just saw this, what do you guys think of this, if it happens?
Anybody can call themselves 'pro' and indeed play as pro but the point is, can they compete as pros in terms of winning games?
If a team plays a pro event and doesn't even win a game, there's a thousand and one teams who could do that and so the question should really be rephrased, 'could a team compete as pros with the players being randomly selected from Joe Public and trained' ?
The answer is 'No' ... not even close, you have to have a base working material that is paintball orientated.
Any schmuck off the street can be trained to pull a trigger but a Joe Public team competing, in terms of winning games against pro teams?
A big fate nope, no matter how much money has been thrown at them ...... and I'll go so far to say, anyone who tries to suggest otherwise is a fool and doesn't understand what makes paintball tick ...
I will however qualify what I have said by adding, you could select a body of players from the novice and amateur ranks and then train them up to compete with pros, that is possible and I know it's possible because I frikkin did it [the original Nexus] ...... and I'm saying this not to attract any credit or adulation, I said it because an example of it being done is the best way of making a point ... people can say one thing or another but the reality is, actions always speak louder than words ..... the original and best Nexus competed with the pros in their first year together.
The players, all of them, were magnificent, and any credit flying around should always go to them, they listened, they learned and they kicked Yank ass ..... I couldn't have asked for more.
