Tri-City Paintball - St. Charles Illinois

[alkafluence]

Originally posted by the123
Indoor field, indoor prices. Expect $100 a case on recball. MAYBE a little less on teams. Not sure though. $10 admission is what the local newspaper said.

Grrr, I sense a conspiracy. Paint is just as bloody expensive as CCP.

Come on companies, this isn't the middle 1990's anymore, paint doesn't cost that much, so stop gouging us!

[Bront]

Originally posted by alkafluence
Come on companies, this isn't the middle 1990's anymore, paint doesn't cost that much, so stop gouging us!

That's how most fields are able to make a profit. They charge little for entry, little to nothing for air, rentals aren't to expensive, and they get you on paint.

$100 for a case isn't too bad if it's reasonable quality stuff (For Field Paint Prices I mean) Last place I was at was $140 for a case of Hellfire (It was a special day, it it was down to $120, and I later won a bag of 500 for free), and it was bad due to the cold (Most balls were dimpled).

[Smitty2k1]

Come to Bloominton/Normal... (Funks Grove) $5 admission + $5 all day air. $20/500 rounds (thats $80 for thoes of you that are slow)

Usually RPS of some sort or another

[damageinc54]

So is this place now open??? One of my guys tried calling there the other day and got no answer. Do they have team practices on Sunday's yet? If so does anybody have any idea how much practice paint is?

[yeahthatsme]

your linky no work no more... linky


anyways, i might check that place out this summer if i get to go up to chi-town.

[Lunchboxx]

Hey, I hit up TCP on Sunday the 9th, took a few pics.

First the staging area:

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The left field:

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And the right field:

[Smitty2k1]

Pretty sweet man.

[SirOssis]

anyone that went wanna post a short review of how things went?

[Lunchboxx]

Here's what I thought of TCP.

Taking us a good... oh... less than 30 minutes to get there, TCP has the distinct advantage to being very, very, and I do mean very close to me. Walking in, it looks like what used to be a business front, not unlike a doctors office. You walk through a few doors, pass a hallway with some restrooms in it, and come to the storefront. The store is pretty small, and they didn't appear to have the widest selection of items, but it was ample. Admission is $10, or $15 for all day air, while paint is $100 a case. Proceeding through the storefront, you come to the staging area. [Pic above]

The staging area is pretty large, with a counter for getting your paint as well as air fills, and a few arcade games against the wall. There are two rows of picnic type benches right in the middle, and they filled up rather quickly, with people on the floors all around. Another row of benches definately wouldn't hurt and would not provide a problem with cramping. They only fill to 3000psi and they used some form of Diablo paint, it was pink/yellow with a white fill.

From the staging area, you have a good view of the first field, which we called the Left field. [Pic above]

The left field wasn't too bad, with numerous soda cans as well as a soda can/laydown combo which we dubbed the castle. The one gripe I had with this field was that you could see all the way across to the other teams starting point a little too well. The field wasn't quite long enough for my likings, but there were a few good games I played on this one.

As you might expect, if there is a left field, there is also a right field. [Pic above]

Now, me, I didn't like the right field. It had the same problem of being too short for my likings (not too big of a problem, and not much they can do about it either) as well as the ability for one team to see the other team from their respective starting positions a little too well. What I really did not like about this field is that there did not seem to be enough bunkers on it. It just felt way too empty.

But then again, as with the other field, they did say these were intended to be three-man fields, but they packed a good nine or ten of us on each side for both fields.

Another thing, the floors are indeed made out of what appears to be shoe rubber. It is very soft, very easy to slide on, and overall was pretty nice. Sure, it got everywhere and in everything, but it wasn't enough to really bother me.

The refs/staff weren't bad at all, they were good people, obviously not yet jaded from the whole "paintball as work" dealie. Strict, yet fair, rules were enforced, the refs were more than fair. There was one rule, however, that hurt us a little more than it helped. The "no bunkering" rule, and they instead went with the "knock" rule. IE: you get to the other side of a bunker where someone is, knock on the bunker, and that person is out. A friend of mine I went with got out plenty more times than he would care to acknowledge.

The actual building/warehouse did have one overall thing that irked me. What I'm guessing to be the heaters were on the entire time, and those things were rather loud. It was difficult to hear other people yelling on the field over the hum of these monsters.

As far as how I played today, well... let's not go there. All I will say is that I had one good game, and I hit the ground HARD, more than once, and somehow managed to break a ball in my eVo2, which led to some not-so-good times.


Overall, while I do like CCP's larger field a little better, TCP has the closeness advantage. It really would be a toss-up between the two for me. If I had to give it a letter grade, I would give it a B- or so.

[Xen]

Sounds good, but that bunkering rule has got to go, I can see that they dont want newbs getting bunkered left and right but that rule doesnt seem to be nessicary. The floor looks nice but eventualy if they dont keep it up well I can imagine spots of bare floor apearing where you slide often. 3000 psi is also a negitive but i guess with 15$ admission and free air i cant complain too much, it would hinder a tourny tho.

I will be there saturday so ill see how I like it.

[damageinc54]

Damage Inc. will be at Tri-City PB this Saturday for try-outs and practice.

[BlueMagRT]

I will be there saturday as well. i will be bringing a friend or two as well. just took my x-mag into airgun yesterday and had the trigger rod set to specs. (thank you jj for the help) don't know what time i will be there but it will probably be in the afternoon. few questions:

1) what size barrel system insert fits the paint.
2) i am assuming the field limit is 240?
3) about how many people showed up to play.

[warpfeedmod]

Originally posted by Xen
Sounds good, but that bunkering rule has got to go, I can see that they dont want newbs getting bunkered left and right but that rule doesnt seem to be nessicary. The floor looks nice but eventualy if they dont keep it up well I can imagine spots of bare floor apearing where you slide often. 3000 psi is also a negitive but i guess with 15$ admission and free air i cant complain too much, it would hinder a tourny tho.

I will be there saturday so ill see how I like it.

Xen Country Club had used the same rule when I last played..not sure the reasoning behind it, I'm sure for the n00bs, but who knows.