Thats not what i asked. I asked what you would rather see the likes of Joy,U Ducks, Ton Ton and RL play.
So?
7 man Superleague or Xball in Europe
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So?
A winning plan for X Ball in Europe:
1. Get rid of coaching from coaches boxes and pit area.
2. Make sure the playing area is 12 - 15 meters from the netting to make any spectator participation just a distant drone.
3. Don't give out the field designs ahead of time.
All of the above to make it more stategic and less robotic.
4. If cost of paintballs is a major issue, cut the half-period times down to 15 minutes.
And this one I'm not so sure about:
5. Make it 7-player, also to make it more stategic.
6. Make sure that ALL the promoters and most of the playing community are 100% behind the project and are dedicated to quality.
7. Use only top-quality pro referees.
8. Use suitable field designs as has been suggested here, by a committee that includes Magued, Colin and Baca.
9. Employ someone who is detail and quality-oriented, experienced and has the passion and enthusiasm to run it.
One reason, among many others, for going with X Ball is the recent apparent growth in interest of Division X Ball at the recent World Cup. Even if North America is a different market it sure can't hurt to tie in with the hoped-for success of NXL on TV.
Steve
1. Get rid of coaching from coaches boxes and pit area.
2. Make sure the playing area is 12 - 15 meters from the netting to make any spectator participation just a distant drone.
3. Don't give out the field designs ahead of time.
All of the above to make it more stategic and less robotic.
4. If cost of paintballs is a major issue, cut the half-period times down to 15 minutes.
And this one I'm not so sure about:
5. Make it 7-player, also to make it more stategic.
6. Make sure that ALL the promoters and most of the playing community are 100% behind the project and are dedicated to quality.
7. Use only top-quality pro referees.
8. Use suitable field designs as has been suggested here, by a committee that includes Magued, Colin and Baca.
9. Employ someone who is detail and quality-oriented, experienced and has the passion and enthusiasm to run it.
One reason, among many others, for going with X Ball is the recent apparent growth in interest of Division X Ball at the recent World Cup. Even if North America is a different market it sure can't hurt to tie in with the hoped-for success of NXL on TV.
Steve
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Personally i'd like to see a scaled down X ball in Europe - so the top European players can get some practice "just in case it really takes off" so they aren't stuck one step behind the yanks again. Sod the Nations Cup bo11ocks just let the top Euro teams mash each other up... The question is, where does the funding for this come from?
As for x ball being operated in the UK - the full x ball plan just wouldn't work. X ball games seem to play for ages and what would everyone esle do all day? Tournaments would last for days on end. What i would like to see is a tournament try a similar, but cut down to bare bones format, where you have three two minute games back to back with a one minute turnaround to make it more frantic... The marshals would be run ragged unfortunately and the pace of the games would be electric (but maybe a bit boring once you've seen the same breakouts from different teams over and over again). But at least everyone would maybe get a sense of playing x ball? and maybe give everyone a kick up the arse to rethink how they play the most important part of any game??? In turn maybe give everyone a kick up the arse to player harder, faster and more frantic, manic, meltdown.... Woohooo where's my apron nurse, choo, choo!!!!!
As for x ball being operated in the UK - the full x ball plan just wouldn't work. X ball games seem to play for ages and what would everyone esle do all day?
Tournaments would last for days on end. What i would like to see is a tournament try a similar, but cut down to bare bones format, where you have three two minute games back to back with a one minute turnaround to make it more frantic... The marshals would be run ragged unfortunately and the pace of the games would be electric (but maybe a bit boring once you've seen the same breakouts from different teams over and over again). But at least everyone would maybe get a sense of playing x ball? and maybe give everyone a kick up the arse to rethink how they play the most important part of any game??? In turn maybe give everyone a kick up the arse to player harder, faster and more frantic, manic, meltdown.... Woohooo where's my apron nurse, choo, choo!!!!!
Four teams who play xball at each leg and them the top scoring pro or am a from the previous event who is in attendance.
eg - using teams who i'm not sure are even going to be in Europe next year...
Nexus,
RL,
TonTons
Joy Division
plus
Monkey Love
Escaramouche (yeah i know it's probably spelt wrong
DOA Zealots
PGI Sharks/Team Evil Europe
After their superb performances at the previous tournament.
Stan
You're assuming it's going to be X Ball for the pros. Have you heard anything definite?
Nick,
You're assuming it's going to be X Ball for the pros. Have you heard anything definite?