Pete, if I understood you wrongly is because your english is sometimes too hard for foreigner like me.
Regarding Millennium. Yes, board of Millennium was aware of most of the changes coming up in Centurio/ECS. We still got some issue to solve, but i would say we are far away from confrontation. In fact, some of the ideas we implement were given by board members of Millennium and I may say we were even encouraged to do so. I got quite good contact with all of the board members of Millennium. I do business with Stephen, Manfred, since couple of years already. I know Laurent from the time he was playing in Tontons. Recently I spend even more time on Millenium events cause I'm doing the pblivescores.com. We always spend some time on exchanging the information.
What do you mean we expand? In terms of countries where the event will take place this year there is nothing new. During 4 years Centurio itself were holding the event in each of 2009 location not too mention other events in Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Lithuania. What is new in 2009 is the conference system. Each year we got a lot of enquiries from different countries to hold Centurio event (including western europe). Each year we choosed at least one new location for event to bring the international competition and help to develop speedball in upgrowing markets. Even if not all of them were a huge succes, we were a kind of ambassadors of sport and that was the objective. Conference System let us continue the same policy while still having the main events in a consistent league. Every big company in paintball are watching those growing coutries not to miss the moment when it will be big enough to invest, but noone spent a dollar to help to develop it. Coming back to topic. We did not expand in terms of teritory. The only thing we want to achive is to make our league bigger and stronger by stimulating the grow of sport in eastern countries. Of course if any "western" teams is willing to participate they are more then wellcome and can count on traditional eastern hospitality
, but our main area of interest will be always our home market.
Regarding Pedro. Estratego company was one of the major sponsor of Centurio Circuit since it's foundation along with companies like Procaps and CMC Maxs. We wish to continue a very succesfull cooperation with Pedro as a major sponsor of the Grand Tour. Except of the sponsorship contract and friendly relation there is no link between Pedro and board of Grand Tour league. The source of the misleading information is fact that since 2 years Mihaela Tudor (owner of Box Series, former board member of Centurio and current board member of Grand Tour) is in close business relation with Pedro. In past Pedro help as well Mihaela in organizing the events in Greece and Turkey. You may say it makes Pedro involved in our league, but on the same basis you should say that Centurio in 2008 was Procaps league, cause me (SKILL, Poland), Viktor Togaev (Triada, Ukraine), Nick Sobolev (APG, Russia) which makes half of the board are distributor of Procaps. You may belive or not, but we always separate our personal business from interest of league. In opposite to Millennium, board member of Grand Tour do not represent any international paintball brand, but only regional distribution. We have no hidden interest in promoting one brand over another, cause this day we are dealing with one brand next day it may be another.
I hope I clear out the situation a little bit. If you need any additional info, i'm ready to help.
Kind Regards from snowy Poland and all the best in New Year!
