Just got back from Syracuse! First day was tough but playable. Second day was horrendously hard! Teams played kind of how I expected but there was a lot more friction than last year to me! It almost seemed as if someone had played on the lanes before we did. Anyway, shot 190's the first and third game. Missed the transition badly and tanked my middle game with three splits!!
Dbls and sgls started out reasonably with a 178. Used surface. Conditions were much longer than last year and more volume to me! Tried to get guys to play in the same area as I, but.....didn't work! Guys were slinging shiny pieces from the word GO! all over the place. Plus I had a lefty pushing oil our way as well. Had a great look with the GB3, but I left all types of 4pins, 8 pins and ten pins!! The Kegel oil made my Paradox look like a tame medium ass ball at best. When I could get it to wrinkle and get to the pocket it was awesome! With a lane full of freelancers......impossible! I eventually could not even get it to tilt slightly. There was so much oil in front of the pocket, you'd have thought I was throwing a back-up ball. The only guys who struck went Brooklyn every time.
And we had three lefthanders in our group. All three cashed big time! The left side was wide open!
I still had fun, but man those lanes just beat you down! All my games after the first went downhill miserably! next year I cannot go with this crew again. Got to pound my line with surface, surface and more surface at least for the entire first game!
