Dick Clark and Paintball

[manike]

I think now maybe the chat room filters should be modified to allow us to discuss this?

Every time someone mentioned Dick Clark they got booted out...

Will someone please tell me what they mean by 'reality tv'?

[FooTemps]

Originally posted by manike
I think now maybe the chat room filters should be modified to allow us to discuss this?

Every time someone mentioned Dick Clark they got booted out...

Will someone please tell me what they mean by 'reality tv'?

big brother style manike... if i remember correctly there is a european big brother show right?

they'd probably take celebs and put them into a tourney after some training. They'd follow the progress and we get to watch them lose humiliatingly.

[manike]

Originally posted by FooTemps
big brother style manike... if i remember correctly there is a european big brother show right?

they'd probably take celebs and put them into a tourney after some training. They'd follow the progress and we get to watch them lose humiliatingly.

Ah gotya!

I actually took part in something just like that for a UK Satellite channel.

They took one of their presenters, put him into a team for the biggest event in the UK (of which I was one of the players), and watched how we progressed through the event.

It actually worked out quite well. It picked up the excitement of the event and the team spirit.

I even had people recognising me from being in it, and I got to wear gun camera's and all sorts of fun stuff :)

I don't think that's too bad an idea, it's one way to get across what it feels like to be a player to those that haven't played...

[Quickling]

hahahahaha yeah I ment *sigh* oh man.. what a stupid mistake, and then to make it twice....seesh. :)

[billmi]

Originally posted by m-98


I believe that Clark bought XBall and changed the name to PLP because the name XBall is similar to the XFL.

Not exactly.

The NXL (the X Ball league made up of 8 pro teams - LA Ironmen, Baltimore Trauma, NYX, Oakland Assasins, Chicago Aftershock, Philly Americans, Miami Effect, Detroit Thunder) entered into an agreement with Dick Clark Productions.

Ownership of the NXL, the NXL teams and of X Ball has not changed.

Under the agreement, DCP is designing and presenting to networks, a packaged plan for a television series of the NXL competitions.

Because the general public has no clue what NXL is, or X Ball, and consumers who watch advertising in TV shows don't go to stores to buy "X Ball," the NXL is going to go under the name PLP - Professional League Paintball. The general public has heard of paintball, and people buy paintball products. There will likely be some modifications to the X Ball format, under the guidance of DCP to make it even more television friendly, but the PLP competition shows are planned to basically be X Ball, though the name X Ball will probably not be heard or seen in the show.

DCP is also working on the paintball celebrity reality show. That's a separate deal from th NXL/PLP show.

See you on the field,
-Bill Mills

[Jeffy-CanCon]

As always, Bill, you are a fountain of accurate information.:)

[morph228]

thanks for educating me in the workings of NXL i haven't been paying attention to it as of late

cheers

[Tom Sparkman]

Originally posted by manike
I think now maybe the chat room filters should be modified to allow us to discuss this?

Every time someone mentioned Dick Clark they got booted out...

Maybe a little misdirection, ala "Richard Cranium"

Tom