Well, played my first tourney.

[Load SM5]

First off the weather was cold. It never made it above freezing and we had some snow flurries for the first couple of hours. The end result is I broke paint like crazy. I tried 3 different kinds of paint and never made it through a game without a break. The worst one was the first game of the day and I was still cleaning my barrel when they called the 10 second warning. I've never screwed a barrel on so fast. I also had problems with my HALO blending paint so I switched to my back-up revy. I finally got the paint slightly under control by switching to big ball. I still occasionally broke but nowhere near as bad.
The rest of the day went pretty smoothly. I got shot people and got shot. I hung the flag twice and got mugged a few times. All and all I played pretty average. My teammates played a little better until the finals where we tubed getting no points for 2 of the games. We still had enough to get 3rd place in the amateur class. So now I have this pretty gaudy trophy sitting above my computer. Not too shabby.

[paintbattler]

goodjob, thats good for a 1st tourney team..think of it this way, at least u got a trophy!

[Jonno06]

let me be the first to say:


CONGRATULATIONS!

[Load SM5]

Thanks Jonno06.

[paintbattler]

thats a nice trophy u got there, better than ours for 2nd place

[Mango]

GREAT JOB!!!!! :) :) REPRESENT!!!!

[stooks]

I can opt for the cold weather and unbelievable amounts of breaking.. Big Ball made it for me I had balls bursting midair heh suck..

Load : j00 r0xz0r /\/\y 6oxz0rz
heh Now i need sleep..

[media]

Load, were all kinds of markers breaking paint about as much in those conditions?

[brian terry]

good job,and im shure the paint breaking was couse of the cold ,

[AGD]

Congrats guys! Not bad considering the technical difficulties. I too want to know how the other guns did on paint.

AGD

[manike]

Getting a trophy in your first ever tournament is a fantastic result. Congratulations! :)

manike

[shartley]

Way to go... good job. :)

[Load SM5]

Originally posted by AGD
Congrats guys! Not bad considering the technical difficulties. I too want to know how the other guns did on paint.

AGD

A few other guns were breaking although nowhere near as bad a me. There was even a team that consisted of all e-mags and they rarely broke. I saw a few angels with problems but, considering the amount of paint that rained on us one game from an all angel team, it did'nt seem to bother them too much. Also on my team we had an angel and a shocker. The shocker never broke and the angel had one break. I was shooting, in order RPS Lightning (horrible stuff, brittle with a fill like toothpaste)this did'nt last long, Then I went to All-Stars, my favorite, but still breaking every other shot. Then Zap with no luck and finally Big Ball.

Tom- I talked to a former tech from Shocktech this weekend (name escapes me Mark or Mike I think)and he clued me in to a few things, his theories. If you want to e-mail me I'd be happy to share them with you or I can post them here.
Also if there's anyway I can send my gun in for a check-up and some upgrades this would be a perfect time. I won't be able to play for a few weeks. I'm still loving my SFL but this weekend was very frustrating. Anything you can do at this point would be welcome.

[Thordic]

Load - one of our guys (spacemanspiff) had a hell of a lot of problems with breaks when he got his SFL. Modifying the superbolt to take a foamie did wonders for him. You may want to talk to him... He also switched from a HALO to a revvy...

If Tom checks this, it may be a common problem you may want to look into. And once again, it didn't happen to Scott (spacemanspiff) in his backyard, only on the field.

[Load SM5]

My bolt does have a foamie and I did switch from my HALO to a revy after the first game. The HALO chopped the brittle paint inside the hopper. Quite messy.