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    Congrats, it's a worthy feat.

    My buddy just had a 574 series that was clean. I've never seen a clean series that low, it was a first. But really when you think about his spare shooting it was in action on almost every single frame - and 100% so in a weird way I think I was more impressed with that than an 800 series.

    He was leaving 10 pins like mad, and even had a 4-7-10 that he picked up. He had some pain in his hand and couldn't get behind the ball so his strike ball was coming in very weak and accounts for the bad showing in score, but he sure made up for it. He even had a gutter in his third game, but picked it up with all 10 for the spare, and only had 3 strikes the whole series IIRC.

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    Quote Originally Posted by swingset View Post
    Congrats, it's a worthy feat.

    My buddy just had a 574 series that was clean. I've never seen a clean series that low, it was a first. But really when you think about his spare shooting it was in action on almost every single frame - and 100% so in a weird way I think I was more impressed with that than an 800 series.

    He was leaving 10 pins like mad, and even had a 4-7-10 that he picked up. He had some pain in his hand and couldn't get behind the ball so his strike ball was coming in very weak and accounts for the bad showing in score, but he sure made up for it. He even had a gutter in his third game, but picked it up with all 10 for the spare, and only had 3 strikes the whole series IIRC.

    Crazy.
    I had a night with 15 strikes, and 16 Ten pins, I made all the 10 pins, but that night I decided I needed another ball besides my plastic ball.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mc_runner View Post
    I think there used to be an award given for a clean series? Might have been a local thing. Either way, it's a pretty cool accomplishment for a night of bowling.
    My local association gives a clean 30 award.

    A guy in my friday night league, being aware of the award, had the first 19 frames clean, then left a 4-6 split.. He let out a huge "YES" when he picked it up, then proceeded to whiff a 10 pin in the 3rd frame of game 3.

    I've heard in the history of the ABC/USBC nationals, there have only been 3 people to shoot a clean 90. It just ain't all that easy unless you're throwing a ton of strikes.

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    Congrats on the clean series, those are always fun! I know I've had a few, but they are rare.

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    I have had clean games on league night but I can't remember if I had all three games clean. Congrats!
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    It's my primary goal every night, but I've never acheived it yet. I'd like to blame weird splits; but I know that ain't true...it's leaving too many mutiple pin spares and being closer to 60% on single pin spares than 90%.
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