X-ball, the conspiracy(?)

[Baca Loco]

Made you look.

"The game is afoot, Watson." Sherlock Holmes

Actually the game is paintball and that's Dr. Watson, not Frank Watson but is the game the vast majority of players love and want to continue playing at risk?

Could there be a plan presently in the early stages of implementation that's ulitmate goal is to change the face of the game we play primarily for the benefit of a few? And is it X-ball? And is the recent break with the NPPL part and parcel to that larger strategy?

Moo

 

[TJ Lambini]

Penalties an' fines at LA, some paid, some not.

Xball.

Diablo = Draxxus.

Avalanche go to JT.

GZ player = Rosie. Rosicrucian?

GZ lose JT sponsorship.

PSP leaves NPPL.

UK field called the Temple. Templars?

Rosy gets top job.

Don't for one minute think that these events are unconnected.

Or am I doing an Umberto Eco and ****tin' with you?

I'm not sure I even know myself...look at a set of random events and soon enough you'll find a connection, and then a plan. The Plan. But was the plan always there or did you invent it yourself? And iof you did, why are they trying to stop you telling everyone about it?

Ansa me that.

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by Baca Loco
Made you look.
"The game is afoot, Watson." Sherlock Holmes
Actually the game is paintball and that's Dr. Watson, not Frank Watson but is the game the vast majority of players love and want to continue playing at risk?
Could there be a plan presently in the early stages of implementation that's ulitmate goal is to change the face of the game we play primarily for the benefit of a few? And is it X-ball? And is the recent break with the NPPL part and parcel to that larger strategy?
Moo

Personally, I'm a Newtonian at heart, the laws of cause and effect seem appealing to me as against the laws of quantum mechanics where anything and everything can happen and does so for no apparent reason.
That said, recent events, although tantalisingly attractive to connect in some way haven't yet crystallized, for me at least, into any coherent form other than short term interest seeking.
That doesn't mean to say there is no long-dollar haul going on here merely that I ain't sussed it yet.
There could well be an underlying issue that is not apparent to us all yet but the nature of conspiracy theories is that they are intriguing, self-perpetuating and generally unfounded.
The fracture lines are many, JT / Brass Eagle, Diablo, the Promoters group and last and by all means least, the players and teams.
A few more pieces in the jig-saw have to be found and put in place before I and others can see the full picture but as in many cases of this nature, we will not see those pieces until we are allowed to see them or somebody breaks ranks.
Robbo

 

[Snoochie-Boochie-Goochie]

you forgot, Pete

may i suggest that POODLES compose the underlying matrix that connects all of the puzzle pieces here?

 

[Tyger]

How about this. Paintball, as a nearsighted industry of people who are only intrested in lining thier own pockets, decides en masse to make one final surge to get money before the US Government passes legislation to regulate how we can play paintball at all?

I think Justin Owen is the "Master of Poodles" here. (Heinlein who?)

-Meow Man

 

[Baca Loco]

What about the Illuminati?

And the Gnomes of Zurich and the Tri-lateralists? I'm pretty sure they must be lurking in the background somewhere.

OK, maybe conspiracy was the wrong word. I erred on the side of the provocative, I confess.

What I'm really wondering about is X-ball. If the idea is a Nations Cup like they've done at Portugal Millenium why the format change?
If the game ain't broke why change it?
Could it be someone is looking forward to how to present a potentially viable, mass appeal product?
And how do you get the current teams and players on board with the change (when the similar USPL was more or less a dismal failure cus the majority of players apparently didn't want to have anything to do with it and those then tied to the NPPL weren't going to support a rival)?
And if X-ball or something like it becomes the next evolutionary stage in paintball where does that leave the majority of players and teams?

Just wondering.
Moo

 

[Snoochie-Boochie-Goochie]

IT'S SOOO CLEAR NOW!!!

Tyger, you have enlightened us all! it's so blindingly clear!!!!!!

it's a conspiracy alright, the mastermind of which is justin owen, who is setting himself up to be supreme rules of earth. first paintball, then the world!

we must unite against this conspiracy! paintballers unite!!!!!!!

