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acsik

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ITs getting thicker from pbstar.com


"We asked Owen at WDP about the rumors and he said that "Dynasty has told just about everybody else except for us [about the Smart Parts deal], it's a little bit discourteous and unprofessional. It looks like they are going to shoot Smart Parts guns. They left us not because they think Smart Parts guns are the best, but because Smart Parts is paying them a lot of money. That's money that Smart Parts got by suing everyone in the industry"

Owen went on to say that he's heard the deal is rumored to be a cash offer of $100,000. A Dynasty edition Shocker (or Nerve) will be produced and Dynasty will earn $100 for every gun that's sold. Owen estimates that this will bring the team in an extra $200,000 to $300,000. From the looks of it, that works out to $40,000 a player on Dynasty, on top of the $80,000+ they won last year, on top of all the sponsorship cash they get from JT and other sponsors.

Owen said that Dynasty originally called WDP and said Dynasty didn't want to be a Smart Parts team, and asked WDP to match the deal. WDP refused, saying it was a ridiculous deal. Owen suggested that many of the Dynasty players being fresh out of college don't want to have to get 'real jobs' and have the goal of being professional paid paintball players.

He questioned whether Dynasty was more concerned with the money Smart Parts had to offer rather than the quality of the gun and the backing of the company. With WDP being so heavily invested in the success and growth of the NPPL Super 7 Owen says WDP "feels that we've sponsored every single team in the NPPL. We had a lot of plans for next year, they did involve dynasty now they'll involve someone else."
 

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This whole discussion shows how unprofessional paintball still is. It is kinda immature and unprofessional for Dynasty to even discuss any dissatisfaction with WDP products in connection with their decision. It was totally unnecessary and opens up a can of worms.

And IF Owen made those comments ditto the above.

I doubt there is a single marker product out there that hasn't had its share of childhood diseases and hasn't had some problems sometime. And the competition see-saws in terms of which is "best" today and which will be best tomorrow.

It's all just business and making deals. And should be recognized as so.

The latest generation of Angels hang right in there with the newer markers and still have the advantage of better technical support. (Will a SP techie-roadie travel with Dynasty?) Soon there will be Angels which will pull ahead of the newcomers.

And we can expect more see-sawing.

What about cheater boards, a good point that WAS brought up to speculate about?

New chrono technology is coming that will catch this because safety and insurance companies (in America) will require that velocites and ROF are kept under control (big, current discussion in NXL). That will obsolete some of those costly investments and may get some players suspended.

Interesting developments indeed....
 

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Woz

The kids were their pride and joy Im on pretty good terms with WDP and I bet they felt it. Its Dynasty wo sell guns with their name not some musicians with no game mate :)

I will bring some good wine to Germany find me and whe shall drinketh!


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Originally posted by Buddha 3
You're gonna boo them because they stopped using English stuff?
That's pathetic.
And booing them coz they are American is not
At Campaign this year (my first) people booed the top team in the world and yet they promoted a UK marker, so will it not be worse next year is my point.