Our event this weekend was a 2-squad tournament at Let it Roll Bowl! We had a pretty good turnout considering all the other events going on in the Valley.  We had 82 entries (56 qualifying and 26 economy parlay), with 27 cashers a 1 in 3.03 cash ratio and a pay out of over $5,700.00 in main and side event prizes! The players bowled on the 40ft Kegel Red Square, which is Kegel’s version of the U.S. Open pattern, and it proved to be very difficult.  The cut scores were pretty low being around +20, which means the players just needed to bowl their average for series to advance. The pattern did allow for players to play a variety of angles though you couldn’t get too far outside or else your ball would not come back or over hook. The key for today was to leave something makeable and to pick up your spares.

Our event this weekend was at AMF McRay to close out the 2024 Spring Quarterly Circuit (April – June) and we would have a great turnout.  We would draw 103 total entries (74 qualifying and 29 economy parlay), had 30 cashers, a 1 in 3.43 cash ratio and paid out over $6,200.00 in main and side event prize funds. The players bowled on a 35ft Boardwalk oil pattern that played a bit harder than usual on the fresh.  This pattern can tend to be high scoring because it allows some miss room to the right if the bowler is able to get far enough to the right. Well, that did exist on some of the pairs, but other pairs didn’t have the same look.  The scores on the fresh pattern were a bit low but scoring exploded in the later squad with most bowlers shooting close to +40 to make the cut.

Our event this weekend was at AMF Chandler Lanes and we had a pretty good turnout!  We had 97 total entries (78 qualifying and 19 economy parlay), 29 total cashers, and a 1 in 3.34 cash ratio and paid out over $5,600.00 in main and side event prize funds.  Players bowled on the Kegel 42ft Autobahn oil pattern. Most of the players played in the middle of the lane trying to push their ball out past the 2nd arrow and trying to blend out the pattern for higher scores.  This house typically has a lot of friction and no matter what we put out here we always tend to see some higher scores than previous tournaments. The oil pattern did hold up for the first couple of squads but started to breakdown on the last qualifying squad of the day as we would see the cut scores go from about +30 range to +60 range to advance.

Our event this weekend was at AMF Mesa, and with all the other events going on throughout the Valley we would have another good turnout in back-to-back weekends. We had 85 total entries (65 qualifying & 20 economy parlays) for 2 squads, with 23 prize winners and a 1 in 3.54 cash ratio, paying out over $5,400 in main and side event prize funds. The players bowled on the 43ft Kegel Deadman’s Curve oil pattern that played pretty tough for the qualifying squads. The pattern has an out of bounds if you get it too far towards the gutter early, but it looked like there was enough of a built-in track that the bowlers were able to overcome it. We would see some higher scores as bowlers could see the difference as they moved from pair to pair. Once the oil pattern started to break down in the later squads, then scores would start to pick up. It would take about +50 to qualify for the quarterfinals with bowlers needing to bowl 10-15 pins over their average per game to advance.