I'm off to the first of the season CFOA in Easley SC

[cphilip]

We have two Mag teams in this Tournament. My guys (local AO'ers and thier first 5 man CFOA) and Larry Motes guys (AGD sponsored as well). And also we have a TAG team in this as well. So wish all the AO guys luck. I am going over to tech and help out and such as that.

My group is sponsored by Tunaman, AGD, Extreme Outdoors and me. Or is that "I"?

I will report later this evening.

[Tunaman]

Make sure you get some Pics up!

[Kevmaster]

The NC support group of the MAG TEAM is leaving now......

[cphilip]

Ok heres the short story. Picts up later.

66 teams registered. 63 showed up. Brackets were assigned. Only the top overall 16 teams in semifinals. Brackets were random.

Now remember this five man team has not practiced as a team until today. Not once. A few of them have played together but not as a five man any more than two of them ever played together.

We won Three and Lost three. Second game of the day (Our first loss) was controversial. The opposing teams snake player played on and then took out our last two players. Never got checked in spite of calls to do so. This same player then gets the pull and runs and hangs the flag. Upons inspection is found to be out. BUT THEY GIVE THEM THE HANG AND THE PULL!!!! By rule that was our points and game. There is no discussion. 35 points right there! But yet... Did not get the ruling! A player that is found out after the game cannot get the hang and pull. Rules are he must have been playing with a hit obvious or not and so whatever he did after that is null and the points go to the other team. However after our guys "discussed" it with the refs they refused to reverse it. We did not pitch a fit. We moved right one and won our next game. So there ya go. We might have and still were in position to make finals had we won our last game. However we did not. Just didn't go well on that last one. However the game before we played the team that was scored second overall at the time and creamed em! Go figure huh? Knocked them completely out of finals. From second down to lower then 16th. That's how close all of it was with that many teams.

Overall we finished 27th out of 63. There was about 45 points seperating us from semi finals. Even if we had of gotten that bad call game we would still not have made it. We needed that last game as well. So its just a matter of finish place after that. Probably would have finished in the top 20 anyway. But... thats paintball. And not too shabby for a bunch of AO'ers never played together. And a break or two and we would still been there playing. So close. But we happy with it all.

[cphilip]

Oh... typical Mag teching day. I didn't even have to open my parts box... You gotta love a mag right? :P

The cphilip/Deadlywind/Coolhand RTP got a real showing off. Lots of lookie looes! People were like "What is that?" Hehehehehe.....

[Emily]

The member of the team from AO are CCaleb, Enigma4you, BarberJohn, and Passed out pimp. One other member, Toad, from the area and 2 alternates, Derrik and Randy. These guys are awesome!! They worked very well together and made tough decision for the team. The last game, they had to decide to either play 5 strong or put an alternate in and the team decided to play 5 strong to try and make the semi's. The alternates were all for that. This team not only played well together they had the upmost sportsmanship out there. One team even told them that.

Highlights from the day...

Caleb had to check Enigma's junk.

The guns all worked very well (of course they are mags).

The CFOA put together a great event.

We saw Kevmaster, The Angel Guy, GA Devil and April (sorry April, I can't remember your AO name).

Phil gave me some candy

One kid got shot in the eye. See Phil's post http://www.automags.org/forums/showt...hreadid=127158

We got to yell at some kids playing with air soft guns.

Our boy Toad did a double bunker.

Pictures to come later. Enigma and I are wore out so where gonna hit the showers and maybe take a nap. I'll try and get the pictures up soon.

[Enigma4you]

Special Thanks to...

OK so I played my first ever CFOA tourny today with CCaleb, BarberJohn, PassedoutPimp, Toad (Honerary AOer)Derek and Randy. I have to say that I could not have had better teamates. We were unable to pratice before the event and today was the first time we had all played together and I think the first time some of us had ever played tourny style ball. What struck me was the level of sportsmanship my team has. I did not hear or see any of our players cheat in any way, these guys showed respect to the other teams and played with honor. Our team captain CCaleb set the example for the rest of the team. As a team we had to make the decision t oplay for fun or to play to win, we choose to play to win, that ment that the five strongest players got to play, the decision was made by the team for the team and our alternates Derek and Randy knew that this ment that they would get no play time. They played the supporting role and made it possible for the other five to go all out. My vote for MVP goes to those two guys.

My thanks go out to CPhilip, Tunaman, Ernie from Extreme Outdoors, Moe from Action TAGG, Greg at National Paintball, Emily, Kevmaster and NEW GENERATION for making it possible for us to play...

[barberjohn]

mmm, well, i guess its my turn. i pretty much agree with everything everyone else has said, since i dont feel like typing that much. all of my team-mates were swell guys, and VERY sportsmanlike. we did have some bad luck on a couple of games, but every other one we played awesome, especially since we were a new team to each other, like phil stated above. i wasnt able to stay to see the semi's, so i dont know what they were like, but i hope CIA won, that would make it even better! oh, and Emily, you forgot to tell everyone about my game winning bunker on the snake guy against the CIA team. jeez, i cant believe you forgot the best play of the day!!!

[cphilip]

Originally posted by barberjohn
...but i hope CIA won...

