IAO OG scores

[NoForts4Me]

Great job Team AO!

[peewee]

Holy hanna!!!! An AO team placed 2nd!!!!!!!!! Where were the matrix guys??? Where did the Palmers teams end up??

[Cameo]

Any Love for the TOG??

There 1st year at the IAO and no love here?




I heard that everyone had fun, did you!!! ?

tippy guys you did great... and your soccer moms were right there cheering you on,, props to y'all

Holy hanna!!!! An AO team placed 2nd!!!!!!!!! Where were the matrix guys??? Where did the Palmers teams end up??

Actually at the end of day 1 POG brass was in 3rd place (they beat Automag.org for the 3rd place spot).
At the end of day two pog Brass was in 7th or 8th place (old guys can't do well two days in a row)
and POG nickle was in 9th? place.. well next to last whatever that place was.


Kuddos to the BEOG guys. Not only did one team get first, the other team recieved Sportsmanship. Way to go guys, now next year you can play as a Viking owners group and not worry so much about your markers going down As for this chickey even with the award I am sticking with POG, I have grown attatched to those older and more "mature" players (plus they are great at giving this chickey hugs).

[tony3]

What happen to matrix owner group? Those guys pwned last year.

[Cameo]

Matrix Onwers started out on friday getting rolled more then once. They shaped up and started getting better when their trusty captain went to taking pictures rather then shooting a gun.. they came out somewhere between 4th and 7th place, but I am not sure exatcially where...
but hey, at least they looked good the whole time.

[Riddler236]

Matrix did alright. Made it to the quarter finals (top 8) but not the semis (top 4).

POG Nickel ended up last, Cameo.... We (BEOG) snuck past you when we beat RMOG in our last game. :)

[minimag03]

It sounds like AO did a very impressive job. Good job guys and way to represent .

[Cameo]

Matrix did alright. Made it to the quarter finals (top 8) but not the semis (top 4).

POG Nickel ended up last, Cameo.... We (BEOG) snuck past you when we beat RMOG in our last game. :)

Wanna know a secret?? I was not on Nickel, I was on Brass... You got me mixed up with Elizabeth just like the Shocker guys did they were calling me Elizabeth all day on Thursday (even named thier "smart parts girl" after that name). Being that I found it and them adorable i forgave them for the mix up just as I shall forgive you for virtually the same reasons. ::hugs:: wow just like POG last year the underdogs beat out the "it" team... Go BEOG/ 2006 Viking owners group

[Riddler236]

Wanna know a secret?? I was not on Nickel, I was on Brass... You got me mixed up with Elizabeth just like the Shocker guys did they were calling me Elizabeth all day on Thursday (even named thier "smart parts girl" after that name). Being that I found it and them adorable i forgave them for the mix up just as I shall forgive you for virtually the same reasons. ::hugs:: wow just like POG last year the underdogs beat out the "it" team... Go BEOG/ 2006 Viking owners group

Psh. Mix up I do not. The 'sneaking past you' comment was in reference to POG as a whole. I am fully aware of what POG team you played for, especially considering the fact that you didn't get hit all day, because that further clarifies that you played for Brass and not Nickel. Both of which beat us, but at least you guys didn't get a pull or hang out of it.

[MicroMiniMe]

... wow just like POG last year the underdogs beat out the "it" team... Go BEOG/ 2006 Viking owners group

Don't you have an AKA Excalibur now with your lil trophy? Sounds like you were an all around class act.

[AGDlover]

ya stef good job on winning the Sports WOmanship award! I think the prizes worked well for everyone
Rainmaker got new WORKING guns that will last them more than the 2 days
team AO got gear so we can all finally match
AirPowered got AKA stuff so they have their LP stuff

[Lohman446]

All of the players of Team AO did exceptionally well and the failure to take first place is fully mine. I made two game and score changing errors in the finals well the rest of the team did as much as I asked of them and much more.

In the preliminaries Robbie helped us to an awesome start by having ten eliminations in the first two games. His talent and leadership abilities throughout the day were a valuable asset to the team and greatly prized. Going into finals we knew we had to be more organized, and by then we were trying to make a game-plan that would push us foward.

On the day of finals we would be playing on a different field as announced to us the day before by Kevin. The Tippman field had leaky bunkers that required the refs to do extended maintenance about every three games, which created more work for them and slowed the day some. The field was also not level and one corner stand up could not even see the opposing tape line. Kevin, whose efforts for the owners groups division, cannot be overstated, was able to get us moved to the NPPL field which appears to me to be a better field.

The NPPL field had a snake in it that at first appeared much more powerful than the one on the Tippman field we had originally played on. Walking the field early with POG Brass I declared that snake a deathtrap, and it proved to be during the day thanks to the coverage of it by DJ (DJ89), Zack (Zackzel), and Drew (AGDlover). I told the team that if they covered that snake that Robbie and I would push the opposite side of the field and they need only defend.

The first game against Air Power (autocockers) proved the theory correct. Despite my early elimination (I failed to even make my first bunker) Robbie was able to bump up the doritos without me and, with the help of the left side, cleared the field and hung the flag - I can't say exactly what happened because I was staring at the back of the dead box.

The second game was against Matrix Owners.. I looked left when I should have been looking right and was bunkered. The player shot me twice and apologized for overshooting me?? We were shooting Blaze that was proving to be very bouncey and I thought two shots was extremely nice. That was just how the owners group was.

By the way, anyone ever tried to shoot Hellfire through a mag? I did in the first game of prelims, I ended up with a liquid line in my Reloader B and a mess in the breach. Drew has pictures, but it is a lesson I won't need to relearn anytime soon.

