Belgium what a JOKE
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Here here, plus the place we stayed had a swimming pool with a flume - I have more bruises from throwing myself down that thing with my team than shots on me! We had a villa where we could all eat, chat and play poka
Even though it felt like a glorified UK Masters event (those events are still fun - mind you) instead of a Millennium event, I had a great time. We played good and even great teams, supported our fellow countrymen and drank lots of cherry beer.
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Well in my opinion I thought it was a very successful event, Things have been alot worse in the past, I think alot of you are just moaning out of routine. Bngi, You talk about a problem as the event (above) however you then said yourself they found a solution to the problem, the fact of the matter is the event run spot on time, Not too many problems and I agree with Buddha, Its not all about showing off in front of public, If you want that, Go splash your Meat and 2 veg out in the Town centre.
Its Europe at the end of the day, We cannot change the weather.(Maybe Robbo can)
So again, not a bad event, Look forward to the next one
I dont know if you read my entire post? if not, please do.Well in my opinion I thought it was a very successful event, Things have been alot worse in the past, I think alot of you are just moaning out of routine. Bngi, You talk about a problem as the event (above) however you then said yourself they found a solution to the problem, the fact of the matter is the event run spot on time, Not too many problems and I agree with Buddha, Its not all about showing off in front of public, If you want that, Go splash your Meat and 2 veg out in the Town centre.
Its Europe at the end of the day, We cannot change the weather.(Maybe Robbo can)
So again, not a bad event, Look forward to the next one
If an event costs an spl team 1500 euros in entrance fee, i sure as hell expect better layout than this. I dont give a flying **** if theres an non-pb audience, or if theres just a little crowd of paintballers watching.
I do expect a field that doesnt look like there was a mole-party the day before. A thought through layout for the staging areas, Scoreboards that are visible etc.
I do expect that the organizer will do their outmost to satisfy their customer, and that is clearly not an routine for the Mill. I had no problems with the venues in toulouse and Nürburg.
I do expect them to send someone out to inspect the venue before determening where they should be held. If i want to play uphill games where theres a big chance of getting injured due to uneven surfaces i might as well go play recball.
You tell me things have been worse in the past. Well, once again, the price has never been higher? I do not whine out of routine, and if thats the way youll treat my critique, you might as well not read my replies.
Here's my 2cents:
The venue wasnt great especially on the M5 and D1 and D2 fiields which we're in a state!!! I was very dissapointed they were'nt turfed (the turf was ll used in the players staging area) however who gives a ****; I played I got dirty I didnt injure myself, I didnt see anyone getting injured. People should stop moaning so much. It changes the game slightly but you adapt.
I do agree however that the scoreboads couldnt be seen (place Right behind the M). The stands were better placed than Campaign so you could see much more though. Atmosphere was great, commentary was ****e!!!
It had its good and bad points and to be honest I would prefer to have good marshalling (which I got), good staging arreas (which I got) and good player facilities than have a high profile venue. Millennium have to make money if they want to continue running so let them do what they do and if you dont like it go to another event.
The venue wasnt great especially on the M5 and D1 and D2 fiields which we're in a state!!! I was very dissapointed they were'nt turfed (the turf was ll used in the players staging area) however who gives a ****; I played I got dirty I didnt injure myself, I didnt see anyone getting injured. People should stop moaning so much. It changes the game slightly but you adapt.
I do agree however that the scoreboads couldnt be seen (place Right behind the M). The stands were better placed than Campaign so you could see much more though. Atmosphere was great, commentary was ****e!!!
It had its good and bad points and to be honest I would prefer to have good marshalling (which I got), good staging arreas (which I got) and good player facilities than have a high profile venue. Millennium have to make money if they want to continue running so let them do what they do and if you dont like it go to another event.
Yup. There was little chance of the public finding this event (though that shouldn't be the main focus, and if it was a cricket club with very flat grass, the players wouldn't be complaining- it was more the state of the site).
We got there on Wednesday and we were pretty shocked by how bad it looked (it looked like something was gonna be happening maybe next week or sometime soon, but not in 2 days).
it was very muddy. Diggers had pretty much messed up the grass which appeared to be needed for walking/driving on.
Inadequate signage. -If you didn't have a satnav, god knows how you managed to get there (even with a satnav, we got taken to a road somewhere near. But again, inadequate signage didn't really help with that).
The turf was not as good as it could have been.
I saw players on both CPL and SPL, and referees trip over cuts/rips and joins in the turf. Before the event began we all had a pretty long walk around the event (warnt much else to do), and it looked like there were some good pieces of turf (ie: no holes, rips, tears) being used inside the 7-man set up tent, and layed out infront of the 7man & M5 HPAC air desk.
I just think maybe if there'd been a little more organization of this, the bad turf could have been used inside and infront of the air desk, and the good stuff could ALL have been put to good use on the field.
Holes and bad rips should have been patched or fixed, because they looked pretty dangerous.
Should turf be pinned down? Or Loose? I can't comment on that, I've got no idea, but it certainly looked like it woulda been safer had it been pinned down.
This is true.
However...
*It didn't actually turn out as bad as we thought it could've.
*There were lots of clean and well supplied loos on site- But nowhere to wash hands at all or shower on site.
*(Very) nice chalets just down the road.
*The very muddy areas were fenced off, and turf was laid infront of the air desk. Didn't completely solve the problem, but it made it a little better.
*I thought the reffing was to a high standard.
*As was the organisation behind the CPL and SPL (which I saw most of- can't really comment on the 7 or 5 man). The score boards had been improved inside the pits.
* staging areas looked fine, nothing wrong with it.
* I didn't try the the food but it looked good and fairly priced (compared to past events I've been to
)* The trade area looked ok, good to walk around with the biggest stands being in a ring around an open area where you could sit and eat/drink which was cool. I liked that.
It was not awful, but rather remeniscent of a national or local event, and not an international one. But I'm sure the weather had a hand in that, and had the sun shone in the weeks beforehand and during the event it probably woulda looked a lot better (except the turf issues).
I think the phrase that sums this up for me is 'scotch eggs!'...but that's for different reasons altogether....
I enjoyed it, because the people made it good.