While on our way back from toulouse myself and a team mate had a conversation about roster locking.
The pro's being of course that it forces a team to either have a sandbagger all season or stick to the same team throughout creating effectivly the same skilled team all season.
However....is locking divisons AND rosters at the same time killing paintball?
I dont know the exact numbers but here is an example.
Say there are 9 British Teams in Div 1. You can only roster on 10 players is it? (correct figures as u go but you will get the drift)
thats 90 players from the UK that can play in Div 1.
What if there were 100 players who were Div 1 standard? Those other 10 cant get into millenium unless they play div 2. But lets be honest. If you are good enough why would you want to waste your time on it?
Those 10 players cant form a team because of the division lock. thats 10% of our talent sitting there just doing nothing. how is that any good for paintball? imagine that in all the countries
Second example
You pick your division you pick your squad. you make it through halfway through the season and BAM. suddenly your team members start dropping like flys. Maybe its personal reasons. maybe its team arguements. Either way you now struggle to get your team together. Everything is locked. Nothing you can do. We almost had to drop out due to this. Surely eventually a team will drop out because of this. I mean the hurricanes were a no show. Maybe its because of this? And to top it all you get fined if your team cant show.
I know this all seems like rambling maybe it is but i really feel that maybe Millenium need to start addressing thses problems? The IPPU was the key thing for this and im really dissapointed it failed. I mean they couldve been an independant judication for team circumstances and pass/deny team roster changes.
Also, i dont see why they cant have an open div? like they had in nxl...or psp....which ever. maybe then we'd see more teams flying in to do the events? and maybe more scratch teams from home turf. i mean why would an spl/div 1 level team wanna play m5?
The pro's being of course that it forces a team to either have a sandbagger all season or stick to the same team throughout creating effectivly the same skilled team all season.
However....is locking divisons AND rosters at the same time killing paintball?
I dont know the exact numbers but here is an example.
Say there are 9 British Teams in Div 1. You can only roster on 10 players is it? (correct figures as u go but you will get the drift)
thats 90 players from the UK that can play in Div 1.
What if there were 100 players who were Div 1 standard? Those other 10 cant get into millenium unless they play div 2. But lets be honest. If you are good enough why would you want to waste your time on it?
Those 10 players cant form a team because of the division lock. thats 10% of our talent sitting there just doing nothing. how is that any good for paintball? imagine that in all the countries
Second example
You pick your division you pick your squad. you make it through halfway through the season and BAM. suddenly your team members start dropping like flys. Maybe its personal reasons. maybe its team arguements. Either way you now struggle to get your team together. Everything is locked. Nothing you can do. We almost had to drop out due to this. Surely eventually a team will drop out because of this. I mean the hurricanes were a no show. Maybe its because of this? And to top it all you get fined if your team cant show.
I know this all seems like rambling maybe it is but i really feel that maybe Millenium need to start addressing thses problems? The IPPU was the key thing for this and im really dissapointed it failed. I mean they couldve been an independant judication for team circumstances and pass/deny team roster changes.
Also, i dont see why they cant have an open div? like they had in nxl...or psp....which ever. maybe then we'd see more teams flying in to do the events? and maybe more scratch teams from home turf. i mean why would an spl/div 1 level team wanna play m5?
