Bad news for the AGD Lions

[AGD]

It was my fault we both thought the other had made arrangements. Not the best outcome but we will just have to take what we can get at this point.

AGD

[spazzed]

Sorry to hear about the mix-up guys Best of luck to you though.

[RamboPreacher]

Re: Bad news for the AGD Lions

Originally posted by SteveD
[clip]...so we're grabbing one of the only available spots in the novice. [clip]

can you explain this? I assume that it means that you actually have a novice team. I only ask cause I have to play AM division, becuase I started playing tournaments several years ago, even though I have only played an average of one tourney every year since then (3 years ago).

[mxracer33x]

really sorry to hear that you wont get to play in the Pro class. But what kind of organization will let a Pro team play in the Novice class? Im not the most up on Paintball Tourney rules and such, but in any other sport I can think of, the team would be disqualified for Playing/racing out of class.

I truly feel sorry for the true novice teams entered. Hopefully they will learn alot playing with a better team.

[SteveD]

Re: Re: Bad news for the AGD Lions

Originally posted by RamboPreacher
can you explain this? I assume that it means that you actually have a novice team. I only ask cause I have to play AM division, becuase I started playing tournaments several years ago, even though I have only played an average of one tourney every year since then (3 years ago).

I can easily explain it. We were an AM B team in '98, '99 and '00. We played the NPPL 10 man tournies taking 2nd at the WC in '98, 1st at the WC and won the series title in '99 and then did only one NPPL in 2000 taking 2nd. After that we split off with some players going to the CenterFlag team and one to the Shocktech team. This year we reformed as the AGD Lions (with some new additions) and can play the novice division (formerly known as Am B) if we choose to (although we chose to jump into the pro division for the WC 5-man). We haven't done an NPPL tourney as the AGD Lions so we thought "why not jump in with both feet?" but we have no pro players on the roster. Hope that clears things up.

By the way, don't sell the novice teams short out there. There are some great teams playing in those ranks. Strange was still playing that division the year before last.

Steve D
AGD Lions

[shartley]

Re: Re: Re: Bad news for the AGD Lions

Originally posted by SteveD
By the way, don't sell the novice teams short out there. There are some great teams playing in those ranks. Strange was still playing that division the year before last.

[i-luv-my-rt]

Well said Shartley!!

Sorry to hear about this but it shouldnt effect you guys to much except for bragging rights. Just play your normal game and come out on top and come and brag on the boards about it. I'll try to watch you guys a couple games if possible and maybe if your not busy i will talk to ya. C-ya at the cup guys!!

[FreshmanBob]

Oh well, I'm sure you will still have some fun. Anyway, Cup is astro turf an from what I hear after a few games on it you can just take 3 steps an slide your way to the 50 while shooting. That sounds fun..

[MikePotter]

If you win

If you win anything cool, like mid-tourney level guns, let me know, ill take em off your hands for my team, or we might pay you for them

[Manuel_FZR]

So ... too bad :o
But now concentrate (and really do not underestimate your opponents) and win the novice division!!! GO FOR IT!!!

[bunkerking]

and you guys still didn't make the semis eh? Sorry to here that man. They ended with a prelim score of 436, and missed the cut. Better luck next year.

[bunkerking]

Originally posted by FreshmanBob
Oh well, I'm sure you will still have some fun. Anyway, Cup is astro turf an from what I hear after a few games on it you can just take 3 steps an slide your way to the 50 while shooting. That sounds fun..

Oh, and sorry to burst your bubble, but the games are not played on astroturf.

[Pand0ra]

Originally posted by FreshmanBob
Oh well, I'm sure you will still have some fun. Anyway, Cup is astro turf an from what I hear after a few games on it you can just take 3 steps an slide your way to the 50 while shooting. That sounds fun..

That was at Campaign Cup .
You could easily slide 6 or 7 meters with a good speed, and the grip (with the correct shoes) was still very strong. That was fun, a lot of fun .

@++

[BenD]

Have they played yet...

did they whoop up like everyone thought, or did they get dismissed as the weakest link?

[bunkerking]

No, it appears that they played like crap. No disrespect intended. They only scored 436 in the prelims. Not too good for a pro team playing in the novice division. But sometimes you just have off days.