"OLD SCHOOL" Team Review
Preview: With a few more weeks remaining, we are in our 28th week, and we're 5
games behind Team #6 (Bowlin' Hard). This
week we will be going against Team #9 (w/handicap of 198) as
they are
coming off of a 3 game win from last week. As time is against us, two questions still remain: Can we as a team stay consistent? And, can we start pulling off wins to help close the gap against Team #6?
Summary: 3-1. Another day in the office...
Side Note: I want to give a big shot out to Russ on thanking him for helping me take scores down.
June Wei (Avg: 110)
Scores: 95, 84, 118
Overall Grade: C-
Review: After "careful" consideration, I decided to give the *cough*fake*cough* SOW, or what should have been, a C-. Normally, when I look at these kind of scores, they would be F's, without a doubt in my mind. But, before you go off with the conclusion I'm going easy on my wife, allow me to explain myself. June did get at least one game above her avg (8pins over to be exact). She's also still trying to adjust her throw to the way Almighty Joe has taught her (or at least tried). AND, she was gone last weekend, which did not give her the chance to bowl making her miss a grand opportunity to practice her "supposed new" throw. So given all of that, and noticing she missed quite a few gettable, easy shots, I gave her the "BIGGEST" benefit of the doubt, which compelled me to give her a C- instead of a D or the daunting F.
Russ Overton (Avg: 162)
Scores: 177, 157,170
Overall Grade: B+
Review: Not bad but Not good. One game Russ did not bowl at least his avg really hurt his score. The part that made him not score well this week is those nasty splits. Kept on getting splits all throughout the games. Had a tough time finding his lane, but I can't complain on luck. Really,...if skill doesn't help you out then all there is left is lady luck and why not? I'm not complaining, but the rebuttal to all of that is we can't rely on luck every time, but it's definitely a nice backup to have.
Side Note: I want to give a big shot out to Russ on thanking him for helping me take scores down.
June Wei (Avg: 110)
Scores: 95, 84, 118
Overall Grade: C-
Review: After "careful" consideration, I decided to give the *cough*fake*cough* SOW, or what should have been, a C-. Normally, when I look at these kind of scores, they would be F's, without a doubt in my mind. But, before you go off with the conclusion I'm going easy on my wife, allow me to explain myself. June did get at least one game above her avg (8pins over to be exact). She's also still trying to adjust her throw to the way Almighty Joe has taught her (or at least tried). AND, she was gone last weekend, which did not give her the chance to bowl making her miss a grand opportunity to practice her "supposed new" throw. So given all of that, and noticing she missed quite a few gettable, easy shots, I gave her the "BIGGEST" benefit of the doubt, which compelled me to give her a C- instead of a D or the daunting F.
- While noticing she missed quite a few shots, I decided not to comment on her 1st game early on.
- Letting go too early or too late. More on the too late side. Frame 3-6 scores: 9, 9, 8 and 8. Need to finish those spares. That would have bumped scores up to at least 100.
- Kept on pulling ball towards the left. At end started to bowl better. O btw, DID NOT GET 120. *shaking head*
Russ Overton (Avg: 162)
Scores: 177, 157,170
Overall Grade: B+
Review: Not bad but Not good. One game Russ did not bowl at least his avg really hurt his score. The part that made him not score well this week is those nasty splits. Kept on getting splits all throughout the games. Had a tough time finding his lane, but I can't complain on luck. Really,...if skill doesn't help you out then all there is left is lady luck and why not? I'm not complaining, but the rebuttal to all of that is we can't rely on luck every time, but it's definitely a nice backup to have.
- I'm not going to mention all the frames Russ had splits, but lets just say a good total of 4. Ball change on the 5th frame. Converted one of the splits on the 8th frame.
- Dealt with splits, again, which messed up his score. Started off well until a split on the 4th frame. Made a decent comeback until back-to-back splits (with no conversion) on the 7th and 8th frames.
- Guttered on the 4th <-- we all saw this one. Strong finish.
Henry Wei (Avg: 159)Scores: 155, 211, 176
Overall Grade: B+
Review: One game did not get my avg. Kept on missing the right side spares, namely the 6,10 spare. Congrats on getting a 211, but still need to work on getting an avg of at least 180, which will help out in the sweeps.
Roum Evangelista (Avg: 168)
Scores: 184, 197, 198
Overall Grade: A
Review: If real estate is all about location, location, location then bowling is all about consistent, consistent, consistent. And that was what Roum was all about. Some key misses here and there, but once, Roum conquers that, game over for a lot of folks out there. As long as he continues to practice on Sat, I don't see him falling behind, again.
Overall Grade: B+
Review: One game did not get my avg. Kept on missing the right side spares, namely the 6,10 spare. Congrats on getting a 211, but still need to work on getting an avg of at least 180, which will help out in the sweeps.
- Missed 3 spares that would have let me have a score well above a 155. Missed 4 easy spares all throughout the game including the 10th frame. Really poor finish.
- Much better game. 5th frame: 4,6,9,10 split. Did not miss all throughout. 7 total strikes.
- 4th frame missed wide right and noticed lane conditions changing/breaking down. 5th frame: split. 8th frame: lucky strike.
Roum Evangelista (Avg: 168)
Scores: 184, 197, 198
Overall Grade: A
Review: If real estate is all about location, location, location then bowling is all about consistent, consistent, consistent. And that was what Roum was all about. Some key misses here and there, but once, Roum conquers that, game over for a lot of folks out there. As long as he continues to practice on Sat, I don't see him falling behind, again.
