NEW FIELD in Illinois, Tourney soon...

[AGDlover]

well wasnt that bogus...

[Twiztidpb]

ditto indeed....not necesarily complaining for my team but i must say sandbagging 101

[Crazy]

Sandbagging.... in chicagoland paintball? No way!

[Twiztidpb]

Yea i mean and getting away with it to noooo way! the place is obviousley just worried about bringing in the benjamins and not worried about the sport it self???

[Lohman446]

Guys, I haven't been to a tourney in a year (with the exception of OGD) where there was not some degree of sandbagging

[Twiztidpb]

true yes but when Warped Sportz Factory team shows up to a rookie tournament? you cant tell me that doesnt raise an eyebrow...

[Lohman446]

I can see where any team with factory in its name isn't trying to hide sandbagging, and should be addressed by the promotor.

[benhmn]

Alright guys, here it goes.

I heard about possible novice players early on. And then I heard a rumor that this novice team was at the tourney to beat another team. I can't start dropping teams based on the word of opposing teams. We had this tournament to spread the word to the local area that we have a paintball field. No big prizes, just a cheap tourney for publicity. We have had little to no exposure to other local fields and the regular tourney players, and/or tourney scene. The problem is unless we're talking about a card carrying circuit of tournaments, there is almost no way to regulate players. At least not fairly. Sure, I could have pulled the team everyone was *****ing about. But how do I know there isn't a novice team from two states over that happend to be in the area?

But before I finish, I just want to say that I AGREE with you. This is a HUGE problem in paintball, and the sport is not regulated enough. That's the main point, though. This is a problem with the current state of paintball in general, and it's not Odyssey Fun World's problem. As one of my refs said recently, "there's no such thing as a rookie tournament anymore".

And with 26 teams showing up followed by constant rain, I had far more to worry about.

Since there was such a fantastic turnout by the way (thank you everyone that came), I'm considering holding another tourney or two in the near future that would involve some serious prizes (and bigger trophies). And I have some IDEAS on how to host an actual, true to God ROOKIE tournament. But we'll see if any of this comes to fruition.

[Lohman446]

I assume you have waivers from everyone, and know the names of everyone on every team (one field I go even goes as far as to take a picture of every team for future reference). Put them in a database, start one, saying when people played, and how they did. Link it to team name. That way, later, you can help divide out people who should not be in low brackets by past performance. I also suggest two divisions, same day, with better prizes in the top, to encourage players to mvoe up to the top division...

[Twiztidpb]

yeah, waivering is good granted they follow through and check it any team that places top 2-3 in a rookie tourney should be bumped up any ways and your ref was right there is no such thing as a good rookie tourney but if a team comes in and everyone knows who they are thats just ridiculous if you dont even address the point that they are there...people know em and talk about them and yet u do nothing ive been to plenty where teams have been asked to leave...you can tell by the way they play if they are rookie or not.