AmerEskie,
There is a Samsung commercial on the air right now, 2 people playing games on their phones, the one complaining how the other's phone is bigger and how he likes to win.....and then the little old lady sitting next to him says "you like to whine!". AmerEskie, you like to whine.
This change will not cause an increase in bowling balls needed to compete, if anything, the changes made for 2013 will reduce the number of balls needed. You know exactly what you will be starting with for Minors, something you had no clue on in the past. In the past you didn't know if Minors would be fresh, would be toast or somewhere in between, and that requires a larger cross-section of balls than knowing the fresh shot, even with it being different than the fresh Team shot. As I stated earlier, this shouldn't come as a surprise. It would have been a difficult task to break down the lanes with the lower number of bowlers in Minors vs. Team if the shots were the same. I believe we will see something with a little lower volume, maybe a foot or two shorter, but still sport compliant for the Minors shot. We will have to wait until February and see. But until then, please stop with the whining.