Skyball 7, just a "Heads up", and rant

[Duke Henry]

For those who haven't already seen this, preliminary skyball prizes are up.

I have to say, quite impressive!

http://www.skyball7.com/NewFiles/prizes.html

[manike]

Originally posted by Duke Henry
For those who haven't already seen this, preliminary skyball prizes are up.

I have to say, quite impressive!

http://www.skyball7.com/NewFiles/prizes.html

Huh? so if you win rookie or Amateur you get the same prizes? Bit strange. Good way to get the most sand baggers possible...

[fire1811]

Originally posted by manike


Huh? so if you win rookie or Amateur you get the same prizes? Bit strange. Good way to get the most sand baggers possible...

that is so true.
im sure they wont bother double checking teams from last year either.

skyball ppl called are captain and we asked about the price rise and she said that Skyball has NEVER made money.

we(BAM) havent decided if we are going to attend or not

[Duke Henry]

Originally posted by manike


Huh? so if you win rookie or Amateur you get the same prizes? Bit strange. Good way to get the most sand baggers possible...

I thought the same thing, then again that will mean that Novice will be nice and wide open when we play it!

I would also guess that when they add prizes, the majority would be to the higher divisions - but who knows?

[fire1811]

Originally posted by Duke Henry


I thought the same thing, then again that will mean that Novice will be nice and wide open when we play it!

nah cause you will has some AM teams sandin in the novice

[Duke Henry]

Originally posted by fire1811


nah cause you will has some AM teams sandin in the novice

Ahh man, you had to ruin my fun!!!

[Crimson_Turkey]

Originally posted by JLove
Montreal is definitely a better city than Toronto. It is not that Toronto is bad, its just that when the event is lame, it is good to get away from the dome and have fun. There are a couple of decent night clubs and restaurants in Toronto, as well as an iMax theater, but most paintball players are not interested in that. I would be happy with a decent shopping mall.

Eaton centre on Queen and Yonge is a decent shopping centre. Once you know the city you know where to go for entertainment.

[yeahthatsme]

i'm guessing that once they get the company specific prizes the AM and NOV prizes will get better...

[Crimson_Turkey]

96 cases pf paint?!? Holy god!

[fire1811]

Originally posted by Crimson_Turkey
96 cases pf paint?!? Holy god!

yeah but what kind of paint??

brass eagle, pmi, zap ???

[Quickling]

1- WTF? do you pay more for each division yet get the same prize? Can we say lets play a lower division!

2- 96 cases of paint... so what. If you don't have a BYOP field to play at, you got 96 cases rotting in your closet.

3- Fred and Tyger, you guys playing together... or I should ask are you playing PUMP together?m Im curious because this event had they not jacked up the price might have seen up to 3+ pump teams.

Meph and Amhildreth where going to do teams until the price jump.

Ok 3 pump teams sounds silly, but there was only 1 last year, mayhps we are seeing a rise in number? I know after fondling Fred's sterling I had to have one... since buying one after castle I haven't touched my semi (before it was 50/50 pump semi). We just had 8 people semi-local do a NY pump day... I know this is off topic, but it was a little bit of hope I see

[Twon]

96 cases of a new brand of paint that XO is planning to release. As for the room on top of the dome, forget it, they were all rented by XO.

Twon

[Meph]

I recall Amhildreth as part of PPIG. I was part of team Pump Fiction. We were all about to register for Skyball6 when suddenly 2 players had to cop out (major problems) and cancelled our roadtrip.



I wanted to join up with some pump players this year but Jeebus. After I saw that price jump.... I honestly just can not justify it. I could barely get enough $$$ together for S6. Now I know I have no chance for S7!

[Crimson_Turkey]

say you sell 96 cases of paint for $15 a case on AO and you just got yourself $1440.

[Tyger]

Originally posted by Quickling

3- Fred and Tyger, you guys playing together... or I should ask are you playing PUMP together?m Im curious because this event had they not jacked up the price might have seen up to 3+ pump teams.

I don't know. A part of me wants to keep the tradition alive, but I am having a hard time justifying the $200 jump in my mind for a list of promises, knowing it's just another airball tournament.

EDIT ADD : Another thing too, it's been the same old 'airball' bunkers too, I've played, basically, he sluff fields the last few years. Heck, 2002, the year I was in a cast, we played on a "boring" field, then they moved the Angel field in after we were done so the 'pros' could play on it. The more I think of it, the more I get annoyed that we haven't seen, say, the JT Piramid, or any other "unique" fields out there. The most inresting was 2001 "ZAP" in the middle of the court. It was annoying to play around, but at least it was intresting. Not the same old "Rods and cones".

NOW, if they had an open speedball court, I'd do it. I can justify that. If they had more than just the same vendors, I could do that too. But, right now, I'm having a hard time swallowing a few things.

By the rules, PPIG may be an AM team. We don't sandbag. So we'd have to pay $1000. Unless we can qualify as Rookies, citing that we've never finished in the money of any event, and all of us combined never did either. And there's nothing to an advantage togoing to Skyball over MArdi Gras, other than it's in the Skydome. We don't get spectators, TV coverage, local media, or in fact ANYONE to look in on us.

**sigh** I'm feeling bleak.

So, to answer, no clue yet. PPIG is still "jury is out" mode.

-Tyger