Nor-So-Cal Day was a success!

[Blennidae]

I like the difference of opinion as expressed by the hand gestures...

[toolfan62]

I like the difference of opinion as expressed by the hand gestures...

lol i didnt notice it till u pointed it out

[ICP]

I like the difference of opinion as expressed by the hand gestures...

Great pics guys.

[p8ntball365]

Heres the video to go along with the above picture

I think I peed my pan...oh wait...hrmm I did. I just hope AO NE Day turns out like this that looks awesome.

[hitech]

Can I hang out with you...

I just had to share this. The friend of mine that I brought wrote this in an email to "all" our friends. I thought it was well written...

So there we were, the day was getting late, I'm shot out and sitting on the sidelines trying to catch my breath and watching my poor friend Larry being converged on. He's the last man standing on our team of 8. It's 3 on 1. He's on our 20 hunkered behind a cylinder shaped inflatable on it's side. He pops over the top and snap shoots one. There's a murmur in the crowd that's formed to watch this poor soul. The last two are converging, one man on each side. It gets silent, He knows it's time for concern. He peeks out the right side and sees one coming. He rolls around the right side, His E-Mag roars to life and he drops back into position. The enemy's hand raises and he steps over the rope into the safety of the neutral zone. Again the crowd stirs. Larry then figures the last man is coming on his left. He rolls to the right side of his prop. The enemy advances and glances at the spot he's sure Larry was. Then obviously figuring Larry must have backed up to the next prop begins to hammer it while walking towards him. He passes Larry's position and once again the E-Mag rips to life. The crowd goes nuts this time. The enemy's hand goes up and he comes out and voices his disapproval of his own performance. Larry runs downfield to be sure his team has indeed been victorious.....it was sweet, sorry you missed it.

Larry came and sat next to me to catch his breathe on the grassy hill. I said "Man, your a badass! Can I hang out with you?"

A bit later in the day we were just about the last two playing. Larry asks. "is it just us?" I said, I think so, but after what I just saw I aint playin one on one with you!

[Carbon]

ok my turn.
Once again an awesome event. Thanx to all the folks who showed up and played ball. This event is about you. Its good to see new faces and meet new people. It is also great meeting some of the newer norcal crew folks. I hope yall can attend some more AO days in the upcoming months.

in no particular order.

Big ups to:

Zman: thnx for the ride, the planning was great, the weather/timimg was perfect, the scenery was awesome. Thnx once again for spearheading the event. I cant say enough about your tenacity and enthusiasm.

Blenn, Mighty Mike, RoadDawg: Thanx for hooking up the room, thnx for dealing with my snoring. Sat night i was so hurt and tired i didnt even notice Mike chainsawing.

Eatem Alive: thnx for the paint hookup. That stuff shot great and broke bright. Its always cool seeing you at these kinds of events.

CableDawg: Thnx for the battery lend-out and charge-up! Balls and money is all you need!

Steelrat: aka Tom Hanks. super big ups...in from the east coast, suffering torturous layovers and suffering the indignity of driving a rental car, to hangout and ball it up with the west coast crew. Good luck in the east chief!

Awesome weather, little bit toasty on Sat. Perfect on Sun.

RogueFactor: akak Bane from the 3rd matrix movie. Thanks for sticking around and tech-ing all those guns. Its was nice meeting ya.

AGD: for hooking up some warpfeeds, barrel covers, hats and some Classics to raffle off. What a company!

The waitreses/hosteses at Hoovers: as Ricker said "worth every penny"

getting the Swine Award as well as the Best Move award. I've never won anything in my life.

being sore the day after. its kinda sucks, but then you think about it and its like, "hey man its good to be alive"

pizza, beer and ibuprofin.

decent reffing: they got in there and made the checks.

the turf: Slideriffic grass

awesome pics and vid footage!

IR DONKEY VIDEO. WTF DUDE?

downs
IR DONKEY VIDEO. WTF DUDE?

reffing: keep your gogs on dum dum!

turf: potholes


thats all for now to be cont.

[hAppy]

I should've taken a picture of the cement barricade lying on top of someone.

[toolfan62]

downs
IR DONKEY VIDEO. WTF DUDE?

reffing: keep your gogs on dum dum!

turf: potholes


thats all for now to be cont.

lol u just had to remind us of the video

[Carbon]

i suppose there are only a chosen few in the world that get to see IRDONKEY video. Unfortunately, i was one of em.

