Re: Tournament Scoring Structure

"Jeff Goslin" <autockr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Ns6dnRwU7qOzI17fRVn-vA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Well, your response is hardly a solution to the proposed problem.
> Ignoring
> the shitty situation we find our sport in will hardly make it better.

Ignore it, or paint it blue and turn it upside down, it doesn't matter, the
tournament scene is irrelevent to 95% of the people who play paintball, why
can't you grasp this? The tournament scene has always been a bit of a
fraud, Jerry Braun once admitted to me in this very forum that the magazines
had to heavily sugar-coat their tournament reports in the early years
because if they'd reported those events accurately nobody would have
bothered to come. Did that hurt the growth of paintball as a recreational
game? No? Then why would you bother to care about what happens in today's
elitist and corrupt tourney scene considering that most players couldn't
possibly care less about what happens there?

> If more people played, the prices of EVERYTHING would drop. Very simple
> economics.

The paintball manufacturers scrambled to increase capacity in the late 90s
as the game experienced explosive growth, they now have excess capacity more
often than not. What has driven prices down (so far as they have gone down)
is competition between companies with excess inventory to move, but you'll
notice (or maybe you won't) that the price of paint has hardly budged for
years, and the price of most hardware has been surprisingly stable as well
except where changes in manufacturing have taken place, i.e. production in
Asia. This is an important point Jeff, prices haven't gone down because of
more players, but because of competition between companies, and there's a
huge difference. But I suspect I'm spending too much time in the real world
for your tastes, you have your fantasy and little inconveniences like
reality aren't about to change you mind.

> The price of paint will drop. The price of gear will drop. The number of
> players will increase. The number of fields will increase. I honestly
> can't believe I'm explaining this stuff to you.

The price of entry-level gear has already bottomed out, there is no place
cheaper than China to build this stuff, so what the hell are you talking
about? The price of better gear made in the U.S. or Europe ain't moving
because of volume, only due to production techniques, or did you notice the
cost of Angels falling over the years as their sales increased? The price
of paint is going nowhere as well, the wholesale cost of paint has been
nailed to the floor for years despite more people than ever playing, even
the paint coming in from China is only marginally cheaper than the econo
brands made in the U.S. and Canada. Ah, but I keep forgetting, you're
flying on guesswork and opinion, as usual, sorry about all the facts.

Besides, why should someone who claims to play with a PGP care about the
price of paint?

> I would say the same for you.

"I know you are but what am I?"

Brilliant Jeff, really, some of your finest work.

Now take the dog for a walk, get those lungs working, the oxygen level in
your blood is clearly too low.


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