Campaign Cup..., ....a ringers opinion.... Options

[neil]

Right, CC is getting slated on P8 at the moment for just about everything!! I know a lot of Ringers worked at the event and most of us have a lot of experience in the set up, staffing and running of a major tournament. Between us we have vendors, spectators, refs, players and staff.

I think it would be nice to get honest opinions from all of us about the event, but in order to make your post credible, we are going to adopt the "shit sandwich" approach. Basically, if you can only post negative points and no positives obviously you were not paying attention!

We all know how much work goes into every aspect of setting up an international event and no one wants to discredit the effort made by any of the campaign staff. With that in mind, I would ask the moderators to keep an eye on this thread and delete any posts that are inappropriate.

I'll set the ball rolling then....

POSITIVE:
An excellent choice of vendors in the trade village, all offering good deals.
From a players point of view, the location of facilities and fields in relation to the players area was good.

NEGATIVE:
The event was again let down by the lack of security for equipment. Secure players areas and parking areas for players need to be provided.
For the first time in about seven years, i went to CC to spectate. I would have seen more of the event if i had stayed at home and asked tango to text me random photos all day....

As i have already said, this is not a mud slinging match, it's about constructive comments that hopefully the organisers are big enough to take on board and be congratulated on what they did well, and at the same time reflect on what could be done better next year.

[Paintball Widow]

POSITIVE:
- Great to see all the old crew
- XL Turf. looks great. (but all fields, even M5 should be XL Turf)
- Cool field designs, great to see things being thought of outside the box
- much closer together, no big 15 min treks to the fields.
- nice that there was enough seating for everyone (perhaps too much seating :) haha)
- Great to see outside sponsors getting their feet wet, I suspect that Corona and some new companies will be involved for the season next year.
- Top 3 CPL teams were DraXxus teams.
- good selection of trade. Great sales at Dye! Missed seeing a sullen Piper in his stand though.
- Admin seemed to move very quickly, heard that from a lot of people. They've got that worked out. Good job!
- M5 seemed to go over well, lots of people like the idea and format. I didn't get to watch any personally though
- Those chips at the Fish and Chips wagon!



NEGATIVES:
- Barry Fuggle's MP3 player - only so much country music one can stand during a paintball event.
- The Queen's. 'nuff said.
- Couldn't get to the other fields without a players pass. I'm glad the staff for the most part knew who I was or I'd had to have said 'Do you know who I am?' (hahahaha kidding)
- I prefer 'enclosed' fields as a preference. Visually the fields didn't seem 'finished'
- No Campaign Cup tshirts or other souvenirs
- No extra schedules for spectators available.
- Parking charge in the car park for spectators (if this was known before should have been posted)
- Glad there was a players party, but not everyone knows English clubs are smart casual (no sneakers) none of the Montreal guys had dress shoes and therefore couldn't go - this should have been posted.
- Refs in Yellow (the final was Tontons, Joy and with the refs - I didn't know where to look)
- No signage (or small signage) - hard to find by car and Crystal Palace does not show up on Euro Sat Nav.
- VIP area. We went for the free beer, not because it was VIP. needed a little upmff or something, perhaps one of the Corona girls serving, different music, scoreboard feeds, snacks. . . .




Personal Negatives:
The Trade Stand: I can't say anything more. I know my company has a little work to do in that area.

Besides the usual punk ass shoplifters, I don't think the Trade was hit the same as in the past for theiving. . . .I haven't heard of any teams or players that had their equipment nicked from the players area. I did hear that pretty much ALL cars that got done in the parking lot had SatNav or something similar ON SHOW, so in my opinion, serves them right.

Colin's team brought bike locks and padlocks for their equipment when not in the players area. for a grand total of $15 CAD they protected their equipment. Stealing is just part of the English landscape now, a little preperation makes sure you aren't victim.


All in all - had a great time. I'll have my pictures up soon.