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dillinger is dead

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Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« on: March 16, 2011, 09:59:20 PM »
I would for sure be down for this, curious to hear what others think.


 

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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2011, 06:09:47 AM »
yes, but I'm in my 40's why I say my age is the younger generation would not like it because they would have to hit a board instead of an area, So I would love it but I would be in the minority.


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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2011, 06:11:26 AM »
It would be a lot of fun I think. I threw an XXXL Starburst for an entire summer league for kicks once and averaged 180. I couldn't carry the 5 pin very well, much less the 10 (and in some cases both at the same time). I probably hit the pocket with 98% accuracy with that thing just piping it down 10. It was so controllable and smooth. It just didn't carry that well.
 
The Mark Roth tournament let the qualifiers throw their own plastic, and I'm not sure if they regulated it to pancake cores (not many balls with real cores in the polyester market to begin with).  I'd prefer a league that did this to make everyone purchase the same ball, or give the ball to the bowler at no cost and roll it into the linage, etc.
 
Otherwise you'll create some advantage by letting people throw XXXL's and such.


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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2011, 07:33:20 AM »
Yeah, I'd love it if they banned reactives altogether.  I don't think there's much of an advantage to be had anywhere if you're throwing plastic.  Plastic is plastic, I don't think an XXXL gives anyone much of an advantage at all. 


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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2011, 08:04:45 AM »
Heck yah i would and have got multiple awards up to and including 300 with plastic balls. Won singles event in city tourney with storm baseball, shot 792. wish they had such a thing around here, god knows its dry enough in the house up here to hold one.

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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2011, 10:39:08 AM »
Grew up throwing plastic and rubber.  A tournament would be fun, but I think a league of plastic would be just as boring as resin on a modern THS.  Pretty much stand the same place and throw the same shot over and over.


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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2011, 12:45:26 PM »
yes i would....  I still have my old Clear Wolf ball sitting in my closet.... 
 
Heck for about a month or so this season, I was throwing Urethane just to keep it on the right side of the lane....
 
 


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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2011, 01:39:22 PM »
If it was on a short oil pattern i'd be all about it. 40+ft shot, not so much. something like 32-35 I could see it.



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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2011, 01:44:13 PM »
I have a Ebonite Gemstone and had a Ebonite maxim... There is a big difference in how the Gemstone rolls and hits when you throw it as a strike ball.
 
Its easily a few boards stronger and makes a move on the backend.



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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2011, 02:09:10 PM »
i would be down for a tournament. i would get bored if it was a league

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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2011, 02:22:08 PM »
Yes I would.

 

 I still have a White dot, Yellow dot, T-zone, and Boogie ball.

 

 Once shot a 290 with the Boogie ball, and 792 with the Yellow dot.

 

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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2011, 07:49:44 PM »
Definitely!  Too bad no one else would in my league

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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2011, 09:05:45 PM »
would definately roll in a plastic ball tournament



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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2011, 09:36:22 PM »
League, probably not. I would go for a tournament.

 


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Re: Would you bowl a plastic ball league and/or tournament?
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2011, 06:55:25 AM »
I'd bowl in either but I would want everyone to have the same ball.  I would want it to be a pancake block.  Not any of the dynamic cores.  It really shows who can make adjustments and good shots in general.  Everyone is so spoiled here that it would never happen.