Starving College Student Paintball Players (CONTEST) WINNER ANNOUNCED!!!!

[AGD]

Bsoloman,

BRAVO!! Great idea and in the AO spirit!!


AGD

[Fred]

Very Cool!

Although I'm in college, I'm not starving, but I'm not playing paintball until I graduate now.

And, I have no need for a semi really either...

Very cool, I'm sure whoever gets it will put it to good use!

---Fred

[Devil]

Bsoloman,

This is a very cool thing that you're doing here. I admire your want to give back to those who really need it, especially since you know what it was like...and one day it is my goal to do the same.
I have a gun, so I will not be greedy and write an essay for the marker...(eventhough I'm really good at essays...) but...someone else needs this and I just wanted to tell you that you have my respect for your generosity and good will!

I hope someone that really needs this gun to have fun and someone who will better enjoy themselves playing this sport because of you will win!

Good Luck To All of my fellow College/Paintball players!
Kyla

[Miltonyz]

[shade23]

[soaklord]

My essay

Don Litzenberg
Chapman University
M.A. Organizational Leadership
Graduation June 2003!!!!

As an owner of a Spyder *Shudder* E99, I recently participated in the Warlords scenario with very little information about what an Automag really was. I was fortunate enough to be placed with the Magmasters and had a great time romping on Worr's team. From the moment I came into contact with anything to do with AGD, I was fairly impressed, Tom was very approachable and personable, he had no problems talking about the good and percieved bad of his products, he didn't take an indignant "Mine's automatically better than anybody elses" standpoint when asked what he thought about other markers. As a Magmaster, I was able to see just how wonderful a product the Mag really was and became a member of the forum after talking to Tom. I feel that as a respectful, honest rec and scenario player in Cocker town I would go a long way towards promoting a wonderful company such as AGD and possibly cause more people to purchase mags in this neck of the woods. More consumers means more income for AGD. More income, more money to expand the business, more money to crank out more X-mags, more availability, creating a reinforcing loop that could result in everyone with the money and desire would have quick, easy access to an X-mag. Then I too could hold a contest (on AO of course) to give away the marker that started it all. Southern California needs a lesson in thinking outside the Autococker/Angel box! Please allow me to show all the Cocker heads a little light.

[Koosh]

dammit people! STOP RESPONDING! your ruining my chances at winning!

[Snappy]

[Oddball]

Todd Michaels
Southern Illinois Univ.
B.S. in Chemistry
Fall of 2003

Hello,

I am currently the Vice President of the newly formed SIU paintball club. We actually had our first meeting just over 2 weeks ago. As a newly formed club we are actually looking to be pretty big with about 25 members already. But many of the members (including myself) do not own extra guns to lend to new players to try out. One of the main goals of the club is to make the price of playing as cheap as possible for newer players. This gun will be used as a loner for the club to help newer players be able to try the sport of paintball without commiting too much money for a day of playing. I will presonally care for the marker as I have used a mag in one form or another for the past 5 years and I should to be a certified mag tech by the summer time. Now if we can get AGD to give a level 10 kit with the marker....

https://www.siu.edu/~siupbc

[strongbad]

[slescens]

[Shawn at suny oswego]

Hi, my name is Shawn Larson I am a freshman at the State University of New York at Oswego and I am the president of the S.U.N.Y. Oswego Paintball Club, I am chemistry major and I expect to graduate in the spring of 2006. This fall some friends of mine and myself started a paintball club on campus, so that we can expand the sport of paintball by getting students who had never played paintball to come out and try it for the first time. We have been established for three months and we already have 40 members. Our biggest problem of course is money, so I spend most of my free time calling local fields and convincing them to give the club discounts on rentals. I personally own my own marker that I bought last year, it is a used spyder TL +, I have never owned a really nice marker because of the cost is too great. Two of my four officers and 10 out of 40 members own markers, the rest all rent from the fields. As you see this can get very expensive, so when we can we loan guns to people, rather than them renting. Thankfully, our vice president owns a CO2 fill station, and is a wonderful air-smith, so we rarely have to pay for repairs to markers and we can do CO2 fills at much lower cost. We also spend time buying markers, used and/or broken, and repair them to working condition. If I won the marker I would allow any of the members of the club to use it and my old spyder and my own uses for it would be rec ball, scenarios and tournaments.

[SkElL~ObIsSiS]

[SkElL~ObIsSiS]

more pix of field

more pix's of the field

[Marek]

Luis Munoz
The University of Texas - Austin
B.M. in Music Education
Summer of 2003 (Hopefully, crosses fingers, lights candles)

I found and bought an SFL E-Mag that was lightweight, and shot like a dream. But, I had to sell it. I traded it for money and an E-mag. Now, I am at the point where I need to sell my E-mag and Warp for money. I just recently sold one of my back-up markers, which was an fairly nice and upgraded Minimag and it might get to the point where I would need to sell my back-up cocker and tank and stay stuck with a BE Talon. Now, many people by this point would think that I am crazy or that I lost money in Vegas. But that is not the case. I did it for my big sister and my little nephew, Aaron Jr. (A.J.) that was born on January 6th. He is amazing, to say the least. I needed the money to fix up my sister's truck so that I could use it up in college and she could have my Focus ZX5 for herself and the baby. (Didn't want the baby to sit in the front seat) Now, they just found a blood clot in her abdomen and she will not be able to pay for her truck for this month. But, even though this is a slight burden, we have this amazing little baby at my house, and I love him to death. Being away in college has allowed me to grow up, and learn about myself. Now I feel that I should be home with my family and now my little nephew. What I plan to do with the marker if I do win is save it for him, so that he will be able to follow in my footsteps. Hey, it is AGD after all, it will last.
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Well, one thing is for certain, I can't say that I am not happy. In fact, many people would think that I would be the opposite, but I am not. I know that my interest in paintball has been curved due to the circumstances, but I don't care. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I don't know if this disqualifies me for having more words in the post then alotted, but I wanted to explain my story in the essay part, and explain my thoughts seperately. Thanks and take care.

Luis