Well, NPPL did this, and did it do NPPL any good?
No - they've got just as many crappy Pro teams as they did before. And they have several Semi-Pro teams that are better than half of the "pro" teams who can't get into Pro because it's been locked, and won't be able to because NPPL doesn't have enough teams get kicked out of the division to make way for lwoer-division teams that are better.
The problem with his whole theory is that paintball teams are NOT like pro teams in other sports - if you look at football teams, those teams are highly profitable entities, and they will beg,borrow and steal teh best players they can find, from halfway across the planet if they ahve to. You can't expect that of paintball teams - the budget just isn't there. Kick half of the "pro" teams out, it's still going to be the players that are relatively close to each other will be on a team, because travel budget trumps getting distance talent. The best players on the teams you kicked out arn't going to move to another pro team halfway across the continent and make that team better - they're just going to play the lower division. Hell, they may not even move to another team in their own country because the teams are mostly run by the players, and the players don't have much interest in kicking themselves off their own team to make room for someone else.
This change hasn't worked or NPPL, and it isn't going to work for Millenium either.
Yes, it may be "broke', but just doing something isn't going to do you any good - you gotta do something that's ACTUALLY GOING TO HELP.
At the end of the day, the reason tehre isn't any sponsor dollars for European teams is because the european paintball market is smaller than the US paintball market. Trying to solve a smaller market by resturcturing the pro league is just silly. If you want moe dollars in Europe, Millenium should have a publicity drive to get more Europeans playing paintball.
