Today's secret word, boys & girls, is toolbox. Say it with me, toolbox. Now that you know the secret word Mr. Curious can let you in on Adrenaline Games secret props for the PSP upgrade kit this year. They are ... drum roll please ... 2 MDs & 2 MRs. Exciting stuff, I know, and there you have it. The not-so-secret-word is that the first orders should be shipping shortly and arriving at fields within two or three weeks.
If you think that was big news just wait. I think you may need to sit down 'cus there is BIG news in the works.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
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Always leaving the readers hanging with a trace of the next big news item.
Coach: thoughts on the off-season, too long, not long enough?
Blogger ate my first response. For those south of the real impact of winter our off season is in our hands, For those dealing with winter its considerably different. From my perspective 3 months off is about right--enough time to decompress from last year and start to feel the itch to get going again--but that still leaves lots of northern-handicapped teams and players in a bind. And for many teams the off season is when you prep for next year and line up your sponsors, etc.
I hope Adrenaline Games will get rid of the "technical" snake.
I heard a certain big name company will have paint.
Im thinking HK goggle!
Do you guys honestly think dye bringing in paint or an hk goggle is something to sit down for, come on Paul. Blow my hair back, lol
Well if Dye brought in paint, it would fracture the current sponsors/owners of the PSP. Would it drive GI to the NPPL? How would Kee respond? With Valken "being allowed" into the PSP, combined with Dye (possibly) selling paint as well it will hammer away on both Kee and GI.
Some of you industry connected kids have an inkling what's going on--maybe--if I told you what was really going on you'd lose all faith in paintball and walk away in disgust.
Look for Whitebox TV--coming soon to VFTD.
Spill it, now!
back to 150?! did you have anything to do with that or was it just the number of people?
in any case I think this is excellent news.
I can say that 4 total bunkers combined with making it 20 feet shorter will just lead to a lot more kills off the break. We will see a lot of "close out" movement where one team has either one (or thought they won) and move down the field after shooting a couple guys. So this really should remove the long drawn out stalemate points.
But it won't stop a top tier team from locking down the field and it won't create more 5 on 5 movement to the degree we'd like to see.
Now, put 4 more bunkers on both sides of the field (8 total) and this will happen.
Why the half measure? It's not as if the PSP is paying for it? I demand a greater (bunker) stimulus package!
Ultimately, what kind of game-flow do we want more of.
1. Players shooting someone out in order to move.
2. Players moving in order to shoot someone out.
I suggest that #2 is generally preferable, although obviously #1 can be good drama as well at later stages in the game. Let's design fields to that end (possible under the current size and bunker tool kit).
Whoever is designing the fields, I'd suggest to keep that in mind (not that they care what I think).
So my previous comment was made in that light... it's not that I think a better game flow can't be accomplished with that "they" are doing. But that they need to re-think the approach to field design with this new toolkit (shorter field, more bunkers).
I wonder if as a general rule, this would mean to just give the back row of bunkers (corners/center) 1 single shooting lane. Those bunkers would be 1 trick ponies, so if you want to accomplish more than watching/shooting 1 lane, you'd need to move.
Thoughts?
There is much bigger news in the works that a Dye paintball.
Much bigger than a Dye paintball or Mr HHHHHHH screaming at us with his huge mustache that they have a goggle that you can wear and stick out your tongue at the same time?
Hmmmm.... here are a few guesses:
PSP decides to schedule all of its events on top of NPPL dates. Millennium follows. Both leagues collude to dry up NPPL support.
GI buys into NPPL big time, makes its own super dooper 7 webcast.
Kee buys Dye.
PSP goes to a limited paint format.
Since Baca is talking about walking away in disgust it must be something with pro teams... limited paint affects that.
Perhaps PBA is looking at an NXL style "buy in" to the pro division and webcast. You need to be a franchised team to be a part of the new PSP pro division.
-- actually this last part makes the most sense considering the costs involved and the promotional platform the webcast offers compared to the paltry benefits the NXL was ever able to conjure up.
