Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20200116003211

Seriously, I don't know if this is a parody, bad marketing, or just poor personal decision making. But it appears Frank Cooper (aka Coop), Aaron Esser, Jared Guynes, and others participated in the Ultra ONE World Championship. Whatever that is 🙄

But there they are, all tacticool and smiles, running around an "undisclosed" warehouse in NYC with Ultra ONEs, blasting the crap out of shiny flashing targets with techno dance music blaring in the background. And supposedly this was a real competition. I'm sure.

So let me ask you, out of the thousands of competitive Nerfers across the US, what are the chances three prominent Nerf "influencers" would make it all the way to the Ultra One Championship Finals ? This doesn't seem contrived at all, does it.

And if that isn't bad enough, all three of these guys just finished completely trashing the Ultra ONE. The words "bad", "not truthful", "can't recommend", and "lies" are liberally sprinkled through each of their online reviews. Like a month ago. It boggles my mind to think they HATED this blaster then went to NYC a month later to promote this blaster.

This is literally the most blatantly contrived commercial advertisement I've seen in quite a while. I'm shocked these Nerf "influencers" willingly participated. Jared Guynes faux tears after winning "the first ever champion in a Nerf competition" is kinda sad. And now I'm really skeptical about all the things they said in the past. Was any of that their actual opinions, or just another clever commercial ?

Honestly, I'm kind of disgusted by the whole thing. I know I'm kinda old, but google "payola". 