Das Smart Parts NXL Team Miami Effect ist das neuste Team mit einem eigenen Forum bei PBNation. Es gesellt sich damit zu Avalanche, Dynasty, Infamous und den Stoned Assasins. http://www.pbnation.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=335
10. Februar 2005
9. Februar 2005
Spirit of Paint: JT „Team Pant“
PSP Regelwerk 2005
Die Paintball Sports Promotion (PSP) hat gestern das neue Regelwerk für die 5 Man Competition und Ergänzungen zum Equipment veröffentlicht. Interessant ist, dass Ramping erlaubt ist, es aber auf 15 bps begrenzt werden muss.
GHTP bei Amazon.de
Wer nicht unbedingt paintballspezifische Preise für Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball bezahlen möchte, der kann dies bald bei Amazon.de tun. Das Spiel kostet dort 27,45 € und die Lieferung ist kostenlos. Erscheinungstermin bei Amazon ist der 25. März 2005.
Ride or Die: The Nielsens
Das Ride or Die Online Magazion vom P8NT Magazin hat einige Fakten über den Erfolg der Ausstrahlung der NXL Finals gesammelt. Die Autoren von Ride or Die vergleichen die durch „Nielsen Media Research“ ermittelten Zuschauerzahlen mit Sportsendungen zur gleichen Zeit und kommt auf erin durchaus positives Ergebniss. Aber lest selbst:P8NT Magazine’s News & Rumors column returns with an exclusive, in-depth look at the Nielsen ratings for the 2004 NXL Championship on ESPN2. After two years of anticipation, the NXL makes good on its promise to bring X-Ball to mainstream television. The only questions that remain: Did anyone watch? and Did it do better than the Hotdog Eating Contest? Welcome to the sixth installment of Ride or Die on PBStar.com, the on-line version of P8NT Magazine’s News & Rumors page. In the spirit of the long-deceased “Monday Report,” PCRI’s “On The Edge” and “Podbitch,” every Tuesday (or Wednesdays when it's late) we’ll have the latest info on new product releases, tournament results, team changes and industry news, as well as the occasional interview or special feature.To mark our triumphant return after a bit of a hiatus, we present for you an exclusive, in-depth look at the Nielsen ratings for the 2004 NXL Championships on ESPN2. No rumors this time, and no spin. This time it’s just the facts.Ride or Die: The NielsensTV NationThe NPPL (both the Super 7 and its original incarnation), the PSP and the paintball industry itself have all stated that television coverage is an important goal; a key step in bringing paintball to a larger audience. Paintball has been on TV numerous times in the past, and will almost certainly be on again in the future. Over the last two years however, the focus on bringing paintball to television has intensified like never before.The Super 7 has made some concessions for television, but from the start, the NXL has made virtually every decision with television in mind. The entire X-Ball format was designed for TV, and the structure and execution of the league has been dictated by television’s (perceived) interests. For the NXL, the ESPN2 airing of the NXL Championship game between the Philly Americans and Detroit Strange was to be the defining moment: the pay-off for two years worth of blood, sweat, tears and faith.Since the two airings of the NXL Championship on ESPN2 (first on December 9, 2004 and then on December 16, 2004) there has been much debate as to the presentation, the commentary, the format and the filming. Some loved it, some hated it, but everyone agreed that it was an incredible opportunity to present professional-level competitive paintball to the world at large. The only question that remains: Did anyone watch?The NielsensThe most common method for gauging the success of television programs is the “Nielsen ratings.” Everyone’s heard of the Nielsens, but what exactly are they?Nielsen Media Research is a for-profit entity that generates the “Neilsen ratings” as a paid service for television networks and advertising agencies. The actual information is not traditionally available to the public (at least not for free). However, Nielsen Media Research will often provide specific data to legitimate media outlets. How did we get these figures? We simply asked, and the kind people at Nielsen Media Research provided them.