Shockwave and Madrid

[jeff]

Keep the spectators away from the edge of the field.
It will reduce the bs and allow peole to actually watch the game with out 50 people standing on the side lines.

If you want to watch the CPL then you have to be in a seat to do it in my opinion.

The crowd has to be controlled just like any other sporting event. If you keep them in their seats and have a reasonable distance to the touch line then I think it would negate any real effect from the spectators.

If you then want to allow ONE coach from each team playing to the touch line then cool but we have to be professional in the way we handle the crowds.

Only this way will everyone get maximum enjoyment from watching and playing.

Jeff

 

[Nick Brockdorff]

I completely agree with that.... eliminate the possibility of standing in front of the grand stand (which is discourteous to the spectators sitting there anyway), and the problem is solved.

Nick

 

[rpcruzr]

Keep the spectators away from the edge of the field.
It will reduce the bs and allow peole to actually watch the game with out 50 people standing on the side lines.

If you want to watch the CPL then you have to be in a seat to do it in my opinion.

The crowd has to be controlled just like any other sporting event. If you keep them in their seats and have a reasonable distance to the touch line then I think it would negate any real effect from the spectators.

If you then want to allow ONE coach from each team playing to the touch line then cool but we have to be professional in the way we handle the crowds.

Only this way will everyone get maximum enjoyment from watching and playing.

Jeff

Finally, some sense... clearly this is the way to go!

How can you prevent abuse if allow potencial abusers to be in the same spot as the coach (and I agree with MissyQ, choaches? What for? Doesn't coaching take away a great deal of the fun of playing?).

I'm portuguese, and I am damn proud of it, and I stress that I don't like this kind of behaviour from anyone, but I think that this thread may be getting a little too focused in a non-issue, i.e. the bad behaviour of SOME people that you THINK may be associated with Portuguese teams (a really good way to tell if they're portuguese is that they are midgets and can wolf whistle really well), and we're sidetracking from the real issue, which is: coaching and spectators in the same space is not going to work. Ever!

You're too old to play, and wanna keep involved in the sport? Voluteer for marshalling.

 

[sponge10]

why cant we just have a coaching area inside the field the just like we had in the EXL!!!problem solved

 

[Ralph]

I seriously hope Paintball is not heading in the direction of English football hooliganism!!!

Paintball will never be as well organised as your average group of english hooligans.

 

[Ralph]

Paintball coach's need to get smart.
Stop using verbal commands and use something like what they do in Baseball when the coach wants to get a message to the players. Then the crowd can shout and scream as much as they like and it wont make a blind bit of difference to the players.

 

[Nick Brockdorff]

FFS - M7 does not have sideline coaching from the spectator side..... so there is no need to make provisions for it!!!

If the MS or the CPL teams want sideline coaching from that side of the field, you should change the format (or lobby to have it done as it were)..... not come on here and cry about how some spectator harassed another spectator, who was incidentally really a coach

I mean, if the MS WANTED coaching in the format from the spectator side of the field, don't you think there would coaching boxes inside like in the EXL??

Nick

 

[Baca Loco]

Ralph--there is only one circumstance I can think of where non verbal coaching is both timely and effective. Even so, it wasn't a bad idea. And, no, I'm not going to spell out when non verbal coaching works because I'd like to remain the only one I know using it.

Back on Topic--Nick and Jeff are both right. Formalize the coaching on the spectator wire if in fact it is desired and put a little more effort into and thought into regulating the spectators.

 

[MissyQ]

I say remove the coaching role and let yesterdays no-game has-beens die off like the dinosaurs they are. We all know coaching was invented so that these antiques can still claim to be active in the game.

Let's call them 'Masters' or 'Old-timers' or 'Veterans' instead of coaches, it's not quite as cool, but then neither are they, so alls fair...

OK, let me have it...

 

[Nick Brockdorff]

I agree Missy

And then - there is always the lower divisions where you can play to have fun, when you are no longer good enough for the highest level

Nick