Uk National Paintball league

[Bob]

are you not contradicting yourself here, i dont see a lottery winner coming this way with paintball in mind so we need to build on the foundations we've already got, support places like the the nortern quarter and dartford, support serious tournies, support serious teams and players.

Theres alot of talk about the 'serious paintballer' and how we need to support them. Shouldn't it be different from that, i think of serious painballers as higher division players on solid teams with sponsership etc etc. Isn't it new players that are need the support rather and moving paintball away from the GAME that its is into a high money, far away location, overly serious sport. I think its very important for there to the goals and a way to progres but having one league will shead players if anything due tpo people not wanting to travel, wouldn't speaking to the Big Three and getting there input be a better idea rather than people arguing and looking out for their (& there teams) interests.

There would be a huge amount of organising to do. I think we should get Steve Hancock!

 

[phillips]

Good Idea but it would take a LOT of organising to become viable.
Personally I think it would help British paintball a lot more if there where less idiots in the game, stop moaning about how you have the better gat and train.
Aswell as having a better set up for EVERY aspect of the game not just tornement paintball, which is in the minority.

I would like to see a single leauge, preferably with some alrger divisions lower down, as to help new teams ease into the sport.

A single leauge would need a single deciding body, that is a long way off happening in my opinion.
A global deciding body could be one difficult but rewarding option.

It's my opinion and it wont change, take it or leave it

 

[soopaman luva]

even if you get it to work people will not travel full stop

 

[Markie C]

Right what is with this **** ????????


We need more than juts 3 people to sit down and organise this.

When you say it doesn't take money to start this up then you are on another world.

Like i said we need a governing bodies before we start any thing FACT.

(and i know about the ukpsf i am a part of it but it needs to cover reff's players rules and every thing like the FA does i know bully would do it but would people want it ??????)

Its needs to be a outside investor because if it is a paintball company that does it then like i have said a number of times the people that matter ie the sports council media will NOT take us seriously.

We need a following we need fans we need public to come and watch us it what ever.

lets get some facts about stuff.

First off we need to make it one format were it is going to be beneficial to all players if we go abroad and play there is no point in any of this if we just start with some thing that is not going to be practical for every one.

 

[Buddha 3]

It's my opinion and it wont change, take it or leave it

Irrespective of you having a point or not, that's the dumbest sh!t I've heard in a while... I hope the smiley indicates you are kidding.

 

[Lucky]

even if you get it to work people will not travel full stop

Apart from getting a single governing body to organise it, old luva boy there has hit the most important nail on the head.

I live 20 mins fro the channel tunnel, so in the time it took me to drive to glasgow for instance, i could be anywhere in europe?
I don't play the milleniums because i simply cannot commit my time to such an event, so therefore if it were a "TRUE" uk league then i wouldn't be able to do that either.
I'm not making excuses or anything but just pointing out that an awful lot of ballers are just in this game for a weekend kick, and although we take the game we play seriously, how many are going to be able to sign up for a superleague that are not already playing milleniums?

I'd love to see it happen tho.............

 

[shiftizzle]

ok i havent read the whole of this post so if anyone has thought of this and said it im sorry and agree with that person 100% ok here my idea.... paintball is a growing sport growing so much it should be hitting the olympics soon... and we are a country need a frickin decent team to represent us, so here my idea we have trials to find the best ten players from each county.A coach is assigned to each area of the country to pick these players obviusly someone with a paintball back ground. Then we have a league where all the countys play eachother. so that when it does come to qualifying for the olympics we will be prepared because the best in the country would have allready been playing with eachother and against eachother. obviusly the team representing the UK would be selected by taking the best players from each county to trials then picking from there. i dont know just an idea really what do you guys think?

