After all, how many of y'all routinely play in any of the alphabets? That's what I thought. So what's the big fascination anyway?
Forget the alphabet soup of NPPL, PSP, MIL and X, etc.
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Guess the Ghost Cow has gotten bored again, plus there is only so many ways you can answer the WC threads.
Oh to keep this in thread....
GO local tournys !!!
Oh to keep this in thread....
GO local tournys !!!
Forget the alphabet soup? Have you run into another big patch of loco weed? Then this forum would die and you would get atrophy.
I haven't participated routinely in a while now but I plan to in 2003, if there is anything more than spaghetti-o's left.
Besides, what's the harm in being a boomstick cowboy?
Steve
PS. Was that y'all aimed at me, or am I gittin' a tad paranoic?
SM
You might as well ask why people who only play park football are interested in things like the Premiere League & the FA (or in US football terms, the NFL)
What happens at the top level of any sport will influence what happens at the lower levels. Rule changes tend to filter down, the equipment used sucessfully is bought by more people, even the fashions on off-field wear is affected by the high profile players. People need heroes to look up to (or boo in the case of the Salms of the world).
Also, this is such a new and evolving sport. I find it fascinating to watch the play of politics & influence, how different types of people's interests are affected & how the power base changes.
What happens at the top level of any sport will influence what happens at the lower levels. Rule changes tend to filter down, the equipment used sucessfully is bought by more people, even the fashions on off-field wear is affected by the high profile players. People need heroes to look up to (or boo in the case of the Salms of the world).
Also, this is such a new and evolving sport. I find it fascinating to watch the play of politics & influence, how different types of people's interests are affected & how the power base changes.
You paranoid? Why would you think such a thing? Teej uses the expression all the time. Is he talkin' about you too?
I might have but I didn't 'cause those are real sports. Besides lots of folks around here and in pball generally seems to spend their post time sqwacking about this and moaning about that and how we should all just go play pball, blah, blah, blah.
So my original question still stands.
Re: Re: Forget the alphabet soup of NPPL, PSP, MIL and X, etc.
Besides, I'd like to make my calendar for 2003 and decide if any league is worth getting involved in.
Steve
I think I answered the first question.
I am absorbed with existential questions that appear here from time to time: the difference between panty hoes and tights, fannies and bums, the sound of one hand clapping, will my hoes help me keep my fags from volumizin'?, if when I sleep I dream I'm a butterfly - how do I know that when I'm awake I'm not a butterfly dreaming I'm a man? etc.
Besides, I'd like to make my calendar for 2003 and decide if any league is worth getting involved in.
Steve
Ok, so your answer is mass consumption of hallucinogenics. No league has ever been worth getting involved with before and that's stopped who? Quit kiddin' yourself, you're jonesing and a pball forum, albeit an occasionally intelligent and oft entertaining pball forum is a cheap fix.
The first step is admission. Repeat after me, "I, Steve, am a pball junkie . . ."
I've been without what you mentioned for probably too long. Can you recommend any good post order services? Sweden is far too tight-assed about such.
Jonesin'? Wouldn't you be if your life consisted of scanning this place for fun (like you're doing) and cleaning up some Grey Poupon (butt of course!)?
Besides, like I said, I'm looking for the news. I have to apply for government clearance on my schedule way in advance.
OK, (tremoring) My name is Steve and I'm a paintball junkie...
Right, well that's it then
Only Raehl sorta answered the question in a broad context in another thread (and nobody pays any attention to Chris anyway) tho Steve-O answered it from a personal perspective.
I guess that means the rest of y'all are just flat embarrassed to admit you're all living vicariously off Pete's fading glories, Nexus national pride or you're favorite pro or pro team's latest exploits.
Anyway--
Here's a couple of reasons to care what happens in the alphabet and a couple of things you ought to be rooting for. Like it or not pball, in fact all sport, is top down driven and what happens at the top, particularly as pball is still forming and developing, will effect your future tourney experiences. Given that, two competing American leagues is so much superior to just one it's not even debatable. PSP want to control the whole thing just in case X doesn't work out they'll still dominant the series model they've already developed. Instead, if they must compete against another national series they will have to at least match the quality of offering a new, rejuvenated NPPL hopes to provide and then the players and teams will have the choice of which to play.
In addition, if and when X works out it won't remain a traveling road show and nobody who isn't a pro will be playing pros. Get used to it--that's the way it ought to be.
Just a note for the PSP boyz--look at the growth in teams participating in the last two years with damn near no encouragement from y'all. A little vision and committment to the growth of the sport instead of a desperate grab at retaining what y'all got this second will certainly see a larger, growing pie even if you have a slightly smaller piece of it. Just a thought.
Only Raehl sorta answered the question in a broad context in another thread (and nobody pays any attention to Chris anyway
) tho Steve-O answered it from a personal perspective.I guess that means the rest of y'all are just flat embarrassed to admit you're all living vicariously off Pete's fading glories, Nexus national pride or you're favorite pro or pro team's latest exploits.
Anyway--
Here's a couple of reasons to care what happens in the alphabet and a couple of things you ought to be rooting for. Like it or not pball, in fact all sport, is top down driven and what happens at the top, particularly as pball is still forming and developing, will effect your future tourney experiences. Given that, two competing American leagues is so much superior to just one it's not even debatable. PSP want to control the whole thing just in case X doesn't work out they'll still dominant the series model they've already developed. Instead, if they must compete against another national series they will have to at least match the quality of offering a new, rejuvenated NPPL hopes to provide and then the players and teams will have the choice of which to play.
In addition, if and when X works out it won't remain a traveling road show and nobody who isn't a pro will be playing pros. Get used to it--that's the way it ought to be.
Just a note for the PSP boyz--look at the growth in teams participating in the last two years with damn near no encouragement from y'all. A little vision and committment to the growth of the sport instead of a desperate grab at retaining what y'all got this second will certainly see a larger, growing pie even if you have a slightly smaller piece of it. Just a thought.
Or could it be that, like me, a lot of people don't really mind what set of rules they need to stick to, just as long as they get to bust fools in the head?
I wouldn't mind playing in a new format, but I also wouldn't playing in the current format. God knows I played a lot of them over the years... Now where's my walker? Oh right, Pete's got it.
I wouldn't mind playing in a new format, but I also wouldn't playing in the current format. God knows I played a lot of them over the years... Now where's my walker? Oh right, Pete's got it.