I want your opinion

xaerak wrote:The one's on the front of the page are the only ones. You guys are essentially the only people who play paintball in Maine.

yeah that sucks i was hoping to see atleast 10 people commit to it so it could happen but its not looking that way right now

i would play if but i also have a job and its on saturday every saturady so i dont want to commit when i know that i have to work on sat and can only play sundays

Yeah thats an iffy situation to work around

I think this was a great idea while it was up in the air. Is everybody just going let this thing die? This is Maine's chance to build army or huge family of people who love the game. I would have loved to see a Huge group of kids at one field, that are just eager and hungry to learn about the game as I am.

i think this is a great idea. every since maine paintball lost a member back probably 5 or six years ago it seems like everything fell apart from there on out.

I don't see a lot of competitive interest in paintball. Playing recreationally is excellent and that's great but I was hoping to see a lot of young kids hungry to play hard and learn and be aggressively competitive. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of that here and it's unfortunate.

xaerak wrote:I don't see a lot of competitive interest in paintball. Playing recreationally is excellent and that's great but I was hoping to see a lot of young kids hungry to play hard and learn and be aggressively competitive. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of that here and it's unfortunate.

I think the reasons are

practices and dedication ,kids (rookie players starting out) don't seem to want to have a competitive practice in paintball. They would rather kill nubs all day (further killing the game and killing there chances of getting better). AKA fear of losing in practice

money obviously Your spend money in paintball

BAP it self.

the fear of getting shot so much by 12.5

scenario play (which is fun and good for the industry) vs xball

No one to look up to, to shoot for and beyond, I know everyone thinks the Canes are cool and they want to be pro ect. I don't think any one who did not play paintball till 2008 has been to nppl Boston 07 or 06 to watch them play or played against them for that matter. So how could you really look up to them? You did not play them so you don't know how good they really are? You don't even know if they are even nice guys ( I've been told Thomas Mantoni is very arrogant and just plain mean and self centered and the rest of them are not so cuddly and lovable from what I have been told. )

What about the local heroes who had call backs from the Canes tryout? My personal goal was to play for the guys who had the best track record in tournaments in Maine. Splatz esg (80% of SK) They won the NEPL series in 2007 and got 6th place at nepl. What interested me was that one game it and splatz was down like on 2 bodies and the other team had 6 I think. Splatz came out with the win. Thats what gave me drive and interest to keep becoming better. That and I talk to Mike Hingman about one of my favorite players from Aftermath at the time LIl Kenny and watching him stab so many guys with his midget like speed.

But idk thats what drives me.... Its different for everyone, what drives them to climb the mountain,there are different paths up it. Some longer, some shorter, some rocky, and some smooth. Hopefully we could help making it shorter and smoother.I know Sk is not the greatest thing out of new england, but trying to build an army to make us become more united as a state, might help put Maine at the top of NE. It worth a shot, you'll never know until you try it.


Rant and long post people will either ignore or want to stab me for/

The case time and time again with Maine PB is that 100% of the people online here will talk the talk but when it comes time to walk the walk only 3% of us commit. If you guys show the interest and want to come out and work with us we will be more than happy to toss you a few points and work on your game with you. But you have to come up to us at practice and ask for it. We can't read minds.

Richie wrote:Rant and long post people will either ignore or want to stab me for/

Richie wrote:The case time and time again with Maine PB is that 100% of the people online here will talk the talk but when it comes time to walk the walk only 3% of us commit.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire

dont worry about it man its your opinion and you have the right to express your feelings. I shure hope that you are not looking this online community as a failure. I have meet and played with over 20 people that i did not know existed befor.

Richie wasn't saying that this website was a failure. He was stating that, what WE as shadowkillers wanted to see out of Maine isn't tangible yet and perhaps never will be. This website is f*** fabulous, I like it a lot. But as fir the idea we presented, that's the failure.

i do agree the idea would not work now give it some time if we can get pb in maine like it was 06 then it could work

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