I'm all up for having that as a goal but to start out immediately going after tournies might be a killer to a new team. I'd like to be competing eventually but for now I'd rather be doing woodsball and Scenarios, so we can "slut it about" as it were and see how it all works (and give us a chance to practice and get used to each others quirks).
Paintball Park in Kiddy is my closest too and would be an ideal place to test our kit since they don't mind whether it's a walk-on day or not, so long as our markers are firing within regs and use HPA, as that's all they use(I've sourced them about this already as a show of how serious I am). Speaking of kit, how much do you have if any? In 2 weeks I'll have the beginnings of mine (Marker, mask, hopper, HPA maybe a fold away grip too) like I said before.
I'm going to be going down to 'PBP' periodically over the coming months (but definitely on the last weekend of October) if you want to sort out meets (bring your mates, I'll bring mine) and we'll get to know one another, lob some paint around, as well as wishes/plans/ideas for the team. I think I should be able to get to Cosford too if needs be, not been to Warped yet.
Any other of the Midlands based forumers that want to get in on this, I would say are more than welcome. Even if it's just to get familiar with local players and put some faces to these screen names!