[Note on the NPPL Super 7 on Fox Sports Net]In the interest of fairness and for the sake of comparison, we also asked for the Nielsen ratings for the 2004 NPPL Super 7 programming on Fox Sports Net. Unfortunately, Fox Sport Net is not currently a Nielsen Media Research client, so no Nielsen ratings exist for these programs.Statistical Sampling & Nielsen HousesNielsen Media Research uses statistical sampling to generate its figures. Though there has been debate over the past few years as to whether or not there may now be better and more accurate ways to gauge TV viewership, statistical sampling itself has been scientifically proven as an effective means of measuring large groups again and again.From http://www.nielsenmedia.com:“The heart of the Nielsen Media Research national ratings service in the United States is an electronic measurement system called the Nielsen People Meter. These meters are placed in a sample of 5,100 randomly selected households. The meter measures two things – what program or channel is being tuned and who is watching.”The NumbersAccording to the data provided by Nielsen Media Research, the NXL Championship on ESPN 2 received the following ratings:NXL Championship 12/9/045:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.Nielsen Rating: 0.3Total Viewership: 364,000NXL Championship 12/16/046:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.Nielsen Rating: 0.3Total Viewership: 552,000What the Numbers MeanWhen people discuss “Nielsen ratings,” what they are actually referring to is the Nielsen Household Average. This number (usually between 0.1 and 30) represents the percentage of the total number of television households in the United States who watch a particular channel during a specific time slot. Nielsen Media Research has determined the total number of Television Households in the U.S. for the 2004-2005 broadcast season to be 109,600,000 (Nielsen Media Research, 2004). So, if a certain television program receives a Nielsen rating of 1 it means that approximately 1,096,000 Television Households had their television sets tuned to that particular channel during the program’s allotted time slot (total number of Television Households multiplied by .01 = 1,096,000). Using the same formula, with a Nielsen rating of 0.3, approximately 328,800 Television Households tuned in to the NXL Paintball World Championship for each airdate.The Total Viewership is always higher because there is often more than one person watching any particular TV set. In the case of the NXL Championship, the 0.3 Nielsen rating indicates 328,800 television sets were tuned to the broadcast, but the actual viewing audience was estimated at 364,000 for the 12/9/04 airdate and 552,000 for the 12/16/04 airdate.But, are the numbers good?It’s a mistake to look at any rating in isolation. You have to consider the time slot, the day of the week, the channel that the program is aired on and the competition that it’s up against.The Time Slot (Location, Location, Location)On the networks, TV shows often live and die by their time slots. For December 9th, the highest rated programs on ESPN2 were the three shows in the 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. time block (NFL Live, High School Basketball and College Basketball), all of which received a 0.4 rating. In comparison, while the NXL Championship was pulling in a 0.3 on ESPN2, the same time slot (5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.) over on Spike TV was also drawing in a 0.3 audience.The graph below shows the ratings for ESPN2 over a 24-hour period, starting at 6:00 a.m. on December 9th and ending at 6:00 a.m. on December 10th.Looking at the graph, it’s easy to see how viewership increases as the day goes on. Starting below 0.1, things remain fairly steady for the morning and early afternoon. There are a few spikes at 2:00 p.m. and again at 4:00 p.m., but nothing major. When the NXL Championship begins at 5:00 p.m. the ratings hit 0.3 for the first time that day; a good sign. At 6:00 p.m. the now infamous Hot Dog Eating Contest begins, holding at 0.3. At 7:00 p.m. the ratings hit 0.4 for the first time (NFL Live) and hold steady at that level until 11:30 p.m. From there things are back to the nominal 0.1, with one late spike at midnight for the PRCA Rodeo.The Second AiringIn terms of overall rating, the second airing of the NXL Championship clocked in at the same mark as the first, a 0.3. In terms of Total Viewership, however, the second airing increased by 52%. What accounts for the increase? Time slot, most likely. The first airing was late in the afternoon, while the second was in the early evening. People tend to watch television by themselves in the afternoon and in groups (families, friends, etc.) in the early evening. Even though the same number of televisions were tuned to the NXL for both airings, during the second airing there were more people watching those televisions.The Market (ESPN 2’s Audience)Of the estimated 109.2 million Television Households in the United States, ESPN2 is available in approximately 52 million of those households. Of the 25 distinct programs that aired over the 24 hour period beginning at 6:00 a.m. on December 9th, 17 received a rating of 0.1 or lower. The average rating was 0.15. Earlier in the week, regular season College Basketball (one of ESPN2’s bigger shows) drew a 0.6 rating.Yes, but are the numbers good or bad?When