PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR -- 09-07-2019 -- Season 4 Kickoff
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Episode 103
"Season 4 Kickoff"
Recorded September 7, 2019
For release on September 13, 2019
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It's on. The premiere episode for PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR Season 4, and we begin with a field of nine kids competing in a scratch event. Following a two-game qualifier, the top four kids were guaranteed spots in the stepladder finals, while the 5th spot in the stepladder would go to the player who could survive a Single Ball Eliminator that was contested between players 5 thru 9.
Also on this week's show, we debut a new feature! Look for it immediately following the winner's interview near the end of the show. (There's also a funny outtake after the first short credits, just before the end credits. So stick around.)
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Enjoy the show! - Sport
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@@victorbogen1558 -- It's a pretty commonly used term, Victor.
BrownswickBowling yup
This is what I like about Annalise. She don't horse play. She's not lollygagging and clowning around. She takes her game seriously and that's how her dad approaches her game. That's what I expect from my son as well. There is a time to play and a time not to, and when you are practicing or competing, even if it is informal like Prodigy, that's not the time to horse play. If you want to be good, you take your game seriously, and you practice like you compete. That's why some kids don't improve as much as they possibly could. They horse play around too much, and then when it's time to compete, it shows in their performance.
I agree. One thing that sets Annalise (and most of the elite youth bowlers around the country) apart from some of the really talented bowlers is that they're ALL-BUSINESS on the lanes. Even during league, which a lot of people consider nothing more than a social event. If she's bowling, she's focused. And the minute she takes off her bowling shoes, she turns it off and is a kid again. (A kid with a very level head.) You could not ask for a more delightful young woman than Annalise. And if you've ever met her parents (and I know you have), you know why. Solid family. Good souls, all.
Been waiting for this for so long!!
Another fun show...thanks..!
Thank you! This video come !
I’m happy prodigy back
Randy,
I love this format (using the "single ball eliminator" to determine the last position in the stepladder). This gets all the participants onto the show. Good show (as they usually are).
We may use this mechanic more and more. I like getting all the kids on the show, even if it's just for one or two shots. Especially when they travel from far away.
Something similar on the next week's show, currently in post-production. I think you'll like it, too. I'm all for any mechanic that can get all the kids on the show. This sort of gives us a "Wild Card" round where the people just below the top 4 can "playoff" for the one additional spot. I like this idea a lot. Look for it again and again this year.
Welcome back Randy it's good to know that your still making prodigy videos keep up the good work I love them. 👍
Thanks, Travon. Episode 104 is now done and should be going up shortly. If you're a PRODIGY Patron, it'll be available to you sometime tomorrow (Thursday). Friday to everybody else.
@@ProdigyBowlersTour Well, no I'm not a patron I be getting your videos like 6 days later but I would like to be one to get it right away.
I love prodigy!
Yay new episode
Oh em gee I love prodigy!
Just seeing the Radical Squatch being thrown 😍😍😍 honestly such a great ball!
Those commercials. A used white AMF XS was the second ball i ever owned. Gave it to my dad years ago, but i got it back when he passed
Annalise is one of the most impressive young bowlers I have seen! Super composed and what a fantastic release. Look out WPBA, she is coming for ya!
Best of all, she's pure class.
Gosh it’s been like forever since u uploaded, is a new vid on the way???? Love the vids so much
Rob Stone: HAMBONE!
I always love listening to these things during school when doing work, seeing that people still love this sport. Being 15 and all averaging. 207 my first day of league I was very happy. I was also wondering how to even get on one of these since I live in Canada and all. I also try to get people to love bowling in my school and it works, when I watch the PBA in class I got a whole class to love it and I hope more junior leagues show up in Ontario
We would let a Canadian bowl PRODIGY if one were to ever show up. (Hint, hint.)
BrownswickBowling Ah I get you I’ll ask my parents to go
YESSS. RANDY I LOVE YOU
Annalise, you are an amazing bowler and i hope that some day you turn pro because you would be the next face to watch on the woman bowler tour,and dad i know you have got to be very proud and keep up the good work.
You know what's really scary about Annalise? It's that she's just 15. She's going to keep getting better and better. By the time she's old enough to turn pro, she's going to be that much better.
I laughed so hard at the commentators "salad toss" comment
Randy your foreshadowing cracks me up every time. Edited for spoiler.
Season 4!!!
Hey Randy, you should do a plastic ball tournament.
304 garage I like that idea
Yea
You could put out the shot from the teen masters for that
another great week...what a way to start
where was row-dawg??? missed seeing him
"Row-dawg" didn't stay to bowl this time. Neither did some of our other regulars. But most of them are back this year, and hopefully you'll be seeing them soon. A few of them left to play "disc golf." (Go figure.)
