Thread split: XBall Vs 7-man...an officially awesome point

[TJ Lambini]

Hmmmm....

Originally posted by Milhouse
"7 man is where its at is total bull ****."

Hmmm. I feel that that statement isn't strictly true. I did say at the moment 7 man is where its at. the key phrase here is at the moment. You don't hear of PSP events being fully sold out 3-4 weeks prior to start do you?
And yes fair enough all my assumptions are based upon articles read in PGI and on here and no i haven't been able to get over that side of the pond. If PSP events are now better than NPPL i have to say i've not seen many people posting up and saying that. However that could be i'm just not looking hard enough.

However based upon full attendances, a fevered push by pro teams to make the 7 man pro bracket i stand by my statement that AT THE MOMENT 7 man is where its at.

If the PSP suddenly get the X ball league fully televised and heavily bankrolled then i'm sure the focus will shift back.

Anyway what do the rest of you think?

Without wanting to get into tha whole XBall Vs 7-Man thang - at least not in this thread - I think it's interesting that a thrown together team could win that toughest ever 7-Man tournament in tha history of Paintball.

There is no way this could happen tha other way around - i.e. a thrown together team that had not practiced together would never win an XBall event of tha same stature.

What does this say about tha relative formats?

 

[manike]

Re: Hmmmm....

Originally posted by TJ Lambini
Without wanting to get into tha whole XBall Vs 7-Man thang - at least not in this thread - I think it's interesting that a thrown together team could win that toughest ever 7-Man tournament in tha history of Paintball.

There is no way this could happen tha other way around - i.e. a thrown together team that had not practiced together would never win an XBall event of tha same stature.

What does this say about tha relative formats?

AWESOME point... start a new thread on that one Maestro...

 

[Wadidiz]

Re: Re: Hmmmm....

Originally posted by manike
AWESOME point...

I think so too.

 

[ericostani]

x ball rocks

because it allows the truely better team to win, cos shabby lucky stuff doesnt win a game. its like snooker, they dont play one game agianst each opponant but MILLIONS, well not quite, but it seems like it, boring as sport.

but 7 man means you get to huddle up with more people at the beginning. yay.

 

[Duncster]

...it certainly aint down to luck, as that team had to win two best of three's and a whole bag of other hard games to get to the number one spot.

I think it's more to do with the fact that modern paintball is more to do with sheer technical ability and "game sense" than ever before, and as an xball match gives you more game time in a single match than you'd normally get in two whole tournaments, and given that your average top xball team probably plays these full games at least once a week (or more), technical ability could only grow through requirement, as would the necessary game sense.

7man teams just won't get that kinda game time in, even in a training session...

Maybe some top Xball and 7man teams could confirm or deny this...

Dunc.

 

[Myth]

if u think about it, some of the best pro teams in the world get beat by novice teams in one 7man game and i find that to be a degree of luck. Xball is 1 hr straight and u will never see a pro team get beat buy a less trained/experiance team.

 

[rancid]

Re: Hmmmm....

Originally posted by TJ Lambini
Without wanting to get into tha whole XBall Vs 7-Man thang - at least not in this thread - I think it's interesting that a thrown together team could win that toughest ever 7-Man tournament in tha history of Paintball.

There is no way this could happen tha other way around - i.e. a thrown together team that had not practiced together would never win an XBall event of tha same stature.

What does this say about tha relative formats?

isn't it like saying that Wimbledon could win the FA Cup, but man united couldn't just walk in and win one-touch-back pass footy. You over-involve the format of the game, the more you have to practice it...

so, what does it say re the format. It says to me, that one format is pure, t'other's a bag o ****e.

I guess I've misunderstood you there Teej, cos it seems a bit like stating the obvious.... no offence meant.

 

[Grendel-Khan]

So is it time to resurrect the "NXL players are better than everybody else" argument yet? Lets have a little look see at the finals shall we? 2 teams of current NXL players playing in the final , 3/4 featured one team of former NXL players, and one team of unstoppable EXL assassins. Kinda makes you wonder......

 

[Beaker]

One point is how many of the players in the top 4 teams have ONLY played xball., nearly all of the players on those squads have played 5/7/10 man tournaments.

Could a team of 15yr old Xball robots do the same thing as The Men? I don't think they could do that either...

 

[Sherman]

Originally posted by Beaker

Could a team of 15yr old Xball robots do the same thing as The Men? I don't think they could do that either...

Why not? Exactly what skills would they lack if they had never played NPPL 7-man?