evaluating all of this information together, it seems reasonable to expect that an alternative sports program, aired on ESPN2 on a Thursday afternoon will receive a rating of between 0.1 and 0.3. Looked at within that context, the NXL Championship did as well as could be expected. To pull in higher ratings, the NXL would either need time to build up an audience (multiple episodes aired across multiple weeks), move to a better time slot or to a channel with a larger audience.The Other NumbersSome of the initial, unconfirmed reports that circulated on the Internet claimed that the Nielsen ratings for the NXL Championship shows were as high as 0.7. Were those numbers incorrect? Or even worse, were they vicious lies, or part of some grand conspiracy? Not exactly. Most likely, whoever floated those numbers was quoting the Coverage Share, not the Nielsen Household Average. Both the December 9th and December 16th airings of the NXL Championship received a Coverage Share of 0.7.Coverage Share is a measure of how many people watched a given program relative to how many TV sets are capable of receiving the program. The fewer people that have access to your station, the higher your Coverage Share will be. Since about half of the TV sets in the country receive ESPN2, the Coverage Share was twice the Nielsen Household Average (0.7 vs. 0.3). Generally, when people discuss the “ratings” for a given TV show, they are talking about the Nielsen Household Average. Coverage Share is really only of use to the networks and stations themselves, as a measure of how effectively they are reaching their potential audience. To the rest of us, the only rating that matters is how many Television Households were tuned into the show. In the case of the NXL Championship, that number was 0.3.What It All MeansTelevision coverage is a varied, complicated thing. It has the potential to reach millions, but it guarantees nothing. The highest rated programs on ESPN2 for either day that the NXL aired drew audiences of less than a million viewers, and that was during Prime Time.Where does paintball rank in relation to the rest of the TV world? For the week of 1/10/05 – 1/16/05 TNT’s Law & Order was at the top of the cable TV programs ratings list with a Nielsen rating of 3.5 and a Total Viewership of 5,069,000 (Nielsen Media Research, 2005). For fringe sports, Spike’s WWE Raw Zone tied in fourth for the week with a Nielsen rating of 3.0 and a Total Viewership of 4,956,000 (Nielsen Media Research, 2005). The recent NFL Play-Off games on major networks (FOX, ABC) brought in ratings of 12.5 to 14.5 (21 to 23 million households).It’s impossible to know how many people watched both airings, and were therefore counted twice in the ratings. For the sake of argument, if we assume that there was no crossover between the audience for the first airing and the audience for the second airing, then in a best case scenario the two December airings of the NXL Championship on ESPN2 reached a total audience of 916,000 people.Though an audience of 916,000 pales in comparison to Monday Night Football or even Pro Wrestling, it’s quite an accomplishment for paintball. That’s over nine times the audience of the largest paintball magazines, and over 90 times the audience of the best selling paintball videos.Is a one-time chance to reach 916,000 viewers worth two years of blood, sweat and money? That’s something that players and the industry will have to decide for themselves. There is also the very real possibility that this is only the beginning. More programming could be in the future, but more programming will require more blood, more sweat and more money. It is precisely because of the costs involved that, now more than ever, the players and industry need to understand what television represents, what it can provide and what it can’t. Now that TV is starting to learn about paintball, it’s time for paintball to begin to learn about television.Next week, Ride or Die will return to its usual format, showcasing paintball’s latest news, rumors, scandals and lies. No math, and no more charts and graphs. We promise.For more news and rumors, along with in-depth product reviews and comparisons, feature articles, interviews and photos, subscribe to P8NT Magazine at http://www.p8ntmagazine.com
8. Februar 2005
Syndicate vs. Tonton Acyd Video aus Madrid
Die TonTons haben ein neues Video auf ihrer Seite online. Das Video zeigt eine Begegnung von Tonton Acdy und Syndicate. Wie schnell man sich gegen ein franzöisches Pro Team durchsetzen kann seht ihr auf dem sehr kurzen Video. Acyd vs Syndicate -Madrid2k4- Description: Great Game by Syndicate.Evil FieldVersion: 1.0 Filesize: 6.68 MBPatrick Wrobel von Syndicate stellt euch extra zu diesem Anlass seine Account Daten zu Verfügung:-Nickname: Pat -Password: suyzurup