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Missy-Q

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An impressive dispay of online rage if ever I saw one. ;)
Yah, totally, great rage, nice to see Robbo getting all fired up again.

Honestly, I think Hermitt got caught in the crossfire here, and is only guilty of harboring general conspiracy theories, and being in the same thread as the Danish siblings, rather than because he is casting any real doubts or aspersions over Petes integrity, but fxck it, drama is drama and I love it any which way it comes. Especially with Pete, as it reminds me of the first day I met him (I think I still have a mark somewhere..)

Basically, if people don't know how he'll react when you push certain buttons by now, they will never know.

I also love the word 'genesis', and would like to say how nice it is to see it being used in conversation...;)
 

Robbo

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Yah, totally, great rage, nice to see Robbo getting all fired up again.

Honestly, I think Hermitt got caught in the crossfire here, and is only guilty of harboring general conspiracy theories, and being in the same thread as the Danish siblings, rather than because he is casting any real doubts or aspersions over Petes integrity, but fxck it, drama is drama and I love it any which way it comes. Especially with Pete, as it reminds me of the first day I met him (I think I still have a mark somewhere..)

Basically, if people don't know how he'll react when you push certain buttons by now, they will never know.

I also love the word 'genesis', and would like to say how nice it is to see it being used in conversation...;)

Missy, I got a pm from Jay (whose opinion I respect, as well as yours) and I thought I would re read hermitt's contributions.
If you do the same mate you will see hermitt basically starts off by calling me a liar and deceiver (after I have already qualified what i posted), I then swear on my kids I am hiding nothing and he then tries to be all smart ass about it but can't stop himself from repeating these accusations albeit a little less obviously.
I wouldn't mind if hermitt did this if he had any evidence other than the basic premise of 'Well, Robbo never does anything without something going on an i don't believe anything he says anyway even if he swears on his kid's life', this is the basis on which he persists with his accusations.
There can be no other evidence because there is no other evidence.

To me, that smacks of stupidity, agenda, or a need to be noticed with the latter maybe being an airborne virus contracted from Denmark.

hermitt tries to be smart about it all but hasn't got the subtlety in his writing or intelligence with which to achieve anything but a baseless, thinly veiled accusation / insult.

Missy, hermitt didn't get caught up in the crossfire, he made a conscoius effort to get involved and overstepped the line by a long way.
He tried to look clever at the expense of my integrity and my word, I won't forget that.
hermitt, do yourself a big, big. big favour and stay well away from me .....and before you start bleating like a little girl, and also for the sake of clarity, yes, that was a threat.
 

Dusty

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ya know what? anytime anyone wants to know something, they simply are not allowed to ask any more.

I have actually often sat here and thought to myself

"what would an event be like.......... blah blah blah."

I guarantee if I had posted up the same question as Robbo, Nick would have appeared somewhere in the thread arguing with me, but i highly doubt there would 6 or 7 pages worth of a replies. It has been highly entertaining, no doubt there but why can't people just take it as it is.

Then again Robbo, curiosity prematurely terminated the feline's existence. Perhaps so many people argue because they simply can't abhor the fact that someone else thought of it first........

IF there had been some driving force behind Robbo's post, and lets say FOR EXAMPLE that a mysterious wealthy person was sitting behind Robbo reading all the answers we put before him in a darkened room, while considering whether or not to put on the finest event that Europe has ever seen, some of the replies would have given him cause to wonder whether or not the Eurobrats were actually worth the bother.
 

Mark Toye-Nexus

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Distillation

If anyone of the doubters were to cast their eyes around other threads in p8ntballer they would note that there has been a great deal of discourse about the dissatisfaction being fealt with regards to the MS events.

Robbo reads and partakes in these discussions (Robbo, I take it you do read them;))

I would suggest, thinking not too laterally, that Robbo's question in this thread is just a distillation of thoughts and questions provoked elswhere.

It just takes someone with their fingers and thumbs in the p8ntballer pie to have the thought and post the question up.

As for the conspiracy theorists, and I don't think I talk out of turn, Robbo just isn't interested in direct involvement in tournament organisation. I think he has made that clear in the past and certainly made that clear here. Also, I can understand why they may have had initial suspicions that he may have been primed by outside influence/knowledge (hell, I thought for a second that he knew something big was in the offing) but when he says he doesnt have an agenda then believe him - he has nothing to gain from lying.

He puts a great deal of stock in honour; lie and he'll hate on you, don't believe him when he swears otherwise........you get it.

It's really quite simple....
 

Mark Toye-Nexus

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rancid;906479As for the subject.... leagues are shte In the glory days said:
Matt

Beutifully put, I tried to say it but couldnt have said it better.

Paintball simply cannot fund the leagues. The huge expenditure in money as well as effort must be rewarded.

The players want excitement, they want the Show. Paintball is in its infancy still, early infancy at that, and I said that when they went to the new system that they are running again before they have learned to walk.

I have said before that you can buy a football and play all year. Buy a box of paint and play all day. Next time you play it costs again, we consume and it costs, alot. My point is that a bad weekend playing football is not teh end of the world, it certainly costs next to nothing. Bad paintball drives the consumer (the lifeblood of the industry) away.

Sites deliver what their customers want. Thats how they maintain their customer base.

Tournaments are still essentially selling a product to individuals who form themselves into teams. Give them what they truly desire or fade away.
 

HERMITT01

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Well, i have to say that I am not really surpirsed by the outcome of this. Although, I would like to say that the last post that I wrote was a direct reply to Missy. It was aimed at making fun out of my pig headedness at the start of the thread where i didnt take Robbos word as truth. I was poking fun at the fact that i thought robbo was hiding something when he had stated he wasnt.

This wasnt a final remark aimed at pissing Robbo off, maybe there weren't enough smilies at the end of it.

When i first got involved in this, i honestly believed that Robbo was not telling the whole truth. After he had stated on a number of occasions that he wasnt deceiving anyone, i had no choice to be take that at face value. From then on I just wanted a couple of answers to a couple of questions. For me there was no more agenda or hidden context.

I understand why what I have written may have been misconstrued, but that last post for sure has been taken in the wrong light.

I make no bones about using this rather undisquised username to post this.