How Would YOU Like to Play on a Pro Team with Manny???

[Webmaster]

Mee!! mee!!! I wanna Play NPPL PRO!!!

[Webmaster]

From Shartley
"And you should NEVER go into a tournament as a joke knowing you will not last one round. This is just down right disrespectful to those who take it seriously and worked hard to get there. "

Oh you are sooo wrong there. I have been in several major tournament with teams put together from people I met online. I was at the first skyball on a team that played STOCK CLASS vs Semi Autos! We even WON a couple games!!

I have played in 10 man at the Zap am against some great teams!

Our team expects to loose. We are individually good players and great sports - but we dont practice together and cant hope to do seriously well.(even though we did very respectful in the last skyball)

Sure, for a serious competitor with a KILL KILL they take the game seriously. Some of them work hard to get where they are at (others make up the rest of the fodder that paid to play). Simply put - I wouldnt trade all my tournament experiance for anything. It is truely some of the best fun I have ever had even though I went in knowing I was out classed (and in some cases out gunned).

There are many reasons to play tournaments - to live the experiance and to have fun is one of them.

[manike]

Originally posted by Webmaster
Simply put - I wouldnt trade all my tournament experiance for anything. It is truely some of the best fun I have ever had even though I went in knowing I was out classed (and in some cases out gunned).

There are many reasons to play tournaments - to live the experiance and to have fun is one of them.

I agree 100%. I reccommend people try tourny play, just for the crack. I play everything from stock class and big games to the World Cup and Millenium Series tournaments. I love it all!

manike

[gimp]

I only read the first page, so I don't really know what the topic has turned into. I'd love to play in a pro tourny. I'd get slaughtered, but I think it would be fun. After I get killed by a pro team I wouldn't really be intimidated by any of the other teams I usually play with.

[brian terry]

hummmmmmm BY BY BRIMSTONE SMOKE HELLO AGD PRO ,......

[tunaman jr]

i wanna play!
what kinda contest is it gonna be?
i hope i win

[AGDRules]

Tom

If you are serious about putting together a pro team for AGD, I am very interested. Let me know all the specs on this so I know what you are planning on doing, thnx in advanc.

[brian terry]

a guys if you all really want to play nppl pro or pro at all ,the team has to talk and work as a team and get along as well ,win or or not the team has to go and play every game as it was the first game of the day ,and if u make a bad move and get hit dont get mad or start acting like a fool it will bring down the team,so people if agd dose put a pro team in the nppl lets make a good show on the field and win the whole thing ,but if the agd team dont win, well come off the field with your heads high and be a good sport ,the team will make agd look good win or lose,...

[Panzerr]

I'm in, though I don't like the "lottery" idea. I think it would be very bad for team spirit. I disagree about Team AO being slaughtered. I've got enough confidence in myself, and a few names I've come to recognize on the forums to believe that we could put together one hell of a team.

[shartley]

Webby

Oh you are sooo wrong there. I have been in several major tournament with teams put together from people I met online. I was at the first skyball on a team that played STOCK CLASS vs Semi Autos! We even WON a couple games!!

Sure, for a serious competitor with a KILL KILL they take the game seriously. Some of them work hard to get where they are at (others make up the rest of the fodder that paid to play). Simply put - I wouldnt trade all my tournament experiance for anything. It is truely some of the best fun I have ever had even though I went in knowing I was out classed (and in some cases out gunned).

There are many reasons to play tournaments - to live the experiance and to have fun is one of them.

[OhMyAMoose]

I would think that it would be a hoot! Maybe it would not be so fun getting killed by some of these teams but I am sure I would have a good laugh after it was all over with. I dont know how these tournmets go but is there like different skill levels? Just put us in the lower skill level and we might have some type of chance(ahhh probaly not :-) ). I would think it would kind of be funny and I would love to have a chance to go play in a big tournment. I would like to know a little about this tournment scene and all what it is about. Hell, I dont even have a gun anymore so I would have use my friends spyder or I could just run around and throw paintablls. It would be great! Just think... a few rec. ballers randomly selected to play with the big boys. Let the comedy and fun begin! I like the idea Tom.

[virus]

now when i wrote my original post this morning before i went to work, i had just woke up and posted in my morning fog and find that i left some stuff out..... that and i had a slow day at work =)

anyway if this were to happen an AM B would probly be a good start ... even if that may be even a little high... but ya never know how one will play untill ya hear GAME ON!!!! and then things get interesting from there on out....

one thing to consider might be to sponser on a more regieonal level... ie PanAM on the west coast NEPL on the east and/or the central and southern circuts out there.....

this would allow the players to get some tourny xp and find those that are willing to stick with it and learn the ropes or in this case tape.... also this could allow you to do a little scouting among us to throw a scratch team together for the big events starting in the lower levels of events like mardi gra, skyball and the likes... of course who is to say these reginal teams may just make it on there own there to begin with....

but the question for sponsering any regional teams would be what type/bennies you could offer....

just remember most teams take time to build and as others have stated most have been together for years now, but there are always new teams out there working their way up and they all had to start somewhere (ok except for some teams thats win over some great talent somehow to make an even stronger team....) (even they can get taken out by a guy with rental pump... ok so its not to likely but it can happen)

now how to start these teams up if a reeegional team theme is supported... there are many ways to go about this and i'm not going to list there here as that would be for another post and probly topic sometime in the future, but it never hurts to get the ol' gears in the heads of AO members spinning now

[AngelBoy]

I think the regional team idea is great. Have a team for a bunch of different leagues or series or whatever. But if you did that AGD wouldnt be able to financially support them all, so you would be giving up money for a better chance to be able to play. I would love to, but, would you really have to have a mag to play under AGD? lol, ok I'm dreamin, o well. But the regional teams sounds like the best plan to me. I agree with all the comments posted about jumping into pro, but I would love to be able to say "I have played pro and have been shot by _______ (insert pro player's name here)." Just my 2 cents.

[Bluntman]

Well, Bad Company did invite me first, but since this was so obviously directed at me I guess I'd accept.

[graycie]

disclaimer: opinions that are going to be expressed are just that, OPINIONS!

i agree with many points stated throughout this thread. literally throwing a team into the pro bracket will end up hurting agd more than helping it. it screams "well we lost jax warriors, so uh.....lets um...make a team!". having a bunch of strangers come together and finishing dead last at a nppl event in my opinion is not effective marketing. nppl being the target events , its also not cheap to lose.also haveing new players enter in the pro bracket will have an effect on their player ranking later on in the future, eventhough its just one event.

reading through the whole thread many have tried to state they're "qualifications" to be on this team. what i have noticed is many of those willing to be rolled over repeatedly are very young players just getting into tournament play. players of this category would be better utilized in events like the iao, ultimate madness,skyball, etc. then have a am b team enter into the nppl of more experienced players, to represent agd. not necessarily enter the team as "agd" , but under a regular name but have agd represented as a major sponsor. what i'm getting at is brand association. missouri magic for instance people know that wgp is their major sponsor, then there is the team in the nppl that has "pro paintball" really big on the back of their jerseys, people know who they are and who their major sponsor is. having everyone shoot a mag is nice and displays the mag, but players having other markers set up with other agd products (warps, halo, flatline) will show the diversity of agd products.

/me thinks this was another one of tk's late night ideas