Now far be it from me to defend any of the Millennium board but on this occasion I am gonna defend Niall against this sh!t.
Just suppose for instance I am Niall, getting ready to organise my tournament at Crystal Palace :-
I announce the dates and the phone starts ringing, the teams begin to register and as they do I being to arrange the infrastructure around which the tournament will hang.
Part of that is the judging crews.
No problem so far.....
That is until I begin to ask for any teams who might wanna judge and the response is how can I say, not encouraging.
All of the teams wanna play, hardly surprising with one of the best tourneys in the world to go to but still we have to get judges.
Hard fact, is no bugger wants to do it, my staff can but I have nowhere near enough on my own team (Campaign Power) so what do I do?
I beg, I coerce I do anything I can, the budget nowhere near allows me to pay for judges so I have to rely on persuasion and an appeal to paintballers better natures.
As time goes on and more and more teams book in thereby refusing to judge, the problem worsens.
The alternative to this situation is to cancel the tourney but I can't do that, the show must go on.
Slowly, I begin to get enough judges, by hook or by crook, I have persuaded enough paintballers to commit to a non paying job, to get the sh!t shout out of them, to be abused, to be slandered, libeled and generally unappreciated, and all in the name of .....paintball.
You see the problem I hope ?
Niall, like any other promoter can only work with what he is given, if you don't wanna marshal, then don't come on here telling us all this was the worst judges tourney ever, it wasn't, if it was, there would be a universal condemnation of the judging, there isn't.
It had faults yes, but it wasn't the worst, not by a long, long, long, long way.
If anybody thinks they can do a better job than Niall in terms of putting on this event and attracting the teams but at the same time trying to get judges, then you are more than welcome, good luck to ya !
But I tell ya one thing, unless we as paintballers accept an increased entry fee as a basis for pro judging then we can all moan and bitch as we like but the reality is, it’s our own frikkin fault.
Just suppose for instance I am Niall, getting ready to organise my tournament at Crystal Palace :-
I announce the dates and the phone starts ringing, the teams begin to register and as they do I being to arrange the infrastructure around which the tournament will hang.
Part of that is the judging crews.
No problem so far.....
That is until I begin to ask for any teams who might wanna judge and the response is how can I say, not encouraging.
All of the teams wanna play, hardly surprising with one of the best tourneys in the world to go to but still we have to get judges.
Hard fact, is no bugger wants to do it, my staff can but I have nowhere near enough on my own team (Campaign Power) so what do I do?
I beg, I coerce I do anything I can, the budget nowhere near allows me to pay for judges so I have to rely on persuasion and an appeal to paintballers better natures.
As time goes on and more and more teams book in thereby refusing to judge, the problem worsens.
The alternative to this situation is to cancel the tourney but I can't do that, the show must go on.
Slowly, I begin to get enough judges, by hook or by crook, I have persuaded enough paintballers to commit to a non paying job, to get the sh!t shout out of them, to be abused, to be slandered, libeled and generally unappreciated, and all in the name of .....paintball.
You see the problem I hope ?
Niall, like any other promoter can only work with what he is given, if you don't wanna marshal, then don't come on here telling us all this was the worst judges tourney ever, it wasn't, if it was, there would be a universal condemnation of the judging, there isn't.
It had faults yes, but it wasn't the worst, not by a long, long, long, long way.
If anybody thinks they can do a better job than Niall in terms of putting on this event and attracting the teams but at the same time trying to get judges, then you are more than welcome, good luck to ya !
But I tell ya one thing, unless we as paintballers accept an increased entry fee as a basis for pro judging then we can all moan and bitch as we like but the reality is, it’s our own frikkin fault.