@BrownswickBowling What a great start to the Prodigy season!! Annalise is just simply amazing, talented beyond words for her age! I was THRILLED to hear and read about the Make That Spare upcoming episodes. Will you use the same old spares? Bucket 2-4-5-8 Fence 1-2-4-7 Washout 1-2-7-10 Baby Split 4-5 and Equalizer 5-7 (for rightys ofc)? I also have to assume the other house you are going to will be equipped with GSX's or are in the GS family of pinsetters allowing you to setup specific spares yourself? I know in my years for some bowlers if it was a dead day work wise I'd setup spares for them, but a GS ofc would be the easiest way since you can control what pins are setup yourself. Great to see Prodigy back and best of luck with the new season, I will be watching ofc :)
Yes, my plan for the Make That Spare revival is to do the show just like they did it back in the day, with the same five spares. We'll even do the "Sweepstakes Spare," although there won't be a jackpot associated with it (too bad). Monopoly money, maybe. LOL! One interesting side note on the original Make That Spare. On those rare occasions when a left-hander appeared on the show, they did not reverse the spares for the lefty. The lefty shot the same five spares. So I suspect we'll do it the same way they did.
Now, we'll be recording all the episodes in one day. And I won't know exactly how many kids we have until we get there. So I may have to modify the format slightly to make sure we get all the kids on the show that show up to bowl. On the original MTS, the winner each week was held over as the "reigning Sparemaker" on the following week's show. But if we have so many kids there to make that impractical, I may do some sort of bracketed competition to winnow the field down to one overall winner. Or we might do three kids on each episode. Or four. As is always the case with PRODIGY, I always have to be prepared to adapt to the circumstances that the field we are presented with requires. Hence, the "impromptu" nature of the formats. This will be no different. But to the extent that I can, I'd like to stay true to the original format of the show while at the same time accommodating the kids who come to be on the show that day.
@@ProdigyBowlersTour Very cool :) I like that you're sticking to the original format fully, even with the sweepstakes spare. I dunno if you ever saw the 1988 "revival" (not much of one, it was only one episode lol) but on that one they DID reverse the spares for the lefty on the show. It was PBA guys tho and I don't think you ever tell Earl Anthony "NO I'm not reversing the bucket for you!" lol. It aired right before the 88 PBA national I do remember it vividly, it's probably made it to YT by now but I think I still have it on VHS as well. Looking forward to all you have planned For the upcoming season and especially Make That Spare! :)
yassss
yeeeeeet
Did Charles Bostic return to bowl league with you guys?
Yes.
Annalise is gonna be a really good bowler if she can bowl in the PWBA in a couple of years from now.
My first week of league last Saturday was a good one. I shot 751, the high series that day. 258, 214, and 279. If only I shot a little better the second game I would’ve been around 800. I was pretty happy nonetheless!
When 214 is your "bad" game, you're doing a lot right.
Lol I guess you are right!
On a house shot lol
That’s true it was a house shot. I bowl many tournaments though too. The state I live in puts on multiple tournaments any youth member can enter. I do plenty of those. In fact I bowled in a doubles tourney this past Saturday and we finished 2nd. But trust me I Bowl tournaments too. If I shot 750 in a 3 game series on a sport shot, especially longer ones (those are the most tedious for me), I would be ecstatic! Lol
@@c7mixes125 -- 751 is good bowling on any shot. And if you think it's okay to diss people on this channel, you are wrong. We're here to build people up, not tear them down. Don't be a jerk or you will be blocked.
Hunters going to have tough go at winning the coveted trophy pin but if anyone can do its him he’s got that fire in his eyes
He got to the championship match at the PRODIGY TOC last year. But that was on the strength of a lot of wins he collected against the Littles and in the handicap division when we had one. But he likes being challenged, and I won't be surprised in the least to see him start winning on this bigger stage.
That is definitely a Crux Prime and not an Optimus that Christian started with.
I stand corrected. I spoke with Christian today (over a week after this show was recorded). I was under the mistaken impression that he did not own a Crux Prime. And I knew that he had just purchased a new (new to him, it was used, purchased online) Optimus. So I assumed that was his Optimus, as I knew he'd want to be throwing his new toy. I had simply forgotten that he'd purchased a Crux Prime a while back.
Yeah that’s definitely a Crux Prime
What do yall think about the Bowlero/PBA purchase?
Oceania idk bowlero is buying every thing
@@kanji1553 I mean true, but like do you think its good or bad for the PBA/sport? Personally i'd like to say it's good from what i've heard in interviews and from the pros. I also tend to trust Tom Clark, so hopefully big bucks to the PBA.
