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Sponsorship post. Controversial?

Originally posted by duffistuta
Reading between the lines, TBFKATL is implying that Shockwave are stumped for cash and are desperately looking fior ways to get a better deal this year.

The fact that you don't play for them and were raising a hypothetical point is obviously unimportant here.:eek:
Okay I stand corrected, after all what do I know. I just put two and two together an with the use of Shockwave under the name and Shockwave Am in te signature came up with 145. I apologise for any commnets I made, but I still stand by my comment that companies stopping sponsoring lower level teams will kill the sport.
 

Baca Loco

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Give it up, Jon. the only reason Sam validated your convoluted reasoning was the hope it might bolster his flagging argument--if only briefly. Which it didn't.

Now if you simply want to say that PB companies subsidzing lower level teams with discounts is in everyone's best interest I doubt you'll get an argument.
 

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RIGHT HERE WE GO!

OK BEEN THINKING OF THIS FOR LONG TIME!

Robbo is right in one respect, but yes to gain any financial help with a team is good, but then again as he said if we took certain players from teams and tuned them together, we get a pro team of excellant standards.

But then by tune I mean they have got to work as a team, commitment, and most of all treat every member as a brother or sister lol ( just in case of the females who may want to pick me up on that one , sorry Wendy if you read this),

The team has to be tuned so a single player is not always helping to get that team a good result!

THE WHOLE TEAM IS THE GOOD PLAYER

Well here goes I think Its time someone laid the gauntlet down and see what happens, it has been discussed and the players out there know who u are............

I will say this any player that considers they can be a pro player or is one, I want them to write to me and say their bit and explain who they are where they want to go and what they have been doing. (A portfolio)

I invite any company or any help with sponsorships or discounts on goods if possible to contact me with offers.

I would like any feedback from Robbo as to his experiance and to ask politely if I can train this team with NEXUS.

I dont want something for nothing, what I want is to now say, Everybody stop bitchin and lets do something about it, the game is up to all of us but where we take it seems to be in limbo.

So get writing, please note don't waste my time as its important to me and let me just say to run a team is so bloody difficult, I wont be taking any prisoners.

If you are not committed then I dont want to know, this team if it comes to happen will be Pro only, no AM (a) or (b) and we will train and yes I will be investing money in it plus time money and sweat and tears.

Who knows at the start it may not be that different than what you are already paying if not cheaper but show results and believe me results make prizes and thats all we all want.

Now the gauntlet is down , the training area for this will be discussed and for now I await answers

E MAIL marcusmaddison@hotmail.com
 
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duffistuta

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Wow - what just happened here?

/I invite any company or any help with sponsorships or discounts on goods if possible to contact me with offers./

Wow, now you're smoking Sam's drugs...:D
 

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Just read Robbos original post...........says it all.
Lower teams aren't really sponsored.... it's more of a "loyalty" reward for sticking by a supplier. I set up a new team last year, got an excellent deal for equipment from JUST. Saved a fortune, not formal sponsorship just a hefty discount on a bulk order. As for cheaper paint? yeah, stop it for all but the best teams.
See how far we get with only 10 teams playing in the world.
Without sponsorship (cheap paint) how the hell do you persuade a punter to take up paintball as a sport?
Also, the US/UK divide.......... most US ballers pay the same for equipment retail, than we do after sponsorship. Just another perk of living in the UK :rolleyes:
 

Hotpoint

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Originally posted by Baca Loco
Give it up, Jon. the only reason Sam validated your convoluted reasoning was the hope it might bolster his flagging argument--if only briefly. Which it didn't.
What was convoluted about it? Seemed pretty straightforward to me it's just that other people got caught up in the terminology and therefore missed the message... which I disagreed with anyway

Originally posted by Baca Loco
Now if you simply want to say that PB companies subsidzing lower level teams with discounts is in everyone's best interest I doubt you'll get an argument.
But if there's no argument then what's the point? Heated debate is the core of an entertaining thread ;)

... and since when did you start advocating harmony? :D