You can earn an entry to Pro-Tour from the new S.E. League (which starts on the 8th May), SWPL, UK Masters and Series 2005.
PRO-TOUR Press Release
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do you think that getting as good as the top teams in Europe/US etc is done at tournaments? the Tournament is purely the place were you have to put it all together!
drills and hard hard weekly training is what makes your team able to compete with the best.....if you got the commitment this season to train alot more than you play, and train correctly! you will soon start smashing teams in your local league and give yourselves a platform to progress from if you get on the pro tour next season
That is my point!
The teams at the top of the local tourneys are usually scratch teams or teams that dont train much.
The standard is very low at the moment in comparison to the teams on the pro tour list.
Then you have teams like SoManc, who are training all weekend every weekend, but since they dont waste their time playing the local leagues they wont have a shot at the pro league.
I hope what you say happens, but I fear it wont. That was my point.
Well, since playing the local leagues can now earn them a shot at the Pro Tour, they will no longer be wasting their time by playing them.
This should raise the bar at local leagues again - which is a good thing, pushing everyone forward.
why waste our time its all politics at the end of the day
we just want to play the best but its obvious that unlike most sports being one of the best doesn't count for anything in paintball
just disappointed this sh*t still happens in uk ball
we just want to play the best but its obvious that unlike most sports being one of the best doesn't count for anything in paintball
just disappointed this sh*t still happens in uk ball
We we're just going to concentate on training for Millenniums, and play the odd home event for a run out. The pro-tour has, you could say, adjusted our thinking!
I guess this is the key point as to whether the pro-tour can raise the bar of local tournies. If enough serious teams start playing the little tourneys as a pathway to the pro-tour, the standards should start to climb in Div 1 at least.
There has been much talk of no player pool for UK pro-teams, no site support to get people moving from rental to walkon, and then walk-on to tourney. Fighting for a place in the pro-tour could add an extra development angle to the sport and start moving more teams into the European arena.
As for the spectator aspect perhaps we should be looking at getting non-ballers watching the tour.
Ian
And theres the problem, without enough players coming through to keep feeding the now increased number of teams wanting to compete at a level that require a high degree of comitment. Have we now reached saturation point for tournys with 4 regional 1 national & now 1 closed league not to mention other local events as well ??Originally posted by IanC
I guess this is the key point as to whether the pro-tour can raise the bar of local tournies. If enough serious teams start playing the little tourneys as a pathway to the pro-tour, the standards should start to climb in Div 1 at least.
There has been much talk of no player pool for UK pro-teams, no site support to get people moving from rental to walkon, and then walk-on to tourney. Fighting for a place in the pro-tour could add an extra development angle to the sport and start moving more teams into the European arena.
Ian
Thats not even accounting for MS & other int events. I've worked out that your now talking £500+ a month just to play 1 league, the MS and have a trg day each month. Hope the wife never see's this. God, any old woods'ballers reading this you could have bought a 4 bed semi in leeds for what PB's cost you
I think you need to take you head out of the sand and look at some of the local tourneys and see for yourself and there is no way i would call the 3 top teams in the NSPL sratch teams
London HPG Factory Team
Basingstoke Tsunami
Cool As Ice
and most of them would train 2 or 3 time each month.