@@blankk9517 As far as PBA goes, I don't think it will hurt it at all since it might open the doors to more centers for tour stops and a few more random tournaments in general.
@@etarnkufecin True, heard they're not limiting it to Bowlero alleys so their letting the PBA still have power, the big things i've seen as a good sign are them letting Tom Clark stay and them talking about funding the PBA, they are a fastly approaching billion dollar business and that would TREMENDOUSLY help the PBA.
One thing seems pretty certain to me: Bowlero Corporation is a big, big company with a lot of money. The PBA hasn't been on more solid financial footing since probably the '70s. This can only be a good thing for the PBA. And for Bowlero Corporation, it should put to rest any skeptics' questions about whether or not Bowlero Corporation is committed to competitive bowling. PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR calls one of Bowlero's centers its home, and they've been nothing but accommodating to us. I applaud the Bowlero acquisition of the PBA.
All ten in the pit.
I saw nick Tristin and Brandon at chik fil a saturday but I didn’t say hi bc I was scared
You should have said hello. They don't bite. Well, unless you're a chicken sandwich.
hunter was throwing urethane it wont hook back from first and second arrows.
You'd be surprised at how much I've seen these kids hook anything...including urethane.
I got a question! Why is bowlero buying out every bowling alley there is?
Probably because they can make a ton of money doing it.
BrownswickBowling probably and honestly I’m okay with it just as long there’s a Brunswick zone
@@dickfilla247 -- Well, all of the Brunswick Zone centers are going away. They're all either changing their names to Bowlero or to AMF or are being sold (which likely would mean they're closing). You see, in 2014, Brunswick Corporation decided they were getting out of the bowling center operation business, and they sold all their Brunswick-branded centers (including all the Brunswick Zone and Brunswick Zone XL centers) to Bowlmor-AMF. (Bowlmor-AMF subsequently became Bowlero Corporation a little over a year ago.) At the time of the sale, Brunswick Corporation licensed the use of their name, Brunswick, to Bowlmor-AMF for a period of FIVE YEARS. The five years is up this month, in September of 2019. By that time, Bowlmor-AMF (Bowlero Corp.) had to have re-branded all the Brunswick-branded bowling centers to something else. Some of them may have become Bowlmor, I'm not sure. Some may have been re-branded as AMF. But most, I believe (and all of them here in the Atlanta metro area) have been re-branded as Bowlero. You won't find any more bowling centers in America branded as Brunswick Zone. That name is now gone.
BrownswickBowling ah makes sense
Outside.
Is nick bowling this season?
Edit: Nick Dishwasher
I hope so. He's back with us in league this season. He and Brandon and Tristin went to play disc golf after league last Saturday. I hear Brandon is quite a golfer. Not just a disc golfer, but real golf.
I wish I could be on the show I have improved greatly I did average 130 now I average 155 and bowled my highest series ever 166,182,142 for a 490
Christian Mennell has the new Crux Prime, not the Optimus. I have one. It’s a good ball.
Jonathan Switchblade Symmank - Nope. It’s an Optimus. He just bought it...used...on eBay.
@@ProdigyBowlersTour he probably beat me on that auction lol
As I mentioned in another thread, I was unaware (or had forgotten) that Christian had purchased a Crux Prime. You're right. That was a Crux Prime. But he did just purchase a used Optimus online, and just got it drilled a few days before this show was taped. I assumed he was throwing it. I was wrong.
BrownswickBowling it’s ok. The Optimus is a good backup option for the Prime. BTW the Optimus was one of my first bowling balls ever. I started joining a league almost 4 years ago.
Don’t know if anyone’s heard, but I believe The AMF/Brunswick corp is in development on a new pinsetter, the GS-NXT I believe. Search up on CZcams Brunswick GS-NXT, that’s how I found it. It’s pretty interesting!
Wrong. There is no "AMF/Brunswick corp." If Brunswick Corporation is developing a new GS-NXT pinsetter (and they may well be doing so, I don't know), they're doing so independent of AMF. You are confusing two different sides of the business -- the side of the business that manufactures and sells bowling center capital equipment (like pinsetters, synthetic lanes, ball returns, scoring systems, etc.) and the bowling CENTER OPERATION business.
