My National's group is not/probably never will be in contention for an eagle.  We bowl to have a good time (and a few laughs) and see what we can do on something other than a house shot.  Most of us are in the Standard and Classified divisions and drop a few bucks into brackets.

Having returned recently from Reno, it got me to thinking about how I might need to change my overall strategy for how I bowl at Nationals.  Out of the last 3 years, for 2 of them, the best look/scores I had was throwing my spare ball up 20-ish board. The ability to throw a ball hard & straight is a strength in my game.  That strategy usually gets me a lot of makeable spares, a few strikes, and the occasional split.  For someone in the Standard division, the results usually fare well in brackets & tournament events.

My issue:

The strategy feels like cheating, since I'm basically cutting out the pattern.  Whenever I start throwing up 20-ish, I'm always waiting for a tournament rep that wants to talk with me about me sandbagging.

The moral/ethical issue:

Do you try and play the oil pattern as it was intended to be played, and shoot lower scores?  Or play to your strengths, shoot better, but not how the pattern was intended to be played?

And your teammates are okay with you piping a plastic or urethane ball straight down the middle of the pattern?

Prolly should spend the next year learning to hit what you are looking at so you can have a better strategy than chucking it down the middle. 

Cool Story Bro you actually sucked a few people into believing it .