The whole thing sucks, Bobby is a good friend of mine, as is Callie , Brad, Damian and T-rex (cuba).
It sucks that bobby won't be playing with his bros this year, but that's what GI is doing to our sport, most over the pond think GI make up their own rules for the NXL and this is just another confirmation to those people, anyone remember rabackoff congratulating the top teams last year and not mentioning dynasty? that's because the other teams were GI sponsored and dynasty obviously not, it must have been a deep cut for GI when dynasty actual went and won the world cup.
This sort of bull**** has to stop, paintball is a small world and these petty moves by GI don't smell good.
You shouldn't let a sponsor dictate who can play on your team, if someone, say bobby was shooting apx paint and wearing patches over his empire gear while playing for infamous then I could see a certain conflict, but he's not. Bobby made a career choice to work for another company other than Empire/GI, and who can blame him, since GI bought out Kee/empire they have laid off everyone in canada and closed the europe warehouse down making everyone redundant just before christmas. They let one of the most innovative guys in paintball go after trying to tie him down to a non compete clause (sosta) and my good friend Jon Bonich, one of the nicest guys in paintball who has worked for over 30 years in paintball, no longer wants anything to do with the industry, just wants to play the odd tournament now and then. That's what GI is doing to our sport, killing it slowly.
You suck GI.