Some ball has to be "out of the bag" first, meaning the first to be rolled down the lane. So that you can see what the conditions are that night. Whether it's your benchmark ball or the ball that worked best for you last week.
The trouble IMO wouldn't come from predetermining which ball you pull out of the bag first, it would come from staying with that ball once you've seen how it reacts and what the lanes are giving you. Just because it worked last time or it's in a progression you think you have to follow doesn't mean it's the right ball.
In a way this gets into the "how do you start?" You come in and you don't know what the lanes are like discussion.
So during warmup,
Do you use a predetermined ball and stay with it?
Do you use a benchmark, read the lanes and then switch balls?
How about surface?
Use a predetermined surface on balls and swap balls
Use one ball and adjust it's surface during warm up to get the look you want?
or do you use a benchmark first, read the lanes and then switch balls and then adjust it's surface all during 10 min. warm up?
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