It’s with a heavy heart we issue this press release.
Joy Stockholm will withdraw from the NPPL series after the last event in San Diego 2007.
It has been a great experience but unfortunately the deteriorating quality of the reffing
has made it impossible for us to commit the time and effort it takes to attend. We feel that it’s now impossible for us to be
able to compete on equal
basis in the NPPL with the present reffing staff.
We originally had hopes that the situation would get better after the
OC fiasco but it has not.
Event after event we have suffered horrendous, unjust calls against us
with the last incident in KC where we were denied hang points because
the flag wasn’t in place (the judge’s responsibility) was just the last
straw.
It was bad enough the refs had forgotten to place the flag in our
opponent’s base before the game but after the game had finished and the head
judge was made aware of the ref’s oversight, they obvoiusly had an
opportunity to put things right and elected not to thus precluding our
advancement into the semi-finals, that was an outrageous decision and the
straw that finally broke the back and heart of Joy Stockholm. We have
tried to contact NPPL after the event but they have not bothered to
answer or email.
Our apologies to our fans in the US who have been fantastic, the degree
of support we have got is what kept us going after OC but I’m sure
they will all understand our decision and hopefully we will see each other
soon.
Also, apologies to our sponsors who have made it possible for us to
attend these events in the US.
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We have had 2 great seasons where we have made the final 4 no less then
5 times the last 7 events !!
We hope that NPPL will wake up and solve this problem so other teams
can compete on an equal basis.
and stop denying the bias and incompetent reffing.
As for now, the NPPL makes it impossible for a European team to compete
on an equal footing due to biased and incompetent reffing.
And that is truly sad because Joy helped NPPL in the first years after
the split with the reffing program.
We reffed many events before taking a pro spot in 2005.
We are truly sorry that it had to come to this, hopefully changes will
be made in the future that can make
us feel welcome in the US again.
Joy have always been about playing the game for the love and fun of it,
and when that is taken away we can’t find any reason to continue. Joy
have been NPPL’s biggest supporters and have attended every event since
2005. We still love everything the NPPL have done for the sport and
wish the legue all the best in the future.
Team Joy Stockholm
Magued Idris
Maximus Lundqvist
Sebban Samuelsson
Karl Brian
Karls Samuelsson
Jake Eriksson
Magnus Storckenfeldt
Robin Larsson
Rasmus Larsson
Knut Andre Olstad
Björn Sjödahl
Erik Mellgren