Comments on: Singapore Sports Council: Chicken & egg edition

By: B.C

B.C — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:46:20 +0000

B.C says that you guys don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

Put your money where your mouth is? You guys don’t know shit about how much the community has grown in one year.

By: reau

reau — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:09:37 +0000

Agree with Marcus. If you have a great product why don’t you promote it to those who don’t know about it yet. Talk about the virtues and benefits of paintball as a sport. Do your market research – who would be the ideal “buyer” profile for paintball. If you want funding then you must show that this sport has the potential to grow its membership and participation base. Chicken and egg situation? Yes and No. If you are a budding entrepreneur, you will need to have some of your own capital to start out. Beg or borrow. But don’t expect handouts from taxpayers money! Show them that you are a growing sport, come out with a workable marketing and business plan, sure they will reconsider. All the best!

By: Calgar

Calgar — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:46:40 +0000

How about an entire self-funded team going up against the best of malaysia in their division… getting 10th in their first season… out of 60 teams? :D

By: Han Loon

Han Loon — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:38:49 +0000

Equation: medalS = MONEY

So many archers in Singapore. So little fund

MANY and LITTLE do go hand in hand

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:09:02 +0000

I can seriously sympathise. If you really love the sport though, then you need to put your money where your mouth is. Do your homework, and do what it takes to drum up some capital on your own. Talk to people, and show others what you can do with limited funds first. It will probably cost an arm, but if you plan this right (and you paintballers seem very familiar with doing that), break it down into smaller objectives, and do it like a military operation, one objective at a time, then I’d be surprised if you don’t get further funding one way or another. Good luck!

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By: Calgar

Calgar — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:08:55 +0000

Give me some money and I’ll show you what we can do…

Don’t give me money and I’ll still show you what we can do…

Paintball for life. We tight tom haha!

By: mIcH

mIcH — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:05:08 +0000

Basically i’ve guess tom u have learn the so called “bad” things in singapore sports. Which is true i don’t deny. Because participation is their basic concern. That’s for all sports. All sports council around the world are concerned about participation numbers and how many people are currently playing the sport. It’s how it is in singapore. That’s the reason why many associations are focusing on getting more people to participate so that the association can grow and to be able to be recognised as a family/leisure sport. It’s also because it’s government so you know how things can get when ur dealing with government. A huge sum of money is given to the core sports in singapore like swimming and soccer. The rest of the small amounts of money are given to the other high participation sports. To be able to get sufficient funding to function, the association must have enough numbers. It’s sad but it’s true in our case. That’s how they work.

Even here in australia, the aussie rules is like multi million sport and the rest of the sports are not really mentioned and many have funding problems as well. I guess it’s happening everywhere. Hopefully the paintball association is able to create interest in people to pick up the sport enough to have future funding. =)

Cheers!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:47:15 +0000

Yup, well done, paintballers of Singapore.

By: Kenana

Kenana — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:33:06 +0000

“Paintball just isn’t as mass-participated”
it just shows the need for us paintballers to sell the sport and get more people to pick it up as a sport.
like to thank all the paintballers who are helping to grow the sport.