[HackD]

My own perspective on this is extremely limited by my experience. However, i do think i've had enough insight thus far, to draw some valid observations and conclusions both from chair-softing, and attending the limited events that i have. I have played a scant handful of skirmish venues the past 3 years in the southern Ontario region, and my comfort zone is with one in particular due to the largely drama-free, more mature-player oriented nature of that venue.. I do however, have the desire to expand upon that, whether it be through milsim or mil-skirm.

I made my first foray into that with OP Triglav last fall - while that event held much in promise, it was let down by equal-parts weather and player's lack of preparedness, as well as an apparent boycott from the start, by more established teams over what i perceived as fairly silly reasons to do so. Aside from weather, there was absolutely no other reason why that event should not have been successful. It had pretty much everything that people are indicating that they want, in a Milsim/complex mil-skirm environment.

NF3 has proven that we do apparently have the available player base (in Ontario) in numbers to hold large 'OPS' .. whether those be a full-on Milsim, Milsim 'lite' edition, Mil-Skirmishes.. whatever.

I do think the issue of a successful milsim environment - organized, attended and successfully completed to the satisfaction of all involved, also lies within the existing Player maturity base.

From an age-mature outsider perspective looking in, i've seen far too much elitism going on, and too much 'I' interfering in what should be a Team environment. Too much politics going on, too much of 'i want to play with my buddies or i won't come' factor going on, and too much Ego evident - this may be a factor of the player age/experience demographics going on North of the Border. The US milsim landscape appears to made up of a largely more mature, military-service experience-oriented environment that is more conducive to effectively well-run Milsim scenarios. Organizers run events - players make the events successful. Without the player base, the best run and organized event is going to fall flat upon it's face with an audible thud.

Also note, events can and do fail to meet expectations in the US also - not just in Canada. Sometimes the formula can fail in the US, for reasons beyond the organizer's control.

Will Blacksheep 6 fix that for Canada? No, absolutely not. A successful milsim/mil-skirm environment/atmosphere has to come from within, not from outside. It does sound like Force Recon is developing the formula that successfully combines Venue with Player Base to develop a good milsim/mil-skirm environment.. but they do not need to be the only ones to do so.. other successful organizers do not necessarily need to be sourced from outside of this country.. we already have those with the ability to develop that formula as organizers .. we just need the player base to be flexible, prepared and open-minded enough to make these other organizer/organized events work, just as well.

Organizers make the event. Players make the event successful.

JMHO.. take it as you will.