Next years Millennium

[Christian-Malera]

Magued,

"Christian, we cant have it both ways. Either we have the legs to tight or we gonna have a shorter off season. I would vote to have a shorter off season with more time between the events to be able to afford them all and practice between the events."


I think the way Nick spread it out in his proposal, looked great. Long enought off season and still time in between the legs.


- February: Joy Masters, Indoor in Stockholm
- April: Toulouse
- June: Maxs
- July: DMA
- August: Campaign
- October: Megacampeonato

I just think it's a big difference between starting the season in mid January instead the end of february.

 

[Wadidiz]

Originally posted by Christian-Malera
Magued,

"Christian, we cant have it both ways. Either we have the legs to tight or we gonna have a shorter off season. I would vote to have a shorter off season with more time between the events to be able to afford them all and practice between the events."


I think the way Nick spread it out in his proposal, looked great. Long enought off season and still time in between the legs.


- February: Joy Masters, Indoor in Stockholm
- April: Toulouse
- June: Maxs
- July: DMA
- August: Campaign
- October: Megacampeonato

I just think it's a big difference between starting the season in mid January instead the end of february.

I'm not sure but I think that perhaps some people and some teams have to think about things in a wider international perspective. In other words, the NPPL Super 7 series schedule has to be taken into consideration. I'm sure the NPPL schedule had an impact on the low number of teams who participated in Joy Masters this past summer.

Steve

 

[The New Paddy]

If the events were like that it would fair easier for us younger players trying to get time off skool just to go to one , Cause when we went to Amterdam this year we had to miss a test for are GCSE'S just to ....


Paddy

 

[Red_Merkin]

It's so difficult to please everyone.
Basically, people need more time between events, to train, and sort out finances.
an event every 6 to 8 weeks is great timing!

The ideal, would be Joy middle of March
Maxs, beginning of May,
Half way through june, Hold DMA
Begining of August, hold Campaign Cup
Middle of September Toullouse.
Final, south of Europe (The event that used to be Portugal) Begining of November.
That shortens the off season to 4.5 months from 6 months last year!

but i doubt that this sort of reasoning will be applied to picking dates, so it's basically all for nothing.

 

[gaff]

mid Jan is too soon after Xmas i think, you get too many people away to keep training going and xmas is an expensive time of the year for all, End of February would be better (especially for me as i have a baby due 2nd Jan, i wil be allowed to leave the house during Feb!!)

 

[Red_Merkin]

If it is at the end of January, i think even less teams will attend!
Maybe end of February?

 

[Tom Tom]

As long as Campaign is in August between the 1st and the 27th I am good as I have loads of time off.

 

[cjansen]

Originally posted by jnr/shockwave3
how many teams actually play ALL the legs? the answer is almost none of them!

apart from the top 3 or 4 teams in each division most teams only play 2 or 3 legs at the most.

with the price of flights, fuel, airport parking, hire car, accommodation, entry, paint, food, drink and entertainment to play the series will cost each player around £3,500 and thats a team that has a reasonable sponsership.

until there is more demand there wont be any more than six legs and i cant see there being any great demand for more legs in the near future.

Don't I wish it was GBP 3500!!!($5600 US) We played 5 events, and marshalled the last, but this season cost me almost 9.000 Euros, and that doesn't include training! Our sponsorship doesn't amount to much at all, so that was what I paid. We probably could have done it a little cheaper, but it wouldn't be that much cheaper.

Having more time between events would be much better, as it's wicked hard to get time off from work twice in one month.

 

[Juho]

Hmmm...

My expences for this season were around 6000 euros, and I played 4 legs of Millennium plus 3 legs of finnish league...

Magued, do we get to play in Globen? =)

Juho/Takeover

 

[TOPOR]

yeah Globen would be ubber cool but it would be like renting POP Bercy in Paris! way too expensive I beleive!