Campaign......the verdict?

[Freddie Brockdorff]

buy-1-get-2-free on drinks, a DJ and some pretty impressive dancing from two guys from Reckless, made for a pretty good night

Heh... yeah impressive party indeed, cheap drinks AND dance moves the rest of us can only dream about EVER doing! Flohr & Epi rules! Hahaha!

Closed too early though (and that is not a joke - about 1.30?)!!!

 

[Stan]

Thats nothing mate, THE Mike Wilkins hugged me.

I hope you've had a shower since?

 

[Bob]

Was okay for a spectators point of view as long as you didn't ant to watch CPL. Spent most of the time watching games between the cronic and eclipse fields. Trade stalls were great especialy to hide from the rain & all the folks in the dye tent were very helpful.

Was great seeing the pros and famous faces floating about, Chris LaSoya, Nicky T, Ledz, Pete U etc etc. Even got to meet Samurai, Dusty and Lemon, she is taller than I expected

 

[Nick Brockdorff]

BTW - imagine the weather had been just half of what forecasted at the venue......

I seriously believe the promoters dudged a bullet, because that venue was no way near ready for rain:

- Carpark on grass (anyone remember "Mudhem"?)
- Trade area would have turned into a swamp
- Fields would have become full of trenches on the most used running lanes

If the same venue is used next year, I would suggest a little less is left to chance

All in all a good event - not great - but good....

Nick

 

[mikey601]

Thats nothing mate, THE Mike Wilkins hugged me.

I try to get around all my fans

 

[HUSH HUSH]

Event was good, not great but the better of Campaigns so far.

Weather was better than forecasted (except 10.30 - 11.30 Friday)
Lay out was good but seemed to lack atmosphere all round, food was not brilliant and farrrrrrr too expensive for what was on offer, £3.00 a bottle of beer.

From what I heard the players party was crap considering all the venues located close to the site, a tent in a wet field
The site did turn into a river especially around the Smart Parts truck, looked like a moat around the trailer at one point.

Overall good event but as Nick said, needs a few more ideas if they choose the same venue next year.

 

[Mark Toye-Nexus]

I'm not disputing that statement in the slightest but i'd be interested to know if there was any "real" justification in it or was it just a player whinging?

It seems there were certain things that certain players didn't like but for this to be such a bad event that a player decides never to return?
Sorry but i just didn't see the same event?

Real justification?

I said goers, not players.

One was an ex-player who went to watch and said " the general standard of play was shocking. There was no atmosphere, I was bored"

Another (actually a couple) are friends who travelled all the way from Spain just to watch. They thought the event was boring, the play was poor (Joy excepted) the CPL field poorly set up and practically unveiwable. They happen to be recently retired paintballers who gave up after the first event of the series because it was all getting so bad, so expensive and poor value for money.

The third is a vendor. He told me not to bother coming up because it was sh#t.

Since then I have spoken to players and they were pretty cheesed off. One said (after his first M5) that he couldnt belive that they treated the M5 teams as third class citizens!

Its a pity that what seems to be the feedback is that a number of players are turning their backs on the series as the attraction is waining.

Next year will be interesting, I hope they can attract the youth into the series and keep it.

 

[spangley_special]

i liked it as a whole, the day was not with out its problems though.

I thought the food was good and fairly priced although drinks were silly money

...icecream van was awesome

and the Joy phoenix game was also awesome, for every one except lasoya

disruption played amazing on sunday too

 

[Robbo]

Far be it from me to jump in with any defence of the Millennium Board considering my experiences with them but I think we have to maybe take a look at this year's CC and view it in a relative light, basically compare it with last year's.

If we do that, then perhaps it weren't' so bad, in fact, it was a vast improvement. From what I have read, there were fu#k ups but hey, you get those at HB and World Cup.

I'll give them 8 out of 10 for effort but could do better.
I'll give them 8 out of 10 for layout, 6 out of 10 for refreshments, 8 out of 10 for logistics. 6 out of 10 for atmosphere and from what I hear, 7 out of 10 for judging.

As for the standard of play, well, apart from Joy? ........

We are soooo far behind it's embarrassing.
And to give you an example, Joy beat Method / Ducks (whatever) 5 to 0 in under 3 mins, and that is all 5 points being amassed in under 3 mins and they only lost one guy in the last game in the last few seconds according to Magued .. if that don't sum it up then I don't know what does.

Joy are a great indicator to the level of play Stateside and as such, we are in deep sh!t with the Millennium series already won I think. The places underneath, are just crumbs for which the rest scramble, and are meaningless in terms of competition just like a four legged horse winning a race when all the others have 3.


With the industry at present in decline, and with budgets being hacked to death all over the place, there isn't much chance of us putting together a team with sufficient resources to compete, basically, we have to hope they are dragged down to our level if we wish to gain some sort of parity.

 

[Mark Toye-Nexus]

Far be it from me to jump in with any defence of the Millennium Board considering my experiences with them but I think we have to maybe take a look at this year's CC and view it in a relative light, basically compare it with last year's.

If we do that, then perhaps it weren't' so bad, in fact, it was a vast improvement. From what I have read, there were fu#k ups but hey, you get those at HB and World Cup.

I'll give them 8 out of 10 for effort but could do better.
I'll give them 8 out of 10 for layout, 6 out of 10 for refreshments, 8 out of 10 for logistics. 6 out of 10 for atmosphere and from what I hear, 7 out of 10 for judging.

As for the standard of play, well, apart from Joy? ........

We are soooo far behind it's embarrassing.
And to give you an example, Joy beat Method / Ducks (whatever) 5 to 0 in under 3 mins, and that is all 5 points being amassed in under 3 mins and they only lost one guy in the last game in the last few seconds according to Magued .. if that don't sum it up then I don't know what does.

Joy are a great indicator to the level of play Stateside and as such, we are in deep sh!t with the Millennium series already won I think. The places underneath, are just crumbs for which the rest scramble, and are meaningless in terms of competition just like a four legged horse winning a race when all the others have 3.


With the industry at present in decline, and with budgets being hacked to death all over the place, there isn't much chance of us putting together a team with sufficient resources to compete, basically, we have to hope they are dragged down to our level if we wish to gain some sort of parity.

Robbo

What is worrying is that there is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction. The players arent leaving in droves...yet.

We never used to see these threads loaded with dissent.

Is the plaster patch that this year seems to have acheived enough?

For my part I think thay put is huge effort but something is missing, the spark if you will.

No real yank presence, smaller fields, shorter games, fewer games, ramping; high cost; all have built up and dissafected a large number of players.

And why is the standard so low?