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Wadidiz

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Getting back to the thread:

(DISCLAIMER: I am not trying to say I or we are trying anything here. NOT trying to fill anyone's heads with fanciful notions or say I know anything. I'm just musing.)

What if we had something like this in Europe:

1. A center flag format. Maybe X Ball, maybe something else. But a format that encouraged a very high level of playing and team skills.

2. Was very well organized

3. Offered a very attractive prize-to-entry-fee ratio

4. Was very spectator friendly and could possibly attract media attention here in Europe

5. Had the involvement of the best teams in Europe and some of the best non-NXL teams from America

6. Because of all the above would be a very attractive showcase for team sponsors

Would it be feasible in any stretch of imagination for NXL's team owners to "gamble" so-to-speak on the possible returns on investment for participating in such a series, at least until they get on their fast-track schedule? (We know they want to come over here.)

And what if NXL teams could not afford to or did not want to participate in any kind of way. Would it hypothetically be attractive to the other top drawer teams?

I'm NOT trying to clutch at straws or "save" anything, just wondering.

Now I'm trying to gird my grid for an onslaught.:p

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See, I was right. You are Pollyanna--

Originally posted by Wadidiz
1--I have seen a few hints of some clear-thinking industry people who have tried to step out of the fray and be magnanimous. But I suppose it's one step forward occasionally and five steps backwards most of the time.

2--I see all too often, almost on a daily basis (I'm not talking about particulars of my job now, just generally) people still thinking about their petty agendas and their little corporate/political wars.

3--I offer no cure, just am frustrated by how we seem to be heading down the road to hell in the midst of some of the greatest opportunities ever.

4--I fear that as soon as Hollywood or big media sees how childish this busines is they'll distance themselves as much as possible.
I'm basically talking about a major lack of professionallism and an overwhelming surplus of self-serving, narrow-minded, wanne-be gansta-pimp egos.

5--I don't know what the solution is. I just hope we can wake up, find some good direction and leadership and become a respectable, united busines and sport.
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6--Would it be feasible in any stretch of imagination for NXL's team owners to "gamble" so-to-speak on the possible returns on investment for participating in such a series, at least until they get on their fast-track schedule? (We know they want to come over here.)

7--And what if NXL teams could not afford to or did not want to participate in any kind of way. Would it hypothetically be attractive to the other top drawer teams?

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but s'okay cus somebody got's to do it (despite what a certain unnamed folically-challenged individual says):rolleyes: ;) :D
1--Everything is illusion, grasshopper
2--and this is different from the non-PB world how?
3--and those opportunities were created, in part at least, by some of the same folks that frost your cupcakes in No. 2
4--should fit right in I would'a thought
5--relax. It's a process and it's early times yet.

6--NO, not as long as the NXL in some form or other remained viable as the Promised Land of Big Green.
7--the question is would the promoters support it without some payoff when such an arrangement, not unlike the EXL, would fracture the foundation of the current system?
Or if you went outside the promoters who would back it?
 
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See, I was right. You are Pollyanna--

Originally posted by Baca Loco
-the question is would the promoters support it without some payoff when such an arrangement, not unlike the EXL, would fracture the foundation of the current system?
Or if you went outside the promoters who would back it?
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Baca,

You are definitely one piece o' work. And you have once again proved yourself to be right, not about the Pollyanna thing so much as about the other stuff.

True, PB ain't so different than most other arenas in life. And the sleaze in PB ain't so much different than that in Glittertown. Hell, Vegas was a spin-off of Hollywood.

RE the question that remains: You your beefy self said "Course the status quo ain't gonna fly either. Change is in the wind. It's gale force already and pickin' up speed." The foundation isn't the status quo. The status quo is just the way it's done now and that can be changed.

Super 7 probably was not demanded but once it was put on the table it sure got eaten up. It seems to be successful.

Of course the powers-that-be are going to be conservative, cautious and afraid to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. But they ain't stupid 'cause I'm sure they feel the winds of change blowing.

They just need some damn good wind power generators.
 
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Re: See, I was right. You are Pollyanna--

Originally posted by Wadidiz
1--RE the question that remains: You your beefy self said "Course the status quo ain't gonna fly either. Change is in the wind. It's gale force already and pickin' up speed." The foundation isn't the status quo. The status quo is just the way it's done now and that can be changed.

2--Super 7 probably was not demanded but once it was put on the table it sure got eaten up. It seems to be successful.

3--Of course the powers-that-be are going to be conservative, cautious and afraid to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. But they ain't stupid 'cause I'm sure they feel the winds of change blowing.

They just need some damn good wind power generators.
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1--true, but especially here in America. Less so, Euro side. In some ways from your side of the pond it's got to look attractive to a certain set to sit tight. After all, most of the top US teams cut themselves off from the Euro scene, not vice versa and efforts to follow America's lead don't seem, at present, to offer the same potential.
Unless they were to align with Super 7 instead. That way they could maintain a US connection of some sort, strengthen their own position vis-a-vis how the game is played and hope that together they could offer and promote a truly international game.
Who knows? Might work.
2--because in large measure there was both player and industry unhappiness with the former monopoly. And, PB continues to grow at a rapid pace. Now that its established as the alternative there are a new set of expectations and problems arising. (Which I attempted to discuss as early as Vegas but which a certain editorial review posse scrapped.) :eek: :p ;)
3--sure they do but odds are the decisions will wait as long as possible and maybe beyond cus when it comes it's likely to be a biggie. :D
 
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