[HollywoodHogan]

Originally Posted by bpk5

you know that its not the same roster playing in both divisions right?

alot of teams, az rangers, avalanche, hostile intent, etc all have teams for more than one division

Ya know it is the same roster playing both divisions....

[jonboy01 (Banned)]

You really made a different account to whine about a skilled player on another team?

[polarpaxton]

Originally Posted by HollywoodHogan

Hey good news... Camp Pendleton Raiders are playing D1 7 Man as well as D2 7 Man at the same event. So again based on the rules that whole team should be classified as D1 now. Yet they will still play there D2 games today. How can you play two Divisions at one event???? NPPL is a bigger joke than I thought. Who ever the head person is running NPPL, is even more of a joke for thinking hes doing a good job.

Originally Posted by HollywoodHogan

Ya know it is the same roster playing both divisions....

they are playing d2 7man and d1 "xball" only because there is no d2 xball for hb... the nppl bumped them up becuase there were only 2 teams registered for d2.
just for the record...

[bpk5]

Originally Posted by HollywoodHogan

Ya know it is the same roster playing both divisions....

i stand corrected.. that is weird..

[polarpaxton]

they can have the same roster because they were forced to play 2 different divisions

[monkeyballer099639]

Originally Posted by polarpaxton

they are playing d2 7man and d1 "xball" only because there is no d2 xball for hb... the nppl bumped them up becuase there were only 2 teams registered for d2.
just for the record...

True. I know the guys on the CP Raiders and I know they are all ranked D2 except for Rodney and I don't know what he is ranked now.

However, NPPL does say that a player can be considered for re-ranking before an event. I would bet man of these higher ranked players played in the higher ranks years ago and haven't played for a few years and applied to be re-ranked to D2. If they couldn't, then they would be stuck playing pro even if their skills are not at the pro level.

Point is, there is sandbagging in every event. There were a few D3 teams playing that I know play D2 events in other tournament series and place in them. Is it fair? Probably not, but personally I don't care and neither did the legit D3 team that beat them today. All I know is that I go out on the field each game with paint in my pods and I shoot every person I can to get that flag.

[pb4life3344]

Originally Posted by HollywoodHogan

Hey good news... Camp Pendleton Raiders are playing D1 7 Man as well as D2 7 Man at the same event. So again based on the rules that whole team should be classified as D1 now. Yet they will still play there D2 games today. How can you play two Divisions at one event???? NPPL is a bigger joke than I thought. Who ever the head person is running NPPL, is even more of a joke for thinking hes doing a good job.

from what i hear, the coach of the raiders is high up in the ranks in nppl.. and these guys kept our team from playing sunday i want an explanatioon other than the fact that d1 and d2 are different formats(race to and 7 man)

[monkeyballer099639]

Originally Posted by pb4life3344

from what i hear, the coach of the raiders is high up in the ranks in nppl.. and these guys kept our team from playing sunday i want an explanatioon other than the fact that d1 and d2 are different formats(race to and 7 man)

How did they keep you from making it to sunday? You mean that you lost and they won?

[MarkParris]

Originally Posted by kyle53pntball

Hollywood hogan.
If you're not D2 then shut up lol

Says the D4 player.


Regardless of whether you feel it is okay for a former pro to be playing in d2 or not, rules are rules and they need to be enforced. It clearly says you can't play pro in the past 10 years in NPPL, any other national pro event, or any international event. Imho 1 player isn't going to win a tournament for them, but it's still a rule.

Even if he was re-classed down to d1 he still wouldn't be allowed to play d2 according to the rule book.

It's called sandbagging, and it happens more than you think. Sometimes people get caught, sometimes they don't.

[jazz1]

this is honestly the same old story again. sandbagging happens. everyone knows it. nobody will admit it. let the scumbags have their moment. it was ****ty event anyway.

[dot.. (Banned)]

I dont see how people are supporting the leagues actions on this. They let them play the d1 race and d2 at HB and said it was okay for them to do this since there was no race in d2 or something stupid. regardless if anyone else would have tired to do the sandbagging that went on in d2 you would have been in trouble.

Shaun Walker gets 100,000 dollars from the government to have his team and only one guy is a real marine?

[HollywoodHogan]

Originally Posted by dot..

I dont see how people are supporting the leagues actions on this. They let them play the d1 race and d2 at HB and said it was okay for them to do this since there was no race in d2 or something stupid. regardless if anyone else would have tired to do the sandbagging that went on in d2 you would have been in trouble.

Shaun Walker gets 100,000 dollars from the government to have his team and only one guy is a real marine?

Because the league supports the team as well. The refs helped out Camp Pendleton Raiders tremendously.

[VSOwnage]

Kinda sad.

[ADOLF]

So what is it that u want Nppl, dleague and rpl to do?? Go through all the rosters and pick out names of ex pros and higher divisional players?? C'mon now, that can take forever. But I figure this.. If you can't compete with these guys and learn that it takes one ball to eliminate a player and skill rather than experience alone.. Then please leave. We have enough already having to deal with biased reffs and sandbaggers right?? Get out.

[Dunsparth]

Originally Posted by Splat209

stop crying about it he probably has not played for a few years therefore he's "rusty" and stuff.

I agree, but then again you never know...

[overshot01]

Originally Posted by ADOLF

So what is it that u want Nppl, dleague and rpl to do?? Go through all the rosters and pick out names of ex pros and higher divisional players?? C'mon now, that can take forever. But I figure this.. If you can't compete with these guys and learn that it takes one ball to eliminate a player and skill rather than experience alone.. Then please leave. We have enough already having to deal with biased reffs and sandbaggers right?? Get out.

then why have divisions at all?

[polarpaxton]

Originally Posted by dot..

Shaun Walker gets 100,000 dollars from the government to have his team and only one guy is a real marine?

Shaun gets money to support the marine team. Which is made up of active duty marines and sailors. He spends his own money on camp Pendleton raiders.

[dot.. (Banned)]

Not the marine team though. how many are active duty marines on that team? he just got handed a very nice rec ball field too didnt he.

[raehl]

Originally Posted by ADOLF

Go through all the rosters and pick out names of ex pros and higher divisional players?? C'mon now, that can take forever.

If you put minimal effort into keeping track of players, it doesn't take any time at all.

If playing teams with an experience level similar to yours is important to you, you should play leagues that keep track of player participation, like PSP, or WCPPL, or ASGTS.

If you pay entry fees to other leagues when you know they don't care about player classification, you can't exactly be surprised when you find yourself playing a "D2 team" of Pro players.

You have the power. Vote with your wallet.

- Chris

[eforce]

Originally Posted by ADOLF

So what is it that u want Nppl, dleague and rpl to do?? Go through all the rosters and pick out names of ex pros and higher divisional players?? C'mon now, that can take forever. But I figure this.. If you can't compete with these guys and learn that it takes one ball to eliminate a player and skill rather than experience alone.. Then please leave. We have enough already having to deal with biased reffs and sandbaggers right?? Get out.

It takes about 2 lines of code to weed out pro players with an online registration system.

[dot.. (Banned)]

the biggest issue people had with that was it was brought to the staffs attention and they refused to do anything about it. thats why people are mad.