Shatnerball Memories

[LaW]

there was a cloaking device that could be found on the field which allowed a certain amount of players or a tank to move unharmed to any place it wished.

[Fred]

My favorite moment was probably Bunkering (or "Mugging" as Simon Says...) Sage Lehr in the pump tourney, getting a flag pull and hang in the last game was fun too! It would only have been better if the rest of the AOers had come to watch and cheer us on... thanks guys...

My least favorite moment was waking up this morning, asking Wyn if Total Greif had shown up to the hotel party, and being shown pictures of myself asleep, with Manike, Thordic, Marc Gottfried and another Greifer standing around my bed pulling their pants down... thanks guys...

The pump tourney was fun, but the reffing (not including Total Greif) was plain old crap. the organization at CP was the worst I have seen, and the scenario was run horribly. Everyone who was there needs to email SPPLAT and recommend someplace like EMR or Hell Survivors for next year's event... they KNOW scenarios, and could easily handle the numbers we had (and a lot more).

I would like to say that meeting everyone, hanging out, and just having a good time with the rest of the AO peeps made the weekend 100x better than it would have been, Thanks guys, I look forward to getting together in the future!

---Fred
aka "Wanna-be-Wang"

[Drgnwyng]

Hell Survivors for next year's event... they KNOW scenarios, and could easily handle the numbers we had (and a lot more).

Yeah they do and Im look forward to the tippmann game sep 21 oh yeah fun fun fun

[Rusty]

Borg tanks furthest advance

I will say the farthest I got with the tank with the help of borg ground troops was past the jungle of doom over the two birdges up to the open field where the entrance to fort courage was. We were looking at the feds up on the hill and they had signaled to us that they were out or just waiting for deployment. That was fine. So they said lets go to the fort. We soon found out that the tank did not fit the bridge so with the trail I had to use thier was no way to get to it. Then a ref came down the hill and said we had to go back to our insertion zone because the truce was off. I was about to ask him if he was smoking crack but just took it in stride with the rest of the rule changes and turned the tank around and went back to our flat spot on the gravel.
If you were a ref that was at the far end of Armagedon when the cannon rolled up. Can you tell which time when I fired that was directed at a group of fed players that were not in cover? I was told in a polite way that I cannot fire at them or I would be black balled and would have to leave. Well if it was the shot at the net where the feds were standing behind. your refs had gave me permission to shoot thier earlier and they would give the 10 foot blast radious from where the rocket hit. I could tell the ref that came up and exsplained the reson was lost himself so I just rolled with it. The other 3 shots were only at tanks. So you refs at that end sure needed to get together.
It you have not played on this field I recommed it on a regular day when you will get to play the diffrent fields. The Bedlam and armagedon were very cool. I just hope that we can use the tanks in them next year. Only if they get busy and put in some better trails for the tanks. other wise thier is not much for a tank to drive through.

Jim Bergles

[LaW]

Re: Borg tanks furthest advance

Originally posted by Rusty
I will say the farthest I got with the tank with the help of borg ground troops was past the jungle of doom over the two birdges up to the open field where the entrance to fort courage was. We were looking at the feds up on the hill and they had signaled to us that they were out or just waiting for deployment. That was fine. So they said lets go to the fort. We soon found out that the tank did not fit the bridge so with the trail I had to use thier was no way to get to it. Then a ref came down the hill and said we had to go back to our insertion zone because the truce was off. I was about to ask him if he was smoking crack but just took it in stride with the rest of the rule changes and turned the tank around and went back to our flat spot on the gravel.
If you were a ref that was at the far end of Armagedon when the cannon rolled up. Can you tell which time when I fired that was directed at a group of fed players that were not in cover? I was told in a polite way that I cannot fire at them or I would be black balled and would have to leave. Well if it was the shot at the net where the feds were standing behind. your refs had gave me permission to shoot thier earlier and they would give the 10 foot blast radious from where the rocket hit. I could tell the ref that came up and exsplained the reson was lost himself so I just rolled with it. The other 3 shots were only at tanks. So you refs at that end sure needed to get together.
It you have not played on this field I recommed it on a regular day when you will get to play the diffrent fields. The Bedlam and armagedon were very cool. I just hope that we can use the tanks in them next year. Only if they get busy and put in some better trails for the tanks. other wise thier is not much for a tank to drive through.

