Euro 3

[tubbie]

EB III F*@ck UP

Well as a lot of the other teams being in here, like to mention some things :

1 - From the start we(Team Severe) knew it wasnt gonna work, since there were no time schedules on the sheet...maybe the organisation should have looked at the way the Mill. series organises things....way to many team for 4 fields, with an aditional handicap of many foreign teams which had to catch flights out of there.Waiting for hours and hours in between games is rediculous, should have had a morning shift,afternoon shift and a evening shift.

2 - Score sheet **** up, i can be very short about it, don't rely on a system you havent used before in a major tournament. Always have a backup (e.g. paperscore sheets.), this cost us the semi-finales in AM A division.

3 - Achim blaming "3" people who **** all the teams over at the emergency captains meeting, how can he blame people that are working there for free, he should be taking the responsability for the **** ups that occured.

Great things about Euro III :

1 - All the teams being there, was great fun and met a lot of good ppl. and played against strong teams!(even beat some of them)

2- Field were excelent, nice fast games althoug the field didnt allow much room for trying different tactics.

3 - The venue it self was wonderfull.....

Well just my personal comments on EB III, we played well and i enjoyed the games and company.

But i think our team will not be coming back next year to Euroball.

Tubbie

 

[LEE RED HEAT]

The venue was very good but it all went tits up when they lost the scores alot of very unhappy teams. It was also very poor on the chrono station in the morning it was packed and all through the event i did not see any chronoing on the fields and we were only chronoed on our last play off game (exodus) and that was only the one lad. The film crew that were shooting did very good and i hope they got alot of footage esp me and steve on a 4 against us 2 and we still won. We missed our first game due to not being up early enough then we were called for our second game got to the arm band collection point and was told you have forfitted your second game, hey guys were hear waiting to play. So we had to then get on with it and rip some **** up, which we did. So our re play game after a marshall mistake which fairplay to the marshall did admit after along discusion over the rules did admit it was his fault for calling game over when it wasnt. Even the air fills i was only getting 3800 or 4000 when i was on the airfill myself asking the air people for more pressure. They need to get H-Pac over there. It was also a shame that when the presentation was on all the traders had packed and gone and there was only a few teams there

I would like to say thanks to all the brit teams that were there it was real nice supporting each othere & a big thanks to jags for that little extra paint at the end cheers guys and to andy from phoenix for lending us his marker.

thanks EXODUS for letting me guest for you it was a good performance after all that happened to us early on. to all paintballers watch out for that leigh fella exodus wearing a pink wooley hat and pink socks and kissing men get the dvd when its out all will be revealed

 

[SI-Alex]

...couldn´t believe this....

Good morning guys!

First, I waited till now to collect more and more impressions from the German forums to tell you what is going on until now, also hoped to read one good statement about the EB3.

I´m sorry guys, there is not 1 good in the GER forums.

Then, I´ve read a post of a marshall of this event, that made me feel very very unwell and made me angry. That´s the biggest f**k up I ever heard of!

I try to translate it for you guys and cut it a little down to the mainthings:

Poster: Comicfreak on www.pbforum.de

[translation]
So, first, a word from me - one of the marshalls.
That´s how I have spend my freetime this weekend.

Friday: Wakin´up 7 o´clock in the morning, driving 5-6 hours to the EB3.Building up tradeshow of OPM, getting in bed roundabout 3 o´clock in the morning.

Saturday: Getting up 5.30, being in the area at 6.30, marshalling until 23.45 (short break only for eating something), than celebrating birthday of S.Wildemann (owner of OPM) a little.

Sunday: Whoops, sorry, I was late (drunk ;-). Beeing on fields on 8 o´clock.Marshalling till 22.30, than packed the hole OPM tradeshop. Driving 5-6 hours home.

During driving, we all felt asleep, even our driver and we smashed our rentable car. @driver: don´t feel sorry, that could have happened to all of us. (Notice: nobody was injured really, maybe shocked, just killed the car).

So, I came there and marshalled 35 hours, sleeping 6 hours in 2 days, getting NO MONEY from the orga, crashing our car and than even pay that with 142 €.

