I bought 2 Storm Intense Bowling Balls. 1 was a 5” pin and the other was 3.5” pin.
I drilled the 5” pin ball with pin centered over my fingers and the CG was placed about ½” of my center line to the right. The way this ball was drilled was incredible. I was able to get plenty of length and a lot of hook off the backend. What I did not like was that the ball came of the spot to angular and left a lot of 9 counts. I was able to play a tighter line with more success but if I missed right it was very angular.
The other Intense was drilled with pin at about the 2 O’clock position and the CG about 1/2” to 1” off of my center line. This drilling caused the ball to be smoother, great mid lane reaction and strong backend but not overly aggressive. The pin reaction was way better and read the middle part of the lane extremely well. This was an old school layout and by far my best layout for this ball.

A while back, someone posted a link to a ball review that was absolutely hilariously ridiculous. Was on a ball released is 2001 or so I think. Any idea what ball that was?

I have been guilty of some old ball reviews but nothing that old.  I shat on the old Storm Shift I hated and gave big props to a BVP Rampage but that was from 2007 or so.  I know Nord does some reviews of some the older urethane pieces.  Remember him doing one on a midnight Scorcher and a Grizzly.

Storm/Roto staffers get ZERO for free, so it's unfortunately likely that he is in fact a staffer . .

My Intense needs a metric ton of oil.  If I don't have plenty of oil up front, it gets really pukey.  At the dry house I bowl with, it looks ungodly awful, but the other house that's wetter it absolutely kills, nobody else has remotely close to the same look I do there.  Seems to do better for lower rev rates too. 

Well he said he bought them, so maybe he’s not a staffer. Perhaps he’s training to be a staffer or hopes that someone at Storm will read his wonderful review and recruit him. Or he”s shooting for a college schlorship. At least he’s not making movies yet.

I rolled mine for the 3rd time today for about an hour and a half. I took the surface down to 1000 with a very light coat of polish. It’s 4x4x2 pap 4 1/2 3/8 up. Still no joy on it yet, well maybe a little joy but I can’t get as excited as BamBamBam or make claims that it can walk on oil or part the midland like Moses. I was going to try it tommorow night in league but after today probably not. I’ll try it in warmup first.

This is my first asymmetric pearl and I experimented with different releases, ball speeds, angles and did get some great results along some really horrible ones.

Which is weird because I absolutely can't rev it up at all or it won't get down the lane.  I've gotta float out of it even at our wet house.  It chews and chews for days, and it looks awful at the dry house, it burns up all the way down the lane.  Odd. 

Luke, as a low rev lefty, 225 RPM, I'm not sure about that low rev comment. I had to take my Intense down to 1500 before it would even look like it was seeing the lane. It does now, but it's too early. I need to spend more time with it to see if I can find a happy medium, but using a 4x4x1, it's not been joyful so far.

It likes angle for sure, but I also saw several people using it up the boards this weekend in Tulsa and it looked great for everyone at box or with surface or whatever.  It was too strong across the board and didn't stay out long, but definitely not because it was lazy. 

Weird indeed. Layout sensitive maybe? Perhaps it doesn't like going straight up the boards? Happy to take your advice and redrill if you have thoughts in that area.