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From the Prez
issue 76
1/2015
Welcome
Ten Things I Wish We
Could Do Over, Part 3 of 5
1. Navarone was truly one of 2. In the early to mid 2000s
the great paintball teams of
all time. For a two to three
year period Navarone dominated the tournament paintball world with their two
great squads. And even after their dominance wained
they were still a top ten
team for many more years,
even though they decided to
keep their equipment “low
tech” while the rest of the
top level teams were upgrading to constant air and
other performance additions
and upgrades.
If we could do it all over
again I wish we would have
taken thousands of photos and hours of footage of
Navarone. I wish we would
have known we were witnessing paintball history as
we watched this team win
event after event. Sadly
there are very few photos of
Navarone, not much video
and their impressive tournament win total has not even
been accurately documented. I definitely wish we had
a do-over on this one.
January 2015
the paintball industry spend
hundreds of thousands
of dollars to get paintball
events televised. The were
regular ESPN shows, an
NPPL Fox Sports show (an
other Fox paintball shows),
Paintball 2Xtremes’ weekly
Spike TV show, the Smart
Parts World Championships
shown weekly and many
others.
The hope of the industry
was to have more eyes see
this great game of paintball
so the game could grow.
In the end the ratings were
pretty good in some cases
but not many “new eyes”
saw the shows. By mid2000 most everyone already
hear of, played or knew
something about paintball.
The extra exposure never
really grew the game. But
it did take a huge sum of
money from it.
Thanks for reading!