Politics- "The Sinister Agenda"

I have a conflict, both internally and externally-


Why can't players be, just players?

Why must it matter what league we play in?

Is there really a 'Sinister Agenda' brewing under our noses?


Ok, now lets put this rhetorical and philosophical, meaningless questions into practice. (All of the following is hypothetical)

Say we have a tournament series- call it the APPL and we have the NPL. My team plays the APPL as a serious, competitive team. However, I organize a team to play an event in the NPL, with a group of people from another team. Now, say that there is no conflict with any of the previous mentioned scenario. Still with me?
Lets throw in your variable-
the team captains and paint suppliers. Half of the team captains are fine with it, the other team captains are not. Then your paint suppliers tell you "hey, don't bite the hand that feeds. If you play that event (not even the whole series, just one event for fun) we're gonna cut you off."
Ok, now here's your reasons, the supplier doesn't like, even so much as hates, the people who run the NPL, because of past occurrences, and they told the team captains the same. So the team captains lock-down on the players.

It becomes a bad situation all around.

But the supplier doesn't understand, my team that I'm putting in has no 'sinister agenda', all that we want to do is play and have fun with the players that aren't on our same team. It's not about supporting a league they don't like. We don't care. It's all about fun.

But their hate, or dislike has blinded them, made them closed-minded, only lead them to see the negative and see the bad side of things.

Leave the politics, I'm just a player.

Divisional Team Showcase #1: Orlando DOOM

You might have heard of the team Doom Troopers, formed in 1986, but you might not have heard of a team called Orlando DOOM.

Orlando DOOM is the divisional, "Race to" team of the Doom Troopers. Although, they are two different teams. DOOM currently consists of 3 divisions, D3, D4 and D5. Orlando Doom plays in the CFPS Series and is based out of HyperSports Park in Orlando. They began playing as DOOM in 2006 at World Cup, playing D4. In 2007 and 2008 they played many local series events, but only once making it past the preliminaries. Link to DOOM APPA History

But this year there is a clear difference from the past. Early this year DOOM has clearly improved and expanded. Currently a D3 team is in the works for a future CFPS event, and will most likely be a strong force to be reckoned with. DOOM did not enter a D4 team in the past CFPS Event 4, but will more than likely play the next event for the series.

The most suprising of all was Orlando DOOM Black, the D5 team. The D5 team's first event was CFPS #3, they had a strong showing, but could not move past the prelims and finished 10th. Link to DOOM Black scores (CFPS 3- click here) At CFPS 4, however, it was a much stronger team, they moved past prelims in 6th seed and moved past Semi-finals in second seed. Link to DOOM Black scores (CFPS 4- click here) Moving on to finals they seemed to easily defeat South Florida Bulls Green and TU Stealth Black, but ran into trouble with Fatality Blue, losing the game. At the end of the day they did make the podium in second spot.

CFPS 4 Finals Scores (click here)

They are definitely a team to look out for, in all divisions, and teams that underestimate them usually lose. DOOM is soon becoming a team to look out for on the podium every event.

DOOM has a bright future ahead of them with coaching from team leader "NY" Joe Gamb

The D4 team is comprised of:
Joe Gamb -Captain
Trent Slater
Drake Terrell
Fred Tupper
Ron Terrell
Jason Hall

The D5 team is comprised of:
Matt Cliett
Jordan Conomos
Dalton Crews
Julio Hernandez
Luis Sanchez
Josh Rogachesky
Roman Scarlato