How does my team get started? Pros help me out!

[Bansheecaptain]

How does my team get recognized? we are really good i guess u would consider us young-guns so do we send a video tape to local stores or go seperate ways and try out for other teams? Help me out here!

[PaintballPlayer]

i would like to know the same thing im making a team and need to know how to get started ^.^

[Doorman]

Originally posted by Rando489+May 31 2005, 01:58 PM-->why is everyone making it sound like its soo hard to get sponsered. #1 my 3 man team has several sponsers......local companies and stuff....thats all you need for now. they give us pretty much all the money we need for entering tournies and stuff and then some. just talk to the owners or someone high up in the business or write them a letter or email and try to sound as professional as you can (not professional players just business like) and youll have all the sponsers you need in no time.
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finally, someone has got the right idea!!! if you are thinking about sponsorship from dye, redz, jt, or any other big paintball company you are just wasting your time. there is more money in your local businesses than anywhere else.

i bet not everyone truly understands what "sponsorship" means. businesses (your local ones) need to market their business. that is a tax writeoff for them and it gives you the opportunity to help them out as they help you out. stop dreaming and get a good presentable resume going and get out there and get those marketing dollars. on average it costs like $400 total to play a 3 man tournament. if you can line up four local businesses to commit $100 per month you got your tournaments paid for. if you can line up four businesses to commit $200 per month, that is your practice paint too. see where this is all going? if you go to your local business and they got plaques of softball teams that they have sponsored in the past, what makes you think they will turnd down a paintball team that is willing to promote their business.
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The above is some great information! Taken from this thread... http://forums.paintball.com/index.php?showtopic=1625&hl=

Keep doing what you are doing. The more tournaments you win, the better your chances for sponsorship.

Put together a resume for your team and a comprehensive introduction letter that explains what paintball is, how you believe your winning team can promote your sponsor-hopeful, and a general outline of how much practice/tournaments cost.

Putting together a tape is great as well, but it really is only useful in a face to face with a sponsor-hopeful.

[yellowpumpguy]

From information I've read in magazines and such, it'll be very hard or near impossible to take a new team to the pros. More than likely you'll have to try out for already established pro teams.

[TippmannHater29]

To get noticed u have to place well in tournments, go to the same field a lot. Go there like once a week for a full year and they will probably sponsor you.

[X4SmuRf20X]

My dad sponsors my team and a few other teams and before he agrees to a sponsorship with any team he wants to see that the team has placed high in a few tournaments, (having a win is a bonus). The players have to seem serious, he wont sponsor a team that seems like they are not going to last or ever win once he helps them out. And another thing is he looks to see what he will get in return when he sponsors the team.
A lot of times my team puts up a banner with all of our sponsors' names on it and our team name in the middle. And on our jersey's we have their logos put on. When we win we make sure that our sponsors names get put up where ever our name is put (like on field websites where tournament outcomes are, or the message board at some local fields.)
The local businesses are always the best way to go, and make sure that you go right to the owner because often times when you go to some one other than the owner you will be redirected and lost and then never become sponsored by that business.