My first tournament.....

**gfdengine204** · 11-18-2009, 12:29 PM

Monday I bowled in my first ever tourney, a 9-pin no tap at my local house. I don't normally bowl here, however. My league is close to my work, 45 minutes away from home. When I have come to this house for practice, I do horribly. I average around 160, but I am lucky to get 140 there. Well, apparently all that has changed.

Bowled a 227-198-175 for a 600 series. With my handicap, I was at 751. Not enough to get posted (right now, they are only posting 800+), but dang.

Game 1: X X 7- X X X X X X 81 (9-pin strikes in the 8th and 9th, all others were 10-pin)

Game 2: X X 63 X S81 8/ 8/ X X X 8/ (9-pin in 2nd and 10th)

Game 3: X S62 X 8F X X 8- 72 X X X X (9-pin in 5, 9 and the first 2 of 10)

The foul was stupid on my part; my focus went from my mark to the ball returning on the track.

Bowled all three with my JigSaw, which I have had the worst time with on these lanes. On this day, like I said, it was just "different".

I have 2 more dates for this tourney, and after this performance, I am thinking maybe I need to start bowling at my local house more often. Either way, I found I really like these 9-pin tourneys.

Oh, one guy on the lanes next to us rolled a 298! That was awesome to watch.

**Stormed1** · 11-18-2009, 02:02 PM

pin no taps are fun. I laugh because i throw a ton of 9 counts in league but in no tap tournaments it's always natural strikes or 8's

**mrbill** · 11-18-2009, 03:34 PM

Great bowling gfdengine204 hehe.
I know your JigSaw will not let you down =)

**gfdengine204** · 11-19-2009, 05:18 PM

Thanks Bill. I love that ball. I have to learn it sometimes needs to rest and give The Sauce a workout, but that Saw hits so hard. Hee hee.

**Beech** · 11-19-2009, 10:32 PM

my first tournament was in my 4th year of bowling, and i had a 13X avg at the time andwent to play the first team and there was the best bowlers in the leauge =( we lost bad he bowled his new high game and we lost lol but it was very helpful he helped me with my delivery

**gfdengine204** · 11-21-2009, 10:20 PM

Bowled the second set, and really did well. 268-170-228 for a 666. With handicap, an 823, which might get me on the leader board. Second game wasn't so good, but the first I was in the zone, for lack of a better word. Third game would have had a 238, but I hit a sticky spot on the approach and stepped over the foul line. I got to bowl this with my coach who came up, and was told I was rolling a really nice ball. He hit the same sticky area, so I didn't feel so bad.

Game 1: 7/ X X X 8/ X X X X X X X (9-pin strikes in 3, 6, 7, and the 2nd 10th)

Game 2: X 71 X 63 7/ X 8/ X X 81 (9-pin strikes in 6th and 9th)

Game 3: 81 X X X X 18 X X X X XF (9-pin strikes in 2,3,7,9 and 2nd 10th)

Switched to my Hammer The Sauce ball on the left lanes in game 3, and it worked very well.

Had a guy on the lanes next to us roll 2 300's. Two turkeys for his Thanksgiving dinner!

**gfdengine204** · 11-25-2009, 09:19 PM

Final standings were posted tonight, and I placed 16th, winning $24. More importantly to me, I qualified for the top-60 9-pin tourney after the Christmas and Valentine's Tourneys. (They take the top 20 from each of the 3 and compete) That impresses me more than the money, considering this was my first ever tourney. It will definitely NOT be my last.

**Drano** · 11-26-2009, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by gfdengine204

Final standings were posted tonight, and I placed 16th, winning $24. More importantly to me, I qualified for the top-60 9-pin tourney after the Christmas and Valentine's Tourneys. (They take the top 20 from each of the 3 and compete) That impresses me more than the money, considering this was my first ever tourney. It will definitely NOT be my last.

what $ did first win?