"I Was There!" Official Shatnerball Pics, Memories, and Stories Thread

[Scooter/Cootie]

We came, we saw, we got our butts shot off. :D

What a memorable day. :D We woke up at 3:00am and got on the road a little after 4:00. The sun was just beginning to rise as we drove into the field but there were a ton of people there already!

We registered, got our Borg jerseys (which looked very stylish), and got all our gear together.

As we were walking back to the field, the festivities began. It was started off by a group of 5 para-gliders that buzzed the field and started to fly around. Tom was already on the main stage and he was getting the crowd pumped up. Soon thereafter, Mancow took over and he really brought a lot of energy (now I know why he's the host of a MORNING show :p ). Then the big guy himself arrived, William Shatner. He took the stage and to end the opening ceremony, Shatner said, “Scotty is not here, but we are.”

After a quick meeting at the Borg insertion point, the game was started by 3 loud explosions/fireworks. Tom took the entire Borg team and headed straight for the Klingon base. He sent AGD Pride to the Bedlam town field to hold off the entire Federation team for as long as possible! :eek:

We did pretty good and managed to hold them at bay for about 15 min. I believe we shot about 2 cases on that battle alone!

This is when the field started to have some problems. Challenge Park didn't bring anyone in to supply the air and they began to quickly run out. In a short period of time, the fills for compressed air dropped from 3000psi to 2000psi, then to 1600psi. A lot of players could only shoot a hopper and a pod before they ran out of air and had to leave again. We were saved by R&S Paintball from Wisc. They had brought their own compressor and set it up in the parking lot. They were giving out free 4500psi fills to anyone who stopped by. Way to go R&S!

The field also started to run out of paint as well. They had advertised that the paint was going to be sold for $60.00 a case. Once we arived at the field, they were already sold out of the $60.00 dollar cases and were selling their regular field paint for $80.00 and cases of JT paint for $100.00. Before 2:00pm, they then sold out of the $80.00 paint and were down to selling 1000rd boxes of JT paint for $50.00. We had run out of paint and only brought enough money to buy the advertised $60.00 cases. Needless to say, our day ended a little earlier that we had expected.

However, we did enjoy our day and didn't mind the prices too much since it was for charity after all.

We got to watch the final battle that pitted all 3 teams against each other in the Bedlam field. The Fed's came from the North, Klingons from the South, and the Borg came in from the West with the spectators watching from the East side. It was insane to watch 1200 players duke it out in a field that is designed for a max of 300. And both teams had instant regeneration so that once you got shot, you turned around, ran back to the starting point, and then ran back to the action.

The game had its ups and downs but I believe that the ups far outweighed the downs.

Post your pics, memories, and/or stories below so that everyone here on AO can get a chance to see what you saw.



The pics below are compliments of my wife, Michelle (the official AO photographer!)



Here is a pic of Mr. Tom Kaye himself!

[Scooter/Cootie]

Tom giving directions

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Attack!

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Me shooting in the Armageddon field

[Scooter/Cootie]

Those of you from Paintball Sam's might remember Jim Bergels Tank. He was there supporting the Borg team!

[Scooter/Cootie]

AGD Pride

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Tom with the captured Fed flag. (we later found out that we werent supposed to walk off the field with this. Oops :D )

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Allen

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Me resting before an Insertion

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Pic of the Borg and Klingon teams meeting for the first time after the alliance was created.

[Scooter/Cootie]

Here's a pic of the Armageddon field. You can get a good idea of the layout.

[Ov3rmind]

Great pics! I wish I was there.

[Scooter/Cootie]

Brice and Butch shooting at the Fed base from the Armageddon field.

[Scooter/Cootie]

Brice in the town of Bedlam field

[Scooter/Cootie]

Timmy and Havoc shooting

[Scooter/Cootie]

Here's a sweet silouette pic. "There over there!"

[Scooter/Cootie]

Even the young guns have been assimiliated. hahaha :D

[Scooter/Cootie]

Pic of Timmy

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Timmy, Butch, Allen, & Brice

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Timmy & Allen taking the Bedlam Town Hall

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Butch and me taking the hill. Whooha!

[Scooter/Cootie]

Butch laying down the 13bps law

[damageinc54]

Originally posted by Scooter/Cootie
There was some bad things like the 1600psi air fills all day

1600psi air fills all day????? With a $150 entry fee I would expect some nice air fill stations like we had at the Challenge Cup. My Emag does not go very far with only 1600 psi.

[SlipknotX556]

Great Pics!! Tom looks very cool with the custom proteus.

[VBmag87]

Nice pics!! That looks like it was really fun.

[SGTKennedy]

yeah, air and paint problems ruined my day.

we also got stuck with the feds... and some of the leadership was less than it should have been.
on the upside me and the 3 other monkeys got a bunch of pictures with hot girls. and might be in APG sometime.

