Originally posted by stongle
How many 7 man games can you imagine that happening, most just leave it up to the judges to sort out, and then bitch and moan about it on here.
But Glen, that seems to be the Brit paintballers way.....do nothing at the time, and moan like crazy afterwards
Personally i do not think that many of the players participating in this thread actually know how expensive Xball really is. The training is a large part of the cost factor. In order to play at a certain level you really need to have a proper Xball field. They are hugely expensive. A USED Xball field in the PSP after the event sells fopr $5500! and thats not even new./ It is a 30% discount because the field is dirty. New fields are even dearer than that!
Training wise to give you all an idea, we have trained nothing but Xball all year, every single time we have trained we have shot 40 boxes of paint in a weekend. We were untill Campaign training every other weekend. 80 boxes of paint a month from January to August is 640 boxes JUST IN TRAINING!
Factor in the paint used at each event and the fact that our team by the end of the season will have played 4 NPPL, 4 MS Xball events, and 3 MS 7man events which is 11 events in total not including several Dartford 7 events as well and you are looking at an huge paint consumption! How many teams can actually take that kind of hit in a season? If there are more than 2 teams in the UK that can actually do that then i would be hgely suprised!
Xbal is too expensive for the majority of teams in the UK, and team rosters are not large enough to sustain playing Xball matches anyway. We had untill campaing a roster of 18 players, Nexus have the best part of 15 odd players, Tigers something similar as well. There are not enough players in the UK for widespread Xball to take hold.
