2016/17 Offseason Rumours, Gossip, Shens.....and maybe some stuff that's true

[Shepherd:03]

I like the wall, it's added another route to attack the field, hides breakouts to an extent and blocks a lot of the earlier cross-field shots forcing people to push up the field to be more effective. I guess with the webcast becoming more available, collisions are becoming much more visible rather than significantly more frequent.

Are Syndicate completely folding then? Or switching to CPS?

 

[onasilverbike]

If Syndicate are not playing the MS/DPL they must have lost their Maxs sponsorship, I can't see Manfred agreeing for them to play CPS!

 

[slam]

From what I can gather sponsership issues have lead to them being unable to play in the CPL and possible DPL

 

[Spikerz]

Yep definitely sponsorship issues. Also something around the German national team was in there. Not sure if some of the Austrian dudes on Syndicate left?

 

[RST]

Syndicate is not "owned" by Maxs anymore.
The Maxs we know is gone. The company will change a lot.
There will be a release by Maxs (or whatever it is called in the future) about this later.

So Syndicate "lost" its main sponsor and running a team on this Level and competition is very expensive. So as there is no new main sponsor at the moment who is willing to pump a lot of money into Syndicate to play the Mills, the team will pause playing the Mills.

However they got a GI sponsoring on paint and masks for the comming season and will try to play the DPL if possible.
They are looking for other sponsors (markers, etc.)

 

[onasilverbike]

Thank you for the clarification!

 

[Spikerz]

Vielen Dank!

Very sad to hear about Maxs, they were a cornerstone of European paintball for a very long time.

 

[Missy-Q]

GI bought/absorbed Manic and Maxs last week. I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it.
Maxs haven't 'gone', they just have new ownership, but the same guys are involved so I think we can ease off the head-stone talk...

 

[RST]

...
Maxs haven't 'gone', ...

It has, it is not the same company anymore we know for over 20 years.
Sure "same people" (at least most of them) involved but the orientation of the "new company" will be different.

 

[red dragon]

XSV are starting up again ..