[folder504]

The new, the old.
The guy in front of Tom with his Extreme in the 3rd pic has an old PGP :-)

[LaW]

they were plagued by power outages... and they broke a seal on their generator as well. CPX isn't the most organized field and i'm suprised it ran as well as it did. And once again no recognition for us refs!!!!!! come on I got shot more then I have ever gotten shot in the past 3 years.... I was one of the refs along the netting on the final battle and i got every pball that the federation was throwing our way, its not the best feeling in the world..... ouch my neck haha. I had a good time doing a little reffing... i was volunteering so i didn't ref that much but enough :) I was standing right there while Tom and mancow were talking and made the alliance, that was pretty good.

[Gunga]

Originally posted by Scooter/Cootie
Attack! http://www.automags.org/forums/attachment.php?postid=440401

This is Thordic, posting from Gunga's place.

Awesome pic of me doing my PGP medic thing! I discovered carrying an emag and being a medic was tough considering how much you have to run around, so I switched to just a PGP.

I know there are TONS of pictures floating around, hopefully more get added by the time I get home tuesday. Im having a blast out here, but I cant stand this ergonomic keyboard, so Im heading ooff here.

[soulegend]

I think it could've been much more organized. They ended up changing a lot of the rules throught the game, and most refs were in the dark as far as that went. There needed to be much more communication in that way. But, I do think the refs deserve a lot of credit. They worked hard and got shot a lot.
Paint and air was also a huge problem. However, for those who were willing to walk, there was a fill station that got me to 3000. In the last battle I did run out of air though, which was a huge disappointment. Got my ten or so guys out though.

[Drgnwyng]

All the pics gave me flashbacks Help we are under fire ahh Medic we need a medic OMG TANK RUN !! ow ow ow ahh ok well I was have fun

[Havoc_online]

http://www.automags.org/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=440418 that other borg player was me, lol. When ever I was in I tried to be as far front as I could, there were a few faces up there and let me say that they were al recognizeable, lol.

[LaW]

Originally posted by soulegend
I think it could've been much more organized. They ended up changing a lot of the rules throught the game, and most refs were in the dark as far as that went. There needed to be much more communication in that way. But, I do think the refs deserve a lot of credit. They worked hard and got shot a lot.
Paint and air was also a huge problem. However, for those who were willing to walk, there was a fill station that got me to 3000. In the last battle I did run out of air though, which was a huge disappointment. Got my ten or so guys out though.

oh man i volunteered for reffing and it was horrible, no morning meeting at all, very few radios so there was horrible communication. The rules for insertions were being changed every 10 minutes and just tons of stuff was just a mess. We did get shot a lot !!!!! haha well from what I heard in the beginning of the day was that there was a seal that broke on the compressor or something like that also combined with power outtages that caused a long day of low fills. CPX is never really prepared for this kind of stuff and they have a habit of being very unorganized. I thought the event went great however considering the amount of people involved and all of that jazz..... I had a blast though/ And now after writing this i just realized its like the same thing I wrote in my first response :) hehe oh well
:D

[pito189]

Originally posted by Scooter/Cootie
Butch laying down the 13bps law http://www.automags.org/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=440429

Ahhh...Always nice to see another left-handed E-Magger.:D

[Ekul]

Those are some great pics Scooter/Cootie. I'd hate to be on the receiving end of AGD Pride's warped emags. Good job!

[Fred]

I was very happy to see, that I shot more than a case of the old, mis-shaped, crappy white BE paint, and didn't break a single one in Wyn's retro with the LX... pre-LX I broke a ton in that thing! Whoohoo!! the warp and I-frame helped a bit too i think. :)

I was very disapointed about the trade show, paint debacle, and organization... :(

We got screwd at the pump tourney too (with paint!), we had over half a case left over, and we weren't allowed to use it in the big game! can you believe that BS?!

I won't go back to CP without a really good reason, but I would love to go to another AO meet! :D

---Fred

[Drgnwyng]

yeah the Red Roof in and there stupid rent a cop

[magman007]

ok, wel who won the dang pump tourny? some one please tell me. Was it any of the AO guys or what?

[Drgnwyng]

No the people in them Purple jump suits won

[magman007]

WHO? any of em on AO?

[Drgnwyng]

no they were total grief there were no Ao with them sorry about that

[Drgnwyng]

All I have to say is Where Is the Law and the rockets :P
:cool: :cool:

[Scooter/Cootie]

Here are a few more pics.

Butch

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Load SM5 in the Armageddon field

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Timmy in Bedlam

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Me in Bedlam

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Timmy with some Borg attacking the hill!

[Scooter/Cootie]

Here's a pretty good pic of the Bedlam field. You can get a good idea of what the field looks like.

[Scooter/Cootie]

Allen in Bedlam

[Drgnwyng]

those pics are nice they look really good
good job to the camra guy or girl

[Mossman]

That bedlam town looks insane.