Sorry, but orga you have let us 100% down!

We even had to get some Water by our own, nobody brought us some!

I think, we did the best we could under this heavy problems, we´re feeling very sorry for the teams with that scoresheet thing!

[Translationend] Hope you could get the sense in this.

Sorry, but, I couldn´t believe that big f**kup!!! Orga even did not pay the marshalls, only paying them hotel an food. Other marshalls told, that food was cold and they didn´t get the promised money for their car fuel.

Sorry sorry sorry for you guys, you did the best you could, nobody knowing how to marhall will blame you guys!

Now, I´m not feeling joked by the orga. Seems more to me, the marshalls we´re the "idiots" of this event,not the teams.

A BIG SHAME!

Sorry, but I can not stay neutral anymore, that´s why I decided to stop soaking up the impressions on our forums.

Personally, that was a hard and good event for me and my team, but all that s**t about the EB3 leaves a very bitter taste to all of us.

Hope, there is someone who enjoyed that event.

Bye, Alex

 

[fred1]

I'm writing on behalf of my team the RodeurS:

We would like to thank the UK Jaguars and especially the guy who lent us his Cocker.

Second game of the finals and one of our guns breaks down: typical.... a guy from the UK Jaguars comes by asking for some cleaning product and we ask him if he knows what might be wrong with our team mates cocker that is suddenly experiencing shoot down. We try to look at a couple solutions but they don't seem to be right and just like that he offers his gun and his loader. I can't say how grateful we are for this gesture. It took the stress and pressure off us and we were able to concentrate on our game and win these finals. If you could let me know who you are I'll PM you.

Second we'd like to give props to Team Exodus, who displayed the most stylish, agressive and hardcore paintball of the whole novice division. If these guys have only been playing for a year..... well then next year we are COOKED!

As for the organisation well all I can say is that it was great except for the crap chrony station. And the new idea for the scores was great. A real shame it screwed up. I don't hold Achim responsible, since it wasn't his responsibility and that the only guys who were paid during the Euroball were the IT guys responsible for setting this system up and managing it. I think Achim handled it well, took the hit like a man and didn't pussy out when everybody came at him. I'm thankful to him to give up months of his time to organise this and enable small novice teams like ours to compete learn, gain confidence and get our name out there, even though team RodeurS won't exist anymore. You will maybe find us under the name Strangelove, Tyranny or something of the sort with a new roster and a whole new motivation.

 

[DWD]

Marshall on the RPS Field wants a word

Hi we reffed on the PRS Field and on the JT Field for the Finals and i just wanted to say that the reffs had only one choice to make by their own the complete weekend and that decision was either STAY or GO.

Most of us did the first and most of the guys who left had 2 catching fligths or needed the time to drive to work on Monday.

@ pauly
We were not in with the Orga we had a Marshall meeting before the finals on the JT Field and we asked who had the time to stay to ref the Finals on the base of best of 3 games!!

The first team coming to the Fields told us we were running on direct elimination games.

The Teams had 2 tell us because the Orga forgot to.... like all weekend our Field was told that scores are missing by a Team THAT CAN T BE !

 

[tubbie]

Thumbs up for the marshalls

Well i have to say most of the weekend marshalling was very good especially considering the conditions these guys were working under!.

Although we had some bad calls i still would like to thank the marshalls for offering up their time, and enduring all they did.If it would have been me i would have left on the first day.

Tubbie

 

[pauly]

AT DWD....

Well im sorry but the fact remains it shouldnt of happend.
After the scores went missing, everything went to ****.
You guys the marshalls did a good job, just felt a bit robbed in the semis not playing the 3 games.

 

[DWD]

the only thing i wanted 2 get straigth was we didn t make the call for elimination games.

to quote you:
"The marshalls also decided to cut the semi finals games to 1 instead of 3."
not our call !

 

[sjt19]

Sounds like a great event, with excellent value for money.....

 

[SI-Alex]

Sounds like a great event, with excellent value for money.....

Feels good to laugh again

Cheers, Alex