Even more flawed I'm afraid.......
If I remember correctly the PA League is essentially an exclusive club of teams vetted by the PA Committee. I remember teams having to submit a request and be approved to be a participant within the league, if the MPAL is essentially a members only club, your producing a Champion amongst yourselves not that of the nation? Sure "Club Members" maybe from throughout the UK, but since you controlled the entry requirements, how do you guarantee the impartiality of the league, or even it's claim to produce a national champion?
The league itself heavily stressed the need for a "local association" and even made it an entry requirement. Despite your reasoning behind this, the assumption that all teams are locally associated or even need to be, is not true for Paintball teams, or other sports. The best teams in the Country are effectively "Factory Teams" (or at least owe their existence to the massive levels of in-industry support), and since these are not really geographically linked, your membership requirement effectively excluded them from the start (even if they had already chosen to exclude themselves by virtue of lack of competition). In this regard Paintball is nothing like the oft quoted Football Analogies, as it resembles an extreme sport or even Motor sport model. Players and team members are generally from all over, not localised. Fair enough the Factory teams could have chosen to adopt a geographic association, or represent an area, but they do have primary sponsorship requirements, that will override any local deals / interest. This "In Industry" sponsorship for the top level teams means they are sponsor bound to compete at the highest levels where the competition if the highest, not competing for the geographic Championship of the PA Club. The inclusion criteria for the MPAL probably made it very difficult from the start for such teams to commit to the full league, if there was going to be a clash between training for MLTs and playing the MPAL. You perfectly within your rights to demand teams make a commitment to play all the legs of your tournament, but since some teams and players have overriding commitments (especially to their sponsors), they simply cannot acquiesce to your rules.
It's not a fact of the teams choose not to take part, but from the very beginning it must have been apparent exactly the level of teams such a league would attract. You even stated you aim was to build composite teams (players drawn from a number of teams), and you have moved to do so. The PA model and your vision isn't applicable for the Top level teams in the UK or even X Ball teams, it is applicable for development and nurturing paintball at a lower level by giving teams an identity to cling to the Factory teams by benefit of in industry support or statue already have. No matter how good your BBQ is, and it's organisation t, o claim to produce the best of anything other than your own League is Hype. And we all know what Public Enemy said about that.
If I remember correctly the PA League is essentially an exclusive club of teams vetted by the PA Committee. I remember teams having to submit a request and be approved to be a participant within the league, if the MPAL is essentially a members only club, your producing a Champion amongst yourselves not that of the nation? Sure "Club Members" maybe from throughout the UK, but since you controlled the entry requirements, how do you guarantee the impartiality of the league, or even it's claim to produce a national champion?
The league itself heavily stressed the need for a "local association" and even made it an entry requirement. Despite your reasoning behind this, the assumption that all teams are locally associated or even need to be, is not true for Paintball teams, or other sports. The best teams in the Country are effectively "Factory Teams" (or at least owe their existence to the massive levels of in-industry support), and since these are not really geographically linked, your membership requirement effectively excluded them from the start (even if they had already chosen to exclude themselves by virtue of lack of competition). In this regard Paintball is nothing like the oft quoted Football Analogies, as it resembles an extreme sport or even Motor sport model. Players and team members are generally from all over, not localised. Fair enough the Factory teams could have chosen to adopt a geographic association, or represent an area, but they do have primary sponsorship requirements, that will override any local deals / interest. This "In Industry" sponsorship for the top level teams means they are sponsor bound to compete at the highest levels where the competition if the highest, not competing for the geographic Championship of the PA Club. The inclusion criteria for the MPAL probably made it very difficult from the start for such teams to commit to the full league, if there was going to be a clash between training for MLTs and playing the MPAL. You perfectly within your rights to demand teams make a commitment to play all the legs of your tournament, but since some teams and players have overriding commitments (especially to their sponsors), they simply cannot acquiesce to your rules.
It's not a fact of the teams choose not to take part, but from the very beginning it must have been apparent exactly the level of teams such a league would attract. You even stated you aim was to build composite teams (players drawn from a number of teams), and you have moved to do so. The PA model and your vision isn't applicable for the Top level teams in the UK or even X Ball teams, it is applicable for development and nurturing paintball at a lower level by giving teams an identity to cling to the Factory teams by benefit of in industry support or statue already have. No matter how good your BBQ is, and it's organisation t, o claim to produce the best of anything other than your own League is Hype. And we all know what Public Enemy said about that.
your contrast in fact shows a similarity. The teams in the FA don’t get to be the best just by playing the FA either, the benefits of competing in the champions league for a teams performance are well known. Equally while I believe that the PA will raise the standard of UK paintball, teams will always be able to find ways to improve there game by playing at an international level.
