Hi Guys,
For those who know me, not that much, know that I'm not the kind of person that rants a’ lot about tournaments.
But I think this one deserves a special attention note.
Once more this year, the 'event location people' decided that bringing food or water to the venue should be forbidden. I can see the food angle: you can’t take food to a restaurant kind of scheme, but the water, what’s that all about?
You could buy a small water bottle (0.5 L) for 1.5€ or a piece of fruit for 0.50€.
That’s real nice for a team already paying an expensive fee to be playing at the event.
Most of the teams had to smuggle water or other drinks in to the premises, at least this year they didn’t search the bags, and my team as many others, was forbidden of bringing more that one 1.5l bottle inside premises: first they said one for player max, and them one for the whole team.
Considering that a team should at least drink 1.5 L per player per day the water bill at the end off the day in this event could easily go to more 50 Euros per team. At least some drinkable tap water should be available for the players in all the events.
We need to start having rules, and this is one of those things that the players committee should be hanging over it.
The marshalling at some fields wasn’t good, and that is being nice about it: on some fields playing on was worth it, since a penalty for it was never enforced. Another point about the ref s is that a lot of them didn’t spoke English with all the teams. I’m not claiming there was biased marshalling but I just don’t see it as a correct thing for a marshal to do.
There was to much talking from the net and sideliness, and it’s funny how some people talk about the French, cause this time I and others saw a lot of Swedes doing it (Yes you know who you are). Maybe its time to enforce a safe perimeter around the field, old-nppl style.
Also I saw several acts of aggression on the fields, not talking about overshooting, but dead players turning their markers and shooting opponents as an act of pure and simple aggression, the reffing crew and all the stands saw it, and no real penalties got applied, on field.
Other point to be considered is the differential treatment that some teams get by marshals: Like a ref that pulled the flag carrier from my team for shooting his marker after the flag got hung, and in the same field with the same marshals CL team did that all the time and never the penalty was enforced.
I would also like to point some of the good things from the event.
Great fields, the tomahawk was out of the ordinary but it was a nice and cool experience.
Great air, as always.
Nice bathrooms, good parking.
The burger house near the parking was great, it had great food and good prices, I really recommend it.
The weather was a bit ****ty but we got by it. At least it was not the 35ºC that we have in Portugal right now.
Overall the Dam, a great place. And DMA an event recommended to all!
Playing with ramping was cool, but I rather play semi and the 15 bps its a future must have in all the tournaments, imho.
Jaime.
For those who know me, not that much, know that I'm not the kind of person that rants a’ lot about tournaments.
But I think this one deserves a special attention note.
Once more this year, the 'event location people' decided that bringing food or water to the venue should be forbidden. I can see the food angle: you can’t take food to a restaurant kind of scheme, but the water, what’s that all about?
You could buy a small water bottle (0.5 L) for 1.5€ or a piece of fruit for 0.50€.
That’s real nice for a team already paying an expensive fee to be playing at the event.
Most of the teams had to smuggle water or other drinks in to the premises, at least this year they didn’t search the bags, and my team as many others, was forbidden of bringing more that one 1.5l bottle inside premises: first they said one for player max, and them one for the whole team.
Considering that a team should at least drink 1.5 L per player per day the water bill at the end off the day in this event could easily go to more 50 Euros per team. At least some drinkable tap water should be available for the players in all the events.
We need to start having rules, and this is one of those things that the players committee should be hanging over it.
The marshalling at some fields wasn’t good, and that is being nice about it: on some fields playing on was worth it, since a penalty for it was never enforced. Another point about the ref s is that a lot of them didn’t spoke English with all the teams. I’m not claiming there was biased marshalling but I just don’t see it as a correct thing for a marshal to do.
There was to much talking from the net and sideliness, and it’s funny how some people talk about the French, cause this time I and others saw a lot of Swedes doing it (Yes you know who you are). Maybe its time to enforce a safe perimeter around the field, old-nppl style.
Also I saw several acts of aggression on the fields, not talking about overshooting, but dead players turning their markers and shooting opponents as an act of pure and simple aggression, the reffing crew and all the stands saw it, and no real penalties got applied, on field.
Other point to be considered is the differential treatment that some teams get by marshals: Like a ref that pulled the flag carrier from my team for shooting his marker after the flag got hung, and in the same field with the same marshals CL team did that all the time and never the penalty was enforced.
I would also like to point some of the good things from the event.
Great fields, the tomahawk was out of the ordinary but it was a nice and cool experience.
Great air, as always.
Nice bathrooms, good parking.
The burger house near the parking was great, it had great food and good prices, I really recommend it.
The weather was a bit ****ty but we got by it. At least it was not the 35ºC that we have in Portugal right now.
Overall the Dam, a great place. And DMA an event recommended to all!
Playing with ramping was cool, but I rather play semi and the 15 bps its a future must have in all the tournaments, imho.
Jaime.
