makes me laugh when tournament players all say things like "looks like its aimed at punters" of course its aimed at "punters”, the difference between tournament players and the customers we refer to with disdain as "just punters" is simple, they turn up pay a fair price taking into account the running costs and a small profit margin for the guy who has invested everything he owns into the venture pay the bill and go home.
A regular "torney baller" turns up moans its to expensive complains about the marshalling wants a discount and then says "if you sponsor us and give us everything for nothing we will put your logo on our shirt"
I think we all know which customer makes sense???
Custard, whilst I agree with a lot of what you say, I will contend your suggestion that site owners work with small margins.
That's just silly !!!!
A well run, well marketed site makes site owners very rich indeed.
One slightly well known site owner always used to plead poverty whilst he rammed thousands per week in his grubby little back pocket.
He was as transparent as he was greedy.
Of course some site owners don't do so well but this is down to poor management and promotional skills rather than small working margins.
The margins are there to make significant profits if sites are run professionally, just look at the bread and butter sale of paintballs themselves :- Site owners can buy them at .75 p per ball and even less and then go on to sell them at 6 or 7p.
Now I ain't no financial expert but I know my maths and with margins like those, you can make money, and trust me, I know a lot of site owners who do just that.
As for the generalization concerning tourney players?
Hmmm, you ain't too far off the mark with that one and as for Mikey and his mates never bemoaning judging, pricing or whatever, hmmm, I doubt that.
It's not so much
if tourney players indulge but how much ... a bit like cheating really.
