Paintball Magazine Paintball Magazine March 2019 Issue | Page 84

JA: The league is pro only. Tell us about
that. Why pro only? Have you been in We’ve been in touch with most of the
contact with the pro teams? Do you have Professional teams out there. There’s
commitments from some? Who?
been a great deal of interest but budgets
are tight this season. With the model
We are. The NPL is uniquely positioned to change, we expect we’re going to see
focus all of our attention on participating another wave of signups and even more
teams. The goal of the NPL is to produce after our camera test. Due to funding
a sports entertainment product of AAA challenges, we’ve actually had a few new
caliber. We can only do that if our focus franchises put teams together specifically
is on 12 teams at a time rather than for the NPL. Rocky Knuth and the Naughty
hundreds.
Dogs will be coming back. We have a new
Denver franchise and a new Northwestern
The truth is, I can place one field franchise. You’ll see a lot of names you
anywhere in the world. If we also catered recognize.
to divisional teams, we would require the
same acreage as the NXL and severely We do limit the NPL to Pro/Semi-Pro
limit our available locations. There are contenders. Teams and players have to
plenty of leagues who allow the divisional prove themselves on the semi-pro NXL
players to test their skills on a regional field before we consider them for an NPL
and national level.
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