Below is a personal account I received from someone who's at the event:-
I went to play UWL yesterday - there was free entry for a team in the Pro Division because Disruption had dropped out, odd on the face of it as they were 2nd place overall going into the event and have played every UWL event since the league began but not so odd when you remember they are sponsored by Valken.
Attendance?
If an event sponsor hadn't put 3 teams into the Pro Division , there would have only been 4 teams in the Pro Division.
Once the UWL had finished at around 5pm, the "trade area" was tumbleweed city with about 20 people milling about.
As has already been covered, I saw no more than a handful of "big game" players during the day.
In Bully's day, the place was heaving.
This is another account from a trusted source:-
The numbers today weren't as much as 200 but looked as though there were more than 150.
The trade area was dead this afternoon and so traders started to pack up.
A lot of players may have been actually out playing but a fair number had also started to pack up and go home.
Even the videos he posted on Facebook didn't show a lot of people and a few said they had a good night but added the game today wasn't that good due to a lack of players.
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I have zero reason to doubt one word of either account that was sent to me but it's always useful to know the truth of what happened before barnett's BS machine fires up and begins spouting the cr@p he normally comes out with when he's embarrassingly short of expected numbers ....
Someone from our industry noted that hardly any money could have been made on the game fees but barnett probably made some on paint sales which doesn't bode well for the short or mid-term futures because he had to make a significant net profit to help finance further events - he's in financial trouble that's for sure but maybe he'll go knocking on sables' door again for another hand-out.
One of the few questions now remaining is - just how imaginative is barnett gonna get when he inevitably tries to pretend the event was a roaring success, it wasn't actually, it was down across the board.
If this event is to survive, I think a lot of people would like Steve Bull to take control of it but whether he'd be tempted back in is another thing ..... if he did, it would ensure the event's survival and success.
Without him, it pretty much dies on the vine with the way things have been going of late ...
I went to play UWL yesterday - there was free entry for a team in the Pro Division because Disruption had dropped out, odd on the face of it as they were 2nd place overall going into the event and have played every UWL event since the league began but not so odd when you remember they are sponsored by Valken.
Attendance?
If an event sponsor hadn't put 3 teams into the Pro Division , there would have only been 4 teams in the Pro Division.
Once the UWL had finished at around 5pm, the "trade area" was tumbleweed city with about 20 people milling about.
As has already been covered, I saw no more than a handful of "big game" players during the day.
In Bully's day, the place was heaving.
================================================This is another account from a trusted source:-
The numbers today weren't as much as 200 but looked as though there were more than 150.
The trade area was dead this afternoon and so traders started to pack up.
A lot of players may have been actually out playing but a fair number had also started to pack up and go home.
Even the videos he posted on Facebook didn't show a lot of people and a few said they had a good night but added the game today wasn't that good due to a lack of players.
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Someone from our industry noted that hardly any money could have been made on the game fees but barnett probably made some on paint sales which doesn't bode well for the short or mid-term futures because he had to make a significant net profit to help finance further events - he's in financial trouble that's for sure but maybe he'll go knocking on sables' door again for another hand-out.
One of the few questions now remaining is - just how imaginative is barnett gonna get when he inevitably tries to pretend the event was a roaring success, it wasn't actually, it was down across the board.
If this event is to survive, I think a lot of people would like Steve Bull to take control of it but whether he'd be tempted back in is another thing ..... if he did, it would ensure the event's survival and success.
Without him, it pretty much dies on the vine with the way things have been going of late ...
