Well, the first stop in the "summer swing" of big tournaments is in the books. 4 days of non stop bowling is over, and its safe to stay that i m glad its over because i am exhausted.
Day 1: Thursday June 23, Sweepers.
I decided before I came down to Las Vegas that I was gonna save my hand and not bowl the sweepers, but I was gonna go down and watch everyone bowl. They bowled on the Kegel Route 66 pattern which is 45 ft in length and ton of oil in the middle. scores weren't ridiculously high but i wasn't paying that close attention to it. Cameron will be able to talk more about the sweepers since he actually bowled them.
Day 2: Friday June 24, Survivor Doubles.
I partnered up with Aaron Foshie, from the A-Z (Arizona), and honestly couldn't ask for a better partner. the Survivor Doubles is a side tournament where you and partner alternate frames or aka baker format. the rules stated that once you set your lineup it had to stay that way for the rest of the qualifying block, so we decided Aaron would lead off and i would anchor. We bowled on a short pattern, Bejing (spell check?), 35 ft in length, and it played a little bit longer but not to bad. outside of 5 was O.B. but you had to be around 6 7 8 for your breakpoint on this particular day (well for me anyways). we started out 200+ then shot like a 190+ then our worst game of the day was game 3 where we ended up shooting like a 160+ which gave us a small obstacle in the rest of the 8 game block then we preceded to shoot 190+ or 200+ just couldnt get that big game until game 7 where we went front 6 or 7 and shot 230. and got to almost even which would of put us on the bubble. game 8 came down to the last frame, where i needed to double to put us in the cut and i got the first one and unfortunately i missed on the second which dropped out of cut and eliminated from competition.
Although we missed cut, i still had a great time bowling with Fosh, and we ended up crossing with Cameron Smith and Riley Dempsey which couldn't of worked out better because it was a good time.
Day 3: June 25: JWTC Qualifying
5 games of 5 man bowling then 6 games of Baker format
By far probably the dumbest team out there is "Will Call in" because it was the team i was on and the fact that we never did call in our team name because we never thought of one. lol the team was assembled by Jared McNeal, he picked up your truly, patrick hickok and riand poblete, and i went out and picked up Joe Steiner, my Midland Teammate next fall. we started on this years nationals pattern which wasn't terrible at all, we came out pretty hot on it and continued to stay that way as well. Steiner read the lanes to perfection and was spot on making adjustments and calling them out, which i believe was a key part to our success during the 5 man portion of the block. i believe we were fourth after the 5 man block, and i dont believe we dropped out off the top 5.
Baker rolls around now and we set our lineup as follows, Riand, Patrick, Jared, Perry and Steiner. we started out hot and continue to stay that way. i believe it was game 5 of the baker, where Steiner threw out this bet where if we shoot 300 he would buy us all dinner, so we took the challenge shooting the front 8 only to my 10 pin in the 9th frame.
we ended up fourth after qualifying.
Semi Final Round Saturday:
After qualifying we were sitting in third, we had a pretty good qualifying block, we got a lunch break and reoiled to a different pattern. we ended up bowling on a 39ft sectional pattern which had a 1.95 to 1 ratio which is pretty flat and had DOUBLE the oil that we just bowled on for qualifying. we ended get off to a very good start at all, during matchplay just getting by and getting into trouble. after the 5 baker matches we thought for sure we needed to do good the next day to make up for our mistakes and poor bowling. but come to find out we were still in fourth place which was a shock for us all.
Semi Final Round Sunday:
same pattern as the day before but we came in with a completely different game plan, using surface to give us a good look at the lanes. I ended up using my tropical heat with a 1000 surface on it and it was consistant and rolled nice. we came out bowling good then position round we had a shot at 2nd going into the stepladder, we ended up shooting 534 for 2 games with bonus that jumped us to 2nd by 4 pins.
Stepladder:
We were the 3rd match in, couldn't do worst then 3rd and one match out of bowling for the title. we came out with a solid first game but ended up losing by 10 then we had trouble the 2nd game and losing the match coming home in 3rd place.
I couldn't ask for a better experience and team, it was well worth it.
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