Paintball on TV? - Yeh right !

[Dusty]

Tell me you don't mean X-Fire (pronounced Crossfire)!!??!!

oh god yes,

"emulsified"

sh*te program but on the plus side, at least it got on TV

 

[booga]

I was actually thinking more along the lines of "on field one next is team summat versus team someoneelse. Here's a few stats about them both...over to Stuart to do the introductions...NO COMMENTARY DURING THE GAME...wow - what a good/crap game that was...over to Stuart again.."

The Nations Cup X-ball at Campaign had commentry during the games if I remember rightly, can't remember who they where but they where very entertaining. In my mind it certainly added to the event, whether they were taunting players as they walked off field after being 'cyclopsed' or taking the piss out of the 'squeegie ninjas' cleaning the bunkers between games.

 

[Polly]

that was an awsome programme and is what made me first want to try paintball. Then 3 years or so later i did and realised cossfire was s*it and my gun is better than theirs

 

[Sinbad]

I know alot go on about how some of these programs were ****e and all but if you think about they did there job, now the reason im saying this is because thats what got people intrestead enough to come and play some paintball cross-fire was a big one to that, your average joe ive spoken to at a site said they played paintball cause they saw it on the telly and thought it was cool, its just like that ultimate fighter stuff, started of really slow no one new about it then the next thing you know everyones doing it, so in my opinion those quirky shows like crossfire is what we need even if they are ****e they still get people intrestead, of course thats just my opinion

 

[Mario]

Can i ask...

What would paintball on television actually do for paintball? Who would benefit from it?

Can someone explain to me what good it would actually do?

Robbo, are you talking television, stateside or europe? If paintball made its way onto american television on a regular slot what do you percieve the effect on european paintball to be?

I think Paintball should forget its TV hopes and dreams for a little while. It needs a format suited properly for televising. It needs camera men who know how to film paintball and it needs a commentator who's not a class A dick. These things take some trial and error. This trial and error shouldn't happen on the television stage.

It also requires unity. But thats another argument altogether and i dont see it happening. No matter what you say robbo, i just cant see it happening. There's years of hatred there.

 

[andyrik]

look at other major sports and theres your answer.

if "extreme" dodgeball can be on tv, why not paintball?

 

[Mario]

look at other major sports and theres your answer.

if "extreme" dodgeball can be on tv, why not paintball?

laughable

1) paintball is NOT major. It is minor. In fact it is so minor its not even a blemish on any (real) sports companies annual reports. Its nothing.
2) Every major sport has been established for a long, loonnngg time. Even dodgeball.
3) People get extreme dodgeball. Its also ridiculous and makes people laugh.

Paintballers are far too precious about the sport they play. Loosen up - be open to new ideas.

But, thanks for not answering my question at all.

Good job.

 

[NorthIrish]

look at other major sports and theres your answer.

Does anyone on here really believe that football would be as big as it is today if it didn't have constant media coverage?

I mean, they stop play everytime a fully grown man slips over on a patch of grass. Something that seems to happen everytime an opposing player comes near the one with the ball. Most of the top players are too worried about their sunglasses deals and hairstyles to actually play ther game properly. if they wake up after a bad nights sleep they take the next month off...

Does this sound like an exciting game to televise?

Then the fans talk about their team playing well, or worse saying things like 'we played well' after doing squat to help either team on the field (sitting in a packed pub swilling beer does nothing for 'your team'). These are guys who probably put more money into tescos ever year than mancherster united(or whoever they support) yet never one say 'we did really well again' when tescos announce record end of year profits.

Lets be happy to hold paintball for the players. The masses are too controlled by the media to accept something that doesn't fill the back six pages of a tabloid.

(i'm sure there is a point to this somewhere, but i admit i'm kinda just ranting...)

 

[Lucky]

We 'did' have UK paintball on UK TV a while back. Anyone remember Mission Paintball from Bravo. Ever wondered why that only got one series (even with Emily Booth)?

"My God i miss her" sorry to go slightly off topic but here's a picture to make it worthwhile, she's even got a COCKer in her hand

 

[andyrik]

Paintball on TV, god no, It's dead boring to watch

It should at least promote awareness though. The majority of people think paintballing is about going commando style in camoflarge.

i tell people about guns which fire 15 palls a second, and theyve never heared of it before.
mention sup air and the reply is "eh?" or "you wat" (of course thats if you live in t' yorkshire )