My first squad was at 2pm so after a long sleep (13 hours!!) I was very refreshed! I started off on lane 26 and had a real issue with this pair. After 10 mins practise I still managed to only shoot 155! Not a very convincing start! Every ball I threw on this pair went way too long. I left a lot of 9 count and a few nasty 6 counts. For the next pair I picked up my blast zone and went up the back of the ball with less ball speed. This looked a lot better and I shot 190 then got better and better through the squad. I kept around the same place on the lane. Playing straight up 8/9 on some pairs even playing from right to left! The pattern is very tough. High volume on the heads and pretty flat so there is not a lot of room for error in the first few games. Some of the higher rev rate bowlers managed to open up the lane in the last few games, but I had to stick it out just being accurate and sparing. I finished with +33. I bowled again straight after and made some different decisions. I dulled my Fury, Thunder Zone and took the surface off my Ultra Zone. I started with the Thunder Zone and although it looked better, I still had under over issues. After a few frames of the second game I switched to my blast zone again and had a couple of bigger games. I stuck with the Blast until the fifth game when is started hooking less and less. At this point I switched to my Vapor Zone, this didn't work out too well as I left a few single pins and then a couple of wash outs finishing with 173 :(
The last pair were pretty similar. I tried the Vapor for 2 frames but didn't like the reaction so switched to the Ultra Zone. I wish now I had changed to it earlier as it looked great! I had 5 in a row! Only finishing with 209 which put me at +62 which is boarder line on the prediction of the cut.
I am playing again at noon tomorrow. Fingers crossed I will improve on my score!
Zara
