Do you think if they had a specific area for people to set up tables and stuff with extra parts, guns, whatever they have, would people use it? I think it could be kind of cool. I'm kind of thinking the kind of swap meet setup they have at car shows. Just people bringing whatever they want to sell, and you could find that one part you have been looking for. I just doubt the NXL would allow it unless they could profit from it.
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It would be nice to officially do that and have an area setup to meet, but if you watch the posts ahead of cup, there's a ton of people meeting up with a bunch of gear being bought and sold while it's going on.
It would make sense to do that for sure. They really should do that during the lesser events. They could probably pull more people in.-------------
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They used to have entire trading tents in the previous world cups. They were huge it felt like being on the floor of the New York stock exchange. Tons of chaos but many deals to be hadComment
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It's a fantastic idea. I'd sure like to set up a table, and who knows what goodies I could find at the other ones.Comment
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If NXL can't profit from it they will never allow it
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We do that at supergame every year and it's one of the highlights of the event
This is the problem though. If the organizers can't see the value that something like this brings indirect money in that more people attend, if they are too short sighted to only see that there is not immediate money going into their pockets then it will likely not happen
On a similar note, my wife and I used to work a fireworks stand every year, the owner was really smart and actually drove a lot of the changes that other tents would then follow. We were the first to place the security fence inside the tent walls so the tent doesn't look like a prison from the outside, the first to have TVs inside that can show what the fireworks do but the one that's relevant to this conversation, we were the first tent to have a bounce house for kids outside. No, we didn't charge for it and it brought in families. Those families spent money in our tent because there was something for their kids to do either while they shopped or after. Out created indirect profit.
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Tournament players are for the most part, especially at world cup are sponsored by some mix of companies and locked into what they can buy and use.
At best you might be able to sell stuff to D4 and D5 players.... On higher levels most will be sponsored by companies and stuck using their equipment.
Case in point i played D3 back in 2006, and was then running on a team using eclipse equipment and gear.... I would get pissy emails from our teams account rep for using unrelated equipment from our sponsors to the point i had my company name screen printed in my jersey so i could used guns (pumps) I builtComment
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You wouldn't be selling to the players though, not for the most part. You would be selling to the audience. Every team has pit crew, chances are those people also play just not on the competitive level. If anyone who attended is also allowed to bring stuff to sell? Cool! Even more variety and stuff.
Everyone is always complaining that these events are all one sided and not representative of paintball so they are not popular and therefore paintballs popularity as a whole takes a hit. A swap meet is a great idea to change that, it's free besides maybe providing tables and here you are saying it won't work. Gee, I wonder why professional paintball isn't popular? Maybe because people want it to be so sterile of anything else and are so unwilling to even try anything that it's become boring?
What's the largest change to professional speedball in the last decade? As far as I can see it's that they tweaked the bps. I've never had a lot of interest in going to a professional event because it's so sterile of any new ideas. If a swap meet feels like too much effort to even try I guess I've been correct
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I think the biggest change was the switch to automatic penalties for playing with "non-obvious hits." That rule change seemed to end the old philosophy of "play until a ref drags you off" into players actually calling their hits immediately because the 1-for-1's outweighed the advantages of playing on. Speedballers now are a lot more honest than during the early 2000's when even Greg Hastings had wiping as part of the game.
But yeah, a swap meet would be tight. If it was only Sunday it would likely not even mess with paid vendors much. By Sunday most players would have already had a chance to get new stuff through the vendors, it would give players that didn't make the finals a chance to sell off season gear, and it would massively increase foot traffic on finals day.Comment
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