Inter-Uni Tournament :):)

[Michael Merola]

How did you promote the club at your uni Edd ? just wondering as im running out of ideas.

Got alot of interest but when it comes down to it, alot of people didnt sign up.

 

[Edd Hobday]

We mainly promote the rec side of things. Find it gets more interest, then we introduce our members to tourney.

At freshers fair we give people the 'speal' and try to get them to join the club which cost 5pounds. We take their E-mail and mobile number and promote events by txting/e-mailing them. The people who are interested at freshers fair but dont join give us the'r E-mail addresses and we harase them that way. We also use posters, but generaly i find they're to easy to ignore.

Something we've introduced this year, which seems to be working pretty well is weekly socials. Every monday from 6 we can be found in the same place in our SU bar and our members are free to pop in and have a drink with us. It gives us a great oppertunity to get them to sign up for our trips or just let them know whats going on (and indoctrinate them into the world of tourney).

-EDD

 

[AUPaintSoc]

Yeah same with us, except we try and promote the colourful, exciting side of paintball (tourney) to make people think that theres more to the sport. We have some markers on display, people either in tourney gear and camo gear, and a couple of laptops running vids on a loop. Seemed to work!!! We charge £10 per year as well....

Oh and Ive definitely got a up to a 10-man team for any kind of inter-uni setup...

Any uni teams going to the 3-man UK Masters next month? I believe we have two teams entered, mebbe 3..... Would be cool to meet up with some of you!!!

 

[Steve Hancock]

Originally posted by AUPaintSoc
Yeah same with us, except we try and promote the colourful, exciting side of paintball (tourney) to make people think that theres more to the sport. We have some markers on display, people either in tourney gear and camo gear, and a couple of laptops running vids on a loop. Seemed to work!!! We charge £10 per year as well....

That's good if promoting the club off the back of the tourney side of things works for you. We do publicize this when we are recruiting as well, but some people find the idea of going straight into "tournaments" a bit intimidating and less-accessible then casual recreational games.

Originally posted by AUPaintSoc
Oh and I’ve definitely got a up to a 10-man team for any kind of inter-uni setup...

That's great mate, a lot of the clubs I’m speaking to seem to be more interested in taking paintball to the tournament level, so with a little luck we should be able to get a tourney sorted.

Originally posted by AUPaintSoc
Any uni teams going to the 3-man UK Masters next month? I believe we have two teams entered, mebbe 3..... Would be cool to meet up with some of you!!!

I'll look into that, now we have got a load of freshers interested in tourney it would be good to get them off to an event.

Originally posted by Michael Merola
I can honestly say though i think its gonna be tough for me to find 7 people who want to commit to a team but i should be able to get 5.

I was thinking that 5-man might be better than 7-man, firstly because more teams will be able to enter, but also because teams will be able to pile into one car if necessary.

Jose I premume that you wouldn't mind running a 5 man event if we decided to take you up on your offer and run the event with you guys?

 

[Michael Merola]

Well basically i did the above aswell.

Social meetings every 1/2 weeks in the same Bar so most know where it is. We even meet up with another society so there's plenty of us.

I just seem to of got alot of interest, rec wise, i havnt pushed the tourny side to many as it just scares them. From freshers i got only about 20 people signing up though from about 150 people's contact details (who i email at least once/twice a week ) so that isnt that much really, was hoping for more. At only £5 to join, even if people came once they save money...

Advertised in the SU paper and on there radio and i even made leaflets for freshers which 1/2 went. Posters i havnt tryed as i think most people dont actually take notice

Probally gonna try and do another stint in the SU one day with all my kit, hopefully get more interest then!

 

[AUPaintSoc]

Originally posted by Steve Hancock
...but some people find the idea of going straight into "tournaments" a bit intimidating and less-accessible then casual recreational games.

The thing is, I believe up here the majority of Students (and at the Freshers Fayre, first year Students) arent really aware of tournament Paintball, and so it just looks like a really cool new sport. To be fair, which looks more exciting, guys in camo moving slowly through trees, or a full sized speedball court... Plus I believe its a lot less threatening and militaristic than rec-ball, which puts a lot of people off...

 

[AUPaintSoc]

Originally posted by JoseDominguez
If you can get the teams interested we'll set up for you...... Ten teams, £300 a team (7 man), we'll put £1000 back into prizes.
Sup air, perfect flat fields. And all in Durham. (Same location as the original PA cup and storming the castle). We can also sort out kit (Ions to rent etc....). And paint would be BYO or various grades available at heavilly discounted rates for the non-sponsored teams. (Basically a one off Top-Gun sponsorship).

There ya go, you get the bodies together.



We offered the same last year....... nothing happened.

So, lets see what happens this time

Email me.
Tournament paintball with a good chance of a cash prize and all for the same as a days rec ball.
Shouldn't be too hard to get ten teams interested should it?

 

[AUPaintSoc]

Sorry about posting this again, I just thought it would be good to see if we can get any provisional names down for an event like this for sometime between Easter and Summer holidays next year.

Aberdeen Uni is definitely down for this. A 5 man event would work too, we could enter a couple of teams.
Jose what do you think about this?

Any other Unis?

 

[Edd Hobday]

Originally posted by Steve Hancock

I'll look into that, now we have got a load of freshers interested in tourney it would be good to get them off to an event.

Steve i spoke to Neil about this the other day. I know he wants to play it.

-EDD

 

[angel]

i think i can say york uni would be up for this

*~ york uni will be up for this*~
how can you beat the middle of the uk team(u carn't)
simple truth