Brunswick Crown Victory Review

[Music] CEO Ronald Hicklin from Creating the Difference. Today we're going to talk about the brand new Brunswick Crown Victory. This ball features the HK22 Savvy Hook Hybrid cover stock. It has the tiered hexagon core shape. It's symmetrical with an RG of 2.540, a differential of 0.045. It's finished 500, 1,1500 plus crown factory compound. We checked the hardness of the bowling ball. It was right at 73. We scanned it with our CTD version 2 surface scanner.

It scanned right at 4500 grit. The old absorption rate on this bowling ball was slow, which is unusual for HK22, but it is what it was. Uh the layout on this bowling ball is 60x 4 1.5x30, but instead of being thrown by me, it's going to be thrown by Dustin today. What up? What up? So, we got a right-handed player uh also being able to throw the bowling ball. Me and Dustin are gonna have a conversation about the ball. He will be the ball reviewer this time and I will just kind of comp comment maybe offer additional commentary as we're going along. So Dustin, welcome back. Thank you. Appreciate it. It's been it's

been a minute. It's been a minute since I've done a bar. It has been a while. Dustin has been very busy uh helping us grow the brand a couple of different ways, including customer service. So if you're not a member of our staff, join our staff. Dustin, I like your t-shirt, man. Thanks, man. Throw nine, get nine, but I'm trying to get 10. Hopefully you're hopefully you get more tens today than nines, but we will we will definitely see. Well, let's go ahead and get into this crown victory review right now. That's nine, but first shot don't count. I'm thinking this might be a benchmark

ball for Buzzley. Show them the flare. Show them the flare. It's a lot of flare. 045 differential. Maximum allowable is 60 and uh companies don't go any higher than 58. So 045 is it's a little bit on the higher end of the medium range. I like that one. That ball ran over the Apin. Absolutely obliterate obliterated the eight pin. That one looked pretty good.

Throw nine. Get nine. It was still It was a little right, but it it was right. That was a little right. And it didn't quite all the way get back. Yeah, but honestly that's a whole lot of nine with how far right it was. All right. Well, not sure that very continuous was a good estimation or not. Why you say that? Cuz that that got pretty far down the lane and went

sideways. Okay. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's a That's the type of shape that I like. It's That's kind of shape you like. It's not super hockey stick. It's not so early. I like it. Do it again. Oh, I'll do it again. You're talking to the wrong one. Why does it always have to be I'm I'm being friendly here. I'm not being like I'll keep it on the lane, though.

That wasn't shot at Austin. Wow. See, this is why you shouldn't run your mouth, right? Every time people run their mouth, this is what happens. You going to learn eventually. Eventually, they going to learn. Eventually, these kids going to learn. Just stand up there. Let your ball do the talking. You ain't got to do all the talking. Let your ball do the work. If not, you throw nine, you get nine.

See that faced up. So you made a move there, Dustin. Yeah. Uh and you four pin. So what was the move? So the move was six and three uh to the left. Okay. So you got to make another adjustment then obviously. Yeah. So, I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring my eyes in just a little bit to get it further down the lane and into the volume. Um, and I should be

pretty close. That's better. Let's throw something in the dark. What do you think? Targeting wise, it was pretty much right on top of the other one. Uh, it might have been a little quick, but I don't know if it was super quick, like seven

quick. Yeah, the last one might have just been a little quick, but I mean, overall, the shape is still tease it and it goes super super continuous. Seems What about when you get it uh right in the dirt? You have to take your hand out of it, but throw some shots. Maybe a little right to the dirt for I mean, I got the same spot down lane. This what seven right at the

arrows still picked up. Well, let's see what it does with a little bit of surface. We'll cut the lights back on. I'll get you some surface on your bowling ball. All right. Go hit it with 3000. So, that'll get the Crown Factory compound off and give us another look at with a different surface. Talk a little bit about what you think you're seeing out there, Dustin, while I'm doing this. I mean, from the the overall shape that at

least I'm seeing, it seems like, you know, this ball is something that would be a benchmark shape, like you had initially said, I think it's something that, you know, what it's going to do every single time. And I honestly I think with the surface, it could be pretty good. Um, but at the shiny to 4500 grit finish that we measured, um, I really really like the shape of it. Something that I would I would honestly probably throw it in league. uh predictable shape, something that I can chase left if I need to. Um so big fan for sure.

All right, sir. All right, the ball is now at 3000 grit. I think it's going to be a little more easier to control. You know, first shot doesn't count. Uh I think we're going to get rid of some of the a little bit of the overunderness that we had before. I believe I believe it'll be a little bit more of a controllable reaction now. Uh more predictable, more benchmarky

like because now the ball reads the pattern slower, not as quick. Um because it's a house pattern, if you can slow it down a little bit, you can miss a little bit more out and it will still pick up just enough to be able to get back. So, I think now he's just going to have more room for error. I think earlier on in the video, the shot that I thought that I gassed a little bit, I feel like it's not as amplified with the surface.

Correct. So, that shot there's a good example. That shot was a little further right. I think if the ball's polished, it over pushes, does not recover. He splits. But because it's got that surface on it, it picks up just enough to get the Swisser hit and he still strikes. The ball just becomes more usable at 30,000. Now you have more information about the brand new Brunswick Crown

Victory. Dustin, final thoughts on this bowling ball. I'm going to be adding a switch grip to this one. You going to add a switch grip to this one? You uh you throwing it polished or you throwing it uh dull? I'm I'm I think I'm going to try with the service. Little service on. Yeah, I tend to like the balls with a little bit of service anyways just to get them to slow down a little bit more. So, awesome. Awesome. Uh behalf of Dustin Zer, I am Ronald Hicklin. Talk to you guys next time.