CPX shut down?

[Star_Base_CGI]

Originally posted by demonguy8
Not morally wrong to stand up for what you believe in, but not exactly the best overall choice when your stand has NO IMPACT on them but still carries consequences for you...

Dont count on it. Its still to early to tell.

[WARPED1]

Standing up for yourself is usually good, in this case it's a useless idea, unless the refs had a union of some sort officially.

[shockman]

There was a story in the Joliet herald-News a few days ago that interviewed Forrest Brown and he said he didn't think the park would be open 4 months from now. He said that it was beyond saving and that it would be impossible for it to stay open.

joez, good luck in the future. I think I remember playing with you. I was using the RT Pro with the blue warp. I've thought that CPX was bad the first time I was there with bad fills, bad paint, and some very rude people. The refs were very cool though, hopefully things work out well for you guys.

[shartley]

Originally posted by shockman
There was a story in the Joliet herald-News a few days ago that interviewed Forrest Brown and he said he didn't think the park would be open 4 months from now. He said that it was beyond saving and that it would be impossible for it to stay open.

[JJBrookshire]

Link to article

It might be usefult to go to the following url http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/h.../j14forest.htm to read the story without editorial comments or mis-quotes.

[shartley]

[GT]

As for the long-term business prospects for Challenge Park Xtreme, Prudhomme acknowledged the park has not shown the financial results the company expected when it first opened, but, "It was a new venture for us."

The park is meeting its most recent business plan set out last fall, he said

hmm doesnt sound like BE was not the problem.

Brown said he also had no plans to sell his ownership interest in Challenge Park Xtreme: "The financial state of the park is such that no one would want it anyway."

riiigghhtt, I am willing to bet he maybe holding out for BE to offer him the right price.

my take on the article is that he may have wanted more for his share than BE thought it was worth. Why do I get the feelling that all the striking ref's were confused on what the real issue(s) maybe?

In other words, you are getting 'played' from both sides.

jb

[Star_Base_CGI]

Its never a waste of time to stand up for what you belive in.

"Our average customer is 16-years-old," he said. "The approach that's being taken to that customer is corporate America. And, kids don't like corporate America. They despise it."

Thats not true, 16 year olds are dumb kids. The ones that really hate corporate America are us 33 year olds and older who have been screwed by corporate America. You can only screw so many people and we get tired of it.

" Brown said Challenge Park Xtreme is cutting costs by reducing its staff of referees needed for paintball matches and raising revenues by increasing prices."

The grass needs to be cut ect. Your going to film a paintball event and have the grass 2 feet high and oevergrowth everywhere and piles of dirt. A 3 foot pile of dirt is not a bunker.

The only thing that looked nice about the park were the washable studio sets that Forest Brown help put up.

With that said. BE can bulldoze Bedlem and raise prices.

[starfox]

Shartley-
You need to find something else to do. You have never been to CPX, don't know anyone that worked there, and are only basing your narrow-pro-corporate opinions based on what you've "read" or "heard". Don't pretend to think that your opinions are based on anything but biased, hearsay.

If you took the time to piece the info together, you would see that BE was constantly interfering with Forest and the decisions at CPX. He fought them on a lot of bad decisions that they wanted to make, but, being only a minority owner, he was effectivly powerless.

They cut the staff to save money, while letting the field go to crap, I mean it has turned into a ghetto compared to what it was before BE brought in their "yes man" to screw things up. There weren't enough refs to run the players that they had so games were slow and things slowly went downhill, while Forest could only fight to no avail. There would be no CPX without Forest period. He just made the mistake of letting BE get involved and then steal it from him.

The refs strike did massively affect CPX. They lost tens of thousands of dollars over it and are still feeling the effects of it. BE is already planning to sell off part of the property (tournament complex)and I've heard from a reliable source that BE will close the doors if CPX isn't profitable in the next quarter. The ship is sinking because BE doesn't know the first thing about customer service orproviding quality.

Corporations are slowly learning you can only screw people over for so long before it effects them. BE is finding that out now as they are losing market share, shelf space in Walmart, and are being sued by RP Scherer for stealing the marbalizer ball. That corporate theft is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars.

BE is getting the karma they deserve. Stop speaking of things you know nothing of, or at least find out all of the facts before you look uninformed.

Shame on you for trying to squash the refs ideals for standing up for Forest. Maybe they lost their jobs and were banned sure, but they knew that going into it, but had the cajones to do what they thought was right. Thats more guts than most adults will ever experience. They deserve more respect than your mightier-than-thou corporate line.

[WARPED1]

Holy dead thread ressurection batman! LET IT GO!