Hampe
04-14-2014, 10:28 AM
This weekend was the national doubles finals that I mentioned in my other "national finals" thread, and as you can guess by the title of the thread, things went pretty good :). We ended up taking first place in category "C" (<178 avg.)
There was a tournament the week before at the same center with a nearly identical oil pattern that I played in with my buddy, which ended up being a really good idea since last week I played the wrong balls at the wrong time and only averaged 186 (on pretty easy lanes). This week I had a good idea what to expect and knew exactly which balls to use and when to use them.
Saturday was the 1st round (should have been 18 teams, but only 16 showed up), and I got off to a really good start with an 8-bagger and kind of kept it rolling from there. I ended up with 220 avg. over 8 games, and we finished the 1st round in 1st despite my buddy having a bad day (only 173 avg. after he rolled 196 the week before). The top 8 teams from Saturday played a Petersen final on Sunday, and during the warmups my buddy figured out what he had been doing wrong on Saturday. We had about a 170 pin lead after the first round, but then we noticed there was no indication anywhere that the pins carried over from the first round. We both decided it didn't matter and we would just play as if they didn't carry over.
Well, my buddy really did figure out what he was doing wrong....he rolled a 210 avg over the 7 final games. I rolled a 212 and we totally crushed the competition. We won all 7 games comfortably and had the lead from game 1 on. It turned out that the pins from saturday also carried over, so we ended up with a pretty dominant lead.
To give you an idea of how far ahead we were at the end; the difference between first and second place in category "A" was 58 points, in category "B" it was 29 points, and in category "C" it was 672 points :D.
Link to the results:
http://bowling.lexerbowling.com/bowlingmiami/championnatsuissedoublettehomme/
https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10252007_10154040280095343_7081247609893392854_n.j pg
There was a tournament the week before at the same center with a nearly identical oil pattern that I played in with my buddy, which ended up being a really good idea since last week I played the wrong balls at the wrong time and only averaged 186 (on pretty easy lanes). This week I had a good idea what to expect and knew exactly which balls to use and when to use them.
Saturday was the 1st round (should have been 18 teams, but only 16 showed up), and I got off to a really good start with an 8-bagger and kind of kept it rolling from there. I ended up with 220 avg. over 8 games, and we finished the 1st round in 1st despite my buddy having a bad day (only 173 avg. after he rolled 196 the week before). The top 8 teams from Saturday played a Petersen final on Sunday, and during the warmups my buddy figured out what he had been doing wrong on Saturday. We had about a 170 pin lead after the first round, but then we noticed there was no indication anywhere that the pins carried over from the first round. We both decided it didn't matter and we would just play as if they didn't carry over.
Well, my buddy really did figure out what he was doing wrong....he rolled a 210 avg over the 7 final games. I rolled a 212 and we totally crushed the competition. We won all 7 games comfortably and had the lead from game 1 on. It turned out that the pins from saturday also carried over, so we ended up with a pretty dominant lead.
To give you an idea of how far ahead we were at the end; the difference between first and second place in category "A" was 58 points, in category "B" it was 29 points, and in category "C" it was 672 points :D.
Link to the results:
http://bowling.lexerbowling.com/bowlingmiami/championnatsuissedoublettehomme/
https://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10252007_10154040280095343_7081247609893392854_n.j pg