Jim Bergles

Well I had started out reffing at the far end of the klingon camp but there was just no action there so i wondered out to the jungle of doom for the most of the day i stayed around there. Towards the end I reffed out by armageddon during the klingon and borg rush on the federation camp.... where then the klingons turned on the borg. I found that I was doing a much more involved job then some of the actual refs that worked at the fields. Most of the refs didn't want to be there, as a volunteer I enjoyed it all until that last battle, I was just really hot and a little dehydrated so it wasn't the most exciting.... plus all the hits i took but that was to be expected.

[Drgnwyng]

yeah Rusty thanks for the help out there in the town by the feds with out you all thos tanks would have kill eveyone out there its was so not fair they keeped bring tanks back ever 2 mins so with out you out there we would have been so so so die and I think you scared Shatner away cuzz he was there but I did not see hem when i left the town so I believe he ran away

[Rusty]

Ref is a harder job

I will agree that being a ref for this event was tough.With that many people and that much paint flying the last thing the ref wants to here is "Paint check". And just think you volunterd for it and we paid for it. AS a big game ref myself sometimes I wonder if the orange color is a paint magnet?
Take care
Jim Bergles

[LaW]

Re: Ref is a harder job

Originally posted by Rusty
I will agree that being a ref for this event was tough.With that many people and that much paint flying the last thing the ref wants to here is "Paint check". And just think you volunterd for it and we paid for it. AS a big game ref myself sometimes I wonder if the orange color is a paint magnet?
Take care
Jim Bergles

ha yeah i know what you mean. They had us in those nice referee jersey's so it would look better.... all it added was more layers of clothing and it was super duper hot in there... the workd "paint check" brought a chill to my spine.... i think i got hit the most running to check players ... it was so worth it though. Just such a great day.

[Load SM5]

By the way, thanks to all the refs. You guys did a good job despite all the problems. You stayed on top of things and I appreciate it.

[soulegend]

One of the first things I did when I got home was email JJ and told him to consider Hell Survivors for the next event. As for the van with communications jamming, I thought that was against the rules. Are you sure they did that? Because you weren't allowed to listen in or jam them as far as I've read in the rules. Hmm..

[Tack]

I never got in on any reall missions, so i decided to create my own missions to help me feel like I am doing my part. During my second insurtion when we were trying to take the town I ran out of air and decided to stay on the field and command. I got enough players to push the Feds back enough to open up a spot for our players to flood into both sides of Bedlam. Also I helped get a small unit togather to hold Bedlam from Klingon attack while most of the Borg were fighting the Feds in Aramageddon.

The worst part of the day for me was the bad air fills and haveing to turn around when the alliance was canceled. I was leading the tank blocking force for Rusty when we got the call. It was about 15 Borg and 10 Klingons. As we started to turn around we saw the Federation start again and probablly 75 hit the woods after us. We all decided that untill we got back to our respective camps the alliance was still on. We layed out an amabush with The 123 and I out front to lead the Feds in. I gogged about 5 Feds before getting shot out but was able to watch the ambush go down before we got plastered. It was fun.

I loved the last battle and getting a chance to be on the line with Tom, Budd Orr, Wayne, and some of the best paintball players I hve ever met made it a unforgetable experience.

[Rusty]

Jamming? yes it was against the rules

yes jamming channels was against the rules. you could listen to any channels but jamming them or talking over the other team or listening to the refs was a hiway 80 violation if caught. The air fills was a lack of planning or just a way to make sure the Feds would have a better chance at winning.
If the jamming thing is true I will really have to think about going back next year when one of the uppitys of paintball was behind it. I will make sure to voice that to JJ also. but they still could not controll who we shot. And the Borg infantry did alot of that.

jimb

[Havoc_online]

I personally didnt have a radio but mango did and he said that during the last battle everyone with a radio just turned it off because nothing could be said or heard with all the noise.

[Drgnwyng]

yeah They jammed all the channels how unfair I mean as if anything there was fair

[Venom]

Uninvited paints Shatner!

During the Klingon/Borg Alliance, in the large battle near the Fed base and the "net wall" Shatner appeared out of the top of the Federation tank! My friend Superman (theme song plays) from the Uninvited shot him promptly, then the "fearless" leader/loser ducked back into the tank. The referees were heard jumping in celebration.

BTW, I had a great time meeting everyone from AO. Living in SC, it's hard to make it to most of the NE events. It was my pleasure to finally meet the following people:
SprayingMango,Spacemanspiff,Thordic,AGDJon,Havoc,M
usikman,Xen,CaPoEiRa,LoadSM5,BluemagRT,Pi and of course, Tom Kaye and anyone whom I've forgotten at the moment.

(In case you don't remember me, I'm the dork with the greyish-blue hair and the nitro tank that seemed irrepairable )