It could just be me. But has anyone else noticed a lack of really interesting material in most scenario coverage? Frankly, most of the time I don't give a damn about how generic-team-A had a steady lead all day long over generic-team-B, and won by 3,641 points. Not to rag on Hollywood, but most of the stories out there fail to capture the reader's attention it seems. At the finale, in the air line, a group of us got to talking about Paintball News Magazine, to which one player responded "You mean people actually read that?" Unless the reader has a direct interest in the game, such as having been in it, or on the field before, there simply isn't much motivation to read it (and I daresay that the percentage of paintballers who are avid readers isn't a majority to begin with).
Let's face it, a scenario game is a scenario game and it isn't fun to read about ten thousand other people having fun somewhere else in the world. The news periodicals need to find some way to boost interest in the scenario stories they write. I don't know what that should or could be, but it must be something (proper editing would be a good start). I wouldn't mind hearing short stories (<paragraph) from people who were at the game, of major actions and moves. From the couple games I played in that I subsequently read about, either the reporters were seeing a completely different game than I was, or else there simply wasn't much understanding of what was going on. How many incredible things have you seen pulled off in a game, that no one ever hears about again? The highlight of last year's finale, to me, was sneaking up to the north base with three of my friends, shutting down the generators for the base's floodlights, and raking the command staff and referee "party" with fire. 5 minutes before the end of the game. It's the fun things like that we never hear about in the stories, and that's what I would love to see more of in the future.
Let's face it, a scenario game is a scenario game and it isn't fun to read about ten thousand other people having fun somewhere else in the world. The news periodicals need to find some way to boost interest in the scenario stories they write. I don't know what that should or could be, but it must be something (proper editing would be a good start). I wouldn't mind hearing short stories (<paragraph) from people who were at the game, of major actions and moves. From the couple games I played in that I subsequently read about, either the reporters were seeing a completely different game than I was, or else there simply wasn't much understanding of what was going on. How many incredible things have you seen pulled off in a game, that no one ever hears about again? The highlight of last year's finale, to me, was sneaking up to the north base with three of my friends, shutting down the generators for the base's floodlights, and raking the command staff and referee "party" with fire. 5 minutes before the end of the game. It's the fun things like that we never hear about in the stories, and that's what I would love to see more of in the future.
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