I have now recovered!
Ok here is a rough diary of events for anyone thats interested
What went wrong.
Wednesday
Recieve more last minute drop outs Notorius & CP Red. Calculate £9000 loss for lots of hard work (dont forget im a player as well guys not a fat cat bussiness man). Go to stadium to ste up scaffold towers, security fencing etc Calculate we can only run 3 fields instead of 4 becouse of the low amount of teams meaning we would finish all prelims on saterday by 13.30
Thursday
Arrive on site at 07.00 to only 5 set up crew instead of 10. Angel field doesnt arrive so matty drives to nials (3 hours their & back) to pick it up. Jeff has problems & doesn't arrive on site until 12.00 instead of 08.00 (he has all the wire, netting, blowers etc) finish 21.45 site is nearly set up but sand bags have still not arrived.
Friday
Still working with 7 instead of 10. Find out a further 3 trade stands have cancelled & calculate £10000 loss (now this is getting beyond a joke). Find out we have lost 5 marshalls & i now need to spend time to replace them.
Saterday
Arrive on site at 07.05 (the site doesnt open until 07.00) to a severe bollocking from the stadium manager becouse some idiots had jumped over the fence to walk the field s & set of the CCTV which is linked to the town centre, police etc so the stadium manager gets a call in the morning(waking her up) that their are people in the stadium. We put the schedule forward from 08.00 to 09.15 To give the admin staff time to register all the teams(as only 12 had registerd on the friday), it would also give the teams time to walk the fields. We were sceduled to finish at 15.16 the actually finished at 16.20 (sorry if this was bad for some team)
Sunday
Recieve a call at 06.40 from the Stadium manager saying the site is unrepairable & the tournement is off(dont forget the stadium is owned by the councel). So i rush their calm her down & the staff get the site back up & running at about 11.00 we are now 3 hours behind schedule with only 2 fields instead of 3. The staff work their arse of & we finish the show at 19.05 1 hour behind schedule. We fu$ked up on sunday & feel i must apoligise to my customers for not providing them with everything we had planned ie good scheduling, 3 fields, big cash prizes.
We spread £3500 in cash prizes over to next years budget in free entrys & hotel which all teams are welcome to sell, to try & recope some lost cash.
Monday
Tidy up from 07.00 to 22.00
Tuesday
Tidy up from 07.00 to 22.00. Confirm site is spotless with hotel manager & get invited back for European 5 Man Championships 2 ( i must be mad). The first bit of good news i have recieved all week.
Wednesday
Sort out paper work, go & see bank manager about loan to pay for expenses.
What went right
1)Improved parking no more luging your kit for miles (yes my feet did hurt at Campaign
2)No brake your legs flooring in the players area( yes i did fall ass over tit in germany & sweden)
3)Filtered Air (Yes i did get dirt in my gun & air system, yes i did $hit my pants flash filling at Toulouse etc)
4)Good cheap food & drinks (yes i have paid £1 for tea & £3 for burgers etc)
5)Air system close to fields (yes i have forgotten to fill & run my ass for miles to air rigs &/or even started with no air.
6)Good unbiased Marshalling ( yes i have been victim to bad marshalling at big events many times)
7)Clean staging area (yes i have had my kit bag covered in paint from broken paint etc)
8)Quite staging area were teams are free to talk about game plans etc or just relax (yes i do hate dry firing its noisy & sometimes really annoying)
9)Ultimate Marshall on every field (yes i have had bad calls & called the ultimate to the field to be confronted with the same old line "i gotta back the marshals")
10)Anouther high quality event in the UK/Europe with top quility teams in a truly awesome stadium.
11)Good high quality Toilets(yes i have qued for porta loos which i spent more time cleaning than i did going)
12)High quality film crew(yes i have always said we need more tv covarage media coverage etc i think everyone that was their was filmed/interviewed or both at some point during the tournament)
13)Try & create a good understanding between "Paintball the sport" & the councils for everyone involved in the sport. (yes i have had problems in the past with trying to get councels to see past the killing/army/danger stigma that paintball can sometimes have)
14) Safe & secure Trade stands with CCTV (direct to police) & Security officer next to stands all night(in fact he even saved 2 trade stands from blowing away)
Hope this clears everything up for you guys,
Woz
Ok here is a rough diary of events for anyone thats interested
What went wrong.
