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From the Prez
issue 77
2/2015
Welcome
What’s Going on Paintb
Make no mistake about it,
Paintball Sports Promotions
(PSP) runs the best national/
international level paintball
tournaments in the U.S., if not
the world. The competition at
PSP events is second to none,
their webcasts are first class,
their stat-keeping and reporting
is everything you’d want out of
a pro league and their events
are run professionally. PSP puts
on world class paintball tournaments and they do it consistently year after year. You knew
there was a “but” coming,
right?
Here’s the “but.” Too frequently
something PSP-related inevitably leaks (purposefully or not)
on a paintball forum or social
media page that makes you
shake your head. Why can’t the
world’s largest and arguably
best paintball league keep their
negotiations, ideas and plans
out of the media until they are
ready to release it as official
news? All this does is create
speculation, doubt, assumptions and negative will towards
the PSP and its leadership.
January 2015
This past week a rumor was
leaked HERE that the PSP wa
only going to allow gear used
by league sponsors in their
2015 events. In other words,
a paintball company did not p
a very hefty fee, players wou
not be allowed to use that co
pany’s gear at PSP events. T
created more than 2,000 pos
on PbNation and thousands
of speculative posts and com
ments on our Facebook page
and other social media sites.
A week of absolutely negativ
light shined on the league an
the game itself as players--a
paintball company representa
tives--weighed in on unofficia
information about the PSP an
this leaked information.
While players piled on in eve
way, creating degrading memes, threatening to boycott
the league, and personally at
tacking members of the PSP,
the league took seven days t
respond. Seven days. Wha
they did put on their own Fac
book page was a PSP link pro
moting a tournament video
from last year. This is all the
fans got—even after another