Okay, by request, a thread in which people can air their opinions on the Amsterdam tourney.
Below you find the post that was supposed to start this thread, originally started by Orange.
(Below is Orange's post)
" u r taking the piss!!
I can't believe what I'm reading about the Dutch Masters, it was the worse (Millenium) Tourny ever!!
Sure all the stuff they could make money on was there, toilets for 0.50 Euro, rolls for 3,00 Euro, loads of discount coupons for the local pizza place and coffee shops, but some of the important things that really matter at a tournement: safety, playing schedules and safe zone was total ****!!!
Who ever put those towers up must be a complete retard, everybody knew the weather forecast: rain and heavy wind for Friday and Saturday, but they left them up, even when the first two nearly crashed on the Smart Parts tent they only secured those two, over one hour later the one on the Angel field tiped over and nearly killed at least 5 people, if it wasn't for the people in the Diablo tent shouting there heads of the US woman taking the pictures would have been dead for sure, only then did they decide to secure the rest of the towers....
Same goes for the safe zone, didn't they check the weather forecast: RAIN AND HEAVY WINDS: HELLOOO WAKE UP AT THE WHEEL!! why the **** did they put the tables out in the open, next to a covered totaly empty hall!!!! they could't of made it more obvious they didn't give a **** about the players!
As for the playing schedule, on Thursday night 21.00 the schedules were finally finished, and the teams who waited for them saw that a lot of them were playing 2 games at the same time, 3 games in a row etc. when questioned about this the answer was: "just try and get to the fields as soon as you can after your games", any idiot could see this wasn't going to work!!
And sure enough, after the first 6 games there already was a delay of 2 hours, and the last games were over at 21.55!!
Same **** the next day, teams standing around for hours in the rain waiting for the other teams to finish games on other fields before they could start the next game, total chaos!
Turns out they had a PA system, which they used to tell people their car was being towed, why the **** didn't they use that to call the teams to the fields and get some organisation in this chaos, all that was needed was for someone to get his ass in gear and call the teams to the fields, as nobody knew what was going on.
As for this computer crash bull****, please come on, don't insult us even more, when the **** did the start making the schedule, when did it "crash" the registration deadline was weeks ago, they've known for weeks who's playing, how come they didn't make the schedule 2 weeks ago, or one week ago, or even 2 days before the event, we've been asking for days to post the teams in this forum, like I said the registration stop was weeks ago, why always wait untill the last minut with the team listings and playing schedules.
Like I said before, everthing that makes them money is always spot on, and never ****s up, but the bare neceseraties for the players: marschalling, air fills, toilets, schedules, safety is always ****ed at these big events, for the kind of cash were paying we should at least get something better that this, the smallest piss woodland tourny is better organised!
Personally I don't give a **** about 10% discount at some pizza place, I would rather they stick there time into organising a smooth running tourny, time has come for the business men to take in some advise from the players, NPPL style, as the Millenium Series is starting to turn into a money making event were the player are seen as stooges who'll turn up anyway.
It has already changed from a BYO series to only sponsors paint, so Teams like Hellwood who'se paint sponsor doesn't sponsor the series had to pull out, the next thing that will happen is the the paint prices will go up, as I'm sure everybody including the promoter lost loads of money again, yep it's a sure money loser to put up an event like this, but hey what do you know, they're going to put another one on next year, they must really love us players........."
Below you find the post that was supposed to start this thread, originally started by Orange.
(Below is Orange's post)
" u r taking the piss!!
I can't believe what I'm reading about the Dutch Masters, it was the worse (Millenium) Tourny ever!!
Sure all the stuff they could make money on was there, toilets for 0.50 Euro, rolls for 3,00 Euro, loads of discount coupons for the local pizza place and coffee shops, but some of the important things that really matter at a tournement: safety, playing schedules and safe zone was total ****!!!
Who ever put those towers up must be a complete retard, everybody knew the weather forecast: rain and heavy wind for Friday and Saturday, but they left them up, even when the first two nearly crashed on the Smart Parts tent they only secured those two, over one hour later the one on the Angel field tiped over and nearly killed at least 5 people, if it wasn't for the people in the Diablo tent shouting there heads of the US woman taking the pictures would have been dead for sure, only then did they decide to secure the rest of the towers....
Same goes for the safe zone, didn't they check the weather forecast: RAIN AND HEAVY WINDS: HELLOOO WAKE UP AT THE WHEEL!! why the **** did they put the tables out in the open, next to a covered totaly empty hall!!!! they could't of made it more obvious they didn't give a **** about the players!
As for the playing schedule, on Thursday night 21.00 the schedules were finally finished, and the teams who waited for them saw that a lot of them were playing 2 games at the same time, 3 games in a row etc. when questioned about this the answer was: "just try and get to the fields as soon as you can after your games", any idiot could see this wasn't going to work!!
And sure enough, after the first 6 games there already was a delay of 2 hours, and the last games were over at 21.55!!
Same **** the next day, teams standing around for hours in the rain waiting for the other teams to finish games on other fields before they could start the next game, total chaos!
Turns out they had a PA system, which they used to tell people their car was being towed, why the **** didn't they use that to call the teams to the fields and get some organisation in this chaos, all that was needed was for someone to get his ass in gear and call the teams to the fields, as nobody knew what was going on.
As for this computer crash bull****, please come on, don't insult us even more, when the **** did the start making the schedule, when did it "crash" the registration deadline was weeks ago, they've known for weeks who's playing, how come they didn't make the schedule 2 weeks ago, or one week ago, or even 2 days before the event, we've been asking for days to post the teams in this forum, like I said the registration stop was weeks ago, why always wait untill the last minut with the team listings and playing schedules.
Like I said before, everthing that makes them money is always spot on, and never ****s up, but the bare neceseraties for the players: marschalling, air fills, toilets, schedules, safety is always ****ed at these big events, for the kind of cash were paying we should at least get something better that this, the smallest piss woodland tourny is better organised!
Personally I don't give a **** about 10% discount at some pizza place, I would rather they stick there time into organising a smooth running tourny, time has come for the business men to take in some advise from the players, NPPL style, as the Millenium Series is starting to turn into a money making event were the player are seen as stooges who'll turn up anyway.
It has already changed from a BYO series to only sponsors paint, so Teams like Hellwood who'se paint sponsor doesn't sponsor the series had to pull out, the next thing that will happen is the the paint prices will go up, as I'm sure everybody including the promoter lost loads of money again, yep it's a sure money loser to put up an event like this, but hey what do you know, they're going to put another one on next year, they must really love us players........."
