The Inevitable 2025 Pros Switching Sponsors Thread

#1 draft pick: Isaac Robinson

#2 draft pick… Ezra Robinson? Can someone with 'no wins' be the #2?


#1 team drafting: Innova? None of them? Contracts might be paltry this year.
 
Rumor-mill has several players cutting let go early from recently signed contracts.

Matty-O most likely will be a casualty. He signed a 4 year deal last year and recently bought a house as a result, but Lat64 is likely to terminate his deal.

Ricky Wysocki is by all means having a great year, but he is also rumored to be on the chopping block at DD.

Some other players I could see getting an early boot from their current sponsor would be Kona Panis, Nikko, Gossage, Albert Tamm, and Linus Carlsson.
 
Some players that should be looking to cash in on a decent contract that seemingly haven't really gotten paid yet would be Joseph Anerson, Jake Monn, Ezra Robinson, Evan Scott, James Proctor, and Jesse Nieminen.
 
Rumor-mill has several players cutting let go early from recently signed contracts.

Matty-O most likely will be a casualty. He signed a 4 year deal last year and recently bought a house as a result, but Lat64 is likely to terminate his deal.

Ricky Wysocki is by all means having a great year, but he is also rumored to be on the chopping block at DD.

Some other players I could see getting an early boot from their current sponsor would be Kona Panis, Nikko, Gossage, Albert Tamm, and Linus Carlsson.
westside you mean?

House of discs as a whole though is an epic failure.

I hope ricky isn't cut, but .. ya never know.
 
Some players that should be looking to cash in on a decent contract that seemingly haven't really gotten paid yet would be Joseph Anerson, Jake Monn, Ezra Robinson, Evan Scott, James Proctor, and Jesse Nieminen.
Ezra and isaac are going to be up for grabs soon.
Isaac screwed himself by bailing on mvp for prodigy though, he should have stayed and brought Erzra over.

Those 2 plus eagle/simon and you got epic levels of epic and then just drop in that dash of cool conrad and.. MVP is set.
 
Probably. DD, Westside, and Lat64 pretty much all meld together in my head. Never threw any of their plastic.

Seperate but the same.
Just liek ricky was lat64 before. now he's DD.

Matty-O got prime sponsored by westside. You can throw anything of trillogy.

Now with Kasta being in the mix, i wonder if they can play all 4 brands?

Either way, house of discs ruined kastaplast already.. well. lat64 did.
The k3 isn't the same.
 
More predictions:

Casey White - MVP

Evan Scott - Innova

Macie Velediaz - Innova

Grady Shue - Discraft

Ezra Robinson - Discmania

James Proctor - Discmania

Robert Burridge - DGA

Colten Montgomery - Mint

Chris Clemons - Infinite

Matty -O - Discraft
 
How can the manufacturers just cut someone loose? Are the contracts signed not binding in any way? Isaac (with the 2x next to his name...) had to suffer through 2 years with Prodigy because of his contract. Doesn't seem quite right players can be cut loose on a whim...
 
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How can the manufacturers just cut someone loose? Are the contracts signed not binding in any way? Isaac (with the 2x next to his name...) had to suffer through 2 years with Prodigy because of his contract. Doesn't seem quite right players can be cut loose on a whim...
Pretty sure most contracts have minimum performance clauses and sometimes sales minimums. So, if the player is cut loose, it's for those reasons, not just a whim.
 
More predictions:

Casey White - MVP

Evan Scott - Innova

Macie Velediaz - Innova

Grady Shue - Discraft

Ezra Robinson - Discmania

James Proctor - Discmania

Robert Burridge - DGA

Colten Montgomery - Mint

Chris Clemons - Infinite

Matty -O - Discraft

I can see casey to MVP all day.

Why proctor to discmania vs infinite?
 
Pretty sure most contracts have minimum performance clauses and sometimes sales minimums. So, if the player is cut loose, it's for those reasons, not just a whim.
So does that mean discraft boots paige? =D
 
How can the manufacturers just cut someone loose? Are the contracts signed not binding in any way? Isaac (with the 2x next to his name...) had to suffer through 2 years with Prodigy because of his contract. Doesn't seem quite right players can be cut loose on a whim...

Performance clauses.
Most players violate their contracts as is anyways. They usually have a social media promotion clause in their contracts to help promote themselves and the company as a whole and they rarely can do that.

like How often does conrad post? hardly ever. He's just into that sorta thing. I doubt he's going anywhere, MVP is pretty chill on most rules stuff, a majority of their players have media clauses that they barely fullfil if at all. Cept Simon, dude is worth every penny.

You gotta promote your brand.

For instance, in the industry I work in. The guy I work for and another much much much larger guy were sponsored by the same company. They dropped the guy with 7mill subs, but kept the guy I work for. He was pissed about it. But the guy with 7 mill subs didn't do anything but use the product in video's. He didn't do any events, any extra anything promoting the brand. I'd drop him too. The guy I work for goes and works booths even though he hates it. They pay his whole way, and he's got the sponsorship still. The guy with 7 mill subs is mad as hell about it. They said they would send him product, but they were not going to pay him as a sponsor, which was some like 200-300k a year.
Well duh, you use the product, cool, But you don't also represent the company. Heck, I do more than the guy with 7 mill subs did for the company in promotion myself and I'm not employed or sponsored by them.
 
Cause $. Although, I'd imagine he might be able to stay w/ TSA while ascertaining a larger manufacter.
I just dont think dismania fits him like infinite would and with him being tight with oakley, it makes more sense to have him in a more open bag contract still.
 
Pretty sure most contracts have minimum performance clauses and sometimes sales minimums. So, if the player is cut loose, it's for those reasons, not just a whim.
Not sure what else Ricky could have done differently. He is the 2nd best player on tour this year, and has a pretty good youtube presence, though admittedly not as good as some.

Blaming a player because sales aren't what a manufacturer expected though seems like a cop out. Maybe if they didn't try to sell every disc with a player name on it for $25-$35, they'd have more sales... I know I'd never pay that much extra. If I wanted to support a player, I would do it directly. They almost all have patreon support available.

I think if several players do get cut loose in contract we will start seeing more shorter term contracts, as players grab whatever money they can in a particular year.

One wonders if McBeth's $1M/yr is paying the expected dividends, and if his contract is tied to similar criteria.
 
Not sure if it's correct, but I recently read that Silva Saarinen had only signed a one year contract with MVP.
 
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You gotta promote your brand.

For instance, in the industry I work in. The guy I work for and another much much much larger guy were sponsored by the same company. They dropped the guy with 7mill subs, but kept the guy I work for. He was pissed about it. But the guy with 7 mill subs didn't do anything but use the product in video's. He didn't do any events, any extra anything promoting the brand. I'd drop him too. The guy I work for goes and works booths even though he hates it. They pay his whole way, and he's got the sponsorship still. The guy with 7 mill subs is mad as hell about it. They said they would send him product, but they were not going to pay him as a sponsor, which was some like 200-300k a year.
Well duh, you use the product, cool, But you don't also represent the company. Heck, I do more than the guy with 7 mill subs did for the company in promotion myself and I'm not employed or sponsored by them.
The highlights confuse me. Also, what does 7 mil subs mean? 7 million subscribers? What industry is this?
 
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