CPX shut down?

[FordPrefect]

I was over at my friend's house tonight, and he is a ref at CPX. He got a phone call from one of his co-workers there, and he said they were all on strike. Here's what he told me.

Brass Eagle is a huge sponsor of CPX (for people that didn't know). Apparently BE found a way to get past that and they were about to take the park from Forrest(the guy that owns it). They(BE) kicked Forrest out, and now everyone that worked at CPX is on strike. They should be able to get BE to negotiate, because they have $200,000+ in private games reserved for the next month.

All the refs are saying they will NOT work without Forrest in the picture.

[fire1811]

not sure if its true or not but this has been in the
works for quite some time.
you should have seen this coming a mile away

[spantol]

I've been hearing rumors of this coming for quite some time, as well.

It's far from perfect, but I'm rather fond of that place. If this is indeed the case, is there anything the public can do to show support?

[WARPED1]

Another reason BE sux, everything they touch turns to crap.

[Cliffio]

actually thats not true, you have never been to CPX if you think that, this place is amazing sure it sucks that the guy is getting the outs, but thats the way it goes

[damageinc54]

Is this why the Challenge Cup got pushed back? This move by BE really comes as no surprise to me. Does BE dislike the way Forest runs CPX? What is the motive behind BE's move?

[fire1811]

well since BE upped most of the money for cpx
it is and always has been there field.
as for the refs going on strike
well you get paid peanuts how hard do you think it will be to find other ppl to ref? not very
most of the refs there never even heard of forests name until they started there.

[shartley]

[314159]

cpx has a lot of private games and 200k a month sounds reasonable for them. a private game is just about the only way to play any fields out of their 30 something besides bedlam and armageddon.

maby a change in managment is for the better:
if you have a tournament at cpx, you have to pay cpx to sell water at the tournament fields which are located about 1/4 mile away from the consessions area. which they have 1 serving window at, with a slow turnaround time. which they do not sell water at.... and their water fountain, and about half of their vending machines are out of service.

they will let a co2 gun on a field that is shooting at 360 fps, that someone shoots down for about a minute, but will not allow a gun on the field that shoots 281, 282, 279 that chronos in at 270 at the target range.

whenever they change paint schemes, they will not let you use their field paint, that you bought from them the week before, on the field.

the refs going around, and cleaning up, throw out your half full drinks.

being forced to wait 10 minutes after a game is over, to take a shuttle bus, so you do not get lost on the way back, and the staging area is in view.

the turnaround time for 2 games is about 2 hours (except bedlam and armageddon)

finding rusty metal, broken glass bottles, and used condoms around the place does not contribute to the atmosphere.... but the rusty rebar and metal sticking out of the obsticales in armageddon does

the cpx store also sold me a used stolen automag.

maby be will do a better job of running the place.

[deathstalker]

Sam, CPX gets BIG crowds there with several hundred a day on the weekends. The large number of private games on a Saturday and Sunday can easily make up for the lack of games during the week. It's possible the numbers are a bit skewed (no offense, but they ARE coming from a ref and I don't think I've seen too many employees there who are of legal drinking age), but I wouldn't be surprised if the real number is close.

Without a union, striking refs would most likely just be laid off. If I ran a public company like BE, I wouldn't think twice about canning them all and hiring new ones.

[shartley]

Yes, I am sure they pull in good numbers. I was not doubting that.

[agdemagman69]

Cpx has its pros and cons...

Pros: Good fields
CONS:
-100$ for a case of horrible horrible horrible paint. I had some paint from there that was breaking from a 5 inch drop consistently...
-Wait times for fields is like 2 hours
-they dont know how to run a scenario game
-pro shop sux
-rental guns consistently break down
-I could go on and on and on....

Forest is a good man, but i would love to see an improved cpx... maybe some good paint

[Gambit1106]

Well for CPX mabey it will be a good change. Forrest is a good guy and have talked with him on many occasions. I just have my own little hate of CPX when I broke my ankle on arrmeggedon and all they did was stop the game to get me off the field and then keep going. I had to have to friends help me hop back to the picinc tables but they were kind enough to let them pull my truck up to a point so all I had to hop was about 200ft.

Mabey thing will get better we will see.

[Thordic]

You forgot:


Cons: Double charge you for paint and then refuse to give you a refund.


They charged me $320 for $160 worth of paint, which I didn't notice until I got my bank statement a month later and they wouldn't refund the money.

[wyn1370]

Originally posted by Thordic
You forgot:


Cons: Double charge you for paint and then refuse to give you a refund.


They charged me $320 for $160 worth of paint, which I didn't notice until I got my bank statement a month later and they wouldn't refund the money.

Did you ever try disputing that with your bank? CPX wouldn't have two signed receipts to back it and get the money taken back from them.