Nice pics, great commentary. Too bad about the paint and air problems, but at least yall had a good time

[AssassN]

That loooks like ALOT of fun. Any chance tehre will be another close to dallas (1 to 6 or 7 hours away).

[Darkstorm]

Armageddon

[Muzikman]

Here is the link to the pics I took. None are of any action on the field, but more of the AO get togethers. If I spelled any names wrong or if I left your name off, please let me know.

http://pittsburgh-music.com/paintball/shatner02/

[Load SM5]

The few pics I took. I kept leaving my camera in Jon's car.

[Load SM5]

Some evil person took Manike's C&C off the the display and replaced it with doughnuts. He never did thank me for finding it for him.;)

[Load SM5]

Jon hanging out in the Borg tank.

[Load SM5]

And the Doughnut Orgy.

[slateman]

I don't see any donuts?

Question: Were all the buildings in Bedlam named after Star Trek TOS episodes? Yes, my Star trek knowledge is impressive:D

[Drgnwyng]

Doughnut Orgy was goooooddd

[Fred]

I'm in the foreground in the PHOG Jersey, Manike is in back.

this is the game in which Datapimp69 (I think...) shot him in the back as he was pushing up to bunker the last opponent.

We ended up with 96 points in that game... our second best of the tourney!

Pic was taken by Have Blue. :) thanks!

---Fred

[AGDJon]

Hahaha, that was me on top of the tank just before getting shot by Shatner himself at point blank while we were trying to find our insertion point

Memorable moments:
Doing a full charge/assault carrying Law rocket in one hand and Sydarm in the other (this got on camera by the filmcrew) by rallying everyone I could find and charging only to find out they were not at the first ditch and everyone basically did a suicide run (including myself) GOD what a rush

Leading the assault on the hill at the last battle and actually making it from tape line to tape line without getting shot until the end and have AGD Pride to the "Comprado" Chant

Getting shot point blank from Shatner

[Shane-O-Mac]

AOer's, thanks for letting some of us greifers hang out with you guys saturday night. fred....sorry about the pics while you were sleeping......NOT! so, here i am the newly appointed "SKIPPER WANG", just cuz of that stupid hat i wore..LOL. I look forward to seeing you guys at world cup, but i will not fall alseep around you guys, you are all ruthless. Gunga, i am the guy who sold you your air system at chicago open.

[shivors]

Had a blast...

You will see a few non-paintball related pics...seems there was a drop dead gorgeous photographer that somehow ended up in my camera. <shrug>

Here are the pics I took:
http://12.217.116.192/

[Have Blue]

Don't forget 'Blue Wang'. :)

What were you guys doing behind the privacy curtain anyway? Never mind, maybe I better not know :)

[Gambit1106]

I am still laughing at Jon for blessing us with the power of Wang before attacking Mancows base at the end of the day.

Jon,

I also remember you also have MuzikWang now!

Darren

[Drgnwyng]

love the pics guys

[Thordic]

Ahhhh.. finally back in NJ. Fourteen hours in the car with Riotz sucks, he smells, I swear!!! :)

Anyway, I'll make a better post later.

Do we have our own thread for saturday night yet? WE definitely should have one.

On second thought, some of those activities may not fit into what should be discussed on AO :)

[Riotz]

Originally posted by Thordic
Ahhhh.. finally back in NJ. Fourteen hours in the car with Riotz sucks, he smells, I swear!!! :)


I'm not the one who has cramps...

[Azemoth]

Does anyone have a pic of the guy that was drinking out of the pod at the pavilion?...it was me, and I want that pic for my own hilarity? Thanks in advance

[Thordic]

Ive been drinking out of pods for a long time...

[magman007]

hmmm i never really thought of that.... good idea you guys! i just gotta remember to dry em!


also, i guess i would not reccomend using be paint in your pods if you plan to drink form them, that stuff smells like (quote from what does your hopper smell like) "mine smells like a girls....well you know!"

[spacemanspiff]

Ahhhh.. finally back in NJ. Fourteen hours in the car with Riotz sucks, he smells, I swear!!!

I was wondering what that lingering smell was that seemed to follow us back from Chicago.....:p

Oh what an awsome time it was to hangout with everyone. And watching Mango get slapped around by that Bloody Brit was the best. Yes I did get one myself(typical open your mouth and insert foot:rolleyes: )

Does anyone have the whirly ball pics up yet?:D Everyone needs to go give that a try.

[agdemagman69]

GRR... I didnt get to go to shatnerball, but i was wondering where everyone got those agd pride stickers... i'd love to have one of those for my mag or my gogs.

-or were they an event only thing

[Thordic]

AGD Pride is the team, the guys with those stickers are on the team :)

Most of us had our AO names on the masks, compliments of Load SM5.

[Azemoth]

so...anyone have the pic? :(

[Puddleglum]

me and the 3 other monkeys got a bunch of pictures with hot girls


So where would those be????

[SGTKennedy]

next to my b.... ummmm. i think they are in my buddys camera. eh, someday theyll get posted.