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Just base the fantasy league on how draft kings or other sports betting apps. They don’t force you to buy actual cards to play fantasy each week. Seems like it would be hard to gain traction this way v how a company like draft kings and others do it…….maybe I’m missing the point….i get it helps the players make some money but……
The NFT site doesn't even work. Won't let me create a "wallet". Keeps giving me an error when I try to make a wallet password. The only way to contact the developer is through Twitter, which I don't have and refuse to get.
44:14 I wonder if this was the indoor on Uraium Dr. Would have been across the street from the Symantec office. Layout was the same with the 2-story castle in the middle with the maze underneath. Had ramps to run up and down. Most of us played at the indoor in Richmond bc those dudes blasted 70s and 80s arcade metal. Cops used to train there so the maze was way bigger. Also it was Richmond, so there was lots of weed.
Tom, you should break the news about the first event of the 2025 on Tuesday at 4pm on the longest-running live paintball show on RU-vid. #spick&spanshow 😝😁
3v3s are gonna be huge!!! I wonder if we will see a slightly smaller field and a few less bunkers? Somewhere in the middle of the hormesis field and 2023 nxl field sounds ideal! 🥵
Why is paintball trying to be like every other sport? Instead of doubling down on what makes paintball, paintball. Gimmicks and outdated plans on trying to “return to tv”. No one watches tv except irrelevant old people.
The NFT/fantasy crossover does sound kinda cool and it’s an idea I’ve never heard before so I can appreciate it but I’m not sure how popular a pay2win microtransaction fantasy league is going to do. I think maybe having a normal fantasy platform that you and your friends can create leagues would be more successful. I think from that platform you could have a setting where everyone can put money into the pot on the platform and it gets dispersed to the winner and fantasy paintball can take a small percentage of the winnings. That and dollar bets (betting on each point of a match) are two ideas that have been really overlooked imo that would crush it on an online platform.
I wish, but there's no existing field they could do it at, so they'd have to set one up; and I can't think of any place that has decent space in the city + parking to accommodate something that size operation, so probably somewhere more out west if it were in MA.
That does seem a little steep. I think the idea is that there is a collectable attached to it int he NFT which could end up yielding more value to the buyer in the long term. It isn't just a cost to play. Also - the grand prizes they are talking about seem pretty incredible. We will be working on our version of fantasy as well, now that there are stats being collected.
Just spitballing in my imagination as I am prone to, ruminating about how the paintball drama finally meets its' fuller mainstream viewership potential. If paintball was more cost-effective at a casual player interest level it would be a massive boon for the sport. To become more popular the drama of paintball needs to be more familiar or relatable to the viewership. Making paintball cheaper obviously would increase the popularity. To become cheaper it needs to be more popular and to become more popular it needs to become cheaper... rinse repeat... Assuming the smart people could solve the cost effect on accessibility if paintball was more popular, it seems like the 1st step is to intuit how paintball will stick in mainstream culture. I feel like it all needs to go back to advocating paintballs' team building virtue. I feel like there needs to be an unending vigilance to develop a casual level of engagement that makes paintball the official supplemental team building sport to all forms of intense competition. It needs to marketed to as many professional sports as possible without risk of injury liability and there needs to be an official standard for rental equipment and format. If a professional football player is on tv talking about last week when he was playing paintball with the defensive team, he should be talking about the same exact quality of mask, air (not co2), and the rental gun needs to be standardized (maybe with a couple of classification levels). If you are a mom with two teenage kids and your family goes to play paintball 4 to 5 times a year, or more, there should be no need to own any personal equipment and go have a very standard relatable level of experience. "We played class 2 paintball last week. We usually play class 1... the professional athlete on TV said he was playing class 2 with his team..." Cheap force-feed hoppers, goggles that you can see through, air (not co2), and electric **bps markers should be a standard rental classification. Basic safety and proper use of equipment MUST be common knowledge, even to people who have never played. *and pants too, so you don't rip holes in your street clothes. It needs to be marketed for a trickle-down culture, beginning with competitive business and competitive sports cultures. There need to be standards that represent little to no injury liability in the eyes of insurance companies and you need to be able to walk into a field with nothing, go have a qualitatively standard level of experience, and leave it all at the field. It needs to be logistically clean, come and go, take it and leave it behind, qualitatively predictable. Paintballs' maximum potential to go mainstream is ultimately restricted to the population of personality profiles that are: 1. competitive 2. willing to get dirty 3. "can dish it out and take it". *The reason for these 3 points is, the current formats for paintball competitions have no casual-viewer-spectacle; in order for a viewer to empathize with the unfurrowing paintball drama you need to be familiar with the direct experience of the dejection of being shot out in the middle of your efforts and rise of vanquishing your opposition in paintball specifically; the current formats of points etc. does not provide a satisfying drama to the viewership.
1:07:23 Spot on! Paint limits are going to be necessary for the game on so many levels. Limits at nations cup made for some of the most entertaining matches to watch in recent memory.
Great podcast with Billy. Hearing how on top of His and Kore’s thinking is about rec play experience and what a driver it is for where we want the sport to get.
I’m looking into opening a field in Southern Utah just north of there. It’s a big step, I have some help with finding resources in hopefully making this happen, but more help would be great cause I need it!
