do any of you guys do hellsurvivors big games?

[magman313]

Looking to try and get some of the army to hit a big game at hell survivors in Michigan this upcoming year. Its a great field for those who dont know of it. Hellsurvivors.com

[Nobody]

I used to travel for the Tippmann Challenge. Attended challenges 2 through 5 or 6(been so long), but then we, my team and i, drifted away from Tippmann and stipped going there. So in reality, i haven't been there in close to a decade. Damn, i am getting old.

[magman313]

They have added on there fields sense then. Im open to whatever event just wanted to see if any AOers r interested

[zondo]

It's on my list to go to one.

[zulubravo44]

Two buddies and I turned out for the Global Conquest game this year.

Overall, it was fun. There are a few major flaws with this specific event, though. I'll boil down my complaints:

Too many teams
While it sounds fund to have seven different teams vying for bases and gold bars, it's very chaotic. Each team has an assigned jersey color; it is "within the rules" (as told to us by the field manager after a particularly obnoxious incident) that people can wear any past jersey they want. People use this tolerance to pose as "spies," walk into a base of an allied team, and do a bunch of barrel tagging or VERY close range back [of the head] overshooting (read: obnoxious incident).

Imbalanced teams
There is no effort undertaken by the field to balance the teams. While some would argue that this represents a better "global" simulation, with some teams being better equipped/manned than others, I found it to be a bit annoying. Base takeovers basically amount to a war of attrition, and the larger teams ALWAYS capture bases that they target. While it would be a pain to actually try to balance the teams, they could do certain small changes to make it a bit more balanced such as:
• Change the respawn from 10 people minimum per team to a small number for smaller teams (a 10 person respawn amounted to 25% of China's total manpower compared to something like 3% of the UK and US's manpower this last year, particularly on Sunday).
• Give smaller teams permanent "powerups" like allowing them to respawn to where their team is by "parachute."

Overall, I don't think I'll do another Global Conquest. However, I would be very keen to try Tippman Challenge or Monster Game, both of which only have two teams which are relatively much more balanced. The fields at Hell Survivors are awesome, and it's especially fun when you can roam the whole complex. If anyone is interested in going there on any old day, let me know. I live within "short notice to play" range.

[magman313]

Yea, i agree with u on conquest, monstergame is probably my favorite. Id be down to meet you out there sometime.I live on the east side of detroit so its not too far a drive for im actually trying to get out there the next decent weekend if we have one

[Drew_72]

I went to their Day of the Rangers and Monster Game events in 2013. Both were a great time. I was at this year's Tippmann Challenge as well... Teams weren't balanced at all. Not sure what it was with the tippmann side, but It seemed like they were consistently getting pushed around and backed into their re-spawn area both days. It would have been nice if whoever was running the show stepped in and did something about it. That said, still paintball - still fun. I also heard a lot of people complaining about the paint, but I didn't have any issues. Hoping to make it out to Monster Game next year

[magman313]

Sounds like im going to try and get a squad of us to run together at monster game. M going to try to keep this thread somewhat alive in hopes we can do such a thing how does that sound?

[zulubravo44]

Sounds like a plan. I can't be 100% sure I'll be around. If I am, it would be good to have some fellow AOers to mingle with.

In semi- (actually not at all) related lines of thought, HSI has really been struggling to keep to their planned pump and mag fed days. The first Sunday of every month is supposed to be one of these days. However, they usually either have not enough open class or not enough pump/mag fed and end up merging the two. Then the guys playing stock class get pissy when the guy with the Axe shoots 800 paintballs in a single game (rightfully so, I'd say).

Any of you have a pump mag you'd like to show up with one of those days? I'll bring my two, in case anyone needs a spare.

[magman313]

Do they alow sc semi autos? Thats my newest project; dont have any pumps currently

[zulubravo44]

I think you could probably convince them that such a thing would count as mag fed, regardless of whether you had a spring feed or a true SC gravity feed. I played with a Sydarm one game, and no one complained about that.

[OPBN]

See, I think the multiple teams sounds like a blast. There used to be another field that did something similar and it was really fun. They would break the day into two parts. The first part of the day, Teams A and B were "allied" as were teams C and D. The second half of the day that changed so that A and C were allies as were B and D. And when I say "allies" that was pretty lose in most cases. There was lots of double dealing and such that led to mass amounts of hilarity. Heck, If knew that's how it was run I would have made more of an effort to go while I was there.

[zulubravo44]

Not sure I'll be around for the other two, but a friend and I signed up for the Tippman World Challenge last night (Tippman Guns vs. everything else). It's the last weekend of September, and if you are among the first 250 to sign up you get a free case of paint.

It'd be awesome to have a little mag squad going.

[fz6soldier]

Not sure I'll be around for the other two, but a friend and I signed up for the Tippman World Challenge last night (Tippman Guns vs. everything else). It's the last weekend of September, and if you are among the first 250 to sign up you get a free case of paint.

It'd be awesome to have a little mag squad going.

I might be able to make this game. I have a friend that may be interested too. He's a cocker guy but can borrow one of my mags.

[magman313]

He doesnt have to shoot a mag, i just like the guys in the mag community. There usually cool guys. So tippmann vs world it is. Zulu we should still meet up when the fields open though. When it gets a little closer i will make a thread just for world challenge.