If you recall, back in 2012, the United States Bowling Congress and the World Tenpin Bowling Association announced a partnership to study all of the factors that influence scoring with the goal of determining new standards for the WTBA World Championships.
As I reported in this blog, tests were to be done on balls, pins, conditioners and patterns "to determine a point within any/all specifications that help create a line of distinction" and that it would be "just for the WTBA World...