The Millennium Series - what a joke!

[NickBrockdorff]

Here you can see the new bunkers for 2012, that every serious field owner has been forced to invest in:

http://www.paintballnews.fr/component/k2/item/5700-exclu-les-nouveaux-obstacles-snake-millennium--psp-2012.html

So, more or less exactly like putting a cake gainst a 2011 snake..... calling it "revolutionary" and milking us all for cash once again, while ensuring no smaller field will EVER invest in MS or PSP fields, because they keep adding stupid **** to them like this.

These guys are f***ing CORRUPT!

Unfortunately we can only blame ourselves, for STILL not having a team organisation to represent ourselves, so we keep taking it up the rear, year after year.

Nick

 

[NickBrockdorff]

The picture was taken down, but here it is:

 

[Talfryn]

They look pretty good tbh, means that you won't be able to snap out the side of something like a cake to shoot cross field but will have to come over the top making it a lot harder and you a lot more likely to get shot

 

[Lump]

Welcome back Nick

 

[shoaibaktar]

we can look forward to fat snake players and indicators on markers.Btw what happened to the snake beam with a "u" in the middle as seen in Denmark featured in Pro Paintball?

 

[bruce]

don't they do this every season, put a new bunker in and take one out, i guess its a real pain for those who have invested because no doubt you end up with a pile of bunker you will never use again on top of having to invest in the new ones otherwise teams wont use your field

Bruce

 

[NickBrockdorff]

It would be like UEFA requiring football clubs to buy new goals every 2 years, after changing their size slightly.... to help their "goal sponsor" make money.... oh, and that sponsor just happened to sit on the board of UEFA too

In any other sport than paintball, this would create outrage.

 

[NickBrockdorff]

we can look forward to fat snake players and indicators on markers.Btw what happened to the snake beam with a "u" in the middle as seen in Denmark featured in Pro Paintball?

That was an artfully carried out joke - those weren't bunkers - they were sides to a blow up "humans foosball" game

 

[HPUKer]

They're just bananas.

 

[Ainsley]

Nick, you well may flame me for this, but in my opinion, the change is good and for a few reasons....

Whether you like it or not, sup'air drives the tournament scene......everything from field designs that all 3 major leagues play on as well as investing back into the sport. Do they have to make a living as well? Yes. It's not anyone's call if they're making too much money from this, bottom line is they are holding the future of our sport in their hands and if there's not enough cash in it for them to keep on doing it, it means no sport for us as we now know it. Heavy lies the crown, and if field owners kept their fields in A1 condition then they probably wouldn't need to change fields for 5/6 years....which would result in the end of sup'air, I guarantee it. Upgrades have also funded their ability to innovate their bunkers, allowing them to last longer, stay inflated, water bladders added etc etc....all valuable to a field owner in terms of time and therefore money.

I'm not biased either.....these changes have cost us ££££ to change our field designer app for this season, but it's a necessary evil. This isn't a sport where we can just stay still, we have to keep pushing things to keep things fresh and new....to find out what works and what doesn't. As already said above, it adds a tougher dimension to the snake - no one will be sat hugging cake knuckles this year, and will encourage more aggressive and tactical snake play.....not to mention no sneaky shots through the knuckles (which are hard to spot reffing) being a thing of the past. Not only this, but it doesn't really stop teams playing at their local fields? What percentage of teams actually play Mills in the UK anyway? It's probably less than 5%, so I'd hardly say not investing will change much....yes it's nice to play on the latest field, but not required. I'd say locality is more the issue for teams training and as that the field is in good condition. If they do run a few fields, just buy 1 upgrade kit so that the mills teams can train/play on there.....

You mention about UEFA, but it's not stopped them changing the ball more times in the past 10 years than I change my underwear in a week....and this in turn drives everything from retail sales to grass root sales. It's impossible to compare the two anyway as they're so out of skew. NPPL took the stand not to change anything this year, but they probably looked at the the future (and possible merger with PSP) and thought is it worth the hassle for one year and the flaming we'd get if it did all come to an end in 2013?