The Main Menu
The first screen to appear is the main menu screen. From here you'll be able to set the characteristics of your bowler, play a quick game, play a league game, enter a tournament, and set the game options.
To return to the main menu at any time, place the cursor over Main and press the B button.
Player Setup
In order to customize your bowler, or to take a look at the competition, place the cursor over Player Setup and press the B button.
The first thing you're going to want to do is set yourself up, so choose Player Setup from the menu. Now you can enter your name, choose your clothes, set which hand you will bowl with, decide whether to automatically or manually switch to your spare ball and determine your main and spare ball choices.
If you are unfamiliar with the different types of bowling balls and their characteristics, scroll through all your choices and read the description and chart on each ball. Determining which ball is best for you, and for differing conditions, will take time. Your ball choice is an important decision, so don't be hasty.
Use the B button to toggle through choices in each category. Continue to set up the total amount of human players that will be participating, then choose Okay to return to the Bowler Setup Menu.
Now that you're going to be bowling against them, you'll probably want to find out more about your favorite Brunswick pros. Choose Brunswick Pros to view detailed biographical and career information on all 11 bowling greats, but don't let yourself be intimidated!
You can check out the rest of the competition by choosing Bowler Roster.
Practice (Quick Game)
Choose Quick Game from the Main Menu Screen for a practice game, so that you can get used to the controls before entering pressure-laden league or tournament play.
In the Select Players screen, add players to the list of bowlers by pressing on the B button. Then place the cursor over Play and press the B button again.
Here in Practice mode, you will be asked to select one of seven oil patterns before bowling. For now, choose an easy one, but later you can hone your skills to more difficult lane conditions! Obviously, lane conditions are not selectable in League or Tournament play.
Just like the real thing, bowling with Brunswick World Tournament of Champions™ is not hard...But bowling well is! Remember, the skill lies in learning to control the ball, not remembering exactly where to aim it.
How to Bowl
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First, use the Control Pad Left/Right to position your bowler to the desired delivery point.
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Next, use the L and R buttons to move the aiming arrow across the lane until it is pointing to where you would like your bowler to be aiming. Keep in mind that the sight points to where your ball will go if it does not curve. You will need to compensate for heavily curving balls.
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Finally, press the B button to start the power meter, and press it again when you would like it to stop. Now do the same for the spin meter.
You may find the power and spin meters difficult to control at first, but it will come with practice. Your goal, as you probably know, is to find the right combination of all of these parameters, so that your Brunswick bowling ball strikes the pins at the desired point of impact.
If you are not sure of where this point might be, refer to the pin diagram below the power and spin meters. The blue arrow points to where your point of impact should be.
League
Now that you think you've got your technique down, you might be ready for some friendly, competitive league bowling.
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Choose Singles League to match up individually against a pool of 4, 6 or 8 bowlers made up of any combination of Brunswick pros, computer bowlers and friends. (up to 4 human players)
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Choose Teams League to create and compete in a pool of 4, 6, or 8 teams.
League Setup Screen
In both cases, you'll need to set the number of games in the match to 1, 2 or 3.
Additionally, you'll have to decide whether to compete by aggregate scores (the sum of an individual bowler's scores over the set amount of games, or the sum of a team of bowlers' scores over the set amount of games), or best scores (a bowler, or team of bowlers' best score is matched against the other bowler or team's best score over the set amount of games). Both scoring methods will make for tons of competitive fun!
Tournament
If you've enjoyed the taste of competition, and you think your skills are sufficiently honed, it might be time to try your luck in a professional tournament.
The six tournaments you have to choose from are:
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The Las Vegas Invitational
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The Johnny Petraglia Open
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The Bayer Brunswick Touring Players Championship
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Brunswick World Tournament of Champions
Note: you must win one of the other tournaments before you will receive an invitation to compete in the coveted Brunswick World Tournament of Champions.™
Before selecting the tournament you would like to enter, you must decide whether you want to compete in the long tournament format, or the