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

[i-luv-my-rt]

Ok now i fully understand what Manike and Webbie are trying to say. I deleted my previous post b/c of this. I am sorry for my ignorance and well...lack of paying attention. I hope to see you guys at skyball.

P.S. Now look for me wearing a PINK proteus and hopefully a furry rabbit tall on my buzzom(you guys have turned me once again to the good side).

Thanks Guys!!!!

[Restola]

why dont all of the thousands of members get together and make hundreds of 5 man teams and flood all the nppl events. the events would then take weeks and weeks to finish. by the time it was over maybe some of the pro teams would have had to leave to do something else, and one of the AO teams might win.

[Maghog]

Best idea of this thread!!! Go Restola!!! Flood the NPPL!!!
Seriously though, shartley, I'm sorry, but this time you kind of reversed your opinion to make it sound like another opinion which reinforced the ones who have something to say about yours.
It just looks a little weird, that's all.

[Bailey]

Im all about it

Id love to put a wuppin on some pro arse.
Count me in if anything ever happens......

[blnk162]

I really think its a bad idea to just have a contest to determine who could play pro......I know id try out if there were tryouts and im from chicago home to AGD, and i was wondering....why would manny leave shock? No offense to an agd pro team but shock is the best pro team EVER hands down.....theres also a certain mentality to play pro, i mean i play 10 man nppl am b now and that eves wears on you.....

Theres also a certain mentality to playing PRO....i mean im a kid but ive seen a whole lot of nppl and major events, this year im playing 4 of the 5 nppls, i mean playing pro paintball is your life, look at every team they own something to do with paintball, it would be very hard to put together a non-laughing stock agd team, and if tom doesnt want to "buy" his players it will be very hard unless tom chooses to stick with guys from the chicago area or guys who will pay to travel every weekend to wherever practices would be held....ed poorman spends 70g's on avalanche a year.....do people in here REALLY have that commitment just cuz they like tom and agd guns? How many of you play every weekend, watch push 3 times a week, and read every forum every night...i know i do and i dont know if ill ever go pro...im not bragging AT ALL, but ive talked to guys on Shock, Fusion, and the Old Sec ironmen..this is what they do, some people are lawyers....doctors....housewifes for god sake....and then others are paintball players....

[Snooky]

If you are to put together a team tom make sure they show agd markers and refs with respect. I would love to see a team that didn't throw thier guns, swear, and argue with the refs. If u can do those thing the AGD team will be the best in supporting the sport. But now I would suggest u find talent that hasn't been discovered. I think not everyone would think an angel is the best guns if the pros didnt use them and won turneys doing it. When the jax warriors won with the emags im like wow maybe its the gun and thats what advertising is good for impressing customers.

[lonsch]

i mean i play 10 man nppl am b now and that eves wears on you

you have never played a NPPl event. let alone 10 man

manny is not leaving shock he said he would play for toms team if it was not a NPPL event

[Gunga]

One option that I don't recall seeing (and I'm not about to reread all those previous posts!) is to sponsor a novice team. Such a team, thrown together or not, wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) get wiped out by the opposition within 0.0532 seconds! Probably win a few games and have a respectable finish.

Sure, this might be 'aiming low', but it would avoid the 'embarrassment' of having the AGD team get whupped by a teams toting 'Cockers/Angels/whatever and the resulting 'AGD guns must suck' view that some of the people would undoubtedly develop. Also, it'd give the Mag family of guns exposure to relative newbies, hopefully before they are 'corrupted' by the hype and various uninformed (usually) opinions that the 'know it all' types love to spout, such as "I've never owned a Mag or used one, but I know it sucks."

Of course, that brings up what the definition of a 'novice' would be, for novice tourneys, if the NPPL even has such a thing. Would a novice be a player with fewer than X years of experience in paintball? Or a player with fewer than Y years of playing in tourneys? I, for example, have been playing paintball for 15+ years (yes I'm getting old), but have 0 tourney experience.

There was a novice tourney this fall at the Badlandz here in the Chicago area, but I don't know if it was NPPL 'approved' or not.

[Riotz]

Tom,

Have you given any thought to this? Just courious

[skipdogg]

this thread seems to have been exhausted. Well...... Any decisions on what AGD will do??

[DarkRipper]

I captained an internet team to WC2k and we did... well... poorly. I recruited NPPL players off the internet... I had excellent players, all around. However, individual skill didn't make up for playing against TEAMS.

We did have fun, though. Oh, we went in as Am B.

Team OAO/OTP. You can look us up on Warpig's Cup 2k coverage.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that it would be hard to do, pulling players that AREN'T 10 man or NPPL experienced. I took players that WERE, and did badly.
We did take out 5 of Image... Too bad the refs wiped a couple.


DR

[SlipknotX556]

I would love to play on the team but its mostly about havin fun not what place u come in.

[RTProUser]

Im in!

Hey I will play, I have a brand new RT Pro to show off in support of AGD.. E-mail me if you need another player [email protected] I also have another guy that will play.

[ChrisRT]

I would do it, what do you have to lose?

[MikeCouves]

Well maybe we could have a couple "lightly" sponered teams? Then we could have a big tent with a bunch of people playing for AGD. I would be a good front player...being about 5 feet tall!! Bwah haha, the little midget that could! Well I think it is a pretty good idea, but we would get slaughtered in the pro division. Absolutely slaughtered, lol.

IMO, we should go for it, and see what happens. I think it would be a great idea, and a whole pile of fun!

Contest eh? This wouldn't involve graphic editing or anything would it? Ain't my strongpoint ...