NXL & TV--old news or something new?
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They just lost their case against WDP, they got to cut corners somewhere....
Seven minutes is a bit long for a commercial though. Wonder what that would set them back when aired during the Superbowl.
This came from Warpig...new news about the NXL and TV:
More news for the NXL players and franchise owners came off the field as it was announced by Dick Clark Productions that a TV deal for the league had been agreed upon. This announcement came approximately one year after Dick Clark Productions announced at the Philladelphia Open that they had agreed to represent the National X-Ball League in an effort to get an NXL television show into production and on air. As contracts were still in the process of being completed, DCP was limited in what they were able to say, but league commissioner Mike Ratko confirmed that the deal is in place to have the NXL on the air before the end of 2004, and not just on cable, but on one of the “big 5” broadcast networks.
More news for the NXL players and franchise owners came off the field as it was announced by Dick Clark Productions that a TV deal for the league had been agreed upon. This announcement came approximately one year after Dick Clark Productions announced at the Philladelphia Open that they had agreed to represent the National X-Ball League in an effort to get an NXL television show into production and on air. As contracts were still in the process of being completed, DCP was limited in what they were able to say, but league commissioner Mike Ratko confirmed that the deal is in place to have the NXL on the air before the end of 2004, and not just on cable, but on one of the “big 5” broadcast networks.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_244969.html
Interesting article published after the PSP NE Open. Was anyone aware that paintball was presented in Greece for a vote?
Interesting article published after the PSP NE Open. Was anyone aware that paintball was presented in Greece for a vote?
That's actually very interesting news, Jester. I think many posters here--with a heavy Euro contingent--are likely, after the amount of time that's past without any seeming progress to wait and see.
I don't doubt most players would love to see this happen, both the NXL to succeed and certainly PB to go Olympic.
Time to start looking into that IOC vote.
I don't doubt most players would love to see this happen, both the NXL to succeed and certainly PB to go Olympic.
Time to start looking into that IOC vote.
Sorry for the long msg!
This whole thing of paintball not being exhibition sport in the Olympics for just one vote has always looked to me as a big urban legend.
Facts:
1.- It has been published in just one magazine (as far as I know). It has ever since started a life of its own in online forums...
2.- Read the Olympic Chapter... (http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_122.pdf)
Same article, below:
3.- There are no exhibition sports since Barcelona'92 (http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/innovations_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY= 1996
4.- Reading furhter the Chapter there seems to be more stuff that would be preventing paintball to make it to the Olympics, like the non-existance of a recognized international standing for the sport (one made under the auspicion -sp?- of the IF and thus with antidoping control etc).
So... from my pov, this whole paintball-just-one-vote-olympic stuff is bull****. Even when I'd love being proved wrong
This whole thing of paintball not being exhibition sport in the Olympics for just one vote has always looked to me as a big urban legend.
Facts:
1.- It has been published in just one magazine (as far as I know). It has ever since started a life of its own in online forums...
2.- Read the Olympic Chapter... (http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_122.pdf)
It's quite clear that paintball does not quite comply to articles 1.1.1, 1.1.2 or 1.1.3. Not even close.
Same article, below:
Where 'IF' stands for International Federation. Paintball is got none, and it has to be recognized by the OIC beforehand. IFs are ruled by chapter 3, article 30:
So, if this supposedly votation happened, there should be some organization that asked the IOC to make it (1.4). Which one is it? Article 29 also states that a IF must adhere to antidoping rules (as commented in some other thread) that rules out the main leagues.
3.- There are no exhibition sports since Barcelona'92 (http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/innovations_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY= 1996
4.- Reading furhter the Chapter there seems to be more stuff that would be preventing paintball to make it to the Olympics, like the non-existance of a recognized international standing for the sport (one made under the auspicion -sp?- of the IF and thus with antidoping control etc).
So... from my pov, this whole paintball-just-one-vote-olympic stuff is bull****. Even when I'd love being proved wrong
Perhaps we should ask the reporter that wrote the story? Her email address was provided at the end of the article.
She will tell us that Nobers said so. And I bet this Nobers read it in some famous magazine some months ago.
Modest follow up as I've just finished looking at (probably) the same stuff jj-Z did.
It is sort'a clear that recognition of an IF is a prerequisite to official IOC recognition. It is conceivable--though perhaps unlikely--that this was the issue on the table; recognition of the NXL as a suitable IF. There was an IOC meeting just prior to the Athens games but no reporting yet on the official website regarding what the topics discussed were.
It is sort'a clear that recognition of an IF is a prerequisite to official IOC recognition. It is conceivable--though perhaps unlikely--that this was the issue on the table; recognition of the NXL as a suitable IF. There was an IOC meeting just prior to the Athens games but no reporting yet on the official website regarding what the topics discussed were.
To be in Athens Olympiads the sport would need to have been approved 7 years before, so the meeting should have taken place just after Atlanta. If there was some paintball stuff discussed in that meeting would be for the 2012 Olympics (hopefully Madrid )
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