PaintballX3 Magazine February 2015 | Page 8

8 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