hey Rocker, do you bowl in the Pepsi tourney? I'm heading out to Buena Lanes early in the morning to bowl
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I haven't had your exact problem but I do feel your pain.  I've bowled on nothing but house shots in tournaments this year.  Granted I won one of them(a team tourney), it'd still be nice to actually bowl a tournament like you said.  It's hard to have a legitimate complaint because the good bowlers are still placing and winning, it's just that it'd be nice to see the talent put to more of a test.  This means a lot coming from me because I'm really not that good compared to the bowlers that usually do place, especially in JBTs.

I laugh at these topics. You sound exactly like one of my buddies with your rant. Its understandable that things may go someones way and they may get some luck, it happens. In bowling though there is no defense and you just have to perform, if things like that happen there isn't much you can do besides bowl your best, normally people who worry and complain about what others do are the ones with suspect mental games. I strongly suggest you just keep your head up, work on your game and scoring to the best of your abilities and seeing what happens in the end, there isn't anything you can do besides bowl your own game and worry about your own game.
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same here. i cringe as house shot tournaments because i cant carry on a house shot. if i play tooo deep i have to make sure i get it out to about 4 and if i get it in it barely touches the head pin. if i play straighter theres a lot of over under. once i find a line then i dont carry enough to make a cut. one tournament this year i missed an 840 cut(4 games)missing the pocket 5 times all of qualifying
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I feel for you. I hate bowling house shot tournaments. I can go to any THS tournament over here and average anywhere from 210 to 230+. I haven't won a tournament on a house shot in over a year and I go to a tournament almost every weekend. But as soon as they put out a sport shot, I can win that tournament 90% of the time. It's amazing to see kids on the house shots though. They will have maybe 10 good pocket shots in 6 games, but go brooklyn or through the nose and trip in every split known to man. Then these kids will come out on top and think they are god. The very next tournament will be on sport shot and they average 150 or below, miss every spare they leave and hit the headpin 10 times. I was at a tournament today, where it was a Junior Gold Qualifier. I averaged 220 on the house shot and missed the pocket 1 time out of 6 games. The kid that was on my pair tripped no less than 7 splits like 6-7-10s or 7-10s. Then the kid that won averaged 230 by throwing it as hard as he could and was going through the nose everytime. I'm not really complaining though. It my decision to bowl in house shot tournaments. I always say I never will bowl in another one, but always end up going to them when there isn't a sport shot tournament running.