I was listening in on the new blast radius pod cast and I noticed that a restrictions on "pro-players" per team would be enforced. Well here is my question what does spec ops consider a pro player? I am having problems reaching a conclusion on what I think spec ops views as a pro for a few reasons... I'll try to simply outline why.
1. SPPL is the PRO woodsball league anyone who plays in an SPPL game I would view as a woodsball pro and thus how can you restrict how many pro's play on each team? Even if you look at factory teams right now as woodsball stands with only one league everyone should be allowed to play.
2. AIRBALL pro's should not be considered professionals in woodsball. Why? I know I have played against D1, D2, and D3 speedball’ers in the woods and while they might be hot stuff on the airball court I have not been impressed with their play in the woods. Besides until we have more divisions I think its unfair to stop players from playing because they play airball. For extra fun with D1 airball players play "hoppers only", but now I'm getting sidetracked.
3. Sponsored Players should not be considered professionals in woodsball. Why? I think it would be shocking to some if you realized how many players are actually sponsored in woodsball. I know I'm sponsored by a few companies and a few fields and than a few more from my team. But does that make me a professional? I don't think so but if you just look my team is sponsored so does that mean everyone is a professional? And most paintball sponsorships (at least none of mine) have an actual dollar amount of services donated. Sure you might get free gear, paint, or upgrades here and there but I don't think that makes you a pro as much as someone who got lucky.
4. Anyone who was in the military, special forces or no. I've done my share of military combat training and let me tell you. While it does help paintball is a completely different ballgame. So this one should not be brought up. Now if you took a special forces team and let them learn how to play, that would be an impressive sight to see.
These are all the scenarios that I can think of for someone who would be considered a paintball professional and I don't think that restricting the amount of members on any team because of any of these cases. If I'm wrong let me know but in all seriousness restricting a team because of these factors just seems wrong until you make separate divisions. But even after the separate divisions who is considered a pro?
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