Paintball and Joe Public

[kidzero]

i wonder why, in england, they have no TV-commercials from planet or something. in germany we have it like this: if you tell people about PB, they love or hate it. if they love it, they want to play, but dont know where, and dont know where to get stuff. over here, some commercials on tv would bring a booooooom, i think...

 

[ChiZZerS]

craigpil.

Originally posted by jokersmoker
i know mate. the last statement was for the benefit of sephiroth. here we are talking about trying to make paintball more inviting for new people to try, and our own players are slagging half the sport off!

its not the style of play that i think is the problem...
i think its the people who it attracts. it attractss comando people
and to be 100%.. paintball needs to moove on from comando.

paintball sites should all be sup air (the world would be a much better paintball place)

 

[ChiZZerS]

oh and another thing..
i know forest is what all the newbs play but they should all play
sup'air so start...

my school were going paintball b4 the end of the xmas jollydays
but all the gals were wingin about it so we ar going bowling instead! (god help our school)

 

[16fSaint]

Just a thought

Set up a charity tournament event x ball style and get the cast of TV soaps (or any celebrities) to play against each other. The winning team can then donate their winnings to a charity of their choice. This will definitely make it on to TV. Viewers will become more aware of the sport and it may even gain interest from potential non paintball related sponsors. It’s been done with other sports like football (MTV presenters against music artists, I think this was for a children’s charity) and boxing (can’t remember what celebrities or for what charity but it was hilarious). At the end of the celebrity tournament you can introduce teams like Nexus and other pro teams to the event and have a phone/text voting system for viewers to try and predict who will win and get the teams to go up against each other. The money from the calls and texts can then be donated to charities and teams like Nexus can show the viewers how the game is played properly thus (hopefully) increasing the publics interest.

So bring it on: THE BILL vs CASUALTY

Like I say it’s just a thought.

 

[ThunderCat]

Originally posted by Barsteward
Has anyone ever tried to get permission to fence off a section within a town (town squares/public parks etc) and have a tourny with possible walk ons?

Hey, have you been reading my secret emails??

We are looking into something like this hopefully for next year, details will be released when there is something solid in place...

 

[JoseDominguez]

tried to set that up last year.......... went great for three weeks (even had an offer of an exhibition game at campaign) then it all went quiet........ love to help if you're going for it next season.