Lets not lose Disney as a venue!

[crazzzy]

Come on guys, tell all your friends bout this before the event!
(Mail was sent out yday)

Dear Team Captains ,



Unfortunately it has become necessary to remind you of the
responsibility of you and your players to make every effort to keep
the damage caused by paintballs to a minimum at Millennium events . We
are in great danger of losing some of the venues we are lucky to have
the use of due to irresponsible disposal and discarding of paintballs.
Already we have had complaints from every venue this year, and Disney
have warned us that they will monitor the situation very closely
following these issues from last year.


To this end we would ask you to remind your players of their
responsibility and not to throw pots of paint on the floor or allow
them to drop out of bags in public areas both at the venue and off the
site at hotels etc. , throwing of test paint in public areas or indeed
outside of the playing area at all.


Starting in Paris we will instruct stewards and security to be
vigilant and enforce such good behaviour and we will take action
against players or teams who do not comply and continue to make an
unnecessary mess at the venue . This will include but not restricted
to ,fines to the team or the expulsion of teams or players from the
event without recourse in extreme cases.


We would ask that those teams that are the vast majority, who do care
and are responsible, to help ensure the minority do not spoil our
sport for us all.

Many Thanks

Paula Nicol

Millennium Series Ltd

 

[Echowitch]

Fines, suspensions, and expulsion of players sounds fair given how those committing the offences are jeopardising the continued use of the event locations for everyone.

Again its back to the whole "we are Ambassadors of our sport" thing.

 

[Freddie Brockdorff]

I´m ALL for this - I just wonder if they will actually go through with this, fining people for making too big a mess when they don´t fine people for starting fights or shooting at cars !!!!

 

[Buddha 3]

Well, according to the law, they can't fine anybody... Unless it's in the fine print that's already been signed for by the teams (which I doubt), but one has to be appointed by the (local) government before one is allowed to issue fines. So it really is just a paper tiger.

But I do agree with the motivation behind it all.

 

[Andy Steele]

i think its abit unfair to be honest. at the malaga event this year there were locals passing through picking up paintballs, some collecting them in tubs. and throwing them at walls etc as the were walking down the beach front.

its a fair point about making sure players dont leave bags/boxes of paint around. but as for the mess outside of the venues im not entirely sure its the players

 

[onasilverbike]

Malaga & Campaign being the only events this year where the general public were visible on site I would agree, not withstanding that if there is paint on the ground kids everywhere will pick it up. In Malaga they were walking off with boxes of it down the promenade and to be fair, there was quite a bit of it being collected from the field ends that wern't fenced off. However, in Toulouse and Germany, it was evdent in the public parts of the site, especially in Germany on the paths/tarmac on the player side of field 1/2 outside of the pits. Also, even before the first game on the CPL field I was there while a member of the exibiting trade and the Millennium Board were discussing all the paint that had already been 'drop tested' just outside the entrance to the CPL/SPL pit lane. Also I witnessed one team potting up in the trade area ans spilt paint rolling into one of the trade tents, where the staff were rushing arround dealing with it before it got crushed all over their floor.

However, paint chucked about in hotel carparks/complexes etc. is pretty imature and iresponsible, leaving the Nurburg site in the local gas station we witnessed a car that looked like it had been shot up down the sides deliberately, the occupants being most proud of this Admittedly, the onsite parking at the end of field 2 meant that most vehicles parked there were hit a few times (it was like carwash.de on Saturday evening ).

Last year I had cause to pass the Basildon site about a week after Campaign and was impressed as to the lack of evidence that the event had even been there. I'm sure its part of the clear up to shovel/pressurewash up the paint, but the more that has to be done, the more staff/wages are involved and therfore the costs to the teams are likley to be raised.