Nope... They didn't MAKE finals... and you know why? Cause you guys knocked them out by almost rolling them. After that they fell apart and lost thier last game too. They went from 2nd to below 16th after you beat em. They only got 4 points that game agianst you guys. You guys got 57 against them. (I forget exactly where they ended up but it wasn't finals I do know that) I think that makes up for the fact that you stole my grips!

[Kevmaster]

it was a great event....i enjoyed seeing all you guys!

[Emily]

John I'm very very sorry. Let me make it up to you.

Let me set this game up.... It's Reign of Fire vs. CIA

It's the 5th game of the day. THey are preparing to play the team that is in 2nd place. They ask other players around us about this team and gets the goods on them. The decision was made to go out and just throw paint like mad and never let up. They were doing this to take and keep control of the field. This is what we heard that this team does so they wanted to take the control before CIA got it. As they are waiting for their turn to play, they, jokeingly, try other stragities. First they try to bribe CIA. Didn't work. And secondly, they said they were just going to wait for the "go" from the refs and all walk into the dead box. Now it's their turn to play. They walk out onto the field and get up to the dead box and get ready to play. They do their battle cry, "1,2,3 We suck bad". The refs yell, 3,2,1, 10 seconds .............. go go go. Enigma and Toad shoots on the break to give Caleb a chance into the snake. Caleb got into the snake. They all are throwing paint like there is not tomorrow. Caleb and Passed out pimp get shot. This leave Toad, Enigma and Barber John. Toad, in the center back bunker, take off to the right back bunker, THEN, runs toward the snake, hits the ground and starts crawling to the snake. He makes it, all while Barber John and Enigma are still hammering the other team. During all of this, 1...2....3 go down of CIA's team. Toad is rapidly moving up the snake and the other team has no clue he is there. The 4th guy is shot and that just leaves 1 guy in the snake on the left side. He is getting close to shooting Enigma (in the left back bunker), when Barber John (in the center bunker) nails him and BOOM all 5 guys are out of the game. Barber John and Enigma run up the field checking to make sure the team is out while Toad, after making his way up the snake to the other teams side, is waiting on them. Barber John pulls the flag and places it on the other teams dead box. THEY WON!!!!!! THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!!!

[Jonesie]

Yup, check out my boys from Wildfire Paintball. Taking the Rookie division! Great work guys. Too bad money-wise I had to choose CFOA or LA... hopefully we'll do as well in the City of Angels... shootin a Mag!

[ccaleb]

What a day this was! We all woke up at anywhere from 4:00 AM to 5:00 AM and went out when it was 23 degrees cold outside. Which is most definitely cold for us South Carolinians. But things went smoothly. We all got comfortable, set up the tent, and got our guns ready early (which turned out to be good for us since the line for the chrono was SUPER DUPER long later). We walked two of the fields and left the other two unwalked. We were ready to go!

Our first game was against our "sister" team, if you will, from Extreme Outdoors as well. We luckily won field bragging rights for a little while by taking that one. Then we dropped a game we really should have won (the controversial second game), but it didn't matter. We kept our heads up, our acts straight, and kept playing to finish out the day three and three. But this record really doesn't tell the whole story in my opinion.

This was a team that hadn't EVER all played on the same field at once, and yet, the chemistry of it was naturally there. We all had a great time and really clicked together. My main point is that we have so much potential to build on that I think this will be a wonderful season for the rookie mag team. More importantly than all that was the fact that none of my guys once slipped and was rude and whatnot. I was very happy with the way they performed and the way they handled themselves. They are good sports and I look forward very much to playing the rest of the season with them.

Wesley, you have helped the team out so much and I am so glad you have come on board as one of our players. Steve, John... as always, I can't wait till the next time we take the field together. Toad, I really do hope you stay with it for the rest of the season. To Derek and Randy, thank you so much for voting for what we were there for (the team), your unselfishness is a design for all those who surround you and we appreciate your stead. And last, but not least, to MrZman88 (Zach) for filming and running our little errands for us. And to Dad and Emily, we definitely couldn't have done it without your continual support. The day wouldn't have been so fun and successful had everyone not been cooperative and steadfast in what we were doing.

I look forward to the season with you fine people and my heart go out too you. Lets have a good one.

1... 2... 3... WE SUCK BAD!

[barberjohn]

Originally posted by cphilip
I think that makes up for the fact that you stole my grips!

aaack!! i did!! jeez, i havent even opened up my gear bag yet to see. my bad phil, i didnt mean to walk off with them. they will be nice and clean when you get them back, sorry for the inconvienience.:o

Originally posted by Emily
Barber John pulls the flag and places it on the other teams dead box. THEY WON!!!!!! THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!!!

actually, i didnt get the flag pull, toad did, BUT I SHOULD HAVE . no, he actually did the best move in the snake, so he deserved it. thanks for recapping that game, its nice to see what the spectators saw in the game. oh and thanks for the kind words caleb, i need to get to you about next practice time.

[Jonesie]

Wait wait wait a minute... A team that has never all been on the field at the same time has 3 sponsors, including AGD. How the hell does that work? I guess it's all about WHO you know, not WHAT you know...

Congrats guys ~ David