A rant......

[hardr0ck68]

where are you from?? if its anywhere within 8 hours of me i will volenteer to come by and play with ya...im not a pro, but i can already tell i have more skill than these twibs (tourny wannabes, a phrase coined in APG, they wanna think there on 'shock or avalanch so the play like jerks...) but im sure more AO'ers in yout area would come by to make these guys dance...and hey if we get shot up we can take some advice from this thread bonus balls, paint grnade in the car, deflate tired (perferable with a nail)...and i do belive i have been hearin about "the ol fork in the eye"....just a sujestion

[Load SM5]

The field owner is somewhat clueless about what goes on or does'nt care. He seemed nice enough but just..out of touch. The name of the place is Rock Diver's in Huntsville, AL. http://www.rockdivers.com/ It's also a scuba dive center/park and I think that's were most of the money comes from. I probably will send in an e-mail, but based on today's tournout that team may be the only regular customers there. This may be a self-fixing problem. I would bring the team I play on there to kick them around (even though it's a 3 man) but we would hate to give them our money and help them stay in business for another day. I'm sure we'll meet up at a local tourney and then...the ol' fork in the eye!!

[TheMagMan]

That sucks man, I wouldn't go back there either. At my local field we have a 20 foot rule. Get within 20' of a bunker and the guy is auto out. It's much safer that way because we have little kids that try out the sport and people leave the field unhurt. Also a real ref or field owner would of split up the teams evenly because team practices shouldn't be held on "walk on" days.

My 0.02

[Ultimator]

Argh I hate jerks. There's a ref who works down here who called me and a few other walk-ons "pansies" because we wouldn't play vs. a 3-man mag team (one had a retro mini, one had an e-mag w/ freak and warp, and I forget the other one). Stuff like that's pretty rare though.

On an off-topic note: Load, you should come down here and play some FAIR games with me and Smokee_2_7 at Xtreme Paintball sometime after I get my mag

[Load SM5]

I plan to although Carl's supposed to come back up here in a few weeks.

But I plan on driving down there at some point to play on the airball field.

[shartley]

Thanks for posting the field information...

[Load SM5]

So...what did you have in mind there, Sam?

[shartley]

[Load SM5]

Sounds good...just leave any mention of me directly out of it. And I guarantee I'm the only long-haired SFL owner in Alabama. As long as this team does'nt hunt me down due to the article then go get em. I'm sure you would'nt do that to me, though.

Can't wait to read it. Hopefully something good will come out of it.

[dansim]

well it seems those refs have we dont care syndrome the same attitude the refs at ccpb had saturday , we were playing spools and the refs standing there lookin at everything but the game i tell him to check someone cause i blatantly saw him wipe my hit off and he told me i dont hit everyone i shoot at...to this i replied actually i do, i will shoot and shoot and shoot till i do hit them(field owner loves me i think im putting his kids through college) and then when another guy from the other team ran out of bounds and behind the ref to shoot our back players evryone that got shot was out(because the ref didnt see him)(he was behind him for cryin out loud he had to be out of bounds he was almost in the parking lot) then he told me and 4 other people if we wanna play tourney ball then play in a tourney we only wanted to play fair paintball thats all we ask and maybe a ref that does his job, of course that guy that ran out of bound had a sling and did get it caught in a tree right in front of half our team so he got his payback but i mean cant a ref do his freakin job i do when im reffing ..the sad thing is hes the head ref too im gonna sick my front man on him thanks cap!

[shartley]

I will be as discreet as possible. My intent is not to cause you harm, but to help open eyes....

If you would rather that I did not do the interview and article feel free to let me know, and I will not... But I am sure you can understand that it would be impossible to do the article without using your situation.

I can however still write an article ABOUT this type of situation without any interviews or specific fields mentioned. It will of course not hold as much weight, but could be "passed" along to that field.

Let me know what you would feel more comfortable with...

[the JoKeR]

I guess I'm lucky with respects to the field I play at regularly. The team that practices there doesn't usually get there and get ready to play right away, so I'm warmed up a little by the time they play (it's Butterscotch Yo, by the way). Near as I can tell, they're there to have fun and only beat up on each other. Now me too, I'm guessing??

[Timmee]

I hope ...

... you can educate the field owner about what is happening at the field, and I hope someone can educate that team as to proper field ettiquite .

[Croix71]

I'm more inclined to just not play there. I'm sure the other fields in the area will be more than happy to take their business.

[Load SM5]

I don't mind you telling the guy what happened as long as you leave specifics out that could trace it to me. I'm sure the team will hear about it and since I play in the local tourneys I'll run into those guys again. If you just jot it down as a incident you read about on one of the forums you haunt, then I say go get them. I appreciate and respect what you're trying to accomplich and maybe articles like this will prevent problems like this in the future. If you need any more input about the incident for the article I'll be happy to help.

Thanks Sam.

By the way, my head still hurts like crap this morning from that shot. I could'nt even lay my head down on the oillow on that side last night. That stupid git.