The Mission X is the latest release in Ebonite’s Platinum line. All three testers found the ball to perform best on the medium test pattern.

We tested all of the other Mission releases on the heavy pattern, but all three testers agreed that at the box finish, their reactions were better with the Mission X on the medium than our heavy test pattern. On this pattern, all three testers saw the same motion through the first three quarters of the lane as we did with the original Mission. Where the Mission X shows its difference is in the back end. Stroker saw the best reaction on all the test patterns. The added back end had him throw a few messengers, ...