NXL (National X-Ball League)

[Spikerz]

I think by only having 3 events (since effectively the first window for an event has passed), it's setting them up for a good turn out. Also pretty happy to see World Cup is still on the docket, how lame would it be to not have a world cup in FL?!

I like the minimum 1 minute between resets...wish Mills would do that. There were plenty of times the pod guys would run out before us, I'd get half way to the gate and hear 20 seconds. If you aren't 100% ready to roll, you're screwed.
We had to learn to use our Time outs effectively.

It's a good direction that the NXL is going, and backed by a lot of industry people with a ton of combined industry knowledge and time in the game. I think it'll do well.

I'm betting they still use Matty for the commentary as well, everyone wants him to be the commentator so I don't see that changing.

 

[onasilverbike]

The NXL webcast will be run by the same people as bring you the MS webcast, if you hadn't already figured that out, not Maurice & Shelley, or the Germans in the bunker below, but by the paintballwebcast.com parent organisation! If they can hire Matty, all the better!

 

[Spikerz]

Well...since it's hosted off xball.com I thought they'd be the same

I didn't see the Germans. I know Max was up there for a few games.

 

[onasilverbike]

I'm guessing we'll see a transatlantic Pony!

 

[Tony Harrison]

The interesting thing about the NXL website is that it mentions only two partners - GI & Valken. Tells you something about who are the really big players.

 

[Spikerz]

Makes you wonder if this is what GI got the extra investor money for. Bringing Gino in...while we can all have opinions about the things Gino has done...Gino brings cash money, and the fact that he's got a lot of contacts in the industry also helps.

 

[Liam92]

@frobinson that's true actually that it doesn't eliminate the problem of people wanting to throw the towel and not being able to, but at least it only becomes an issue when they are 6 points down unlike the current race format which could mean they can't throw the towel even if it's only a 1 point spread but the opponent is only 1 point away from victory. Best of 2 evils I guess?
@Spikerz bearing in mind that the whole reason this concept works is that the time it takes to play out the other point should be enough to get ready and be standing waiting ready to play your next point. The 30 seconds is to allow players to walk from the netting to the start gate which is plenty of time, dragging that out only slows the day down so I'd support anything that will keep the overall operating cost down.

 

[Spikerz]

Ahh it should be, but there were tons of points in Puget where the other team was nuked in 30 seconds, came off, and the next 30 seconds was already ticking down. We rarely got the 2 minutes that we should have gotten between points. If that were the case yea it would be plenty.

 

[frobinson]

Yeah @Liam92, precisely my point. But I do agree, it's made the issue much less poignant now so hopefully it'll be a good compromise!

 

[Marc0]

Most points will last at least a minute so you still get two minutes between points.
30 seconds after your point has finished until the other match starts, at least a minute of game play, another 30 seconds until your point starts.