A weekend that will go down in AO history! Z-Man pulled it out again, with another fantastic weekend of friends, gear, and paintball love!
Things started out Friday night with a gathering of the early birds at Hoovers 101, a long established eatery of proven fame, for good food, drink, and early swapping of lies
After full tummies, the group returned to the Colony Inn conference room (provided free of charge by the hotel!) for the rest of the evening to swap news of the last year, compare new markers, play a little friendly poker, and generally visit with some friends we haven't seen in a year.
Saturday dawned bright and mildly overcast, but with plenty of good sun, a little breeze, and temps in the 70's. In other words, PERFECT for paintballing! While the AO gang found their way to Breakout Paintball's Mindfields....some missed the turn into the property...final prep was happening on the Speedball and concept fields. This year we had 4500psi fills for both days, with zero delays in fills due to the gang fill station. This was SO welcome after last years fiasco with the generators and air. Plenty of paint was on hand starting at $45 a case. Mindfields is normally FPO, but granted us leeway, seeing as they are one of the few AGD dealers in Calli, and fully support AGD and AO Day. "Thanks Jon and Lew!"
Well over 100 players began to descend on the speedball and concept fields as soon as enough had their gear ready. Play for both days was intense, straight up, and wild. Turn-around time between games was normally less than 5 minutes all weekend...we came to play, not stand around
Oh, and if anyone is wondering...yes, Z-Man got royally bunkered again 
The concept field is laid out on over two acres, with numerous pipe, dirt mound, towers, and VW Bug bunkers in abundance, along with a set piece from the movie "Aliens" (BTW, don't try to hide behind the little farm tractor). Games ranged from one-on-one, to one game of 20 on 20....awesome! After a lunch break of burgers, dogs, and Tri-Tip (a central coast of Calli specialty cut of sirloin) sandwiches, A random ticket draw was conducted by Z-Man. Two Pro-Classic markers, generously donated by AGD and Dave Zupan (HUGE thanks Zupe!), were vied for by only those players present that didn't own their own marker. Two extremely happy people are now the proud owners of some of AGD's finest.
After the draw, play resumed on the fields for the rest of the day (proving that us old guys can keep up with all the punks
Ain't that right CableDawg!), until exhaustion took over, and we began to drift back to the hotel for the evening.
The fun continued back at the conference room, with a pizza party, review of the days video, laughs at the days still photo's, and yet another random ticket draw for AGD hats, barrel socks, WarpFeeds, and AO Day T-shirts (no, I will not mention "Shrek 3"...). Good food, good friends, good fun.
Sunday dawned bright and early.......without anyone noticing because nearly all of us forgot to set our clocks forward
When the gang finally showed up at Mindfields, it was close to 10:00, but that didn't seem to slow anyone down as we again took to the fields to shoot up the rest of our paint. More than a few games of hopper-ball were played to extend the fun, but as the day wore on more and more AO members began to pack up for the drive home. By 3:00 most everyone had finally run out of paint, air, and stamina. Goodbyes were said, promises to do this again next year were sworn, and the day ended on a great weekend of comaraderie, fun, good play, and great times.
I want to thank Zack Vetter, Z-Man, for another great weekend of AO goodness. Ya did good, HOOAH!
There were literally thousands of photos taken, including over 600 from an independant photog who filled a DVD with them. Z-Man will do a compilation soon, and post a link to it.
Thanks to all that showed up. I had a great time, as this was the first ballin' I've done since LAST years AO day! It was a nice welcome home after my deployment. I'm looking forward to next year...it's gonna be geat
Things started out Friday night with a gathering of the early birds at Hoovers 101, a long established eatery of proven fame, for good food, drink, and early swapping of lies
After full tummies, the group returned to the Colony Inn conference room (provided free of charge by the hotel!) for the rest of the evening to swap news of the last year, compare new markers, play a little friendly poker, and generally visit with some friends we haven't seen in a year.Saturday dawned bright and mildly overcast, but with plenty of good sun, a little breeze, and temps in the 70's. In other words, PERFECT for paintballing! While the AO gang found their way to Breakout Paintball's Mindfields....some missed the turn into the property...final prep was happening on the Speedball and concept fields. This year we had 4500psi fills for both days, with zero delays in fills due to the gang fill station. This was SO welcome after last years fiasco with the generators and air. Plenty of paint was on hand starting at $45 a case. Mindfields is normally FPO, but granted us leeway, seeing as they are one of the few AGD dealers in Calli, and fully support AGD and AO Day. "Thanks Jon and Lew!"
Well over 100 players began to descend on the speedball and concept fields as soon as enough had their gear ready. Play for both days was intense, straight up, and wild. Turn-around time between games was normally less than 5 minutes all weekend...we came to play, not stand around
Oh, and if anyone is wondering...yes, Z-Man got royally bunkered again The concept field is laid out on over two acres, with numerous pipe, dirt mound, towers, and VW Bug bunkers in abundance, along with a set piece from the movie "Aliens" (BTW, don't try to hide behind the little farm tractor). Games ranged from one-on-one, to one game of 20 on 20....awesome! After a lunch break of burgers, dogs, and Tri-Tip (a central coast of Calli specialty cut of sirloin) sandwiches, A random ticket draw was conducted by Z-Man. Two Pro-Classic markers, generously donated by AGD and Dave Zupan (HUGE thanks Zupe!), were vied for by only those players present that didn't own their own marker. Two extremely happy people are now the proud owners of some of AGD's finest.After the draw, play resumed on the fields for the rest of the day (proving that us old guys can keep up with all the punks
Ain't that right CableDawg!), until exhaustion took over, and we began to drift back to the hotel for the evening.The fun continued back at the conference room, with a pizza party, review of the days video, laughs at the days still photo's, and yet another random ticket draw for AGD hats, barrel socks, WarpFeeds, and AO Day T-shirts (no, I will not mention "Shrek 3"...). Good food, good friends, good fun.
Sunday dawned bright and early.......without anyone noticing because nearly all of us forgot to set our clocks forward
When the gang finally showed up at Mindfields, it was close to 10:00, but that didn't seem to slow anyone down as we again took to the fields to shoot up the rest of our paint. More than a few games of hopper-ball were played to extend the fun, but as the day wore on more and more AO members began to pack up for the drive home. By 3:00 most everyone had finally run out of paint, air, and stamina. Goodbyes were said, promises to do this again next year were sworn, and the day ended on a great weekend of comaraderie, fun, good play, and great times.I want to thank Zack Vetter, Z-Man, for another great weekend of AO goodness. Ya did good, HOOAH!
There were literally thousands of photos taken, including over 600 from an independant photog who filled a DVD with them. Z-Man will do a compilation soon, and post a link to it.
Thanks to all that showed up. I had a great time, as this was the first ballin' I've done since LAST years AO day! It was a nice welcome home after my deployment. I'm looking forward to next year...it's gonna be geat
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