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Young players inherit worse than veterans
Topic Started: Sep 23 2011, 02:19 PM (280 Views)
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As a veteran of roughly 4.5 years in this community, I can tell you that the new players coming into the game of airsoft in 2007-2008ish had a very good selection of local fields an ops such as Polar98, Delta, and others. Those who came around as recently as 2010 had a couple LMA games to look at.

But for the new generation for 2011 not the same can be said. Many reports indicate a drop in the quality of peoples events and the number of them. While Polar98 has dodged the negative trends recently, other fields have had their struggles. Polar98 event frequency has slowed temporarily while organizations such as LMA have no desire to host reputable events. Other milsim organizations such as Delta have been retired for years and the young players looking for some strong local events to go to have the short end of the stick so long as Polar98 is not running frequent ops. The P98 backed Gray Ghosts organization has stepped it up efforts and has earned public support from Polar98 to attend its ops in the time before Polar98's November fall series event.

But aside from this, the problem lies within the fact that there is a lack of quality ops at fields. Young players lack the will to travel compared to vets. In order to solve this, milsim organizations need to do some serious work and engage rec fields to attempt to promote milsim. It's worth a go. Meanwhile we've already received a pledge for an extra 2012 event from Polar98 which should be good news to young players in S-Central PA. so yeah, if you know a rec field owner give them a call and see if they can book some organized, milsim friendly events into their future schedule and put the whole mini-skirmish run and gun events on the back burner for a while.
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I think your right. Our generation had delta and now they're almost 3 years retired. Polar98 will do its best. Ops will accelerate starting with our November one followed closely 5 weeks later or so with a January one. Things will really heat up late next spring.
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I started up just after Delta pulled the plug on its ops. I have the luxury of playing airsoft every weekend (just about), but I know lots of others don't.

My prediction: Eventually another generation of airsofters will start playing in a year or two, increasing the chances of milsimers. Hopefully until then, we can keep the milsim ops rolling.
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We'll see what kind of pick up we'll get this year. Last fall we had a major pickup in community growth but none of the growth yielded positive results with respect to events. That is what started in the concerns that we are now coming to terms with.
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I think the first generation in the community had the best conditions to start up a good airsoft career. Current leadership in all the organizations owe it to the younger players to make their experience just as good as theirs. And I think everyone agrees with that but its easier said than done.
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