A rant......

[Load SM5]

I just got back from the worst day of paintball in my life. The SFL shot flawlessly but I ended up playing against the worst people possible.

Let me start off by saying that this is'nt my normal field, it's closer to my house and open on Sundays so I decided to give it a shot. I had'nt been there in a few years. It started promisingly enough. They had done some work on the fields and had a nice new one set up. I got set up and went to meet all the guys. There were 6 guys obviously tourney players and all on the same team form their matching hopper stickers. There were also 9 walk-ons half of whom left before I got to the field because I heard them say they were tired of being shot up and did'nt want to play anymore. Right away my poop radar went off. The tourney team invited my to play with them. I refused and went to play with the walk-on players to see if I can help out. So there is now a team of 6 versus 5 walk-ons and me. The first game fell apart as I expected. I could hear the kids yelling in pain as they got shot out one by one and knew I had a mugging coming. When it did finally show up the guy had me dead to rights. He could have shot me anywhere he wanted but he chose to shoot me right on the side of the head just in front of my ear from a just over a foot away.
I dropped like a rock trying to make my eyes focus again. I went and had a talk with the guy and told him I would've been so much more happy if he would've hit me in the foot, pack or really anywhere beside my ding-dang head! As of right now I have golf ball sized lump just in front of my ear that hurts when I put on sunglasses.

The nexy few games went pretty much the same with the team pretty much driving kids off covered in welts and paint. When one of the team players actaully volunteered to switch teams to make it fair, his captain yelled at him and told his the team had to practice together. What kind of experience do you gain by shooting up newbies? So it was the whole team versus the 4 of us that were left. After we got shot up again I let the kids shoot the rest of the paint out of my SFL invited their father to bring them to the field I normally went to and then left. I have never left a field before it closed until today and I'll never go back there. The whole experience left me with a bad taste in my mouth and a sick stomach.

I just had to get this off my chest. Now I get to go back to holding an ice bag against my face. I hope the rest of you had fun playing this weekend.
just had to get this off my chest

[Jonno06]

eh..what dillweeds...i hate people like that,you should have bunkered them.....or bonus balled em'....oh well....

[Load SM5]

I did bunker a few of them. But, one ok player, and a few newbies versus a team that plays together does'nt have too great a chance.

[Quiet]

That sucks. Who ever the refs are at that field they should be fired, driving away customers like that. My team almost never gets to play together to keep things even, when we do its usually 30 on 5 attack and defend.

Chuck a paint grenade in one of their cars

[HoppysMag]

ya we have a safty messure in place for situations like that.... his names kenny, paintballs always bounce off him and he can shoot like a case a game, and take a walk down the field with his spyder AMG in his right hand and his nitro tank in his left ( he keeps breaking his remote harness so he carrys the tank). for newbie being jerks i go in and bunker some skum.....

[Clare]

You should have borrowed Dansims' front man, those tourney players would have had nothing on him

[Load SM5]

The supposed "refs" consisted of one snot nosed little kid who was paid $40 to show up and wear a red shirt. He would never saw no to whatever the team captain wanted. And worse, he always wandered into my line for fire.

[Quiet]

Write a little letter to the proprietor of the field and explain to him how he is losing money because he doesn't manage it well. No matter how ignorant he is he will understand $$$$$$, the universal language. I had a ref compliment me on fairplay today, it made up for being overcharged for paint (in my opinion).

[Havoc_online]

you should have gone over the refs head and talked to the field owner on how his customers were being driven off and the refs not being refs. Better yet, you should get a couple of your friends together and goto that same field and hope they are there. That's what I would do, school them till they leave.

[shartley]

[hitech]

12 people isn't very many. And from your accounts, it's no wonder. I can't imagine that anyone other than the "team" would ever go back. I hope the "newbies" go to your normal field. If not, we probably lost five new players.

[slayer]

Bring your team to their field and hope they are there. Then return the favor in the side of the head.

[Miscue]

I've been in the exact same situation. I refused to play and complained to the refs because the teams were ridiculously stacked. One of the refs called me a "chicken." Well, he called me something different actually... I decided to prove him wrong - and that my previous decision had nothing to do with being afraid... but because it was a waste of my time and just stupid.

I told that jerk exactly what would happen... one way or another I would get lit up bad and my team would be useless and/or get wiped out... especially since we were in a small indoor field with a lot of people.

Although I got my share of kills... I got bunkered repeatedly. I got overshot... one game I came out and went to that jerk of a ref and told him to count how many different colors he could find. I told him these were from them shooting at me as I was walking off the field already dead. Every game they would not let me leave my bunker... they'd shoot up my gun w/barrel plug and arms as I was waving that I was dead.

And that team (dudes in 20s-30s) actually celebrated and bragged about how good they were and how they didn't have any competition. No kidding... bunch of 10 year old newbies with rentals they were up against. If I was there with my PB friends, we would have waxed them.

"I went out there to prove to you what a stupid m.... you are! I ain't scared of nobody - and I played knowing full well what would happen so I could show you and everyone else that you're full of... "

"Oh you're just mad because you suck."

Hopeless... I don't even bother to try anymore. People are too stupid.

[jurassic]

Several years ago something similar happened . But after talking with the field manager and getting no where, we left after 2 games. But not before another father and myself let the air out of all or most of the tires of the offending players trucks, 4 and 1 car. Did'nt take long at all!! I am sure every one will agree this was wrong. But the feeling of satisfaction was enormous!!

[Steve Crush]

LOL oh that is sooo WRONG, but i like it . I would talk to the owner and tell him/her yer story. The field i am at wouldn't let the field tourney team play with the rec ballers. tell him/her they just lost 3 players from playin at there field cause of it.

steve