 

[Lucky]

ok i havent read the whole of this post so if anyone has thought of this and said it im sorry and agree with that person 100% ok here my idea.... paintball is a growing sport growing so much it should be hitting the olympics soon... and we are a country need a frickin decent team to represent us, so here my idea we have trials to find the best ten players from each county.A coach is assigned to each area of the country to pick these players obviusly someone with a paintball back ground. Then we have a league where all the countys play eachother. so that when it does come to qualifying for the olympics we will be prepared because the best in the country would have allready been playing with eachother and against eachother. obviusly the team representing the UK would be selected by taking the best players from each county to trials then picking from there. i dont know just an idea really what do you guys think?

Are you on some kind of strong medication, and if so is it available on prescription or do we have to visit a dodgy pub somewhere

or maybe it's the fact that i've overlooked the fact that there needs to be a worldwide govening body, a unified rule book, the game played in ?X? amount of countries, etc etc etc before the olympic commitee would even consider looking at us and we can't even organise a "simple" UK league.

I'm affraid you've been listening to those voices in your head again

Keep taking the Meds

 

[Robbo]

Ok raff, i have met at got along with you in the past but your talking sh!t, we dont need all that you've pointed out in the the above post, all we need is for the 3 tourney organisers to sit down and talk about it


So lemme put it this way.

Whoever has:

Russ : PA: Number

Syd : NSPL: Number

Wendy : Master's : already have hers

Whoever has syds and russ's number, please pm me it and i'll phone each individual and ask them if they'd be prepared to meet up and atleast chat about the chance of making this happen
Robbo, no doubt you'll read this if you could pm me your number that would be helpful, of course if you dont mind me phoning you for a chat

Glen?
Bud?
Baca?
Duff?
TJ?
Missy?
Beaks?
Mario?
Matski?
Nick?

Are you gonna or am I?
Nah, come to think of it, I keep putting myself in the firing line, one of you do it....cheers !
I'm off up the gym to get my head filled in

 

[Buddha 3]

I got this...

While it is fun to go on all these "what if" trips, that's all they are.

I could tell you so much about what is wrong with the way paintball is organised. Just take a few minutes to think about the differences between the way paintball is run (pretty much worldwide) and the way for instance soccer is organised from lowly "pub-clubs", to the Premier League. Just grab a pen and have some fun with that. Strangely, you'll find that some of the ideas put forward by the PA league weren't that crazy.

Anyway, back to the issue at hand. If it were as easy as just getting three people to sit down and have chat, don't you think it would have happened already? And even if you were to get them to sit down and give this some proper thought, what will the result be?
Obviously, each of these people will think that what they are doing is the right thing, so why would they change what they are doing? Naturally it should be the others that would need to change.
If you can get past that first obstacle, the result will be some form of compromise. By it's very nature, compromise is usually just something akin to a toothless tiger; it may growl, but its gums won't do much harm.

In order to avoid the compromise scenario, there would have to be some powerful force that could pretty much dictate format and whatnot. Given the amount of economical and political power required, I'd say that this power would have to be industry driven. So instead of looking at these three people, perhaps you should look elsewhere.

Now while you guys are all thinking big, as in nationwide, one of the issues addressed in this thread is that of distance. Now while serious players should be willing to travel the length and breadth of the country, I can understand why the for sh!ts and giggles players don't feel like doing so.
It is perfectly alright for the serious leagues to ignore these individuals, perhaps as paintball as a whole, we should not. After all, there can be strong "trickle up" effect if we make the transition from rec to tourney that much easier (as pointed out in some great threads earlier). Some of the not so serious guys may well get hooked and may well be willing to switch to more serious teams. So maybe, instead of making EVERYTHING nationwide, there is room for smaller, regional leagues/events. But wait, that would be too much like other sports, surely that can't be correct...

So yes, it makes sense to have one nationwide league for the top teams and serious teams in the slightly lower divisions. But you will need some heavy industry hitters to set that up.
But at a ground level, this nationwide league will achieve very little, you'd also need regional, low level stuff for the people just getting into the sport.