American Ams are better than European Am Teams

[duffistuta]

OK, Nick, tell me how many people in the UK you think own a paintball gun?

Cos I know to within a very small percentage, so tell me your estimation...

 

[acsik]

Uhhh


This is a typical case of someone hitting rock bottom and not giving up to dig some more.

The mining industry is proud of you mate!



Aloha

 

[Robbo]

The problem I got with tihs is that any fool can see this and Nick ain't no fool.....go figure

 

[Robbo]

Bull frikkin sh1t NIck, no 'yes men' in this thread, just people who ain't acting like a dick just because they made some stupid ass assertion that any idiot could refute.
Don't try and belittle the posters in this thread by accusing any of them of ass lickin just because you dont wanna admit u r wrong !!!!!!!
This point ain't up for no more debate, any more than 2 + 2 should be, if u dont wanna concede then it's your call.
End Of !!!!

 

[Baca Loco]

Play nice and everybody share

Here's another assertion for ya. There are probably more paintball players in Florida than in Britain. If I had to I could probably come up with a list of around 150 teams, most of them emerging Rookie teams with new names added to the list with every Rookie event. Teams filled with 13-17 year olds often supported by their families is just outta control around here lately.
There are a dozen fields within an hour or so of my home. Most of them have Airball and/or Hyperball fields and many have both.
There are 5 paintball stores less than a half hour from my home and I live around 40 miles away from the closest big city, Tampa.
And that doesn't begin to cover rec-ball or scenario types. We probably have more scenario or big games every year than all of Britain as well. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 if you count the eight and twelve hour games put on by local fields routinely and these events expect 150-250 players on average and the big ones can get double or close to triple those kinda numbers.
We have greater accessibility, cheaper basic costs and virtually no resistance to playing the game. We also have almost none of the field owner arranged divisions that separate different level players that Britain seems to insist on.
We have a lot of advantages, a lot of players and new ones coming in practically every day. In terms of raw numbers the gap is only gonna get wider.

 

[Robbo]

Hold on...I think I can hear King Canute tapping away on his Danish type writer

 

[TJ Lambini]

Hey Cow, welcome to tha Yes Men corner, AKA Reality Drive...

Yes. Oui. Si. Ok. Ja.

 

[Greg]

Jeeez !

Originally posted by Nick Brockdorff
You people can't read stats !

That's 6,9 million people that participated more than once in 2002 (no - not 6.5 or 8.5 million people - get your facts straight).

The common rental field (over here at least) has an average of 10 % repeat customers in a year, and what that means, is that the vast majority of that stat is run of the mill rental customers.

THEN, add to that that an overwhelming majority of the players with own equipment are Rec players.

At BEST, the tournament scene accounts for 1 % of that stat, which translates into 69,000 tournament players.... and I think that is a too optimistic number.

Believing that Europe is far behind that number comparatively is uninformed.

Before you start subjecting me to ridicule, at LEAST get your facts straight !

Oh yeah - you might want to revise your belief that the earth is flat also !

Nick

BORING!

Is you turtling?

Take a chill pill my Danish Friend...........relax...don't do it, when you wanna come.......oops, that probably aint appropriate.....and no im not saying your a batty boy!

 

[Matski]

Play nice and everybody share

Originally posted by Baca Loco
Here's another assertion for ya. There are probably more paintball players in Florida than in Britain. If I had to I could probably come up with a list of around 150 teams, most of them emerging Rookie teams with new names added to the list with every Rookie event. Teams filled with 13-17 year olds often supported by their families is just outta control around here lately.
There are a dozen fields within an hour or so of my home. Most of them have Airball and/or Hyperball fields and many have both.
There are 5 paintball stores less than a half hour from my home and I live around 40 miles away from the closest big city, Tampa.
And that doesn't begin to cover rec-ball or scenario types. We probably have more scenario or big games every year than all of Britain as well. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 if you count the eight and twelve hour games put on by local fields routinely and these events expect 150-250 players on average and the big ones can get double or close to triple those kinda numbers.
We have greater accessibility, cheaper basic costs and virtually no resistance to playing the game. We also have almost none of the field owner arranged divisions that separate different level players that Britain seems to insist on.
We have a lot of advantages, a lot of players and new ones coming in practically every day. In terms of raw numbers the gap is only gonna get wider.

Is that a nail slamming through a coffin door? Just about sums it up really Nick...

 

[TJ Lambini]

Ha! Shows what you know - there are 672 tournament teams in the fishing village of Umskroeg, just outside Friedriskhavn, on the northern tip of Denmark!

You fools!

Nick