Wednesday
Recieve more last minute drop outs Notorius & CP Red. Calculate £9000 loss for lots of hard work (dont forget im a player as well guys not a fat cat bussiness man). Go to stadium to ste up scaffold towers, security fencing etc Calculate we can only run 3 fields instead of 4 becouse of the low amount of teams meaning we would finish all prelims on saterday by 13.30
Thursday
Arrive on site at 07.00 to only 5 set up crew instead of 10. Angel field doesnt arrive so matty drives to nials (3 hours their & back) to pick it up. Jeff has problems & doesn't arrive on site until 12.00 instead of 08.00 (he has all the wire, netting, blowers etc) finish 21.45 site is nearly set up but sand bags have still not arrived.
Friday
Still working with 7 instead of 10. Find out a further 3 trade stands have cancelled & calculate £10000 loss (now this is getting beyond a joke). Find out we have lost 5 marshalls & i now need to spend time to replace them.
Saterday
Arrive on site at 07.05 (the site doesnt open until 07.00) to a severe bollocking from the stadium manager becouse some idiots had jumped over the fence to walk the field s & set of the CCTV which is linked to the town centre, police etc so the stadium manager gets a call in the morning(waking her up) that their are people in the stadium. We put the schedule forward from 08.00 to 09.15 To give the admin staff time to register all the teams(as only 12 had registerd on the friday), it would also give the teams time to walk the fields. We were sceduled to finish at 15.16 the actually finished at 16.20 (sorry if this was bad for some team)
Sunday
Recieve a call at 06.40 from the Stadium manager saying the site is unrepairable & the tournement is off(dont forget the stadium is owned by the councel). So i rush their calm her down & the staff get the site back up & running at about 11.00 we are now 3 hours behind schedule with only 2 fields instead of 3. The staff work their arse of & we finish the show at 19.05 1 hour behind schedule. We fu$ked up on sunday & feel i must apoligise to my customers for not providing them with everything we had planned ie good scheduling, 3 fields, big cash prizes.
We spread £3500 in cash prizes over to next years budget in free entrys & hotel which all teams are welcome to sell, to try & recope some lost cash.
Monday
Tidy up from 07.00 to 22.00
Tuesday
Tidy up from 07.00 to 22.00. Confirm site is spotless with hotel manager & get invited back for European 5 Man Championships 2 ( i must be mad). The first bit of good news i have recieved all week.
Wednesday
Sort out paper work, go & see bank manager about loan to pay for expenses.
What went right
1)Improved parking no more luging your kit for miles (yes my feet did hurt at Campaign
2)No brake your legs flooring in the players area( yes i did fall ass over tit in germany & sweden)
3)Filtered Air (Yes i did get dirt in my gun & air system, yes i did $hit my pants flash filling at Toulouse etc)
4)Good cheap food & drinks (yes i have paid £1 for tea & £3 for burgers etc)
5)Air system close to fields (yes i have forgotten to fill & run my ass for miles to air rigs &/or even started with no air.
6)Good unbiased Marshalling ( yes i have been victim to bad marshalling at big events many times)
7)Clean staging area (yes i have had my kit bag covered in paint from broken paint etc)
8)Quite staging area were teams are free to talk about game plans etc or just relax (yes i do hate dry firing its noisy & sometimes really annoying)
9)Ultimate Marshall on every field (yes i have had bad calls & called the ultimate to the field to be confronted with the same old line "i gotta back the marshals")
10)Anouther high quality event in the UK/Europe with top quility teams in a truly awesome stadium.
11)Good high quality Toilets(yes i have qued for porta loos which i spent more time cleaning than i did going)
12)High quality film crew(yes i have always said we need more tv covarage media coverage etc i think everyone that was their was filmed/interviewed or both at some point during the tournament)
13)Try & create a good understanding between "Paintball the sport" & the councils for everyone involved in the sport. (yes i have had problems in the past with trying to get councels to see past the killing/army/danger stigma that paintball can sometimes have)
14) Safe & secure Trade stands with CCTV (direct to police) & Security officer next to stands all night(in fact he even saved 2 trade stands from blowing away)
Hope this clears everything up for you guys,
Woz
