Originally posted by paintpimp
Chris,
Just imagine if Daewoo was the only automobile manufacturer in the world. What if they charged you X amount of $$ for an automobile that didn't meet the reality or performance most consumers see in their current vehicles, and to top it off every customer gets a kick in the junk upon purchase. I'm sure under those conditions Daewoo would be the #1 automobile retailer in the world with increasing numbers of sales each year. Who knows they might even decrease vehicle reliability, features, or performance due to having to increase production.
This is an unrealistic example, because such conditions could never exist in a free market: A new company would start that would provide the same level of product for less money if such a thing were possible - just like a new promoter is entering the national circuit market, although their take is to charge a little more and make other changes in the quest of providing a better event. We'll see if they just manage to compete with PSP or blow PSP out of the water.
What am I trying to say? I have no clue. Maybe, players kept playing NPPL because it was the only game in town. What were the other options PanAm, the 2k2 version of WPF, ICC, NEPL, Sunshine Series, PACS, GTS, etc, etc, they're all regional.
WPF at least tried to be national - but they were never able to do as well as PSP at it. Especially last year, yech.
PSP attempted (by attempt I mean they printed it, but didn't mean it) to cap the AC event. I believe they had quoted 96 (I may be off on that #). Result, the event went uncapped. Additional fields were not set up to handle the additional teams. Before the cap the required # of fields per the rulebook were not setup.
The AC event ran pretty much on schedule. The reason for the change is PSP managed to make some changes in layout etc. to accomodate more teams, so they accomodated more teams.
Why are teams allowed to register until the last minute? Because more teams will enter, thus more profit.
Sort of. Because TEAMS WANT TO BE ABLE TO ENTER AT THE LAST MINUTE. If the promoters shouldn't set the entry deadline based on which deadline will make them the most money, how else should they set it? It's a business. What will make the most money is the *ONLY* way to make a decision. What brings in the most money is how you measure whether you're delivering a service of value to the customer. If customers, in this case, teams who want to register late, are willing to give the promoters more money for hte privilege of registering late, then *PSP IS RESPONDING TO CUSTOMER DEMAND* by allowing late registration. Forfieting profits is *NOT LISTENING TO THE CUSTOMER* (note: This is not the same as not listening to what some customers say on web boards, which PSP obviously does not and should not do some of the time.)
Most of the extra cash per player is not going towards reffing. It's going towards venue. A site like the first event and the last event cost a lot more money than a cow pasture or a 4h fairground.
I'd be willing to bed that on a per-team basis, location costs are about the same or less. When you cut the space you need by half, you cut the cost of that space by much more than half. Cost increases exponentially with size.
Conversely, if they're not putting more money towards reffing, the reffing won't be better.
I like the open book idea, and the non-profit angle, I like prize lists published far in advance of events. You notice prize lists aren't even listed after PSP events anymore.
The open-book is only a half-truth - with the separate promotions company, you won't know any more about how money is being spend than you did before, unless the promotions company is also going to be open books. All the open books thing covers is the sanctioning fees and membership dues paid to NPPL, event costs are not included.
As for prize lists, try and get the sponsors to tell you what the prizes are before the event and deliver them to you. Doesn't happen, and promoters can't afford to cut out the sponsors because if you have NO prizes then players will be REALLY pissed. It's a problem with the paintball industry at large.
As for moderation and all that - I apologize for the idiots comment, but other than that, I'm pretty sure I have made no insults (exception: SD
). I make a very concerted effort not to attack people because it doesn't do anything to advance the argument - but please also don't confuse a rigorous attack on an idea with an attack on a person.
Then again, have you ever had a moderator start a thread just to bash you?
- Chris
