I would like to refer you to a thread I made on our forum. It is a general idea for a paintball tournament involving Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
http://www.paintballer.ie/viewtopic.php?t=4050
http://www.paintballer.ie/viewtopic.php?t=4050
Any thoughts? Terrible idea, never work, too much hassle? Or just what is needed to sort it all out?Imagine this situation. All the countries in the British Isles, Ireland, England Scotland and Wales (Isle of man???) Each has their own tournaments that all ran by the same rules and organised fairly similarly.
Each local tournament may have to be made up of several events to whittle down the numbers until they eventually end up with 4 teams. 1st place of their country, 2nd, 3rd and 4th etc.
Then these 4 teams all combine into the British Isles Tournament. 4 x 4 = 16 teams, its a nice number for a tournament. You could run it just like the Europeans Football championships, groupds then knock out etc.
The grand finals could be held in rotation each year. Ireland one year, England etc etc.
The competition could possibly held every two years instead of annually.
Ireland (north and south), since there may only be 5/6 teams here, we could have it over in one day.
England- you may have to have a north / midland and souther event and then an national finals to see who the 4 winners are. This could take a while hence the possible two year gap
Scotland and Wales, not sure of their paintball growth but they may need several days also.
Game type should possible by similar to Div1 X-ball in Millennium.
It could possibly lead to an onset of a uniformed paintball scene here and in the UK, instead of several different league working separately, meaning nothing, they could all work together with the one aim of finding the best teams in their country.
Any thoughts?