Speechless - for once Nick you're spot onPeople are wrong.
What makes a good venue is:
- Urban setting or inconnecition with a non-paintball event
- Putting trade up front so the non-paintballing crowd gets a chance to see all the cool stuff - and the vendors get their moneys worth
- Loads of local advertising
- Ample seating for the crowd
- Pamflets and a good MC to guide the non-paintballing crowd
For us players, a large empty national stadium is a waste of time - and WAY worse than a temporary one filled with people
Nick
When I said people it was in a roundabout way saying what you just did - the atmosphere created by all of the above.Seating we have enough stands for the normal amount of people but not as many as CP of course. You would be surprised how much some people quoted for supplying tiered seating - 300 seats £12,000 was one that springs to mind! However running around the ring of the ring of the track is a grass bank that if the weather is dry will give us more space than required.
The council are due to break ground on a new stadium soon and this is on their list of improvements - more fixed seating and a galleried bar area overlooking the track.
Next years festival is also looking like it will go on later in the evening and fun fair may be added too. If we don't get the players in though we may lose out on that opportunity. Providing of course everything goes the way it should
