WINTER SERIES ROUND 3
In short – let’s just skip the event. Nothing besides a lot of experience gained. Unluckily I was not there personally to break down in detail what happened, but we had a very young team on the field that just received punishment for the lack of their experience vs. the Div. 1 and Pro players.
Luckily none of this seem to have impacted the Christmas Party in the evening – which I could attend.
BRICKETWOOD CHRISTMAS PARTY 2011
This event was the closing of the 2011 season for all teams. London Nexus, London Tigers, London Relentless, London Defiance – to just mention a few – were happily participating to make this party a success and mingled amongst each other. It is great to see all the passion and effort put in the sport and on the field then is then turned into so much sportsmanship. Rivals stand at the bar together talking and laughing about the hard fought points and matches throughout the season with a smile on their face.
The highlight of the event for us, Yorkie (Bricketwood Manager) and the team Relentless Paintball presented us with the “Bricketwood Paintball – Team of the year 2011” award. I took the chance to thank everyone for the opportunity and explained them a bit about where Samurai MV” originated from, Martin Vipas and our plans for 2012 to raise £ 30.000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
We were absolutely delighted and again Yorkie highlighted to some of us in the team later that evening that Darren, coach and manager, was just going above and beyond in getting new players in the sport and having done a great job in 2011 to raise our profile in the tournament paintball scene for beginners. Relentless having also had this prize last year congratulated us and wished us the best of luck with our target of raising £ 30.000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust next year – they also kindly offered support for next year in handing out flyers for our cause to locations where they will be travelling to. I have to pull my hat off to Relentless Paintball – absolute genuine gentlemen and looking forward to see more of them live at the Millenniums in 2012.
SPONSORSHIP 2012
3 weeks after sending the proposals, we received the first rejections. I am really happy we are getting responses at all – so it seems people are reading it. =)
By the 15th January 2012 we will know what will be happening in 2012 with or without a financial sponsor – on the 11th December is our team meeting where we will be discussing budgets for 2012 … so stay tuned.
