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stopncrank

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Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« on: February 18, 2013, 09:45:49 AM »
http://www.kegel.net/V3/PatternLibraryPattern.aspx?ID=602

Anybody have experience on this pattern lately? If so, what type of bowler are you and what types of equipment seemed to work the best for you? What type of lane surface was it on?

My state tournament is on this pattern, and one of the host centers is an older wood lane house, should be interesting! Im trying to gather as much info as I can on the tendencies of the pattern for my team. We are going to put it down in our home center, but wont be able to gather much from that because we have HPL's and the host centers have different surfaces.

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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2013, 09:50:42 AM »
I thought that Easy Street was close to a house shot.

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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2013, 02:53:16 PM »
Are you kidding?  7.9:1 oil ratio and 38 feet long?  Screams house shot and your state tourney is being held on this easy shot?  Embarrassing.
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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2013, 02:58:48 PM »
Scorefest. I agree with LGD. But remember, people will balk at tough stuff. This way, they can say they bowled on a "Kegel" pattern and shot the lights out!@

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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2013, 03:43:48 PM »
Oh yeah no kidding here, but the track record our state officials have with patterns recently hasnt been great, so I figure they are doing this in an effort to gain entries they lost in previous attempts, most recently it was USBC Blue 2 years ago, and some sort of "modified Cheetah" last year, which produced some horrendous scores combined with centers that had less than favorable lane surfaces.

Heard of 230 avg guys shooting in the 1500's for 9 lol.

At any rate, I figured it would be similar to a THS just by looks and length.
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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2013, 04:39:11 PM »
That's a shame.  You'd think the state tourney would be bowled on something like the U.S. Open pattern or something else legitimate instead of something to pull back the bowlers that got their egos bruised.  Sad.
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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2013, 04:46:42 PM »
Nothing new. Bowlers are whiners all the way around.

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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2013, 11:24:43 PM »
I wish this was the standard house shot!!!

Shot 834 for 4 games in a tournament late last year. Made the semi final rounds, lost in the 1st round of elimination match play 226-219.
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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2013, 11:39:34 PM »
Kegel Easy Street is a recreational pattern, which is their fancy way of saying house shot/house china etc....! Very easy pattern and high scoring pattern!! When we got our new Kegel lane machine a few years ago we experimented with the patterns. Easy Street was a strikefest and I used a 900 Global Bank Pearl in city tournament and shot 783 singles scratch for my three games!
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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2013, 07:30:13 AM »
If you'd like to try an interesting Kegel pattern, try their Beaten Path on some synthetic lanes. I"m pretty sure it's a sport pattern, with an out-of-bounds from 5 and out, with not a lot (but some) of inside pull room nor swing room, and, from what I see on our lanes with a 5 person league, you need to stay in the track area from the initial medium to medium heavy oil in the first game, thru the nasty transition in the 2nd to the dried out track area in the 3rd.

http://www.kegel.net/V3/PatternLibraryPatternGraph.aspx?ID=651#TopGraph

Most of our higher average bowlers are down 20 pins in average, from the house shot and this is not a PBA sport pattern.
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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2013, 07:38:43 AM »
For those saying State Tournaments should be held on difficult patterns, remember, tournament turnouts are down.  People are not wanting to travel to bowl on easy patterns, let alone difficult ones.  I would love to compete on super difficult shots, but all it will do is turn people away.

I am not saying it doesn't exist, but I doubt there is a single state/city tournament that is held on a sport shot.  Perhaps one of the USBC white or blue patterns, but not on sport conditions.  If you think it should be on sport conditions, then submit your name to be on the board and get it changed.  I would love to have something more difficult, but my association can't even keep the website updated. 

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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2013, 07:58:36 AM »
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I am not saying it doesn't exist, but I doubt there is a single state/city tournament that is held on a sport shot.  Perhaps one of the USBC white or blue patterns, but not on sport conditions.  If you think it should be on sport conditions, then submit your name to be on the board and get it changed.  I would love to have something more difficult, but my association can't even keep the website updated. 

I guess there's always the exception -
Our NJ State Tournament has been held on the White #2 pattern with 25 ml of oil for the past 3 years. Most times it's in a Brunswick house which makes it harder with its lower friction synthetics.
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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2013, 08:03:22 AM »
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I am not saying it doesn't exist, but I doubt there is a single state/city tournament that is held on a sport shot.  Perhaps one of the USBC white or blue patterns, but not on sport conditions.  If you think it should be on sport conditions, then submit your name to be on the board and get it changed.  I would love to have something more difficult, but my association can't even keep the website updated. 

I guess there's always the exception -
Our NJ State Tournament has been held on the White #2 pattern with 25 ml of oil for the past 3 years. Most times it's in a Brunswick house which makes it harder with its lower friction synthetics.


The white and blue patterns can be tricky on certain surfaces, but they are not sport shots.  White #2 is a 4.5:1 pattern.  More difficult than a typical house shot, but not quite sport.

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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2013, 08:58:43 AM »
I bowl in a Seniors/Regular doubles event every year. It's made up of a bowler 50+ and a bowler 49 and under. They use the Kegel patterns exclusively and they usually have a waiting list to get in which is pretty rare to get in on. This year they were thinking about making it a 2 week event because the waiting list was big enough to nearly fill the house again.

Anyway, everyone seems to LOVE the kegel patterns and is why the turn out is so high. 2 years ago they put out the Beaten Path pattern, I struggled the 1st 2 games until I noticed everyone was playing in the track area, moved to where everyone else was playing and shot 480 for the last 2 games of the 4 game set. Last year they put out easy street and yes it plays very close to house china you still don't get recovery if you miss outside and if you miss inside there is a little hold room but not much.

I'm all for the kegel patterns to be your standard house shots!
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Re: Kegel Easy Street pattern?
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2013, 09:13:01 AM »
That Beaten Path pattern is 4.5 to 1 ratio and 41' long! The Beaten Path name tells you to play in the most played area of that house, which will break down the quickest and usual around 10 board/2nd arrow! Kegel recommends subtracting 31 from the length of the pattern and play in that area. Randy Stoughton told us that was a target area and to play within 2 board of either side of that area!
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