Shortning the field is great and will speed things up. Limiting paint will kill the sport and slow things down.
"Limiting paint will kill the sport and slow things down."
Limiting paint would definitely change the game and you may very well be right that it would slow the game down. But what's the number one reason paintball is not growing by leaps and bounds? Cost. There are all kinds of people who play slow versions of paintball every day. There are very few people who can play expensive paintball every day. It's all about attracting a wider demographic.
Coach, waiting for comments on the reduced field size and the frank connell professional response to social pballs Nppl release dates:)
Reiner is somewhat correct about cost, but not really. Fields by and large are doing the best in this industry from what I hear.
Now cost is always a factor but more so are the following:
Time commitment
Mess - a subset of time commitment
You go see a movie for a couple hours. You invest an entire day pretty much with paintball - followed by having to clean up in order to do virtually anything else.
Basically, playing paintball "costs" an entire Saturday. And its not like its something you for by yourself on a rec level for most - you bring friends. And schedules are hard to match up when it takes a whole Saturday to play.
I've organized dozes of outings among interested "non players" and they all fall through based on scheduling conflicts and the fact it pretty much takes the whole day.
Now, no one ever says "I can't go for a whole day" but that's just the nature of the game.
Cost is not the most significant barrier to entry. Lower these other barriers and you're on your way. Maybe we need a paintball scheduling app combined with more effort at making it easy to play for 2 hours and be done - if course for fields out in the boonies you have to spend a whole day anyway.
Seriously where's Baca on Frank's (tenth?, eleventh?) meltdown?...
@ c...your comments are dead on. The sport would work better for everyone from rec to tournament level if it was just as easily accessible as pick up basketball or softball. Local, after work, or on a weekend that only took half the day.
c...I agree with the time commitment being a big issue. But if the half the people who quit after making the initial commitment to the game would stay in the game, competitive paintball would have plenty of participants. But most quit after they realize making that commitment, is also a decision to be perpetually poor.
The issue of commitment plagues all organized sports these days. That's a symptom of living in these modern times and nothing any of us can change.
my son was playing flag football in an organized church backed league. Basic rules, very simple, extremely low cost (i'm talking like $40 for season of 8 saturday's games).
show up, play one Saturday football game, it was about 40 minutes total with one - two practices during week. And yet after 3 seasons it folded and my son who was playing quarterback was pretty upset that no other kids wanted to play. As a sideline watching parent none of us could put our finger on it EXCEPT - as the older kids grew out of Flag Football and advanced into real game - simply not enough younger kids were coming in.
It surely wasn't a cost or convenient issue, just probably an apathy issue from somewhere to keep the league going. The volunteer coaches and refs were all likewise disappointed as this was a great mission to intertwine sports and faith. And I live in the Bible Belt so the religion was definitely not a factor in turning away kids.
If competitive paintball had been around in 1950,s, 60,s, or even 70's, it would have been a much more participated sport. There is no denying that people these days have many more choices with what to fill their spare time with and don't want to commit themselves to just one or two things.
It the 70's we started talking about how much time kids were spending watching TV. But how much time are kids spending today watching TV and occupying themselves on computers? It's huge and that's time taken away from participating in other things (like paintball). Now add the cost to participate to the equation. We should be glad we have as many people as we do taking part. If paintball wasn't so damn much fun, it would be a whole lot less yet.
So we need a gun that facebooks and tweets what you are doing. Not too far off....
Well an app on your smart-phone that's tied into your on-marker HD cam, letting you tweet your moves/kills with pictures/videos? Could work.
Hey Kids,
Sorry for the long silence. Been busy.
RE: 150 foot length. Glad it's back. Opposed 170 in the first place and think a return to 150 will "solve" most of last season's concerns.
As I do not make decisions for the PSP I'm not responsible for the the return to 150.
Re: Frank. Seems obvious to me. He's making a play to move into public relations.
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