Is it just players in europe who want a unified league and format? Do the US players want it as well? How does unification benefit the PSP now that the NPPL is gone?
I'm not so sure the American players give a flying fcuk about transatlantic unification, in typical American fashion. they don't really see too much beyond their own shores, unless of course you are in the industry which will obviously change your perspective somewhat bearing in mind the US recession contrasting with European growth.
Unification benefits the PSP when you factor in the holistic approach to what's going on.
If i were the guys in the PSP, I would be looking to create the basis for that 'new world order' i keep going on about and what this really means is laying the foundation of common rule books, formats etc as I have explained.
The benefit is?
They are frikkin' huge ..for the PSP I mean.
At the top of the pyramid, which they most surely are, they can then set about controlling the manner in which each and every federation (different countries and in our case, Europe as a whole) align themselves.
There are hundreds of thousands of dollars wrapped up in membership fees ..... think about it ......and this is just the beginning of a raft of income streams that can be developed when you are sitting atop a world federation.
Im afraid im with Missy on this one. I think that the PSP should back away from the table for a year, consolidate and concentrate on providing an excellent setup for their teams and then come back and talk about unification.
In the present climate, is it not going to be really really expensive to run xball for all teams? We've seen several high profile british teams fold recently and reading between the lines of posts on here i think there are more to come europe wide. X-ball at the moment would not benefit teams here in my opinion.
I think you'll find any new format will resemble the Millennium format more than the traditional XBall. I'm sorry but I agree with Chris here, I don't see any reason why the PSP guys shouldn't have talks with the Millennium. It's not going to be some real complicated, in-depth unification charter, it's gonna be a talk about general principles and areas of overlap and intention.
I think the timing is good for all concerned and although Missy's advice sounds good, for me at least, it doesn't really hold much water.
The undoubted contraction in European tournament teams is gonna happen regardless of whether we align or not.
Im also going to ask, how would a unified format benefit us? I honestly can't see the reasoning behind it at the moment. What teams are honestly going to go over and play in the states, and are we really going to see american teams come over and play in millenium events?
Firstly, I don't think many Euro teams are gonna go stateside just to have their ass handed to them; after all, as soon as they go to the US, the teams who have US stars bolstering their roster won't have them anymore which means they are gonna be bitch-slapped even more.
The advantage to us is maybe opening up the potential for US teams and players coming across IF we open up our ridiculous locked league system.
Sometimes initiatives like this don't have obvious immediate and direct advantages but the move toward a unified world rulebook and format is inevitable and this process is merely the mechanism for achieving that aim.