Our third game was against Shocker owners. In an odd twist the quarterfinals had become very tight, and it was apparent that Airpower was going to go to semis- after a dramatic victory over both the Matrix teams and the Shocker team. This meant that the second spot in the semis was going to either ourselves or Shocker owners (who held a victory over MOG). Having been trounced by the Shocker owners the day before I was apprehensive about this. We pulled together as a team, and moved on to the semis.

The semis were a best score after three games against Air power. The first game was won by Airpower, giving them 100 points and us 15. It was a two on two with DJ and I in which I missed a player moving up the left side, turned too far towards him and allowed the Air Power tape player to come up my tape. It left us needing every point we could muster, and a decision was made to send Zack immediatly up the middle on the second game for the flag pull. It seemed Air power had the same idea, and Zack and his counterpart reached for the flag at the same instant, the Air power player won the tug of wore, and the pull. Due to an error with tanks on my part my marker was down - the bolt stuck partially forward. I had failed to turn on the air tank and as it had shot down the excess air it had just stuck and was at the point that I could not get it to reset by turning on air. I made a flag run - both players having since been elimated in the midde, the rest of the team cleared the field and we were able to hang the flag.

It left us behind going into the third game against Air Power, and we again decided we needed the flag. Zack once again went up the middle, but this time we had a surprise for the Air Power player. Drew had been pulled off his snake protection duties and protected the flag - which proved effective though lost us our back corner player. With the help of a pause and lane from Robbie on the way to his bunker the flag was protected, and neither player secured it. Zack was called out when he took the flag and it was rehung It did give up the snake though... Robbie made a play for the flag at that time, and attempted a run up the middle. It turned us from a 4-3 position where we were stuck to a 3-2 position where we had the offensive. With the players distracted by Robbie I was able to move up and take two of the Air Power players - I bounced the third in the snake and was forced to duck down for cover, which happened to be their back stand up. With a player in each stand up and the Air Power player in the snake he had no choice but to try to fight both sides. DJ took him, and I made a desperate attempt to find the flag now hanging on a nearby bunker - yeh, I apparently do not look up. Finally found, and hung, we advanced to the finals.

The first game of finals... The team played well together, the snake protected in a series of moves that resulted in players trading with the players of the Rainmakers Owners Group. I allowed myself to be drawn into a snap shooting contest where I was in the fifty with the player in the center stand up. It was a poor decision on my part, and poor execution and I was eliminated in it. It caused a pause, and though Robbie once again cleared the field of opponents he was not able to hang the flag.

It left us ahead, and the second game should have been a winner. I was able, due to remarkable help from my team, to make the fifty tape opposite the snake unnoticed. I had great shots on two rainmaker players and tried for both of them... and bounced paint. It was an error on my part, I should have settled for taking one, and concentrated on one - I knew the paint was bouncey when I pulled the trigger, and it was overzealous on my part to try to take both. We were pushed back, and it ended with a RMOG flag hang, and us needing to go out for a pull and hang in the third game.

The RMOG knew what they needed to do, and they did it in the third game. holding out against our push, countering it, and winning the finals in an excellent display of teamwork. They were truly a high quality team, and well I fully ackowledge that it were my mistakes that led us to fail to win, I take nothing away from them. They overcame the same factors that we did in regards to paint and playing field, and adapted better than we did. The players on Team AO did everything that was asked of them... maybe I should have pushed the snake harder, maybe I should have made them more offensive and less defensive. Regardless of the mistakes, they did exactly what I asked of them and often more, and if that was not enough it was from a failure of my execution on my side of the field, or of my planning to begin with.

I cannot say enough about the Owners Group. I greatly enjoy the company of the people I play with on a regular basis, we play for fun, and sometimes the competetive spirit gets too high. The entire Owners Group seemed to play for fun, and the Sportsmanship of the groups, the effort and planning of Kevin, and reffing as close to faultless as I have seen in a long time. The hospitality and sportmanship of the Sport(wo)man award winning Cameo, in opening her home to those who needed a place to stay was not the exception to the owners group. I would like to thank the Palmers teams especially, I was unfamiliar with IAO, the surroundings, and the owners group as a whole. These great guys (and girls) showed me the ropes, and had me enjoying the three day party every moment of it. The players, the event organizers, the refs, and everyone else associated with the owners group that I met were friendly, outgoing, and a joy to play with or simply be around. If I had to pick a single tournament to play every year, it would be this one. One way or another I will be at the next OGD tournament, when Kevin tells us when and where - for now I expect him to take a break, for we know that the event he pulled off requires everyones contribution, and his bringing it together is a task that no doubt takes much effort.

[Cameo]

Don't you have an AKA Excalibur now with your lil trophy? Sounds like you were an all around class act.

That I did, Larry allowed me to pick out what I would like. that was soo very kind of him. All I really wanted was something that shot paint and was easy to manage. Luky me I have a group of wonderful teammates (and a little brother) who were able to help me decide the details. Winning such an award is truley humbling and exciting at the same time, but more so just being able to play and be my silly self around such a great group of people is better than any award. I think I have decided that there will be quite a few kids at the childrens camp I help out at that get to play with a very expensive gun a time or two. I don't play nearly enough not to share such a gem of a gun. All I can ask is that they get as much enjoyment out of that piece of art as I got out of playing alongside everyone this weekend.

ps: be looking for my "baby" brother (he's 18) to be playing with it at next years OGD. As for me, I shall be whooping it up with some random Blazer again. Although if i was able to join an actual team maybe I could get some use outta it... hmmmmm

[abunkerer]

Way to go guys, Congratulations!
sounds like it was a great event!

[GA Devil]

Congrats to Team AO. seen alot of nice pics of you guys different places on the net. Sorry to hear about the Hellfire issue. Mags dont like that brittle paint thats for sure.