Hi Kris,
Thanks for your support in this. I couldn't actually remember which team it was
and it was never my intention to have a dig at Shockwave or anyone else, so if it came across like that then please accept my sincere apologies.
MarkH, no nothing to do with KATZ or Shockwave 3, so don't sweat it
but thanks for the input. I wondered what happened to KATZ, I always thought that was a pretty cool name
Kris, the only reason I actually mentioned that game at all was to try and keep a little perspective in my reply to another post where a certain individual chose to single out the Chicks as if they were the only "E div" team to have ever borrowed a player from another division, or specifically in this case a Div A player (shock, horror gasp!) The Chicks certainly never complained about going up against a couple of higher Div players, and to be entirely honest they kinda enjoyed it because on reflection it was a harder game and they learned more as a result.
Like RDX when you started, and a great many other teams, without the extra guest player it would have been tough for them to go out a player down, especially as their field captain had to leave after the first two games. Plus they learned a lot having some higher division players along side them.
In actual fact the Chicks had 4 different players guesting for them throughout that day, one of which had only been playing for 6 months and one of which used to play for the Hellfish until recently, a division C/D team (another point conveniently ignored by the poster in question), and never more than one guest in any one game.
I really do not have a problem with players guesting for teams in the 2K series. I think it makes it interesting, fun and spreads the experience around. Which is valuable, certainly for the younger and less experienced players.
I think it's a huge credit to RDX that you have now made Div B on your own merits and in a relatively short time too which I think is really cool. Interesting don't you think that people complain when you guest for other teams now
What I really like to see is when lower division players get asked to guest for higher Div teams. Now that's gotta be an ego boost
I don't often feel a need to explain myself, but in this case I'll try as I have a nagging feeling that I may have caused offence to some other players so here goes...
Usually I don't bite at this kind of crap but in this case I did. The individual in question, well two of them from the same team it now appears, took it upon themselves to use my original thread as an opportunity to try and get at me and 6E by attempting to belittle the efforts of the girls team. So yes I bit. If they wanna have a pop at me then fine, but I felt it was a really cheap shot at the girls who played their rocks off that day and because of one game, where one guest player had an exceptional game for them they decided to try and pull apart all the hard work and effort that the Chicks had put in.
Hopefully this will be my last word on the subject. I was trying to let this thread die quietly to avoid any more upset, but from the telephone calls and e-mails I've had about it from all over the country, there's a lot of people really pi$$ed of at the comments made by these two. I think they've actually done themselves more harm than good. Maybe that'll teach them to think before posting crap but there you go...what goes around comes around. And God only knows what they'll say when Mr. Ward-Barber is playing for the Chicks at STB in August
(It shows how observant the poster was too as he claimed the guest on the Hyperball field shot "6 of 7" of the other team which takes some doing in a 6 man tournament, and as at least two of the girls claim eliminations too, does that mean there were in fact 8 players on the other team?
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By the way Kris, the Chicks are probably going to be short handed at Kiddermister this weekend, you wanna guest for a game ?