 

[KillerOnion]

It's an experiment, maybe a one time or annual thing. Ya know, I don't cook lobster and/or drink KGB's and Gentleman Jack every night, but I like them and every now and then I do for special occasions. If I eat hazelnuts and listen to samba music that night too, does it point to anything changing, like the world shifting its poles? NO! Geez people, the conspiracy theories can sit out for this one. NPPL getting ditched? Well, they have some soft spots that could get some cracks spreading from them, but unless it's something really cataclysmic (Ok, even I don't use that word very often, at least not in print.) I doubt the top league in the US will have the majority of high level teams just walk out and not come back. At least at the moment there is no major national mutually agreed upon supreme league that could be a suitable substitute. 3mans about, as do regional 5man leagues, but even were WPF on top of things there would still not be one or even two big enough, respected (?) and publicized enough series to fill the void left were the NPPL to simply vanish into thin air. There are single, non connected events that compare, but not enough to call it a season.

Unless there's something I don't know here, which I'm sure there is some...could I be wrong?

 

[Urban]

What about the Illuminati?

Originally posted by Baca Loco
And if X-ball or something like it becomes the next evolutionary stage in paintball where does that leave the majority of players and teams?

Just wondering.

Now I'm quite new to this game...

Some of you have been here since it began and have the entire 15-year odd history of the sport in your heads. I don't have the capacity to absorb that info in one sitting, even if there was somewhere for me to read it all, so forgive me if what I say has either a)already been done to death or b) is complete cr*p

To answer the question quoted above, I believe it leaves those people where ever they want to be. The individuals concerned (i.e. us) will make our own decisons about what we'll do if it happens.

I think rank and file players view the game as fun and will generally continue to play it regardless of where the future lies. Many made the leap from woodland to tourney didn't they? I don't see why it wouldn't, and couldn't, happen again.

I first played probably 12 years ago, maybe more, with a splatmaster... 'slam fire' was the latest thing. Some guys had the 'slams' and for a walk-on day I just thought "Sod this, they'll beat my pump everytime" and left them to it. Looking back it wasn't the markers that beat me it was the fact they played regular and I didn't... oh well, I never said I was smart in them days

I started what everyone now calls rec-balling about 2 years ago and have just bought my own marker (fairly Stock Impulse) and am looking at joining a team.

The 'sport' didn't exist 12 years ago as far as I am aware. The changes from when I first played to now seem immense. It's like watching a puppy grow. If you see it every day you don't notice the gradual growth but for some who see's it maybe once every 3 months... wow! Big change in perception.

Purely based on some strange notion in my head I don't think paintball has finished evolving into the final article yet. I can't see what that final article will be, it may be very different to where we are now, but people will still play it.

Will it be us of not? Who knows... I suppose it depends how well the players and teams handle the change. I can't see the likes of Avalanche and I-Men ceasing play because the format of the sport changes... no top team would be where they are without the ability to adapt to change and overcome the obstacles that the change presents.

My only main concern at this time is how far into the sport the tendrils of coporate sponsership will reach, and how much the dollar/pound/euro or yen signs will influence decisions on the future of our sport.

Urban

 

[Baca Loco]

I like my onions grilled

Originally posted by KillerOnion
It's an experiment, maybe a one time or annual thing.

NPPL getting ditched? Well, they have some soft spots that could get some cracks spreading from them, but unless it's something really cataclysmic (Ok, even I don't use that word very often, at least not in print.) I doubt the top league in the US will have the majority of high level teams just walk out and not come back. At least at the moment there is no major national mutually agreed upon supreme league that could be a suitable

Mr. Italia is probably the salt of the earth but do you really think he's proposing the event, publicizing a new format, and paying (airfare, hotels, no entry, no paint expenses, etc.) for everyone who comes and plays from around the world just to see what might happen?

NPPL done been ditched. Let's see, in about a month there will be a large event in Las Vegas. Lots of teams have vested and personal interest in playing the circuit of events they have been used to playing. The top Pro teams, particularly those with ties to the promoters will be there. Where else they gonna go? Will there be an alternative in one month's time? The alternative is the same series as before minus the NPPL.

Moo