Northeastern Paintball

I've play for a while now, and have played in nepl and on nppl d2 teams and such, but when the tournaments come around the money problem and school conflicts always seem to keep my sidelined. I'm going to NU next year and have been thinking about what I'm going to do about playing, is it hard to play during school? Do your grades suffer, I need to keep a good gpa for scholarship reason's and I would love to play but if it eats up all my money and makes my grades drop I am not going to waste any ones times and go to any tryouts.

Thanks for any help; also do you ever have open practices at monster? I play there ever so often and I’d like to come play with some of you guys just for fun.

Thanks a lot.

I am a mechanical engineering major and I can speak for the other engineering majors (considered to most as the toughest set of majors at the school), it's a lot of work, but it's manageable. If you have your priorities straight, you can do it. Nationals was in the middle of Finals week this year and we had to have some postponed. It was a small burden, but again, its manageable. Moral of the story, get your work done early, so you don't have to worry about it later.

It is 1-2 practices a week. If you really can't go because of homework, you don't need to go. The more you practice, the better off you are for playing in the tournaments.

Ok, thanks for the help, I'm also going into engineering but paintball's always been a good way to keep distracted and such so it would be nice to play still.

Does it cost a lot? U I know you probably can't reveal your deals but I know your sponsored by monster so thats got to help, jw if it's a lot or no so much, no specifics.

hybrids wrote:Ok, thanks for the help, I'm also going into engineering but paintball's always been a good way to keep distracted and such so it would be nice to play still.

Does it cost a lot? U I know you probably can't reveal your deals but I know your sponsored by monster so thats got to help, jw if it's a lot or no so much, no specifics.

I pay less for this team than I do for my other 7 man team, if that helps

I think the team plays reball on Monday, which doesn't cost anything. And their home field sells them cheap paint for the other practice. If you are using 2-3 cases per practice things will expensive. The team dues cover your travel/field and air fees/tournament registrations. Fortunately the fee is only $200 and it includes the jersey, I of know other schools that are over 1000 but they give you paint at practice.

we do have a practice where we use straight re-balls once a week. that is free. the club dues and fundraisers cover the cost of gas which is the only expense for that day.
the other practice during the week is usually team rotations. our entrance is covered but we do have to buy paint. we get our paint at a reduced cost and the team pools the paint together to make it as cheap as possible for the team. if you get some money from your parents every so often or are working somewhere, paint costs really shouldn't be a problem. the biggest expense i incurred during last season was equipment (i had to buy a new gun, mask, pack, etc etc) and buying food on tournament trips. the $200 club dues is nothing -- it's a one-time expense and it covers a lot.

it's very manageable.

how much time does the team spend fund raising? do you guys get the revenue generated by the website/forum ads? if not it's probably close to $100 even with such low traffic.

Being in our first year, we didn't fundraise much at all. It caused a lot of money issues that slowed us down. This next year we have a lot planned and we're working with the school to get more university funding.