You are stating the obvious in most of your post, i don't get your point? You obviously have a hard on for Jay which is cool, he's a dapper chap by all accounts, but that doesnt make him a marketable player, yet.
Props to Dye for using UK players on their European site, same to Eclipse for promoting English players that are well known. Junior Brown is obviously doing very well for himself and deserves to be promoted as such. What is the point of companies using Jay in their advertising when Jay is mostly unknown everywhere bar the south of england?
This is all irrelevant to the topic anyway..
I think ultimately you cant judge people to be the best if they don't consistantly compete against the best (all relative ofcourse, i.e in Europe)
I've used Jay as an example for two reasons:
1. I know him better than the rest of the options available
2. Several people seem to take issue with him and other players being in the SPL or lower, rather than a "proper pro" and I disagree with that, as Im sure others will as well.
Yes a lot of what I put is blindingly obvious, however it still needed to be stated as some people seem to not see it still. (tuesday morning most people still haven't woken up yet....me included)
As you stated Jay is relatively unknown except for the South of England but the same could be said for a lot of players. A lot of REALLY GOOD players. Who would know Ollie Lang if he weren't the poster boy for Dye. Would you know who LB Fow was if it weren't for Empire advertising him. The same goes for a lot of good players and teams. They are at the top and get the advertising and are known. The non-US teams have a much harder time getting their names and faces known because the focus is on the US market. Nexus are an exception to this as they are the UK/European equivalent poster boys, comparable to the Ironmen in the US. (No Im not comparing their ability but the advertising for them that Dye provides.) Most teams don't even have websites or post their rosters. This isn't premiership Football after all. Paintballers don't get in to the newspapers and on tv like the overpaid prima donna's of Football. Ask me a question about a Southern Team and I can probably answer it. Ask me or most people in the South a question on a Northern team and we'll shrug and mumble "no idea" at you. Nothing wrong with that. In fact ask me a football related question and you'll get the same shrug and "no idea" mumbled at you.
Back to Jay again, a lot of people on the forums mention players up north and assume those of us down south have a clue who you are referring to. Sure if you've played against them or follow the northern teams avidly or you've just been around long enough you will, same goes if you flip it in reverse. North of the country players aren't likely to know who is on the London Tigers or have trained with them or seen them play unless they've attended a Mills event, and even then a northern player is more likely to watch the Northern teams or the big "pro" teams.
So you don't know Jay or Player X or Player Y, etc, etc. Just because you don't know them and they don't play on a CPL team doesn't mean that they aren't a good player. And as has been stated its the PGI Forums members opinions and evidentially a lot of people feel that Jay is a ruddy good player as he's currently sat in second place.
As for my state of erectness with regards to Mr Ford, I have never engaged in bum fun with him. Only because I've run out of rhypnol
