Robbo,
Im eagerly awaiting your world cup run down. I love to hear what you know. Fill us in please.
Im eagerly awaiting your world cup run down. I love to hear what you know. Fill us in please.
World Cup
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nice to have you post here brandonRobbo,
Im eagerly awaiting your world cup run down. I love to hear what you know. Fill us in please.
I asked "Will NPPL and PSP merge in 2008?" and turned over my magic 8-ball, and it said 'Not likely'.
Hey lump, I love paintball. I love to hear peoples thoughts and opinions about it, and I have always respected what Robbo has to say. It's my pleasure to share the company of intelligent opinionated people. So again Robbo, I'm ready....hit me with it.nice to have you post here brandon
That's coz it was opened to a page that had my article pic on it .... I usually have that effect on females ..... I'm now slightly troubled by your revelation.
Welcome aboard Brandon......you have discerning tastesHey lump, I love paintball. I love to hear peoples thoughts and opinions about it, and I have always respected what Robbo has to say. It's my pleasure to share the company of intelligent opinionated people. So again Robbo, I'm ready....hit me with it.
Anyways, sorry guys, I been kinda busy lately after getting back from World Cup but here goes.
Hmmmm, ok, well I can’t give too much away coz I don’t really wanna pre-empt my next PGi article too much but I will say the following:- I don’t think there is much chance of integration, in fact, little to none.
If a miracle happens, then maybe, just maybe.
As for this turnaround in events?
Well, it has many factors not least of which are the efforts of Lane Wright, Keely Watson and Scott the Smart Parts guy who took over financial management of the league.
Coupled with that stabilising of management we had the two PSP big guns (Smart Parts and Dye) somehow defaulting toward a new working relationship that wasn’t underwritten by too many negatives shall we say.
This change in heart by one of the parties allowed a much more constructive and positive environment for running a league instead of the league being just another theatre for confrontation and suspicion.
Basically, the PSP board have, more by default I think than design, stumbled into the very area of management they have always needed to inhabit, that of positive and constructive co-operation between themselves.
Previously, they were less than harmonious …and that may well be the understatement of the year.
As a background to all this, there was much talk re integration going into world cup, everybody knew I had been talking to Bruce Friedman and Dave YB re the subject and this situation I think worked against the whole idea of integration because once the PSP guys got together and sorta realised just how much hard work and commitment they had put in, let alone the money, then a new consolidating resolve was born at this event, and it truly was born at this event.
The PSP’s rhetoric now shifted amazingly away from worrying about finances toward questioning why on earth they needed integration in the first place, as one of the PSP guys told me, ‘Pete, why do we need anybody, we got more teams than anyone, the best format and now we make money’.
He had a point, and it was a point that was to become the bedrock response on being asked about integration.
I was around these guys as all this unfolded and I gotta say, it surprised the hell outa me because what we had here, was the final and much needed maturing of attitudes from within the PSP.
The bottom line here is, they got themselves to a point whereby they can constructively work together instead of what used to happen before.
As for the future of paintball?
Well, I have got my own ideas now which I will write about in PGi but 08 is gonna be interesting for sure, I just hope it’s for the right reasons.
Peace out !
And he was right. I'd say '07 was the most interesting year since '03. Before that, well, depends on your definition of 'interesting'.You said that at the end of '06
Thanks Robbo. Just what I was looking for. You never disappoint me. I will be picking up a copy of PGI. Trust that.
I think that was the longest one on one I have seen in quite some time.
I also think that it was sort of funny when Pete U thought the field was clear and was cheering on the crowd then got shot.
Robbo could you also use this photo is your article.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/Amac/Paintball/OliverCleaning.jpg
I think Oliver would appreciate it to compliment his win.