- 3rd frame: 1,3,6,10 pin. 4th frame: 10 pin. 8th frame: 10 pin spare. Strong finish.
- 7th frame: easy spare. 9th frame: 10 pin. Only missed one spare on the 9th.
- Did not miss until the 12th frame with a 9.
Team's Overall Performance: B-
June's score did not help, otherwise, the grade would have been much higher. Anyways, I don't want to sound like I'm complaining, but we did not get the sweep. FYI: Team #6 also won 3 games. So we'll still be behind 5 games as after this week, we did not gain any ground whatsoever. MIGHT I ALSO NOTE: next week we will be going against THEM!!!! So please, pretty please, pretty hardcore none of that soft s**t please, can we bowl well enough that we win at least 3 games. That would be nice. Let me put it this way, if there was a time to gain some ground against these guys, next week is it. I'll just leave it at that.
Post Notes: I already said what needs to be said. Also, Russ mentioned about going to someplace to eat. Please comment it; otherwise, I will not put it in the calendar. Another thing, Russ will not join us for the ride since he will be going to the IBM Impact Conference (yay! goodies, yeah right! haha) So, what will happen is Roum, June and I will be going to Vegas in one car CARRYING Russ's bowling bag. While Russ will fly to Vegas and we will go pick him up at the Vegas Airport. Russ, you will need to let us know when your flight will land so we can make sure we can get there on time. Some people from work are planning to join us at Vegas, but before we have fun with them, we WILL BOWL ON FRIDAY NIGHT TO PRACTICE. NO PRACTICE, NO FUN! I'm dead serious about this. I will share this schedule amongst those whom are planning to go to Vegas so that way they have an understanding of what we're doing throughout the weekend.
Practice is on for sure this Saturday for Roum, June and myself; afterwards, Honda-Ya.
Vegas trip schedule so far. The '?' are things I'm not sure what to do so please comment on suggestions.
Friday
12-4 PM: Leave from work, eat light lunch and head to Vegas *w00t w00t*
4-5 PM: Check-in and rest up
5-7 PM: Dinner
8-10 PM: Practice Bowling 3 games
10- PM/AM: Free to do whatevers but remember to take time to rest up as well. Roum and I will go ahead and visit Mandalay Bay to check out the Black Jack tournament times.
Saturday
9-10 AM: Wake up and get ready for brunch.
10-12 PM: Brunch at 10 so that way person like Russ can go take a nap or rest up before the sweeps.
12-3 PM: I'm going to take this time to spend it with June and Lily. Russ can go rest up if he wants and based on what time the Black Jack tourney is at we'll play it by ear.
3-7 PM: Sweeps (based on the timings we bowled in Laughlin, I'm going assuming we'll follow the same schedule otherwise these timing are subject to change)
7-10 PM: Rio Buffet (this is also including us waiting)
10- PM/AM: Fun/gambling
Sunday:
9-11 AM: Hash House (I highly recommend getting here as early as possible, gets packed REAL easily)
12 PM: Head back
June's score did not help, otherwise, the grade would have been much higher. Anyways, I don't want to sound like I'm complaining, but we did not get the sweep. FYI: Team #6 also won 3 games. So we'll still be behind 5 games as after this week, we did not gain any ground whatsoever. MIGHT I ALSO NOTE: next week we will be going against THEM!!!! So please, pretty please, pretty hardcore none of that soft s**t please, can we bowl well enough that we win at least 3 games. That would be nice. Let me put it this way, if there was a time to gain some ground against these guys, next week is it. I'll just leave it at that.
Post Notes: I already said what needs to be said. Also, Russ mentioned about going to someplace to eat. Please comment it; otherwise, I will not put it in the calendar. Another thing, Russ will not join us for the ride since he will be going to the IBM Impact Conference (yay! goodies, yeah right! haha) So, what will happen is Roum, June and I will be going to Vegas in one car CARRYING Russ's bowling bag. While Russ will fly to Vegas and we will go pick him up at the Vegas Airport. Russ, you will need to let us know when your flight will land so we can make sure we can get there on time. Some people from work are planning to join us at Vegas, but before we have fun with them, we WILL BOWL ON FRIDAY NIGHT TO PRACTICE. NO PRACTICE, NO FUN! I'm dead serious about this. I will share this schedule amongst those whom are planning to go to Vegas so that way they have an understanding of what we're doing throughout the weekend.
Practice is on for sure this Saturday for Roum, June and myself; afterwards, Honda-Ya.
Vegas trip schedule so far. The '?' are things I'm not sure what to do so please comment on suggestions.
Friday
12-4 PM: Leave from work, eat light lunch and head to Vegas *w00t w00t*
4-5 PM: Check-in and rest up
5-7 PM: Dinner
8-10 PM: Practice Bowling 3 games
10- PM/AM: Free to do whatevers but remember to take time to rest up as well. Roum and I will go ahead and visit Mandalay Bay to check out the Black Jack tournament times.
Saturday
9-10 AM: Wake up and get ready for brunch.
10-12 PM: Brunch at 10 so that way person like Russ can go take a nap or rest up before the sweeps.
12-3 PM: I'm going to take this time to spend it with June and Lily. Russ can go rest up if he wants and based on what time the Black Jack tourney is at we'll play it by ear.
3-7 PM: Sweeps (based on the timings we bowled in Laughlin, I'm going assuming we'll follow the same schedule otherwise these timing are subject to change)
7-10 PM: Rio Buffet (this is also including us waiting)
10- PM/AM: Fun/gambling
Sunday:
9-11 AM: Hash House (I highly recommend getting here as early as possible, gets packed REAL easily)
12 PM: Head back
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