PGI Reporting of European Tournements

[Jsy_warrior]

I have to say that the recent reporting of PGI tournemants has seriously gone down hill!!!!!!!

Let me start with the Birmingham Indoor.... Yes this looked good, however, it had no content and was written by some one who was not there!!!!!!!!! Is this right (sorry Nick and crew, but you were in the States at the time)

Then you had lots of smaller and indeed larger amateur tournements, which I have not seen posts for, including the Zap Amateur Open in Portugal and the Norweigan Tournement organsied by Sniper Paintball.

And finally we have the Diablo Amateur Open in Belgium, yes we were there, however, what was reported was pitiful and I am sure that the reporter wrote more than was published. There was some excellent paintball played and it was a great event. But the report does not seem to show this and that may put off other people entering the event next year, with only two UK teams being there the organisers must need all the assistance and promotion they can get for the next one in 2002. You should be helping the european tournements by promoting the events, please we all want to know what is happening in our neighbourhood.

So for 2002 please promote more european tournements PGI, do not let your standands drop into the realms of your weaker US competitors.

Thanx

Asa
Jersey Warriors

 

[rancid]

I think tourneys should be dropped from the magazine full stop. Who gives a ****. I bet you less than 10% of all pgi's readership play tourneys, less than 0.0001% are interested in the back of beyond 5-man.

Anyway, where the f do you get off telling people what they should be doing? You know what, if I wanted a magazine to do things, I'd say 'please' and 'perhaps you might consider' and 'would it be possible if you could...' .

As for tourneys - ditch em.

 

[LATHAM]

Ditch Tourneys

You Knob!

 

[Walker (Nitro)]

Ditch toutneys!

ya dick.....

 

[Kieran - Thunder]

Agreed, the guy's definitely a cock

 

[Equus]

Nah, a cock's usefull

I agree utterly with any other insults he gets tho.

 

[rancid]

C'mon you f in nobodies let's have it.

 

[TJ Lambini]

Whoooooah there comprades - bad karma zone or what?

Now Rancid, play nice - everyone knows that Robo is the only person allowed to call people nobodies.

The rest of you - postings like 'cock' ain't exactly fighting your corner in a witty and erudite manner now is it?

And as for Mr Jersey Warrior, for what it's worth, I think PGI has spoiled you Brits for soooooo long that you expect waaaaaaaay too much.

I bin reading PGI for bout 6 years now, and I know all about all sorts of little bitty Brit teams through PGI. You guys get waaaaaay more coverage than me and my brothers over here. Maybe less so now that PGI is like totally international, but you still do well.

Remember, for the most part tournies are only of interest to guys who actually played em. Bigger events have wider appeal, but, you know, a 35-team 5-Man at elsham or wherever is pretty much only read by the teams that player there and their buds. nd Rancid's right - the majority of players DON'T play tourney - deal with it.

PGI, like a good mountain bike magazine or whatever, concentrates its efforts on trying to make players better by running tech and tactic articles, keeping em up to date with hardware, gossip and the like.

Seriously dudes, you are more spoilt than anyone else in any other sport and u don't even know it, so chill out.

And Mr Warrior - if u play a good event, why not take some pics and send a report into Tha Antman...in my experience, the people who bitch and whine the most are the same people who do nothing to help themselves...now this might apply to you and it might not, I'm just saying that if you put the effort in you may reap the benefits.

Peace

 

[Mr Big]

Well...

I don't agree with Rancid on the point of getting rid of marker reviews, but he's certainly on the ball as far as the ratio of tourney to rec players we have reading the mag is concerned. And the ratio of US to Euro readers is also heavily weighted to the US.

Tourney guys get more than their fair share of editorial anyway, considering how few of them there are. And besides, why do you play a tourney? If it's only so you can get your ego stroked in a magazine then you're playing paintball for the wrong reasons.

PGI has just been authorised in the USA's two biggest mainstream sports stores, which is a HUGE plus for PGI and paintball in general. Do you think people who walk into The Sports Authority and see PGI are gonna want to read much about minor foreign events? No, they want to find out about products, who are the star players to look out for, action shots, possibly the very biggest tournaments, how to become a good player, latest interesting news, the occasional big/scenario game, and plenty of humour.

This is what PGI offers, and this is what appeals to the largest majority of paintballers/potential paintballers.

PGI is doing a lot for the sport by trying to encourage new players into the sport by making it more accessible for them. The fact that most of these people are in America is neither here nor there. PGI is a business, not a charity. The PGI team makes decisions based on what will sell more mags and help the industry grow, not what will stop a couple of people moaning in Jersey.

Hope this clears it up and explains why PGI does what it does.

 

[TJ Lambini]

Yeh, what he said.

Jersey...that's like, in France, right?

Peace