Well, I got to bowl the sweepers last night at the USBC @ the convention center in Albuquerque.
I got to bowl the 6:30pm and 9:00pm squads.  First off I bowled with Deb on the 6:30pm squad , we were assigned lanes 1-2.  Started out in practice throwing a Big/R-Bang , Black Pearl and a Conquerer .  The lanes were a little slick for the polished reactive resin and pearl particle(both pin above drillings),  I had a pretty good look with the Conquerer so I started with it(pin below drilling).  I wound up shooting outside the 5 board as there was a heavy volume of oil inside that, proceeded to shot 257 first game.  Second game got a little loosey goosey with the arm swing and finally wound up tossing 199 for 456 after two games.  The last game decided to switch to my World Class Particle(pin below drilling sanded with 500 grit abralon then lightly polished).  I picked up the ball speed a little and proceeded to shoot 214 for a 670 series.  Wound up cashing 8th for this squad and won 6 brackets for a total of $225.00.
For the 9:00pm squad got to bowl with Deb again, this time on lanes 27-28.  I started out practicing with the World Class Particle and Conquerer and decided to stick with the World Class Particle due to a little more volume outside the 5 board.    First game I had trouble getting the ball to turn the corner and was leaving a lot of 2 pins from coming in light and wound up shooting 185(missed a couple of easy spares along the way).   Second game I moved a couple of boards left and the lanes seemed to open up a little bit more after the first few frames.  I wound up throwing the last 6 strikes for a 246.  The 3rd game started with the front 5 strikes before leaving a 10-pin, a couple of errant shots and finished with a 232 for a 663 series.  Wound up cashing 12th for this squad and won 4 brackets for a total of$180.00 and a Grand Total of $405.00, not bad for a $100.00 investment.
Overall I think they are going to stick with the latter oiling pattern from what I heard from a few of the USBC staff.  I think the condition was fair for both sides as some of the better left-handers and right-handers were around the 650-680 series range with only a couple of 700’s shot.  Also, I didn’t hear too many people complaining about the patterns that were presented to us today to bowl on.
I hope this info is helpful to all that get a chance to read this……………  

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Pat Patterson

I just want to point out to everyone that Matt Cannizzaro posted on the bowl.com forums that the patterns bowled on during the week for test runs, not the actual pattern.  Just keep that in mind when making plans....I leave today for Albq and will wait for the graphs to get posted on the USBC site later today.
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