There is enough tournament players at unis in Manchester to field a really strong team. Unfortunately they are spread thinly between the 3 universities in Manchester so I doubt a team from Manchester will attend 
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Might be worth putting out an APB for any Manchester players who might want to make a hybrid team from Uni's in that area. Could enter as general 'Manchester Universities' team?Originally posted by John C
There is enough tournament players at unis in Manchester to field a really strong team. Unfortunately they are spread thinly between the 3 universities in Manchester so I doubt a team from Manchester will attend
It would be a shame not to have you if there are players up there - you only need 4 more peeps!
But if they're all atending universities in Manchester, they're all students representing their area at least.
It would be similar to people from different London Universities eg. Imperial, UCL, Kings, LSE forming a 'University of London' team.
It would be similar to people from different London Universities eg. Imperial, UCL, Kings, LSE forming a 'University of London' team.
Manchester team....
Well at least now Umist and the Victoria Univ (the old uni of Manchester) have merged we just have Salfrod, the Met and The uni of Manchester to deal with now.
I reckon there are a good few players lurking about to get a team from the Met and Manc Uni together, anyone needs any players, let me know!
Chimp
Well at least now Umist and the Victoria Univ (the old uni of Manchester) have merged we just have Salfrod, the Met and The uni of Manchester to deal with now.
I reckon there are a good few players lurking about to get a team from the Met and Manc Uni together, anyone needs any players, let me know!
Chimp
I don't see why you have to come from just one uni if there are players at other uni's in the same city who could help you make up a team. Other sports have players from different uni's all making up one team. In American Football Hertfordshire are one of the biggest teams due to the fact that their catchment area includes most of the london uni's. Here in Oxford we have the majority of our players from Brookes but most of our american players and some others come from Oxford. Also if you are on placement near a different uni, say I went home to Norwich for a placement year, I would be allowed to sing up for the UEA team while I was up there, as I would still be registered to a full uni course back here in oxford.
I think that rule above should be changed to one stating that so long as you are registered on a proper higher education course (in football its HND/HNC or higher, the lower of those 2 courses don't count coz it caused problems with ringers from the BSL signing up to a cheap part time course to play college football), be it part or full time, then they are allowed to play for a university team. So this will allow Manchester to form its own paintball team for this tourney, under the overall name of Manchester (insert cool second team name here) Combined Universities Paintball Team, then just shorten it to the Manchester (insert that cool name again).
This way you could get some really good squads being formed coz of the ability to have players play for your team, even if they don't go to your uni but are in your catchment area. So a southampton 'baller could sign up to the portsmouth team if there wasn't enough players at southampton, coz they would be near enough to be within Pompey's catchment area.
I could just be waffling on but I am knackered and I hope that a lot of this makes some sense and for the good of uni paintball I hope that the rule gets changed to allow more teams to be formed to expand the uni paintball scene.
Charlie.
I think that rule above should be changed to one stating that so long as you are registered on a proper higher education course (in football its HND/HNC or higher, the lower of those 2 courses don't count coz it caused problems with ringers from the BSL signing up to a cheap part time course to play college football), be it part or full time, then they are allowed to play for a university team. So this will allow Manchester to form its own paintball team for this tourney, under the overall name of Manchester (insert cool second team name here) Combined Universities Paintball Team, then just shorten it to the Manchester (insert that cool name again).
This way you could get some really good squads being formed coz of the ability to have players play for your team, even if they don't go to your uni but are in your catchment area. So a southampton 'baller could sign up to the portsmouth team if there wasn't enough players at southampton, coz they would be near enough to be within Pompey's catchment area.
I could just be waffling on but I am knackered and I hope that a lot of this makes some sense and for the good of uni paintball I hope that the rule gets changed to allow more teams to be formed to expand the uni paintball scene.
Charlie.
I'm totally with Charlie on this one. It's been done before, why not do it here?
I doesn't have to be a permanent fix, but more of an interim system whereby you can pick and choose your players as long as they are registered students.
The university scene isn't at a stage yet where it can be picky enough to rule that all players on a team must attend the same university. Enforcing that rule now will only hinder the growth of paintball in this area by severely limiting the teams that can attend these Uni tournaments.
Once there are over 20/25 UK Uni teams and the sport is BUSA recognised, then maybe.
After all, this isn't exactly an NPPL event, but a stepping stone to try and bring the few Uni teams we have together, to educate the Uni's about the sport, to encourage the growth of the sport within Uni life - and to have some freakin' fun while we're at it!
I doesn't have to be a permanent fix, but more of an interim system whereby you can pick and choose your players as long as they are registered students.
The university scene isn't at a stage yet where it can be picky enough to rule that all players on a team must attend the same university. Enforcing that rule now will only hinder the growth of paintball in this area by severely limiting the teams that can attend these Uni tournaments.
Once there are over 20/25 UK Uni teams and the sport is BUSA recognised, then maybe.
After all, this isn't exactly an NPPL event, but a stepping stone to try and bring the few Uni teams we have together, to educate the Uni's about the sport, to encourage the growth of the sport within Uni life - and to have some freakin' fun while we're at it!
The problem with letting different uni's combine squads is that it doesnt promote paintball. Say with manchester for example, i'm sure that it would be easy for them to field a squad of experienced players to represent 'Manc uni's' but that doesnt help get paintball promoted to anyone else. This way people will have to spread the word and in many cases get new people involved, thus making paintball bigger in unis and strengthening it.
Also under BUSA rules the players must be registered with the uni they play for. It's like that for hockey, rugby, football and all the other major sports. Not sure if american football is recognised by BUSA but if it is and your allowed out of uni players on your squad it's an exception to the rule.
-EDD
Also under BUSA rules the players must be registered with the uni they play for. It's like that for hockey, rugby, football and all the other major sports. Not sure if american football is recognised by BUSA but if it is and your allowed out of uni players on your squad it's an exception to the rule.
-EDD
I realise about BUSA requiring students from the same Uni, but paintball isn't going to get recognised by BUSA for at least another year or two if it requires having 20 universities or so with clubs.
I see where your coming from with the established players just hooking up and playing amongst themselves, it doesn't really promote anything within the colleges....it would be best if there's only a single player at a uni to spread the word and drag some punters with them to get the ball rolling at their uni. Fair enough.
I know it's not fun to have to drag 4 punters with tippmanns to back up yourself and your timmy at a tourney you know could do well in with more established players.
To me it just seems a bit sad that there are at least a few tourney players in Manc (and probably a few other towns) who would play, but can't due to the single uni rule.
It's going to be strange too, cos I'm probably going to end up sending a 5 man punter team up armed with Tippmanns, but are they going to end up going against 5 guys from B'ham or Portsmouth with Angels only to have their asses handed to them?
It's a tough one.
I see where your coming from with the established players just hooking up and playing amongst themselves, it doesn't really promote anything within the colleges....it would be best if there's only a single player at a uni to spread the word and drag some punters with them to get the ball rolling at their uni. Fair enough.
I know it's not fun to have to drag 4 punters with tippmanns to back up yourself and your timmy at a tourney you know could do well in with more established players.
To me it just seems a bit sad that there are at least a few tourney players in Manc (and probably a few other towns) who would play, but can't due to the single uni rule.
It's going to be strange too, cos I'm probably going to end up sending a 5 man punter team up armed with Tippmanns, but are they going to end up going against 5 guys from B'ham or Portsmouth with Angels only to have their asses handed to them?
It's a tough one.