or should I say I told you so............
Well the first Xball league day came to the UK on Sunday and there was more than a few concerns that I will address before the next event.
The good points of the day far outweighed the bad but one or two things are definitely not up to PA standard and I will be addressing them forthwith.
As you are probably aware Hatts and Gillie are taking a back seat as far as the League is concerned so it is myself who is taking charge with help from Rob Yates the current PA Chairman.
We have both talked for hours about what we think the league should offer the players, it will still and always will endeavour to meet all the Sports Council criteria that will assist ourselves in gaining Sports status that will benefit all of paintball in the UK.
We had experimented with Xball thru Fightclub over the last two seasons to see if the players could if I am honest hack it, I decided that although I saw a huge chasm in playing ability from our friends across the pond I also was confident that the format did not need great players to make it work, all it needed was players who wanted to be great and they turned up in there droves on Sunday.
Everyone thanks their sponsors and I am no exception and ours are every team who turned up on Sunday to start the transformation of UK paintball I am fortunate to have had a great bunch of referees who took lead from the ones who had reffed this format at the PSP in the states and collectively contributed to the best day I have ever seen at a PA event so our special and heartfelt thanks to Jabba, Marsbar, Ed, Simon, Tommy and Paul on field one with Ned Flanders on the scoreboard.
Anthony, John-boy, J,doe, Rosie and Matt on field two each and every one of them a star.
The rules not being available online and consequently the confusion that happened in a drawn game was 100% my fault and I will put it right for you, however I feel I should point out that we have always stolen as much as we could from the most successful sport we know - football -so why would we as a league not want to use that (It was also mentioned at the Managers meeting when we told them Xball was the format we was going to do this season) when it adds to the excitement.
I understand why players wanted to play a decider and showing me the PSP Xball rule that describes it but the reason they have to do that is they have a winners line and a losers line to the final so they have to have both after a match we are doing a League and after all those matches we will find a winner.
If you have any questions and I have time Please post away and I will get to them when I can, please remember I am going to Germany tomorrow so I may be off for a while.
Results up later in a new thread
Russ
Well the first Xball league day came to the UK on Sunday and there was more than a few concerns that I will address before the next event.
The good points of the day far outweighed the bad but one or two things are definitely not up to PA standard and I will be addressing them forthwith.
As you are probably aware Hatts and Gillie are taking a back seat as far as the League is concerned so it is myself who is taking charge with help from Rob Yates the current PA Chairman.
We have both talked for hours about what we think the league should offer the players, it will still and always will endeavour to meet all the Sports Council criteria that will assist ourselves in gaining Sports status that will benefit all of paintball in the UK.
We had experimented with Xball thru Fightclub over the last two seasons to see if the players could if I am honest hack it, I decided that although I saw a huge chasm in playing ability from our friends across the pond I also was confident that the format did not need great players to make it work, all it needed was players who wanted to be great and they turned up in there droves on Sunday.
Everyone thanks their sponsors and I am no exception and ours are every team who turned up on Sunday to start the transformation of UK paintball I am fortunate to have had a great bunch of referees who took lead from the ones who had reffed this format at the PSP in the states and collectively contributed to the best day I have ever seen at a PA event so our special and heartfelt thanks to Jabba, Marsbar, Ed, Simon, Tommy and Paul on field one with Ned Flanders on the scoreboard.
Anthony, John-boy, J,doe, Rosie and Matt on field two each and every one of them a star.
The rules not being available online and consequently the confusion that happened in a drawn game was 100% my fault and I will put it right for you, however I feel I should point out that we have always stolen as much as we could from the most successful sport we know - football -so why would we as a league not want to use that (It was also mentioned at the Managers meeting when we told them Xball was the format we was going to do this season) when it adds to the excitement.
I understand why players wanted to play a decider and showing me the PSP Xball rule that describes it but the reason they have to do that is they have a winners line and a losers line to the final so they have to have both after a match we are doing a League and after all those matches we will find a winner.
If you have any questions and I have time Please post away and I will get to them when I can, please remember I am going to Germany tomorrow so I may be off for a while.
Results up later in a new thread
Russ
