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Something in the works between Smart Parts and Empire?

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Originally posted by BigbOYALA2
Given Sergei's lack of comment on clothing, I think it's also safe to assume that RL will be sticking with Empire for gear and paint. And from what I've read and heard, Sergei was asking a whole lot of money, which would probably be easier on the company's wallets if split between two sponsors.
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Sergey's strategy was simple, he realised that if he broke up his sponsor portfolio into three distinct areas, he could then optimise income.
He identified, paint, marker and clothing as those features of his portoflio that he was open to offers for.
On that basis, different companies made their offers and Sergey merely elected to take up those who bid the most in each area.

That's the reason he went where he did, nothing more!

SP were succesful in their bid with their markers and PMI were succesful with their paint and clothing bids.
 
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Originally posted by Robbo
Sergey's strategy was simple, he realised that if he broke up his sponsor portfolio into three distinct areas, he could then optimise income.
He identified, paint, marker and clothing as those features of his portoflio that he was open to offers for.
On that basis, different companies made their offers and Sergey merely elected to take up those who bid the most in each area.

That's the reason he went where he did, nothing more!

SP were succesful in their bid with their markers and PMI were succesful with their paint and clothing bids.
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Yeah, that was what I was getting at. So they are wearing Evil gear? I assumed that was just a rumor going around on PBN. Was part of their sponsorship package perhaps a spot in the NPPL Pro League?
 
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Re: Re: Something in the works between Smart Parts and Empire?

Originally posted by BigbOYALA2
Yeah, that was what I was getting at. So they are wearing Evil gear? I assumed that was just a rumor going around on PBN. Was part of their sponsorship package perhaps a spot in the NPPL Pro League?
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They will be wearing PMI Evil Gear 'yes' and it isn't a rumour, I was involved in negotiations between the two parties being present when the deal was finally signed a few weeks back.

As for any NPPL spot, the Russian Legion will not be allowing any player who plays the NXL to play in the NPPL 7 man.
Sergey resolutely believes this situation injures both performance levels in XBall and 7- man.

The only way the Russian Legion will play 7 - man anywhere is because Sergey has decided to create a 7 man squad independent of the XBall squad but it will still run under the Russian Legion banner.
As far as I know, he hasn't yet made that decision.
 
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Re: Re: Something in the works between Smart Parts and Empire?

Originally posted by BigbOYALA2
Jim works for a company called Eaton Machining, to the best of my knowledge they were not the company that made the Ripper Cocker, Angel, or Impulse.
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Jim and Eaton machining ARE the people behind the Ripper Cocker, Ripper Angel and Ripper Shocker (as well as most of the Intimidator guns). I don't know of any Ripper Impulse?

This gun body is NOT happening under Empire at the moment, or for the forseeable future.

We work with Eaton machining on many projects and this was a concept they made to show us, and the image got put onto the website (which shouldn't have happened), but we declined to do it at this time.

There are no current plans for SP and Empire to work together, although we do sponsor some of the same teams. such as the Naughty Dogs etc.
 
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