I'm asking this legitimately, because it'll be fun. 
Where is the best place to host this event?
The things to consider are location, ability to hold 1500 people or more, lots of "Eye candy" and "intresting field props", and to an extent location.
Challenge Park (IL) : Well, IMHO they blew it. air "Fills" of 2000 PSI if you're lucky is the show of bad planning. Nice fields, but they really blew it as far as planing went. Not to meniton the whole paint disaster because BE threw a hissy.
Hollywood Sports Park (CA) : Great props, but the venue may be too small to host the event to it's fullest potential.
Hell's Survivors (MI) : A proven track record of being able to handle the numbers of people (Michigan Monster, SEVERAL scenario games, Tippman vs. the World), but a lack of props and eye candy are a real down point for filming. The most they have is downed cars, noting as spectacular as the CPX "Bedlam"
Skirmish (PA) : A good front runner for this, they too have a proven track record to absorb the numbers. However, Skirmish has often come under fire for referees who can't handle the pressure of big game reffing. They do have many 'theme' fields, (Hood in the woods comes to mind) that would make for good video, but they are predominantly a wooded field.
EMR (PA) : Another front runner, EMR's fields are linked together in such a way tha all the objectives can be played in one huge field. They aso have the infamous "Castle", the museum, as well as so many other themed fields that it would makesome fantastic video. The down side is location, EMR is in the middle of nowhere, and may or may not get the "Draw" from a major city and hte publicity of that.
SC Village (CA) : They can certainly get the numbers, the location, and the eye candy of many themed fields, but SC Village has flaws as a big game field. First is the layout of the facility, it wouldn' tbe easy to run a monsterous game continuously. They've got a lot of really nice arena fields, but that really doesn't make a good paintball video unless you tear down all the netting and make it one large field.
Fox River Games (IL) : This is closer to the original site, but again it's out in the middle of nowhere and lacks a lot of the eye candy that CPX has. However, FRG can absorb a lot of people, and has been getting a reputation of being able to run scenario games and big games. They're close to Chicago, however, which may be a good thing.
I also had a thought about having a "custom field" built for it as well, which wou dbe fun but expensive. Since it's a charity event, building a field JUST for it wouldn't be efficient, let alone easy to do. However, my thought on this is really simple. Rent an indoor dome (Like the Superdome, the Dallas arena, or the like), net it in, and run the game there. I think you could really create an intresting look. Not just airball fields, but some props, purpose built stuff, and I think an arena would be an intresting location, if done correctly. It'd be a paint fling fest, but it would be intresting.
Commentary?
-Tyger
Where is the best place to host this event?
The things to consider are location, ability to hold 1500 people or more, lots of "Eye candy" and "intresting field props", and to an extent location.
Challenge Park (IL) : Well, IMHO they blew it. air "Fills" of 2000 PSI if you're lucky is the show of bad planning. Nice fields, but they really blew it as far as planing went. Not to meniton the whole paint disaster because BE threw a hissy.
Hollywood Sports Park (CA) : Great props, but the venue may be too small to host the event to it's fullest potential.
Hell's Survivors (MI) : A proven track record of being able to handle the numbers of people (Michigan Monster, SEVERAL scenario games, Tippman vs. the World), but a lack of props and eye candy are a real down point for filming. The most they have is downed cars, noting as spectacular as the CPX "Bedlam"
Skirmish (PA) : A good front runner for this, they too have a proven track record to absorb the numbers. However, Skirmish has often come under fire for referees who can't handle the pressure of big game reffing. They do have many 'theme' fields, (Hood in the woods comes to mind) that would make for good video, but they are predominantly a wooded field.
EMR (PA) : Another front runner, EMR's fields are linked together in such a way tha all the objectives can be played in one huge field. They aso have the infamous "Castle", the museum, as well as so many other themed fields that it would makesome fantastic video. The down side is location, EMR is in the middle of nowhere, and may or may not get the "Draw" from a major city and hte publicity of that.
SC Village (CA) : They can certainly get the numbers, the location, and the eye candy of many themed fields, but SC Village has flaws as a big game field. First is the layout of the facility, it wouldn' tbe easy to run a monsterous game continuously. They've got a lot of really nice arena fields, but that really doesn't make a good paintball video unless you tear down all the netting and make it one large field.
Fox River Games (IL) : This is closer to the original site, but again it's out in the middle of nowhere and lacks a lot of the eye candy that CPX has. However, FRG can absorb a lot of people, and has been getting a reputation of being able to run scenario games and big games. They're close to Chicago, however, which may be a good thing.
I also had a thought about having a "custom field" built for it as well, which wou dbe fun but expensive. Since it's a charity event, building a field JUST for it wouldn't be efficient, let alone easy to do. However, my thought on this is really simple. Rent an indoor dome (Like the Superdome, the Dallas arena, or the like), net it in, and run the game there. I think you could really create an intresting look. Not just airball fields, but some props, purpose built stuff, and I think an arena would be an intresting location, if done correctly. It'd be a paint fling fest, but it would be intresting.
Commentary?
-Tyger
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Paintball Atlanta is big and has like 10 fields but they are all seperate..
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and i really really want to go... i am gonna ask to go as my birthday present....
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