PSP make massive changes!!!

[Mudafunka]

PSP said :
"for talented players of all sizes," - not the size of the team the size of the player
" Currently, smaller and wealthier players have an edge in the PSP" -
"The field layouts have not been friendly to larger players"
"Adjust position of bunkers to better suit a wider variety of players"

The way i read this is "larger" as in taller rather than overweight players? Correct me if im wrong.

 

[Minibaker]

No it's not, it's like saying you can't have 8 men when playing 7 man you twit. .

ok bad analogy. no need to get offensive thou is there?

and im not saying players like bains, GP or Mike Paxon shouldnt play.

they do their job and they do it well..

Mike paxon can get behind a small teabags and lane the £$%^ out of you on the break and hes not a small guy.

im not saying certain weighted people shouldnt play at all.
im saying why are they changing the rules to benifit them.


but obivously you guys arent interested in having a conversation about it. so what ever

 

[Minibaker]

PSP said :
The way i read this is "larger" as in taller rather than overweight players? Correct me if im wrong.

thats your opinion. but the way i read it it seems to be concentrated on overwieght people. i dont see there being an issue with hight. Kyle form nexus seems to get on ok and hes tall.

 

[Lump]

im saying why are they changing the rules to benifit them.


but obivously you guys arent interested in having a conversation about it. so what ever

As a sport can we afford to exclude any one ? have we really got that big a player base that we can just push aside players, that dont fit the Pro player niche ?

 

[Mudafunka]

thats your opinion. but the way i read it it seems to be concentrated on overwieght people. i dont see there being an issue with hight. Kyle form nexus seems to get on ok and hes tall.

I can't really comment as i haven't seen all the people who play PSP. But i haven't seen overweight unfit players?

 

[Minibaker]

As a sport can we afford to exclude any one ? have we really got that big a player base that we can just push aside players, that dont fit the Pro player niche ?

no, no players should be told you cant play. but if we ever want to get away from the "hobby" idea and people see us as a sport a certian degree of health and being an athelete needs to come in to it. no?

its not darts. you need to be able to recover from a game quickly and get back out there. if anything making bunkers bigger will only benifit the smaller players out there.

 

[Lump]

no, no players should be told you cant play. but if we ever want to get away from the "hobby" idea and people see us as a sport a certian degree of health and being an athelete needs to come in to it. no?

We are never going to be a sport, well not what your talking about. And would you rather keep the same format and loose players year after year ? Or try and get every one back playing :tsk:

 

[Missy-Q]

I see all the changes as positive ones.
Larger Bunkers - It's not about changing the field to give larger people an advantage, its about taking away the advantage of the smaller people. The advantage already exists. For 'larger people' maybe you should read 'grown-ups/adults'. if there are larger bunkers, how do bigger guys have an advantage? Because they can now play behind them? That indicates a negation of the opposite advantage, surely.
No sideline coaching - This does not do away with coaching. Anyone that see's how the coaches operate knows that it isn't just about screaming like a girl from the sidelines. The coaches will maintain a major & pivotal role, before and after the points are played, but the players on the field will have to rely on their skills and talent during the points, rather than blind direction from the sidelines.
Larger fields - I actually don't want to see a 25 second match, where 4 people from one team are shot before they make their primary bunker. I think that kind of game looks crap, and it's definitely not what paintball is about IMO.

The squealing about these changes is unbelievable. I mean where do these guys get off?

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[SabreWolf]

It shouldnt matter to the so called pro's how the lay out of a field is or how its going to change!

It's all well and good saying if you want to compete and win, then you should loose weight and get fit but if your that dedicated and good at the game, then these changes shouldn't be a problem for the so called pro's, the best adapt.

Or is it that these so called pro's are scared of being schooled by a bunch of old, over weight, players that have come back to the sport cause of these changes?

 

[Stan]

no, no players should be told you cant play. but if we ever want to get away from the "hobby" idea and people see us as a sport a certian degree of health and being an athelete needs to come in to it. no?

Yes in the long term*.

But no. Paintball tried that. X-Ball was heralded as the answer to getting paintball on TV and by making it into more of a sport. This resulted in teams focussing on smaller, younger, faster players making more insane moves as they felt unshackled when playing the multi point format and were more prepared to take risks to win points thus making it into more of an athletic spectacle and therefore the chance of it becoming a sport.

That doesn't appear to have worked when combined with the economic down turn as the number of teams has dropped in the majority of tournament series. If you want paintball to become a sport, you need a far higher player base than currently in evidence. To agree with you for a moment, it would be ideal if that player base were to grow from the "right sort of players" to help develop top UK teams but that ain't gonna happen!

* - when i say long term i mean when the cows come home and when pigs fly through the sky. Paintball in the UK will never become a sport. It will always reamain a hobby. One or two teams could easily earn the right to compare themselves to elite sports teams in other sports but paintball as a national pastime will never be a sport.