College Paintball Club
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Topic: College Paintball Club
Posted By: karll
Subject: College Paintball Club
Date Posted: 18 March 2007 at 9:51pm
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I will be attending the University of Missouri - Rolla in August. I just got off the phone with the president of the paintball club. Apparently he has worked his tail off to make this club operational, but lacks support from fellow students. Hopefully I can turn this around. I have been brainstorming ideas to make money and get equipment. Right now we have 25 m98s, chrono, ref gear, and a broken fill station. I know we need more equipment, but I don't know where to start. My main concern is cost. I can get funding from the school, but not enough for some of the big stuff (bulk HPA tank, compressor, co2 stuff...) Sponsorships are also another concern. The team has had sponsors before but I'm not sure how to go about getting them to responsor or to get new sponors. I don't know where I am really going with this thread. Just kind of looking for input and ideas. Does anyone go to a college with an NCPA team? Does anyone play on a team? ------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist." 
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Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 19 March 2007 at 4:44pm
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If you offer free food, people will come... Hold a day for people just to try shooting the guns. Maybe even shoot someone to show it doesnt hurt. ------------- 
hybrid-sniper~"To be honest, if I see a player still using an Impulse I'm going to question their motives." |
Posted By: The Guy
Date Posted: 19 March 2007 at 6:25pm
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don't bother buying your own compressor, it will be more hassle than its worth lugging it to and from the fields. Also to be university sanctioned it will have to be done on zoned land, which means you can't take the club out back of Walmart to try it out. If you go to an actual field, you will have to use their fill-station facilities. ------------- http://www.anomationanodizing.com - My Site 
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Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 19 March 2007 at 7:05pm
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Supposedly we have a field. However, it seems to be over grown and dilapated. A couple years back they had several airball fields but they ended up getting sold. I have to wait till I get down there in August to do anything major. I was just trying to think of ways to help it out in the time being. ------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 19 March 2007 at 7:05pm
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for sponsors, basicly just send them a cover letter,tell them you will advertise for them for a little bit of support finacely and ADVERTISE (for the club), Theres an amazing field by my college, but its sad i have yet to see a single poster or add for it. also keep it clean, and proffesional. thats my advice ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 19 March 2007 at 8:47pm
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We have one field about 5 minutes away. However, it is not the best field to play on. Most people are just for fun players, who maybe get by there once a month or so. They nearest "good" fields are an hour and a half away in STL, Columbia, and Springfield. If we get a good enough field I am hoping to run it for the public. Apparently that is the way most college teams support themselves, or so says the president of ours. How much would I be looking at for a good size airball field? ------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 10:59pm
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congrats, you're now living close-ish to me. how far away is rolla to columbia? you chould give me a ring next time you go paintballing.
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 11:17pm
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There is a speedball field out towards Westphalia. Slaughter House is the name. There should be an airball field out towards rolla, but I cant remember where. Maybe Im thinking of Springfield. You could try calling up the UMC paintball club. They have their stuff together fairly well. They might be willing to help you guys out. Seeings as Rolla is a sister college. Ill be going to University Missouri Columbia sometime next year maybe. If transfer goes through. http://www.college-paintball.com/ - http://www.college-paintball.com/ Good place to get things going in the right direction. They helped in trying to get a highschool club set up for me. Good luck. I know some people down there. Its a really good college. Not much for chicks, but still nice. AH HA! |
Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 23 March 2007 at 2:07pm
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Yea. Guy to girl ratio is killer. I was enrolled in UMC but switched to UMR because it is more oriented towards engineering and they gave me more money. The nearest "good" airball fields are Springfield, Columbia, and STL all of which are an hour+ away. Where are you in school right now Monk?
------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 23 March 2007 at 6:43pm
Im currently attending ATC in mexico. But Ill be going to Columbia College next year. Cause I dont have enough credits to transfer as a transfer student. And I dont meet freshmen requirements for UMC. Ugh. But when I get there and hopefully join the team. It would be really cool to play against you. |
karll wrote:Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 23 March 2007 at 6:49pm
You live in Columbia? I'm around KC which is about 2 hours away. Rolla is about 1 and a half from Columbia. I play on coming up there on the weekends while at college to play. I will definitely be in touch. I can only hope we get enough people to play. I was told we need at least 5 people to make a team and get sponsored. I know we have four right now counting me. PRAY for one more person to express enough interest to play tournament level ball. ------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: Monk
Date Posted: 24 March 2007 at 12:50am
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Flyers. Seriously, put them up everywhere. You'll get more than enough interest. |
Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 24 March 2007 at 1:04am
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Flyers are in order. I just hope we get some dedicated players. Managing the upkeep on a field/club and taking 15 credit hours looks slightly daunting.
------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 25 March 2007 at 1:25pm
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http://www.actionvillage.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/BrowseCatalog-Start;sid=GReBgvcjPm6AgbElqT5BKv33UXikkS5pUV8=?CategoryName=paintball-field-gear-sup-air-ball-sup-air-ball-field-packages - A few grand depending on what you want. |
Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 25 March 2007 at 7:43pm
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Do you think an airball field would be a good investment. We have a field that we can play on, but it is in the woods and made of plywood and the like. I found out we had 3 airball fields back in the day. However, they belonged to students and said students ended up selling them for beer money or god knows what.
------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 28 March 2007 at 12:51am
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getting a ncpa team together takes some work, but not too much I know two people that did it at their schools.. first, I suggest just getting a tournament team together and hit up some local tournies. get better as a team, then, as you build a portfolio for your team, approach your school's athletic department and discuss the idea of playing NCPA. check out the NCPA events and teams around the area, and get in contact with some of the people involved in it... look on pbnation for this, they have a college/high school forum dominated by ncpa representatives and teams. it takes work and money, and having an airball field wouldn't be a bad idea for some practice. i know x-ball and nppl fields fetch around 4-5 grand. |
Posted By: Styro Folme
Date Posted: 28 March 2007 at 4:01pm
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Posted By: What to do?
