Most of Houston is still without power. There are still problems with the water supply. And our $352 million stadium, who’s parking lot was going to host the NPPL, is broken. Great job, architects. And FEMA (aka the fun police) is using the parking lot for whatever they’re doing or not doing.
There will be no replacement for this event. The next event is San Diego, November 14-16.
They make no mention of any sort of refunds, though of course they are going to have to issue them. Plane tickets and hotel reservations are also going to need to be sorted out.
UPDATE: Ok, so NPPL could be canceled… Houston is totally out of power.
“The transmission trouble is primarily south and east of that line, running from the Astrodome area to the Ship Channel and encompassing neighborhoods from Bellaire to Baytown” (Houston Chronicle).
For those who don’t know the Houston area, the Astrodome is right next to Reliant Stadium. So no power at Reliant = no power for the hotels near Reliant.
“it could take a couple of weeks to bring those installations back to working status… The power companies are warning resident it will be a long, painstaking restoration process to get power flowing again” (Houston Chronicle)
NPPL could relocate to Katy, a suburb of Houston, because as of now, Katy has power. The event could be held at the Merrill Center, thier parking lot seems likes it can accomodate the vendors and field set-ups. Granted a relocation would cause some problems with hotel reservations but a cancellation or postponement would cause the same problems as well.
Also, Chad’s, our graphics designer, family is in the areas of Houston where there is no power. James’ house lost some shingles off the roof. And I still hate you Hurricane Ike. FUCK YOU!! Hurricane Rita was a category 3 upon landfall and did less damage than you. You fucked shit up as a category 2 upon landfall.
As many people should know, a hurricane, Hurricane Ike, made its way to Houston last night. Some talk has been going around that this hurricane could have screwed things up for NPPL Houston. Well, from the looks of it, Ike did nothing major to prevent the event from happening, unless NPPL had plans of putting center court in Reliant Stadium because that’s not possible seeing as Ike sort of fucked up the stadium. $352 million building ruined by a weak ass hurricane. Ike broke the retractable roof of the stadium.
The storm tore chunks off the stadium’s retractable roof… The retractable roof on the $352 million venue rolls open in nine sections, five of the sections were missing and large pieces of debris had fallen into the stadium(The Associated Press).
OH NOEZ LOOK AT THE DAMAGE TO RELIANT STADIUM
Some news I just heard in the middle of writing this post: the roads to reliant have been blocked due to debris and some random trees. I assume that this debris can be cleared up within 4 days. Just send a bull dozer down the street. That should work.
Debris is the Streets of downtown Houston
Not only did Hurricane Ike fuck with Reliant but it damaged my parents house as well. FUCK YOU, IKE! You owe my parents a new fence and shed door and you knocked over my basketball goal. Also, you tore down James’ grandmother’s fence. On another note, DirectTV, I don’t like you either since your signal cuts out when it rains and gets really windy which left my parents with no tv to watch which is pretty much the only thing you can do when there is a hurricane. Comcast, I dislike you as well because your service zone ends one fucking block before my parents house. Or I assume it does since my parents got DirectTV after the buy-out. Not that I have to deal with DirectTV that much, only when I visit my parents but none the less, DirecTV sucks ass.
Ike also brought him in…watch out! They are the #1 threat to America especially since now they are willing to swim across rivers, climb a dock, jump on a boat, maul you, and refuse to get off with people fighting to pry you two apart.
PSP is bringing back their Premium seating for World Cup 2008. The seating is covered platforms that have been raised 10ft in the air and are located on both sides of the NXL scoreboard. Each box has a maximum capacity of 8 seats that are away from spectator coaching. In addition to the shading seating, premium seat ticket holders get an event t-shirt and on Saturday and Sunday, get complimentary beverages and snacks that will be distributed by the PSP girls. Wifi will also be available with these seats.
Another perk of getting these premium seats is that you can stay up to date with NXL scores even if you aren’t in your seat because you can recieve the scores immediately after the match on your cell phone. (I assume it’ll be via text message.) Not only do you get all that was previously mentioned but you also get a back stage pass to the players pit, where you can mingle with the pros and divisional players.
There’s even more of a bonus with the purchase of these premium seating tickets. One, you get special coupons for some of the major vendors. A great way to pick some of the new items for 2009. Two, you get comlimentary bag check-in service. And if you buy two premium seat tickets, you get reserved up-front parking for the whole week.
Private box seating is also available for those big spenders. Private boxes get four extra seats in their box, making it a total of twelve seats total in your private premium box seating. With a private box, you may hang a company sign on it for some extra advertising. Contact Keely Watson at [email protected] for more information or to reserve your private box today.
Tickets may be available on site on a daily basis
Wednesday – Friday – $60 each
Saturday – $75 each
Sunday – $100 each
Looks like we might be back to sticks and stones soon.. Some scum bag hacker has attacked the Planet Web site and put in some script on the News Articles which tries to send you off to some other random web site. We have now closed the news section down so should have stopped the issue. Google have rightly put up a warning and we are working with them on getting the warning downgraded / removed. But as these tech-heads talk to me in 00010101010010011111010100100 talk I have no real answers for you. If you’re worried about using the Planet Eclipse Web site until Google give us the all clear then feel free to call us or e-mail us with any orders or problems. If you want to order over the phone, call Stoney on +44 (0)161 872 5572 or e-mail him at [email protected]. We will even give FREE SHIPPING on UK orders over £20 if you mention this letter when you make your order (Not on paintballs before you ask!). I apologise for any inconvenience caused with this issue even if it’s NOTHING to do with us and I hope the people that did it suffer in the eternal fires of hell.
