Nexus Update

[BaddahBoom]

I know it Sux but

At least the rules will be revised and the ultimate doesn't have to hide behind the rules anymore

I know this doesn't make the hurt of not making the cut go away
but that might be the only positive thing out of all this BS

And as far as i could read in some reports Nexus has gained respect once again
and that should count for something too
I bet it will pay off in the future

Keep up the good work representing the Brits ( & Euro's) stateside

 

[LARSEN]

My heart bleeds for you guyz

Had hoped that you would show that europe is coming

To bad some one stopped you from showing the true potential

 

[raehl]

Pisser.

I was looking forward to seeing you guys play on Sunday - was disappointed when I got there and saw the scoreboard.


Glad I met Pete on Friday then though - Saturday night or Sunday may have been more dangerous.


- Chris

 

[paintballma]

Having the bad luck not to have been able to go to Chicago, I can only imagine how badly you guys feel about this. It sux for sure.

Hopefully a couple of good things that will come out it will be that it is NPPL and they will actually fix the rule, and the other being teams, especially newer teams who did not realize the potential impact, will take an extra minute to make sure the scores are correct before signing. Perhaps a Robbo post on Smacktalk explaining the importance is in order. I don't suspect Eclipse will make that mistake again.

Believe it or not a lot of us "statesiders" root for you guys with the cool accents....see you in NY

 

[Robbo]

I just got up and am probably going back to bed after I wrote this but I thought I had better post something.
On the flight home last nite, I wrote the Chi Town article and you can bet your ass I wrote about what happened to us.
It seemed like I was punching the letters into my laptop.
I felt sick to the bone about what was done to my guys.
I have been around for a long time in this game and seen many similar things happen, though perhaps not too many as bad as this one, but as Simon (Manike) succinctly reminds us all, the Preds had something done to them with similar injustice when they went stateside once.
Anyway, the point is, I felt so sorry for my team-mates, they worked so hard to get where they have, they train, they live, they die this sport.
Most of the guys on the team have never encountered such a blatant disregard of common sense or justice.
They were absolutely shell-shocked by it all.
Thank f#k for Ledz and Jack being there as my head would have blown off at one point had he not ushered me away and he then took over proceedings giving me time to cool down before I went back into it again.
Nexus is a big part of all our lives, I am immensely proud of every single one of my players, even Bowen
So, you can imagine what was being written down on that flight home last nite.

This morning, I got up to find an email in my inbox from the head judge, he apologises and admits he made an error...the wind in my sails just died a little...I am now going to have re-write the article, which I suppose is not such a bad thing.

After it all died down, the next day, we had time to collect our thoughts and the effect on the team was immediate.
All, they and myself, wanna do, is get back on that training field, get back to wat we are about, and never allow that opportunity to happen again.
We will now be working even harder to get us up there, we ain't there yet I know, we got another year of graft to do before anytihng like that happens.
And I wanna make one final point, take me outa the Nexus equation for one second, the players who go to make up the playing squad, as reprentatives of paintball and England, behaved and played out of their skin.
They got everybody's respect on the field, and when the sh1t went down and everybody realised what had happened to them, they earned even more respect for they way they conducted themselves off the field afterwards.
Sure gave me a lesson to admire, I can't say enough about my guys.
Back to work...

 

[Mak D - Nexus Eclipse]

Yo Pete and the rest of the guys, don't be to gutted! We all know wot happened and it aint ur fault you would have played on Sunday if it werent for this stupid mistake.

Have no doubt guys that more and more Brits are jumpin on the Nexus train ready to support you guys, we know you can do it you know you can do it, so next time .............don t even leave 2 of there players on the field

Heads up guys

Mak D

P.S : We are all proud of you lot

 

[rancid]

Don't gloss over Pete's post with sympathy and well dones. Read it again, particularly the bit that says...

This morning, I got up to find an email in my inbox from the head judge, he apologises and admits he made an error...

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by rancid
Don't gloss over Pete's post with sympathy and well dones. Read it again, particularly the bit that says...

This morning, I got up to find an email in my inbox from the head judge, he apologises and admits he made an error...

Matt, I think as far as any sympathetic posts are concerned, there is nothing anybody can do now and they are merely expressing their support, which I must say, is greatly appreciated by myself and the guys on the team.
Anything over and above that, that is to be done, is for others, not these guys.
I for one, want no more of it, I am just gonna get my head down and get on with the job of getting Nexus to the top.
We have to go back out to the States and any problems I make worse sitting here may well have an opportunity to revisit my team, and that ain't gonna happen.
Nah, what's done is done, my team come first and not my desire for justice.
Pete

 

[Mark Toye-Nexus]

Robbo

I think the head judge owes us a beer or two - other than that you are right - it should be left alone and put it down to experience

(said through gritted teeth - and I wasnt even there!!)

Mark

 

[Jack Wood]

I just wanted to add that where Pete thought of an injustice, the team players blamed themselves.
The way we all saw it, if one of us had not died sloppy in one of the games we won, we would be through. If we had shot one more Dog, we would have been through.
It is allright to blame someone else for a failing if the result is reliant solely on them, but when you really hold your destiny in your own hands, through your own actions, then in the end the only person you can truely blame is yourself.
The judges may have screwed up, and Rage screwed us, but really we just screwed ourselves more. They all screwed us for just one lousy point, where we screwed ourselves, through our lack of skill, our of 199 points.
That is how the team look at it, and that is the thought that is going to make us stronger, hungrier, and more focused on winning.
It just took Pete a couple of days to realize it