Date Posted: 03 April 2007 at 5:16pm
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I live in AL I'm in highschool and can't seem to tell if anybody would let us start a paintball team and play at local tourneys around our area....and paintball in my town is pretty much revolved around Wally world so far and the nearest pro shop is about 45minutes away and has cheaper air that ACE hardware and our Tippmann store....we have paintball stores in our town but no fields? Whats up with all that? because the only field we have is 30min away and is only enough room for 3man because its indoors....any suggestions? ------------- 
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Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 04 April 2007 at 5:16pm
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Play with what you've got. I the nearest field to me is about 25 - 30 away. The nearest "good" field is about 45 min away. If it's really that big of a problem, play renegade games. That's what I did before I could drive. Luckily, I have a proshop about 10 minutes away.
------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 09 April 2007 at 6:42pm
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Chris Raehl is really good about helping clubs get established and stay active, he's the founder and president of the NCPA. I'd suggest getting in touch with the NCPA guys from Drexel and Purdue to see what they do to keep clubs active and fund-raise. You can probably get some money out of the sports fund or from the Student Activities fund to help offset costs. Also, see if you can't get some help from the big boys like Draxxus, Pro-Caps, etc. Chris works for them and usually has some good connections. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 09 April 2007 at 8:08pm
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I reckon it wouldn't hurt to start writing letters right now to some of the bigger companies. I assume one uniform letter than I could change for each company would do wouldn't it? Do I ask for money, equipment, or just help in general. I think asking for any help they can provide would be best. That way I don't sound greedy if I ask for a bunch of items. I guess I need to start playing more if I want to even have a good team.
------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 11 April 2007 at 9:48pm
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I'd suggest asking for any kind of help what-so-ever. Advice is one thing that you can never get enough of when it comes to getting a club up and running after some time just sitting dormant.
As for a compressor. See if you can't work out a deal with Nichols or Roberts or AirGas. Most of them would probably be willing to supply either nitrogen (6kpsi tanks) or HPA at a reduced cost for the school/club. Also, see if the school doesn't already have a deal with a bulk-gas company. I'm sure any Science depts you have will have some sort of contract that you could work into. Now, not using a compressor, it's important to run a "cascade" using large HPA cylinders to do your fills. You need to get your supplier to set up a hard-line system that connect to your HPA fill-station adapter. What this does is allow you to fill your tank in stages. You use tank number one (the one that has the lowest pressure) to fill up to however much psi it has in it. Then tank 2, tank 3, and finally tank 4 (if you go that many) to just top it off if it isn't full already. This gives you far more fills per-tank. When tank 1 gets down to under 800psi, take it out of rotation. Tank 2 becomes tank 1, Tank 3 becomes tank 2, and so on with the newest tank being the highest number so you get the most out of it. If the school already has a contract with an hp/lp gas provider, chances are they are on a flat-rate plan so you can just scoot right in and que-up your order with theirs and they won't pay out any more money than normal. Now, the 98's. Are you looking at keeping them to introduce people to the sport or are you looking for people to have their own markers? I know some people you could talk to about getting rid of your '98 fleet if you needed to. They'd probably be willing to cut you a good deal in trade for some team markers, or other equipment. PM me if this is the case. Otherwise, see if you can't get Tippmann to certify you so that they can just ship you replacement parts rather than you having to send markers out to be repaired. For any other equipment, keep your eyes peeled on the MCB forums and don't be afraid to post a WTB and explain your situation. There are a ton of guys who broker field closings that can net you masks, equipment (fill stations, compressors, etc) even netting and bunkers. I've seen two full rental fleets sold off on there and the Tinker's guild in the past 4 months. Good luck! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: karll
Date Posted: 11 April 2007 at 11:56pm
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Ok, so first thing I need to come up with some sort of generic letter. I might as well send something to every big name (and little name) company there is. Explain my situation and hope for the best. Plan on asking for anything help they can offer, even if it’s just advice. Hope this works out. My school is primarily a science school so I know we have to have some sort of deal with a gas provider. I will need to figure out the right person to talk to. Get a few bottles of n2 shouldn’t be too much trouble especially if it for a school supported club. Thanks for the idea there. As for the ‘cascade’ you described. I am not sure I fully understand. I read through several times and still can’t make complete sense of it. Either way, it’s not really important. The president of the club knows how to fill tanks and what not, so even if I don’t understand, he does. I am not sure what we are going to do with the 98s for right now. They got them when the club first started a few years back. I know none of us will be using them. I believe they would be used primarily for people interested in starting the sport. However, if we traded them for other equipment I would have no problem letting someone use on of my backups to get into the sport. I will have to get in touch with the president to see what he wants to do with them. Thanks for the help and ideas Tallen and everyone. Keep them coming. God knows I need all the help I can get. ------------- PlentifulBalls "It's cool, I'll be dead before I'm not pretty." Gatyr "Stupid things exist."
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 12 April 2007 at 11:08am
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When I get a break from work, I'll draw up the cascade system in ms-paint for you so it's easier to understand. Not many people know how to use it anymore since most people run off of compressors. We had a good contract with Nichol's Oxygen in NY at my shop, and it wound up being cheaper for us to fill with pure N2 rather than buy a compressor (we're talking cheaper over 5 years!) So we went with 4 6kpsi N2 tanks (silver paint baby!) and a cascade system. Cleanest stuff in the world. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |