Is paintball better suited to WWE style promotion

[Lohman446]

Remember the XFL - where it was the show around the game as much as the game that was the show. I'm not talking "set" winners here, I'm talking making the drama that is paintball as much of the show as paintball...

Thoughts?

[Piranti]

Lol woulnd't need much playacting for the drama, as there is plenty of actual drama surrounding actual tournaments.

[Lohman446]

Im not talking necessarily play acting

The XFL was just supposed to be about the game and allowing (encouraging) the actual drama around it. Not acting

[Piranti]

Yes but wwe was purely playacting even the 'wrestling' itself.

[Lohman446]

Yes but wwe was purely playacting even the 'wrestling' itself.

But the XFL (Xtreme Football League) which was a WWE attempt, was not. Im talking the promotion, the show around the "match" etc. Team entrance music, smoke, theatrical flairs, whining off the field (already there). etc.

[Piranti]

If you beleive that I feel sorry for ya


Not really I just dont know enough really about the xfl, I would have a hard time beleiving it was actual football due to who was setting it up and promoting it. Which is probably why it failed.

[Lohman446]

If you beleive that I feel sorry for ya


Not really I just dont know enough really about the xfl, I would have a hard time beleiving it was actual football due to who was setting it up and promoting it. Which is probably why it failed.

Fine.. the assume someone else. The style of promotion is what matters - over the top

[tae]

Wrestling isn't fake

[CrimsonGhost]

So kind of American Gladiator ..with markers?

I think it would be kind of to much for paintball.
We dont have as many of the OUTSTANDING athletes that a team needs to get the headlines.
We have a bunch of Social misfits, Drug addled machines, and Emotional Cripples.
Wait...MAYBE a soap opera..not a sport?

[DSR75]

The XFL was a legit football league. I know people who played in it.

[Lohman446]

So kind of American Gladiator ..with markers?

I think it would be kind of to much for paintball.
We dont have as many of the OUTSTANDING athletes that a team needs to get the headlines.
We have a bunch of Social misfits, Drug addled machines, and Emotional Cripples.
Wait...MAYBE a soap opera..not a sport?

The WWE get headlines outside of the WWE? Or is all there fantasticalism self-induced. There profitable

Make the sport apart of it. But make all this nonsense that goes on around the game a part of it too.. maybe even hype that up a bit. How much more fun would I have if instructed to "play to the camera"? A lot

[paintballfiend]

You would turn off a lot of the "older " players who think that paintball is a joke already.
Why highlight all the bad stuff tourney ball experiences now.

[Lohman446]

You would turn off a lot of the "older " players who think that paintball is a joke already.
Why highlight all the bad stuff tourney ball experiences now.

The older players are generally turned off already. Play to the demographic you have

[REDRT]

Interesting idea, but the XFL failed. Why wouldn't paintball? What would be different that might make it fly?

[paintballfiend]

Interesting idea, but the XFL failed. Why wouldn't paintball? What would be different that might make it fly?

The Agg kids would just love it!!!