Well....
50 miles isn't bad - I had to drive 50 miles to play when I was in high school, and we drove 45 miles or so every week just to practice for about a year in college until the local field got going.
Start a club. Seriously - get some kids who have not played paintball before to try. Try and get someone over 16, and you've fixed your driving problem. That's what we did in high school - we just set aside a day to play with just the people we knew, invited everyone we could think of, and the over 16s drove the under 16s. Also had a couple parents come along who were interested, but it all worked out pretty well, had 70-80 people each time.
Other than that I guess... wait, heh. You could try and get those friends of yours to enter an inexpensive local tournament and see if that conveys the elimination concept. Frankly I don't get the no elmination concept.
Anyway, to touch back on the paint again real quick - Our organization moves a couple thousand cases of paint every year between our events and various club uses (practice, rec outings, local tournies and big/scenario games). We use all sorts of brands, and I've even had a couple offers to do our own paint brand. The result is I know waaaaaay too much about paint pricing. It's about as low as it is going to get barring some major changes in consumption. (I.e. if volume doubled, price might go down 20-30%). Making paint is a very tricky and expensive buisiness.
- Chris
50 miles isn't bad - I had to drive 50 miles to play when I was in high school, and we drove 45 miles or so every week just to practice for about a year in college until the local field got going.
Start a club. Seriously - get some kids who have not played paintball before to try. Try and get someone over 16, and you've fixed your driving problem. That's what we did in high school - we just set aside a day to play with just the people we knew, invited everyone we could think of, and the over 16s drove the under 16s. Also had a couple parents come along who were interested, but it all worked out pretty well, had 70-80 people each time.
Other than that I guess... wait, heh. You could try and get those friends of yours to enter an inexpensive local tournament and see if that conveys the elimination concept. Frankly I don't get the no elmination concept.
Anyway, to touch back on the paint again real quick - Our organization moves a couple thousand cases of paint every year between our events and various club uses (practice, rec outings, local tournies and big/scenario games). We use all sorts of brands, and I've even had a couple offers to do our own paint brand. The result is I know waaaaaay too much about paint pricing. It's about as low as it is going to get barring some major changes in consumption. (I.e. if volume doubled, price might go down 20-30%). Making paint is a very tricky and expensive buisiness.
- Chris
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