on October 20, 2008, 06:38:46 PM
Vertigo = God in a sphere.  Storm 4 LYFE!
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: stormed1 on October 20, 2008, 11:41:13 PM
I would vote for a remake of the X-Factor also. That being said the Cell Pearl reminds me of a reincarnation of the X-Factor for todays conditions
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: dizzyfugu on October 21, 2008, 05:05:28 AM
I am still hoping for an Accu-Tread pearl ball with a strong(er) core, e. g. the Twin-V core from the Fire line.
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: mrbowlingnut on October 21, 2008, 12:45:50 PM
My X-factor is fresh still at around 25 games, it has a strong core in it. Trust me does not move as much as it did when I first got the ball 6 years ago, it is ball that i like that has been through 3 grips so that is why the games are so low.

On a lighter medium still good but anything more is pretty straight compared to newer stuff. I have recently used the ball so my findings are present day not from memory, the new oils make this ball push too far down lane.

It would need reactor or the cell pearl cover on it, otherwise it would be a let down from being the beast it once was.

I use my accutread balls like the Hot Wire for dry lanes now, just shot 242 a few weeks back with it. I do however use my Jolt Particle on mediums and it does hook pretty good still but remember it has particle load in it.


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I am still hoping for an Accu-Tread pearl ball with a strong(er) core, e. g. the Twin-V core from the Fire line.
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: Dan Belcher on October 21, 2008, 12:49:04 PM
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My X-factor is fresh still at around 25 games, it has a strong core in it. Trust me does not move as much as it did when I first got the ball 6 years ago, it is ball that i like that has been through 3 grips so that is why the games are so low.

On a lighter medium still good but anything more is pretty straight compared to newer stuff. I have recently used the ball so my findings are present day not from memory, the new oils make this ball push too far down lane.

It would need reactor or the cell pearl cover on it, otherwise it would be a let down from being the beast it once was.

I use my accutread balls like the Hot Wire for dry lanes now, just shot 242 a few weeks back with it. I do however use my Jolt Particle on mediums and it does hook pretty good still but remember it has particle load in it.


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I am still hoping for an Accu-Tread pearl ball with a strong(er) core, e. g. the Twin-V core from the Fire line.
On the flip side, my dad's still rolling his X-Factor, it's got countless games on it, it's beat up looking, and it still outhooks almost everything he's ever thrown.
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: DP3 on October 21, 2008, 02:38:49 PM
Last year at the Gravity Shift/Cell seminars they said they were abandoning that tri-disc technology in the X-Factor series of cores.  Reason being is that when the inner wrap is poured around them, there is a possibility of the different density discs shifting up/down and side-to-side.  There is much more certainty in going with a single locked shape, thus the Shape-Lock series of cores in the Shift line which replaced the X-Factor line for high end assymetricals.

Unless a distributor runs a special order, I think we've seen the last of the X-Factors.
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: bowler0821 on October 21, 2008, 03:30:22 PM
WEll lets get a preorder going so there can be a special order what do all of you say?
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In this game i could not of heard it any better then what my coach says. "LESS IS MORE".
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: mrbowlingnut on October 21, 2008, 04:48:45 PM
Cal Bowling Supply is your best bet for special runs, they have done it twice with the Dark Thunder balls.
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: tenpin477 on October 21, 2008, 08:31:42 PM
X-Factor Deuce is still one of the greatest balls I've ever thrown.
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: Tony J Tarquinio on October 22, 2008, 02:39:53 AM
I have had my x-factor for some time now, and I have to admit, I never leave
home without it. Truly, one of the best, if not the best Storm has released.
As most you I'm sure are aware, the majority of houses today are not laying down as much oil as in the past, and not going down as far.  All in the interest of keeping their costs down.  My x-factor still doesn't fail me.  I have found it to be the most predictable, hardest hitting, trustworthy ball I have ever thrown. Needless to say the carry is not to be believed.  I also will
gladly sign the petition.  I am on board, sportsfans.

Regards,

Tony
Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: David Lee Yskes on October 22, 2008, 01:37:28 PM
When I first bought a X Factor, it hooked so much, it was un-control-able!  But after about a month it tamed down and became very predictable.   I loved the ball so much, that i ended up buying a second Xfactor which was awesome, but the drilling was a bit too condition specific.  But i did have a few 700's and a 300game with it.    

I still have my Xfactor Xtreme which is my heavy oil ball, and still hits hard.   The one I wish i could of tried out was the Xfactor Ace.
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Title: Re: bring back the x-factor!!
Post by: The Bowlers Edge 2 on October 22, 2008, 02:53:01 PM
http://www.ipetitions.com/
start one up... i'll sign
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