After long consideration, I'm beginning to think I might have to make my first trip to nationals this year.  Unfortunately, as it's obviously pretty late in the tournament, I guess I'm going to have to sub, so if anyone is looking for a fill in I'd love to speak with you.  I'm a 205-210 average bowler from northern California.  I've probably played around...80 games on the nationals patterns and it's gone really well (usually the series comes out around 590 or so).  I'd rather try to get something going on here than make the drive and hope for the best once I'm there.