Originally Posted by
vijil
Here in NZ we have nowhere near the playerbase to make even that happen. We have walkon rental groups as the money spinner (no own guns allowed, ever, at any field), and then maybe a byo gear day every three months. That's in Wellington, the capital. Auckland is bigger and better but still not that good. Speedball is pretty dead mostly because there's just nobody to play with and no events. There used to be, back in 06...
Hence the weeknight social league - aiming at casual players with jobs and money in the 20-40 age group, and strictly rental gear only at first. We had an indoor, lit field in the CBD. With some decent SM marketing it could work given (dunno what it's like in the US) weeknight indoor social sports are incredibly popular here. A well proven business model. Heck probably 40% of professionals in the cities do it as a fitness thing. The field had 50 cal, Dye i4s for rental masks, airball.
But of course the field shut down because the building had to be demolished after one of the various earthquakes, so that was the end of that idea before it started.