Domestic Pro League hits tha UK
- Thread starter TJ Lambini
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Thass how he went gray - brick dust.
S'a good point though, a season-long goal is a handy thing for your nov teams to have - encourage em to stick together and should give em sponsor leverage...'If we make the Pro league will you give us an extra 10 cases a month next season' type thang..
As it stands i can think of more useful things to work towards at the end of each season. Why would a sponsor give you more for being part of a UK pro tour? Surely you would get more for competing pro on an international level? I still struggle to see what this will do for british paintball on the whole. If it will help the pros then why would it not help the am teams? ignore cost and commitment since that is just a smoke screen to hide behind.
What will this tour do for UK ball?? What will it do for the smaller teams (the life blood of tourny ball in the uk)?
What will this tour do for UK ball?? What will it do for the smaller teams (the life blood of tourny ball in the uk)?
Life blood! WTF?
Do you know how many calls I get a week with teams asking for free paint? How is this the life blood of the sport? Everyone wants it all for free. This is the only sport I know of where teams start and want free stuff and think they deserve it. This makes no sense to me and I don't think ever will.
Do you know how many calls I get a week with teams asking for free paint? How is this the life blood of the sport? Everyone wants it all for free. This is the only sport I know of where teams start and want free stuff and think they deserve it. This makes no sense to me and I don't think ever will.
they are still the life blood of the sprt. If we didnt have the smaller teams, the ones that just turn up and play or aspire to improve then we wouldnt have the pro teams we have now. How many of the pro players just emerged and hatched into a pro line up? Ignore how much these teams piss you off and wake up to the fact that we need the small teams as much if not more than we need the pros. All the time we concentrate on maing the pros look good and play better we are increasing the gap and making it harder to nurture new talent.
If that post is representative of your views on the state of british paintball it strikes me as slightly naive.
Work for it yes, train hard yes, earn every small bit of sponsorship you get. All that i agree with. But dont look down your nose at the teams that make UK tournaments viable.
If that post is representative of your views on the state of british paintball it strikes me as slightly naive.
Work for it yes, train hard yes, earn every small bit of sponsorship you get. All that i agree with. But dont look down your nose at the teams that make UK tournaments viable.
Well perhaps it will give us a premier league that can be presented to interested parties, whether future ballers or out of sport sponsors, as a marketing tool?
It will perhaps provide something that could be televised, not talking mainstream Tv necessarily but with the spread of broadband internet TV could be a practical avenue to explore.
Also for the smaller teams it does give you a goal, div 4 to div 3, div 3 to 2 etc. But once you hit div 1 in the UK what next??? If you can afford to play millenniums then cool, but if you have a young team then they are more likely to be able to play a UK pro tour.
my ill thought out 2p's worth, I think the whole things a wicked idea!!!!
Laterz
Ian
I would say that as PGI is covering it, you stand more chance of getting your pic in tha mag. Many teams have pay-per-pic deals with their sponsors - i.e. I get your logo in a magazine, get X paint, or whatever.
Nope, if tha NXL broke through on TV then all you would need is tha NXL teams - tha rest would be jettisoned by sponsors like a stone...
If we are going to have a discussion about this as a possible improvement to UK ball can we leave the television debate at the door. This is a dead end goal that will only divert from what we need to address in the sport in general.
TV in europe will come to us when it wants to, maybe people should just realise that we might never get on the box as a mainstream sport and look at the real problems.
TV in europe will come to us when it wants to, maybe people should just realise that we might never get on the box as a mainstream sport and look at the real problems.