How do you scout for new players...

[Carbon]

the more appropriate and generic question is, what do you look for?

Recently the team has acquired a new kid. the boy is 12yrs old, plays with a lot of heart and has no fear. His technique is above average for his age and will only get better. At this point he play front/mid and is goin to his 1st tourney next week (3 man young gun).

I think for the most part, the team's #1 criteria for selection is a A+ attitude. That is, no asshats allowed. I suppose skill can always improve, but knuckleheads tend to stay knuckle heads. Im assuming this is the general consensus among many of you team based players.

At this point he still needs to be "directed" to do things. Which is fine for the moment, untill his maturity level allows him to gain that all important, individuall initiative.

The only problem i see is the lack of independent financial security on his part to spend the money on paint and other misc. cost. Luckilly, up to this point, his folks have been rather supportive of his venture into competition paintball. He is by no means spoilled and in fact he is borrowing an electro for this coming tourney.

[Lohman446]

It seems to me the only thing you ahve to worry about since he is new is (for kids) attention span (we would call it burn out factor for adults, somehow implying its not there fault, but with kids its there fault). After you invest time and effort into making him a good player, is he going to continue to play the sport. Is he going to get into politics and jump teams as he gets better. These are a concern with anyone of course, other than those it seems to me like you have a very good prospect on your hands from what you have said.

My normal scouting involves "XX is pretty good, lets see if we can steal him away from team XX". We have yet to fail :)

[Carbon]

hahah.

yeah in fach poaching is one of those thing i kinda worry about. In fact before we acquired him there were some otehr teams looking to get their grasp on him.

anyway, if he does jump team, i suppose the only consolation we have is, that we taugh him well, hopefully.

[indulgence]

anyway, if he does jump team, i suppose the only consolation we have is, that we taugh him well, hopefully.

Carbon, sometimes I think you are too nice. But anyway, you should choose someone who lives about an hour away from the field your team plays at, and someone you know just a tad, and can teach easily. Sometimes that person could be replying to a thread that you made.

aside from that you shouldn't worry about his team jumping if he tends to stick with what he enjoys, if he is going to go to another team because they offered him more, then he wasn't willing to play hard for your team anyway. point is, so long as they like what the team is doing and where its going, they will stay loyal, So maybe someone who connects with the team is a good choice.

[68magOwner]

Umm, our team preety much knows all the local talent, so, if we need a guy, we find someone who can do what we need done and who we will get along with. Then just command them to be on the team

[VFX_Fenix]

With our location and the requirements of "team" status for us. We pretty much need to take who can show-up, afford the field time/paint/etc. and who can show for tournaments.

So far we've only had one instance where we needed to scout some tallent outside of our ranks of regular players. However this does tend to lead to a sort of rag-tag piece-mail team.

The hope is that once a core can be formed when school gets back in session and everyone's back in the same place, those players will be supplemented by others who are regulars in the event one of the core players isn't able to attend and event. At that point merrit will lie on attendance of team functions, attitude, and who has proven they want to play for us. We'll never send anyone away, we expect that we'll be fielding two teams for the next NCCS season (Nov and Rookie) if we can pull another 5 players together that want to do it.

[Carbon]

another general question.

How does off field chemistry among your temates affect your playing?

Do you tend to kinda, humble each other? That is, are swelling egos quickly deflated one way or another. Is the competitive nature among your teamates healthy?

[Lohman446]

another general question.

How does off field chemistry among your temates affect your playing?

Do you tend to kinda, humble each other? That is, are swelling egos quickly deflated one way or another. Is the competitive nature among your teamates healthy?

I have been on teams with a LOT of talent, that failed to play to there potential, and imploded because of off field issues. To me off-field chemistry is as important as on field, but then again I play for fun. One of the funniest things I have ever witnessed that went on and off field was the implosion of one of hte teams I was on that occured over the course of a single day tournament.... in hindsight it was funny... at least if you were nto on the team