Skyball 7

[Doobie]

Originally posted by Tyger
They can read my opinions about Skyball 7 with everyone else in PGI.

That bad, huh? C'mon Tyger, give us an exclusive. I kinda like reading your rants!

[silenttype]

whats PGI

[Torbo]

ok i guess ill sum it up from my experiance.

Reffing for rookie at least, was very good.
Paint sucked. and it was $90 a case. The shells were so damn thick. Everything bounced.The second batch, what ended up getting shot during finals, was the worst thing ever. Every single paintball broke. In every gun. As soon as it hit the air, they just cracked in half.
The fields were intense, basically an X-ball field without the X. They were wide open, which made you shoot more paint. Greedy bastards. It was both nice and bad to have 5 identical fields.
Players party sucked. Horribly.

Overall, i loved it. It was our first time there, so that might have been it. Next year, there will be very few people there. Only reason we went was that we got a discount on entry.

[JEDI]

Originally posted by silenttype
Jedi we missed the wild card by 5 points for the semis.
I wish we were 40 points off.
13th was still good I guess.

Duh, I wasn't thinking when I said we were next in line. 40 points just seemed so close. But I guess if we were 14th that means there were teams ahead of us for the wild card. Duh! Oh well, good job though silenttype! What team were you guys?

[badfish314]

I can vouch for that paint...man was it hard! It shot straight as a arrow, but failed a 30-35 foot bounce test. Rookie reffs did a great job, it was 3 long days and they did their best. Players party...ha...I went to some pizza place instead.

Two rules kinda bugged the hell outta me too.

1. Players Classify Themesevles- meaning that if you were Aftershock and you felt like playing rookie you could...no one checked anything.

2. Trigger Bounce Is All Good- "what can we do to check this?" " Nothing.." Nice I thought, people with runaway markers on full auto, oh well!

[silenttype]

I think the whole thing kinda sucked and I think there were some serious sandbaggers playing, some of those guys were amazing players for being rookies,I mean to be rookie you just didnt have to place in Skyball So in reality Dynasty could have changed there name and grew mustaches and played..
Why not like badfish said classify yourself,leaves it open to whatever.
Poorly run but the Reffs were great.
Even the Trophys looked cheezy and cheap.
XO didnt care,, there all about the money.

[Strider]

Originally posted by silenttype
Even the Trophys looked cheezy and cheap.

Really? I thought they were nice... DId you see the rings???

[silenttype]

yea I loved the rings,the trophys looked like they were that cheap gold coating and pretty plain.
I likw the trophys with the levels and pilars

[MarkM]

Originally posted by silenttype
The Players party was so lame,25$ for some crappy cold food and I had to buy a 2$ soda at the bar.
The tourney was so expensive,I figure the entrys will jump a third next year and there will only be 15 teams in the rookie div.Greed lives
All in all I still had fun .
But I wont go again.

$25? why did you pay was it because you weren't entered as all the players got free entry ...the food wasn't cold, the only change was that it was no longer "all you can eat" just the one visit, so I did what everyone else did and loaded the plate high

Originally posted by silenttype
whats PGI

Paintball Games International...english Mag but nearly all the content is North American based.

The Pic's that were here are going in a forthcoming issue of PGI so guess you will have to buy it to see them again

[Quickling]

I like the concept of ring awards. But at the price these tourneys are commanding these days it seems there should be smaller prizes farther down... or free stuff on entry like skyball 7 barrel condoms.

[Creative Mayhem]

Originally posted by Quickling
I like the concept of ring awards. But at the price these tourneys are commanding these days it seems there should be smaller prizes farther down... or free stuff on entry like skyball 7 barrel condoms.

I agree, you don't get anything per say with the entry. IAO's entry is less and you get a whole bag of stuff. Granted, IAO is MUCH bigger, and has real sponsors, but if Skyball could get the sponsors on board it really could be a HUGE tourney. Just my .02

[Ack]

Now if I could just get the camera guys to quit shooting my feet

[adam shannon]

i think skyball is getting a bad rap on the prizes. so at iao you get a dozen brass eagle walmart guns and a couple hats from dye...a whole pile of junk you already have better stuff than. skyball's grand prize was $5000 ($4000 US) and a skid of paint (96 cases) shipped to your front door. thats a fat prize. who cares if its not a half ton of squeegies, keychains, and magazine subscriptions...its stuff you can use. i said all along as soon as they announced the prizes that it didnt look impressive enough for newbs and little kids to realize what they were actually getting.

[Digits]

Originally posted by adam shannon
i think skyball is getting a bad rap on the prizes. so at iao you get a dozen brass eagle walmart guns and a couple hats from dye...a whole pile of junk you already have better stuff than. skyball's grand prize was $5000 ($4000 US) and a skid of paint (96 cases) shipped to your front door. thats a fat prize. who cares if its not a half ton of squeegies, keychains, and magazine subscriptions...its stuff you can use. i said all along as soon as they announced the prizes that it didnt look impressive enough for newbs and little kids to realize what they were actually getting.

Isn't there more then that next year.. Like a whole pile of stuff.. I know the 96 cases is still there, and I remember seing empire stuff, pack, squeegees.. Blah you name it.. And the rings would be freaking sweet

[Quickling]

I don't mean random crap from sponsors.. but stuff like barrel socks that are only given to those poeple that play.. stuff that is like.. yeah i was there. Even if you don't win. Or patches or something that you can only get playing there.

And I think the 96 cases is kinda lame. 1- it will go bad before most teams can shoot it all. and 2- its only good if you know a BYOP field. Otherwise your doing lots of backyard ball! And your gonna run outta air before your through with the paint.

And this isn't a pro tourney, so its not like theres a huge chance the winners will have their own fields.