It's story time, and here is a recap of what happened during the position round of my PBA experience league tonight. We have a different PBA league in that we actually attempt to recreate the real PBA experience for position round instead of our normal 4 games moving 1 lane right after every game. During position rounds we bowl an 8 game block, 6 bowlers per pair, and we double jump pairs with the bowlers on the right lane going right and the left lane double jumping left. Well, during the first week we were given a schedule of the patterns for the entire league like every other PBA experience league I've bowled.

 

While I'm sure you can see where this is going, I came to league tonight in first place, and prepared to bowl on the Viper pattern. Well, during practice I couldn't get anything to work at all, and I switched to my trusty 505T which was having serious problems tilting to the pocket. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I couldn't get my ball to really hook at all except for a foot or two in front of the pocket. While all this is going on I'm not even paying attention that everyone else is having the same problem (a mistake on my part). So, I struggle my way through the first game shooting 204 with the 505T (box finish) playing a really tiny swing from 16 to 13, not really driving into the pocket but just getting there but mixing the pins up really well.

 

Well, come to find out at the end of the first game they made an annoucement that a mistake was made and Shark was put out by accident. While I was unprepared equipment wise for Shark this is a true testament to how good of a ball the 505T is even when it's at the wrong surface texture for the condition it's being used on. The next couple of games I stuck with my original swing shot making small moves left here and there, and go:

 

Game 2: 221 (ton of flat tens and then went off the sheet)

Game 3: 232 (struck early, more flat tens, off the sheet, greek churck in the tenth)

Game 4: 191 (a really bad pair where I had to jump back 10 boards right to find something that worked)

Game 5: 203 (took a while to get acclimated after the debacle of the last pair)

Game 6: 237 (a bunch of 2 and 3 baggers with a flat ten here and there)

Game 7: 212 (experimented with the 920A and found I had to move to the ball return)

Game 8: 222 (pattern pretty busted open, but the pattern finally broke down enough for the 920A)

 

While these aren't honor scores they are a testament to the versatility of the equipment Track is producing right now. I basically showed up with the absolutely wrong surfaces for the condition, but was still able due to grind out a very good series. Especially compared to those that refused to adjust because they were angry about the mix up.