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Julie - Viper

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Vipers were already booked into division 2, they were put down incorrectly in division 3, it was only when we saw our name mentioned we found out and got it sorted, cheers for sorting for us Andy.

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yatesy

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Originally posted by Red_Merkin


1. Until you reach your primary you may only shoot your gun while holiding it one handed...
2. You may only play right handed, you must lean over and stick your loader out like a twat if you want to shoot lefty...
3. You may only use a Revvy, no eggs or Halos...
4. You may carry any quantity of paint you want but it must be in 100 shot pots...
5. Kneepads must be worn on the out side of your trousers...
6. If you wear a playing top, it must be atleast one season out of date....
7. At least one member of your team must have an autococker, spyder or single finger automag...
8 .Everyone must have nicknames on their playing tops instead of their real names...
9. All your back players must be too big to play those small cubes they put in the back corners...
10 . If you shout 'don't you know who i am' when the ref tries to pull your arm band, and you happen to be a washed up has been pro from the last decade, you get one free life...


thats a perfect description of rob yates :D
 

Troggy

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Originally posted by Buddha 3
That makes a lot more sense.
:rolleyes:

This is the second time I have seen this rule come in to play this season...so can someone explain how allowing a player to drop down a division to play for a lesser team at one event and then locking that better player in a lower division helps the sandbaggin situation?

If you want to lock players why the hell dont you just lock them in thier original divisions???

So now we have a situation where a team, by its own merits wants to play in Div2 where they rightly should be, but because the millennium has locked one player the whole team is forced to sangbag....

Once again - Div3 for Monkeylove all the way next year! :rolleyes:
 

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Originally posted by Troggy
but because the millennium has locked one player the whole team is forced to sangbag....
If you are speaking in regards to Red Heat, the team is not forced to play division 3 - just Lee is.

It was a decision by the team to support Lee and play as Division 3 (even though they would have prefered to play division 2)

If the team played without Lee they could play division 2.

Regards,


Joey
 

Buddha 3

Hamfist McPunchalot
Originally posted by Troggy
:rolleyes:

This is the second time I have seen this rule come in to play this season...so can someone explain how allowing a player to drop down a division to play for a lesser team at one event and then locking that better player in a lower division helps the sandbaggin situation?

If you want to lock players why the hell dont you just lock them in thier original divisions???

So now we have a situation where a team, by its own merits wants to play in Div2 where they rightly should be, but because the millennium has locked one player the whole team is forced to sangbag....

Once again - Div3 for Monkeylove all the way next year! :rolleyes:
The rule is not perfect, far from it, but it does discourage players who happen to be available for one event, to guest for a lower div team, as they won't be allowed to play for their own team in the following events. So that's good. However, it does open up a can of worms for the last event of the season, because people could play whatever division they wish without any repercussions. Seems like locking people in their division would solve this, but I don't think that's the way forward either. Let's say a guy gets cut from a pro team, because it turns out that he's just not good enough anymore (could be the results of an injury or whatever). This guy would for the rest of the season be stuck in a division in which A) he can't hack it, and B) no team will have him...
 

Troggy

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Originally posted by Buddha 3
Seems like locking people in their division would solve this, but I don't think that's the way forward either. Let's say a guy gets cut from a pro team, because it turns out that he's just not good enough anymore (could be the results of an injury or whatever). This guy would for the rest of the season be stuck in a division in which A) he can't hack it, and B) no team will have him...
Ok point taken - but surely situations like that would be a better platform for a tranfer request system, or just a letter of application to the millennium board for an exception due to unforeseen circumstances. It is a grey area I know but if there is to be any form of proffesionalism going forward then I think a complete player lock is the only way - but thats probably another 3000 thread topics over the last couple of years :)

Joey - although yes I was referring to Red Heat as an example - perhaps my choice of words was not perfect. What I meant by forced to play Div3, I didnt mean the Millennium directly forced so much as the team were forced to make that decision as a direct result of a Millennium rule which, in my mind doesn't do the job it was inteded to do...I hope you get my point :)