Why does NCPA X-ball look better than NXL X-ball?
- Thread starter richardh
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The fact is there aren't enough clubs at unis and not many people are prepared to put the time in!
We (B'ham uni) organised a 15man woodland tourney in november and out of the (i think) 11 uni clubs we tracked down 5made it.
After this we tryed organising a 5man limited paint tourney last term. Despite a lot of interest only 3 or 2 clubs could actually get organised enough to enter teams so it had to be cancelled. This isn't through lack of trying for some people. I know some club chairs tried really hard to get teams together...but its a long struggle against student apathy!
As for funding...that all depends on the uni itself!
Back on topic...I thought that add was really good. It made paintball look fast paced and exciting which is one thing i feel the NXL footage didn't.
-EDD
Edds right.
There are a few people putting a lot of time and effort into trying to organise and get teams to a few events. Unfortunately mainly due to lack of funding it's extremely difficult to get non-paintballers interested and willing to fork out they're hard earned student loan to play and/or buy tourney grade kit.
I did enjoy the 'rec' tournament in November, and I know the rest of the team did too. But not one other player on the team had a clue what tournament paintball even was. They all fit in great at a rec game, but getting them interested in the tourney side of things is a completely different kettle of fish.
Another problem at UK unis is that there are so few, if any established tourney players attending. The people with the drive to actually compete. Most punters we manage to wrangle through the club just want to shoot their mates in the woods.
It is growing over here...but at a snails pace.
Liking the vid too. Would've been kinda cool to literally have a large 'x-box' bunker. Makes me wanna go to a US uni..... EDIT: Sorry, what I meant was 'Makes me wanna go to a US college....'
There are a few people putting a lot of time and effort into trying to organise and get teams to a few events. Unfortunately mainly due to lack of funding it's extremely difficult to get non-paintballers interested and willing to fork out they're hard earned student loan to play and/or buy tourney grade kit.
I did enjoy the 'rec' tournament in November, and I know the rest of the team did too. But not one other player on the team had a clue what tournament paintball even was. They all fit in great at a rec game, but getting them interested in the tourney side of things is a completely different kettle of fish.
Another problem at UK unis is that there are so few, if any established tourney players attending. The people with the drive to actually compete. Most punters we manage to wrangle through the club just want to shoot their mates in the woods.
It is growing over here...but at a snails pace.
Liking the vid too. Would've been kinda cool to literally have a large 'x-box' bunker.
Makes me wanna go to a US uni..... EDIT: Sorry, what I meant was 'Makes me wanna go to a US college....' 
Will have to watch this when i'm on a less snail-paced connection.
US HE institutions are a lot better funded than UK ones, with loads more money available for sports. As it stands Portsmouth get about 5 grand a year funding, we birmingham got 1250 this year, and those are about the highest. The real grail is a busa recognised tournement or league, once that is in place the uni's will have an reason to support paintball as it will get them points in the sporting league tables. Then paintball cluns will suddenly switch from SU societies to well funded uni sports clubs.
US HE institutions are a lot better funded than UK ones, with loads more money available for sports. As it stands Portsmouth get about 5 grand a year funding, we birmingham got 1250 this year, and those are about the highest. The real grail is a busa recognised tournement or league, once that is in place the uni's will have an reason to support paintball as it will get them points in the sporting league tables. Then paintball cluns will suddenly switch from SU societies to well funded uni sports clubs.
that does look totally sweet, it needs to get aired on proper TV regularly tho so like your average person can c what decent paintball is like as opposed to like the way deltaforce run it... like a herd of cattle with guns.
Steve, are you saying that your uni club gets 1250 pounds for paintball a year? If I interpreted that correctly you paintball club is better funded than 90-95% of the NCPA clubs. i would say less than 5 or 6 NCPA clubs recieve more than that in the american equivalent.
If only that were true. I don't know the figures for this year, but back when I was club president in 2000, the union budget for ALL clubs AND societies was £22,500ish - and they really weren't interested in the paintball club enough to give over almost a quarter of the budget. I can just about recall being absolutely over the moon at an increase over the previous year of about £150 to take the budget up to about £800ish.
Like I said, I don't know what this years budget is, but I'm damn sure if it was £5k (about $9000 to our cousins over the water) the club and team wouldn't have slid into virtual non-existence this year.
