when will the date's be out for the nppl 2006

[Chicago]

Uh, Missy, why are 8 fields required? NPPL uses 6 fields. Maybe I don't want to accomodate 200 teams, especially in a first season, so 5 fields would do.


There is:

Xdrenaline Paintbal Park (Dallas)
Central Florida Paintball (Orlando)
All American Paintball Park (Pittsburgh; 6 fields, including 2 indoor nice turf)
Ultimate Paintball (Atlanta, GA)

That's 4 - I would need to find something on the west coast, but paying to rent one location instead of 5 wouldn't be too bad.

Nick: Agree that NICE turf is better than grass; however, I'm going low-budget, and nice turf is expensive.


As for sponsors, no, you don't need sponsors unless you're giving out mad cash to pro teams, and if pro teams are showing up, then you have sponsors.

 

[Missy Q]

Chicago, we are talking about chalk and cheese in that case.

You are theorising about low budget, low impact localised events with little draw to out-of-state teams, zero promotion and no sponsorship to speak of. You will try to mare your money from the team entries and spend some of that trying to get refs that are capable, but you will have less chance of that happening than any of the national level events. Nothing ground-breaking there, its just another minor-league tournament cicuit, falling somewhere between the GPL and CFOA (without the CFOA's sponsors) and predoninantly east coast, which means you will have weather problems at at last 2 events (if you're lucky). You may think you won't need sponsors, but you will soon find out, as have all other leagues of this nature, that your entries only won't cut it, and then you will go cap-in-hand to the industry, who will look at the events to see what they can get out of sponsoring them. You don't even want to accomodate too many teams.

Therefore, what is the relevance to this discussion?

ps - the NPPL currently uses 6 fields but will need 7 or 8 next season.

 

[Chicago]

Indeed, the plan on its surface isn't workable, but I'm also not giving everything away, as that'd be silly.

As for needing 7 or 8 fields next year, NPPL should stick to 6. Going to 6 from 5 caused them enough issues. I'd rather see them run 6 fields, raise prices, and put the money into reffing.

 

[Chicago]

Originally posted by Nick Brockdorff
We are on the same page where reffing is concerned - the refs need a lot more training.... but just upping their saleries won't make a difference - that just means the same people with the same lack of training - get more money.... it has no real impact on how they perform.

Upping the salaries is necessary to KEEP the people you determine are quality refs. Unless you can keep your refs from event to event, all the trainingin the world isn't going to help you.

(so, you need both, not just one or the other.)

 

[Nick Brockdorff]

and Nick, superimposing my breasts onto your avatar is a little disturbing....

"Superimposing" ???

I knew you couldn't handle that bottle of Tequila just before we shot that photo... you should see the rest of the pics



Nick

 

[Missy Q]

In your dreams Dane

 

[Markie C]

so does any body know on even when the dates will be out.
or have any idea please

 

[Steve Hancock]

missy said that we may be getting an iminent (sp?) answer on reunification in the next 8 days or so. Following that i expect we will start to see next seasons stuff sorted.

 

[Markie C]

No sign of these date's then ?

 

[shamu]

NPPL has their annual meeting this coming weekend (12/10). We'll probably get the 2006 dates after that, along with any new rules/format changes.