09/02/2017
This is a letter I Sent to the captains of the Mayhem, Wraith, and Vanguard in response to them deciding to leave Scifipaintball....
After talking to Allan the other night, I took some time to think about everything that has happened. Allan tells me that in order for me to join your new paintball group, I need to apologize and beg your forgiveness.......
WHAT!!!
you came to me with this attitude of " we don't like the way you run YOUR program, change it to fit our needs or we will take it from you"
How exactly did you expect me to react? Did you think I was going to just give you what you wanted?
When you said " I don't agree with your rules, so I'm just going to do what I want to do anyway", did you think somehow I would just be OK with that?
You all seem to think I should've just laid down on the ground and let you walk all over me. THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS!!!
When you all start acting like immature, pretentious @$$holes, and demand things you have no business asking for you get the response you did.
If you brought me that proposal back in 2015, when it was supposedly written, and said, hey, the crews are not happy with the way things are going, perhaps we can sit and talk about ways we can fix things? Maybe, I would have been more open to change.
But that's not how it happened.
this all started with Jay coming to me and saying" I bring more people than any other team, I should have a say in how we distribute the group leader benefits".
To add salt in that wound, he then went behind my back and brokered his own deal with skirmish. And thought I would be ok with it!!
Then there is Jade. When she wanted to be a captain, I was reluctant after what happened with the carnivore. But we needed another team so I agreed. After explaining what she needed to become a captain, she responded with " I don't agree with your rules, I'm a captain regardless of what you say"
In walks Allan with his " you're not the lord commander of paintball"" speech.
According to all of you, this behaviour is ok, but my attitude in response to it is the problem?
I may not be the "Lord Commander" of paintball, but as of 2010 I was the founder, president and CEO of Scifipaintball. It was my organisation to run as I saw fit to run it.
As captain's of the participating teams, you all had a voice in how the games were run, and I valued any suggestions you had to improve the overall game experience. But your approach to obtain those changes was wrong, and as a result you got the reaction I felt was warranted.
I do not feel I need to apologize to anyone. My reactions, were a direct result of your actions. if you were more professional in your approach, I would have been more professional in my response and I could have been more receptive to your views.
Needless to say, things ended the way they did. At this time, I have no intention of joining your new paintball group, because within time you will all turn on each other and your new group will crash and burn just like Scifipaintball did. The only chance it has of success, is if you all start acting like adults and not like spoiled children with false senses of entitlement. But I really don't see that happening any time in the near future.
By the way....
As far as the props, field passes, bank account, etc....goes, that all remains property of Scifipaintball. Since you have all disassociated your selves from Scifipaintball, as with everything else you demand, you have no entitlement to any of it.
- Thomas Donahue
CEO Scifipaintball
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
While Scifipaintball may currently be down, we are not yet out. This September trip seems washed out, but I will soon be working on a way to rebuild.
