I'm leaving for Reno in a couple of days, and am looking for opinions on if the surfaces I currently have will work.  I'm taking the following 3 balls:

Sync - pin above ring, 4000 Neat pad
Nightmare - pin beside ring, P3 hole, 4000 Neat pad
Nomad - pin beside ring, hole 6" from pin (past VAL & below ML), 2500-4000
             Neat pads

My specs: RH, 14-15 mph at pins (slightly speed dominate), low tilt 10 or less,
              70+ rotation, PAP 4 1/2 over & 1/4 up

My normal shot is playing straight up the boards somewhere between 5-10, with maybe a slight swing shot if needed.  Will these surfaces be okay, or do I need to take the Sync or Nightmare down lower?

I had 2 balls @ 4000 one @ 3000 and a pearl. And i used my marvel-s @ 3000 for Team and doubles.

i would go to the USBC youtube channel and watch some of the teams, they talk about surfaces a little bit

I would leave them where you have them.  Unless you're going to try to play the gutter (which I wouldn't suggest) you should be fine playing in the 7-10 area.  There's plenty of hook out there this year.

I would also suggest you bowl the BJ tourney before bowling in the actual Open.  Although I felt like the BJ really didn't play that close to the stadium lanes, it will at least give you a good idea of what's going on.

We put out the team pattern at home before going and even though we have AMF Hpl lanes and a Kustodian machine, it played very similar to the team event in Reno.  The minors pattern is definately the more difficult of the two.

I wouldn't go too crazy on surface for what you're going to throw . . that being said, I might take a sponge to do a little grooving, a LITTLE mind you.  The shot holds up extremely well, but no matter what, trying to create angle is a really bad idea.  On the fresh the ball stays in the skid phase way too long.  If you burn a track, then you start getting TOO early.  Just groove a little shot, stick with something at 3k or 4k, and keep your angles tight.  It plays wet, but that also means you've got a LOT more push through the middle than you normally do on sport patterns. 

3000 surface will suffice for both events. I had a Mx10 and Zero at 3000 and it was plenty of surface to get down lane, read the mids, recover and hit.