After this blog was published, I was informed that the rule on Tour has been that all non-released balls be available to all competitors on the truck if they were available to staffers. So the impact of this rule change is in Regionals. I have not bowled a Tour stop for years and didn't know that rule out there, but just bowled a Regional last month where I used an IQ and a FIRE ROAD that weren't available to the public at that time.
On Tuesday, I got this email sent to all Storm and Roto...