Don't be the guy who wrecks the shim... AT PRACTICE.

/end rant.

I am going to touch on a couple of points here:
 
First, you have to release the pattern. If not, only a select few will know it as it will leak out. By releasing it, it makes it fair for all since everyone can see it. This is a must, and as I read in Riggs blog they are going to try and do it even sooner in the future hopefully.
 
Second, Bowling 300 900, what makes me a "hack"? The fact that I am an above average THS bowler with over 25 300 games and 14 800 series, or the fact that I can bowl well on a Sports Pattern, losing only to a National Team Member and Storm Staffer in my league? Or is it the fact that I called you out for being the selfish POS that you really are? You act like only you paid money to go to Nationals and bowl. Your teammates paid the same money you did, maybe more if they aren't from the same area as you. They have the right to try and bowl good too, without someone making a difficult shot even harder by playing a different line then them. In my last post I showed how someone can make a small sacrifice and play along with their teammates and make out better in the end than they would by going it alone, but apparently math is too hard for you to understand. Feel free to continue to be a selfish POS, and when no one wants you to bowl Nationals with them anymore, you can look back at this thread and know why.
 
Third, TDC57,  when you bowl do you purposely try to make the lanes harder??? What teams are doing is trying put up the best possible score they can, which the last time I checked was the object of bowling. In these cases they are using a game plan to help them accomplish this instead of relying on pure luck. It takes skill to understand the oil pattern well enough to know where to play to make this work. Even the best teams, at times, have errors in game planning. If you read Riggs' blogs there were years where his team (all great bowlers mind you) have made mistakes in where they broke down the lanes, making the shot more difficult rather than easier. They felt that was the case this year as they made the shot too wet/dry and hindered their chances at posting the best score possible. I'll ask you the same thing I asked Bowling 300 900, what makes the guy who moved in and caused the issue money better then the other teammates money? They paid their money too, in the hopes that everyone would stick to the plan and give the TEAM the best chance to score well. It's their right to be upset at the guy who may have cost them money by not doing what they agreed to.
 
Lastly, If you are bowling on a sports pattern, there isn't going to be 10 different ways to get to the pocket, like there might be on a THS pattern. There will 1,2 and maybe 3 if you are lucky. Everyone will be playing in the same area....this will change the pattern. Again you can do so randomly, or you can do so in a controled manner. Every shot thrown down the lane changes the pattern, whether it is a "soaker" resin ball or a plastic ball. That is just physics. So everyone "carves" the lane. It happened in the 1950's, and it happens today. It just happens much faster with today's modern balls. So why is frowned upon by some that teams work together to try to control how the lanes breakdown? Is it because you can't do it? There will only be a handful of teams that realistically have a chance at the Eagle. But there are years, like last year, where we see a team expand that list, bowl a great set with a great plan and win. Maybe next year it's one of our teams (and in our I mean the people commenting here in this thread) that add our names to the list. But I promise it won't happen if you have people not following a plan.
 
With all that being said, the new Ice oil may change team's thinking and game plans. As Twohand mentioned, Riggs team thought that maybe having people with more diverse rev rates would have helped smooth out the wet/dry transition. It may be that the game plans turn into having people playing a variety of lines within a certain area, and having everyone move in and/or ball down together. Only time will tell as we see what seems to work and what doesn't.

Jorge you bowl pretty well on the internet.  Nice job listing your accomplishments.

You are the poster boy for FIGJAM.   Should I continue?

I'm not going to continue this FIGJAM contest with you.   Good day. 

Stats don't mean anything.  We don't get paid on stats in this sport.  You can average 250 and that doesn't mean anything.   His resume means diddly squat, as my own bowling resume means diddly squat. 

He can spout off all the numbers he wants, that doesn't legitimize his point of view nor does bowling league statistics legitimize my own point of view.

He has his point of view that people support and I have my point of view that people support and at the end of the day that's how life is.  Two points of view at each end of the spectrum.

Whatever your bowling statistical history is doesn't factor into this.   

I shouldn't of called him a "hack" but he has no right to call me a "POS" either. 

End of this nonsense. 

So because he has alot of league stats on paper that makes it ok for his opinion to over ride mine and it makes it ok for him to start the verbal attack on my opinion.

So what if he is on a "staff" what does that prove.

Not once did I post my own personal bowling stats in the thread because they are meaningless to the post, and yes even if you have alot of stats that doesn't mean your still not a "hack".

I don't have to use stats to back my opinion and it is simply my opinion.   I stated my opinion and then he started  the attack on me.

If you read the thread, I stated my opinion about how I feel about the whole situation and then he started on his rant about me. It was very civil until he called me an idiot and a few other things.   

I stand behind what I believe in and what I have posted on how I feel about this thread. 

His opinion is also valid in my book and worthy of discussion.  But if your going to call me an idiot or whatever than I'm going to call you a hack, if you call me an clown, I'm going to call you a donk, etc. 

That's good enough for me.

It's an internet message board.  You people take this way to seriously.  I come here, read a few posts, make a few posts, buy a few balls and go on my way.   If your going to get all worked up over a few posts  about bowling than you need some other kind of outlet to find relaxation and happiness.  People are right, people are wrong, people post about what they believe in right or wrong and at the end of the day its a bowling message board.  You know what I say to this right now...WHO CARES.

It's a bright and sunny day outside.  I'm going outside to enjoy life and not worry about BR. 

I'm not going to be forced to play in a part of the lane that I either don't want to play or I am not comfortable playing just because there is a notion that all 10 guys have to play the lanes in the same zone.

Now if I have a good look in another zone and the other 9 guys play the way they are taught what I'm doing will have very little effect on their ability to score.

I feel its much better for bowlers to play to their strengths than ask them to play a weakness and put them in a position where they are very uncomfortable.

It's obvious in this thread that the team had a plan,  One of the bowlers felt very uncomfortable with it and chose to play to his strength which would appear to be further inside than the rest of the team.

I'm not going to complain about that.  They guy wasn't comfortable or just felt he had a better chance to score in. 

Do I like playing out, sure...do  I like playing in sure...but I felt that I had the "nut" in and could put up a better score than I'm playing in.    One bowler isn't going to change the landscape of the lane so bad that the players can't get a read on it.

It takes 10 guys to change the lane but we bitch about 1 guy who changed his mind and tried something else.   That does not add up if it takes 10 guys to carve, how can 1 guy eliminate a shim by playing in the shim area.   

In my opinion they made an improper team choice with that one bowler.   They purposely made the lanes good for themselves but didn't factor in that this one guy really didn't have what the other guys had on the lane and when he tried to make the lanes better for his game he gets ridiculed for it.   It was ok for the rest of the team to manipulate the lane but not ok for him to find an area that he was comfortable with. 

We as bowlers hear and see things from other bowlers and then get all worked up over it when in reality it has no bearing on the success or failure.    You hear this all the time, an accomplished bowler will talk about how some body played this way or that way and then all of the league bowlers will automatically start saying the same things because they heard it but have no idea what the accomplished bowler is talking about.

In this instance I call BS on the title of the thread and the thread itself.   
 

I've stated how I feel and what I feel is acceptable when bowling team events. 

I'm done with your horse play.  Internet bowling is not my life.  Please have a good day. 

I'm a POS and you are the worlds best internet bowlier.  Cheers!