All UK milleniium teams please read!

[Echowitch]

As odd as it sounds I have to agree with you Robbo. I suppose its probably as I haven't played with sideline coaching, and at Campaign watching the SPL and CPL matches I've always tuned out what's being shouted my side of the net to watch what's going on field side. The same as when I play, I focus on what my team is shouting and what I'm shouting. Off-field shouting is just a distraction and I ignore it.

Watching other teams to work out their plays, having spotters, etc, all are, as I see it, valid uses of a teams resources and can help a team in advance to plan what they'll do against a particular opponent. It just seems to me that all the helping should be done before the game starts and after it, just not during. When the breakout begins it should be one team, against another, and let the best team on field win.

Or is my sense of fair play so twisted I should hang up my mask and marker and go pick up a suit of armour and jousting lance lol

 

[JF21]

not at all, but as said before your in the wrong thread, you want is coaching the way forward. With coach the game changes and info from outside the net is often more accurate.

Back on track, I think this thread is a little too negative, things are getting better for uk teams, were training together more and helping each other out at events but i agree more could be done.

The problem with comparing uk teams to american teams is the size of the countries, the us leagues (nppl psp) are almost exclusively american teams so im sure the competitive nature shines through there and they dont help each other out just because there sout east or west coast ect ect but when they come and play millenniums its a case of guys they know and have a relationship with, be it a competitive one against strangers to compare this you would have to look at all the uk teams that go out to world cup or an event like that.

(i cant comment on days of old and in all honesty am looking for some excuses as the french and german teams do stick together allot more than we do and i have no argument for that)

 

[Buddha 3]

The Yanks don't all train together and yet they alll have the right ethos, the reason they help each other out (and I have seen pro games thrown to help another yank team) is because they have a completely different culture when it comes to sports.

For some reason, their national pride and loyalty spills over and across team lines negating any competitive jealousies between their teams.
This is obviously not an absolute no more than all our teams hating each other but it is a generality.

We are British by birth and by culture and we are up against a modern history of petty competitive jealousies, just look at the fans of our soccer teams if you need further proof,

Pete,

What I noticed is that this "hip hip hooray for the US of A" attitude is mostly present when US teams are playing abroad and as such are the "bluddy furriners". It also boils to the surface (just less so) when a US teams plays a foreign team in the US. When it's US team playing US team in the US, they seem to be (to me) as murderous as anybody.

Having been involved in American sports (including in the US), I noticed a more or less equal amount of animosity between teams in the US when compared to Europe. In fact, the more mainstream a sport seems to be, the bigger the animosities seem to get. After all, most paintballers understand that they are part of a small scene and are only a fringe sport that won't get anywhere if people keep f*cking eachother over. (it obviously still happens though)
They even invented slang for being jealous of another person's succes: Hatin'...

I'm not disagreeing with your post, paintball is a weird sport played by weird people, so what applies to other sports, may not always apply to paintball and you have seen far more US games and events than I have.

 

[PEBBLE]

As odd as it sounds I have to agree with you Robbo. I suppose its probably as I haven't played with sideline coaching, and at Campaign watching the SPL and CPL matches I've always tuned out what's being shouted my side of the net to watch what's going on field side. The same as when I play, I focus on what my team is shouting and what I'm shouting. Off-field shouting is just a distraction and I ignore it.

Watching other teams to work out their plays, having spotters, etc, all are, as I see it, valid uses of a teams resources and can help a team in advance to plan what they'll do against a particular opponent. It just seems to me that all the helping should be done before the game starts and after it, just not during. When the breakout begins it should be one team, against another, and let the best team on field win.

Or is my sense of fair play so twisted I should hang up my mask and marker and go pick up a suit of armour and jousting lance lol

dont get me wrong i wish the same as you "team A VS team B" with no outside influenses, but that isnt the case so we gotta just bite the bullet and do whatever is takes to win as well as everyone else