Sean looked really off balance the whole day. When he was bowling in the semi-final, his feet were way left and he was having problems with the approach. During the finals, he moved further right with a tamer ball to get away from that part of the approach. That being said, I thought (like cgeorg) that Linda got a lot of breaks. Then again, that is bowling.

I noticed one shot in particular, on the left lane I think, where he went real tight, moving out to about 3rd arrow. It went high flush. He never got that far outside again though.

I guess that for me, watching that was probably like a Jaros fan watching the Masters earlier this year.

What goes around comes around.

One other thing, what was that Black/Grey Zone he switched to? The first was a Vapor Zone, right? Looked like the Vapor had a pin over the bridge, the second ball was way over middle finger, possibly in his Track. Pfiefer (born in the town I work in!) Was using a Cell with pin below bridge... any other equipment thoughts?

One thing that stuck out to me. I want to say that Linda was on Storm's staff last year. She was throwing a Columbia ball this past weekend just like her hubby.

You sign one Barnes, you get them all.

The black Grey Zone was a Blast Zone, it has been out for a while, but not many Brunswick bowlers have made shows and the ones that did were throwing fury series gear for the most part. Most of the shows have had Storm or Columbia or Hammer staff people, not much Ebonite or Brunswick for some reason.

My theory is neither Brunswick or Ebonite have very good heavy oil balls and it is hard to break a shot down to your liking without one. Brunswick has the Copperhead coming out soon, so you will probably see more Brunswick players next year, I'm not sure what Ebonite has coming out, their problem is the NV series is not very good on heavy oil.

Perhaps the "NVD".

Right now, the Gamebreaker is their heaviest, right? I've seen sanded down NVSs as well that looked pretty gritty.

The Game Breaker was the most aggressive ball used on TV this year Jones used it on the shark and it still over skidded, so hopefully the NVD will fill the void.

I have to say I like the announers, especially Bo Burton. I guess it is because I grew up listening to him.

Unfortunately, the event didn't do well in the ratings. Pete Dougherty, writing in the Albany Times-Union's sports media blog, reported that the "Clash" only garnered a 0.6 rating (percentage of TVs tuned in) on both days, with a 2 share (percentage of TVs in use tuned in) on Saturday and a 1 share on Sunday. For comparison, the average rating of a PBA telecast the past 3 years is 0.8. Dougherty believed that the show's ratings could've been better if it was a live event rather than taped.