speaking for a little team with no real sponsorship (our sponsor is our site we get paint at cost thats all) changing rules on playing tops, loaders and any other equipment is hard on us.
We decided this year what we should wear and use for the rest of the season in december our players don't have much money and spent a couple of hundred pounds each on team gear so that we all look the same as a team.
we were looking forward to playing two millenium events this year as we wanted to mix it up with a wide range of talent but this really stretches our budget for the year.
unfortunately if these changes take place we will find it hard to take part as we wear 2003 dye tops and have clear viewloaders and we cannot really afford to change these for two events.
An idea would be that these type of rule changes don't come in till 2005 and the rules get set before december 2004 when most teams will decide on what gear they will be using and wearing for 2005 as national events in the UK start in January i don't know about other countries.
Im sure allot of teams will be in the same boat as us.
Before i get flamed because we are only doing 2 milleniums so what does it matter about how it affects us. I would just like to point out that the bottom divison will be made up of teams just like us that are only doing 1 or 2 events so you could effectively wipe out allot of teams from the bottom division.