[indulgence]

Blenn, Mighty Mike, RoadDawg: Thanx for hooking up the room, thnx for dealing with my snoring. Sat night i was so hurt and tired i didnt even notice Mike chainsawing.

You see, spacd, happy, bigweapons and O_o. Carbon snores TOO!! and they slept through it. I think you guys have sensitive ears

[Aegis]

A bit more time to post now -

Good -

Zak's setup - I hope everyone realizes how much time and energy is required to put this together. Energy he obviously has in abundance, time is precious for us all. I am so appreciative I am going straight to the AAA office to get him a map of Paso Robles.

The AO Crew - Great bunch all around, It was great to see Cable and Steelrat make the effort, I think Cable has longest drive and Steelrat has biggest ordeal as far as travel. I might be neglecting Miscue for that honor, though. It was nice to meet Roguefactor in person, and good to see RoadDawg, EJ & Darwin from last year. Missed out on meeting the other SoCal guys that made the trip. The rest of the NorCal crew is always fun to hang out with. A fine bunch, and a good example for my son and my nephew. Well, almost.

The field - worked out great. It seemed crowded at first, I think because everyone geared up and headed to the airball field at the same time. Got a bit crowded, so we organized a rec game to attract people to the other field. Once everyone got spread out as far as prep time, and the other field got some play, it worked great.

The hotel - OK rooms, great accomodation for the group time in the conference center. I would bet that the desk did not get a single complaint while we all had a good time. Unusual setup, very good for us.

Random stuff

- the Norcal group has been around for a few years now, and it is really good to see the way the young guys are coming into their game. LPB and RTDanimal are coming on strong, Prox9 is playing very strong, Kenny, Casey and the gang are also coming into their game. All in all a tough crowd. Short, but tough. Compared to two years ago, a noticeable difference. Oh, I almost forgot Bubbles.

- It is also good to see the old guys. No offense to Army, but you are in that group with me and Cable. Still got game. I am not going to spend another penny to take an ounce off my weapon until I take a few ounces off the weapons carrier, though.

The rest -

Some bad sportsmanship from whatever team that was. WAY too intense, especially against their own team. Saw one shoot their teamate out from the dead box while cussing HER head off. Wierd, and not welcome.

Shrek 3. Words fail me.

High pressure fills. Good food. West Nile Virus. Two out of three ain't bad.

HYPER TURBO SHOTGUN! By the way, where IS Rick?

And last but not least...

As long as I have THIS and THIS - I'M GOOD!

[Big Weapons]

You see, spacd, happy, bigweapons and O_o. Carbon snores TOO!! and they slept through it. I think you guys have sensitive ears

Dude, it sounded like you had 2200psi going through your nose the whole night.


I don't really feel like summarizing the weekend since you guys got almost all of it. All I can say is I had fun, and I'll definately be there next year.


There was one thing that bothered me about the field besides the lack of safety netting -- the chrono. No one was monitoring that thing, and it was constantly beeping throughout Saturday. It sounded like everyone was shooting hot. But what are ya gonna do. Also, the field team was way too aggressive. One game, I got shot and called myself out. The ref told them to let me out... and as soon as I walked out of the bunker, I got stitched with an extra 6 or 7 balls from the snake. I could see why their female teammate flipped out [though that was definately inappropriate for such an event as well]. Overall though, it was a good weekend and no one got hurt.


I gotta apologize to Mandatory once more for not getting my gun working for him. I promised him my 2k3 bushy for the weekend and it ended up overpressurizing when we hooked up his maxflo. I should have gone around asking for a gun for you after that, but I was too eager to play. So, my apologies to you, mandatory.

Ah, also gotta thank RoadDawg for hooking me up with a case of paint. That stuff shot great all day.


What's this Shrek 3 thing I keep hearing about? I'm guessing it was a Friday night thing.

[hAppy]

O yes, I heard about that team. I heard that that "team" was whiping, at first I thought they were a part of AO and started to doubt our honor system, the refs weren't helping much either.

[jackbauer]

yeah ith one thing i will have to say is next time we play there, we need to bring catcher shin guards to save our knees from the concrete turf!!! :)

[Big Weapons]

The turf was actually pretty forgiving. Of course, I have a pair of Dye core kneepads. I played a couple of games without them and it wasn't that bad sliding into a bunker [wonderful grassy padding], but the area around the bunkers was pretty hard.