Many years ago AMF sold off its capital equipment manufacturing division to Qubiica, forming the company we now know as Qubica-AMF. That had nothing whatsoever to do with Brunswick. Meanwhile, AMF's bowling center operation business was purchased by Bowlmor, creating the company known as Bowlmor-AMF. A short time later in 2014, Bowlmor-AMF purchased the bowling center operation division of Brunswick Corporation, adding all the Brunswick-branded bowling centers in America to its portfolio of bowling centers. Part of that deal called for Brunswick Corporation licensing the use of its name, Brunswick, in Bowlmor-AMF's operation of the bowling center for a period of five year. Those five years were up in September, 2019, which is why they've all changed their name, most of them to Bowlero. (In the intervening years, Bowlmor-AMF was bought out by an investor who changed the name to Bowlero Corporation.) Meanwhile, Brunswick Corporation, which sold its bowling centers to Bowlmor-AMF, still had the other side of its bowling business -- the side that manufactures and sells bowling center capital equipment (pinsetters, etc.). Brunswick wanted out of the bowling business (they make more money making and selling boats and pool tables), so a couple of years ago, they finally completed the sale of the side of their company that deals in the making of bowling equipment, from pinsetters and ball returns to bowling balls and shoes. Today, Brunswick is completely out of the bowling business. But the side of their company that makes pinsetters, which they sold to an investment firm, has never merged with AMF or any entity related to AMF or Bowlero. You're thinking of the side of the company that operates bowling centers -- a whole different business. There is no such thing as a Brunswick-AMF company.
If you're going to have a channel about bowling, shouldn't you understand the business just a little so you know what you're talking about?
BrownswickBowling Sorry, I was wrong. I had the idea that since the contract was up on the Brunswick Zone centers and they were renamed that AMF bought Brunswick out. My mistake, thanks for clarification.
Plus, my channel is just tidbits of what I find interesting from the world of bowling, I don’t intend for it to be very very serious, just cool bits like this, and maybe me bowling.
Not trying to self promote, but I created a CZcams channel called Bowling Mechanics. I am an avid fan of prodigy and I thought it would be cool to put something like that together. Go prodigy!!!!
JR
Do any of the kids use Hammer balls? That all I throw I have 54 balls and all are Hammers.
Wow I assume you have to use a caddie when you go out on those tour stops. :)
Tenth Frame. I usually bring a triple ball roller and 2 double tote bags. 7 balls
@@jspike300 I always brought 4 (two in two small Trax bags). Never took more. I find that it is better to adjust with what you have then to try more bowling balls. It consisted of two reactives, one urethane, and one hard rubber ball that is over 60 years old for spares etc. I had fairly good success in most conditions with just 4.
If you have 54 balls, I'd say you have an addiction problem and should seek help. ;-)
BrownswickBowling hehe. Buying bowling balls is my drug of choice. I’m 38 and don’t drink or smoke. I avg 230 . I love watching prodigy because that is how I started in the jr league. I’m shocked I don’t see anyone throwing the pink widow, everyone and there mother has it in the house I bowl in lol
I might be the smallest but I’m not the youngest
Well said, wise words from a future bowling legend :>
Ended up being a good match between brothers Dylan and Gavin. All Prodigy matches are usually pretty good. Christian is my favorite but he gets lost in those headphones too much to ever get a win on Prodigy. Lose the noise makers Christian. Annalise proves that women can bowl just a good as the men even beat them. Way to go Annalise.
james daniels on the professional tour Liz Johnson proves that from having won a PBA title. :)
A few years ago, Storm was selling a DVD on its website by Rhino Page. It talked about the mental game. Specifically, Rhino offered some mental drills you could do that would teach you techniques with which to basically distract yourself from over-thinking about mechanics while bowling. Self-talk drills, really. But the thing that made them so powerful is that they would get your mind off of over-thinking while bowling. Soon after watching the DVD, I bought a pair of Beats Studio Wireless headphones to wear while I was bowling. I found that listening to my tunes while bowling league accomplished the same thing. It kept me from over-thinking about swing mechanics while bowling. Plus, it had the added benefit of shutting out all aural distractions in the bowling center -- like those sudden, unexpected roars from a few pairs away when someone makes a split right in the middle of your downswing, or those drunken idiots who don't seem to realize they're yelling loud enough to be heard in Chattanooga. I found that bowling with headphones on and listening to my music, I bowled a lot better. I could not find a reason why it was a problem. So, as long as it's within the rules (some tournaments don't allow it), I usually bowl with my headphones on. So I can't very well ban it on PRODIGY, as I would be justifiably labeled a hypocrite. I find that different circumstances bowling call for different types and levels of mental engagement. When you're bowling well and it's a relaxed environment (like league), bowling with headphones on is fine. On the other hand, I've been bowling in tournaments where I had to give myself a lot of self-talk -- not so much about swing mechanics, but just to keep myself mentally focused on the task at hand, and to remind myself to stay in the moment and not project forward or dwell on a bad shot. So sometimes I find that headphones (and music) helps me. Other times, not so much.
They gave $300 to liars. What a way to teach the kids.
minh8080 huh?
What?