Your First Game, What Happened??

[bunny5]

Age: 11
Marker: Spyder Pump gun
Attire: camo
Where: Woodbridge, Va

My friend took me for my birthday behind his house. His brother played paintball for a while and new what he was doing. I just stood next to a tree and waited for him to come up in front of me. Apparently he flanked me and gave me a shocker of my life. He bunkered the crap out of me and from then on, I loved paintball. And I gogg'd him in the very next game

Holy crap I've been playing paintball for 8 years now

[tae]

Playing one flag cpature, the other team hatched a plan to send guy who worked there(evening teams) to bolt for the flag. I had the same idea. Game begins, I see him running, Im beating him. I get there first and scare the jebus outa him, then discover the fact that paintguns can jam. I swore aloud, which tipped him off, and I ran. I jumped a bunker, got sniped in the forehead midair(right where my head would have been covered if my cheap as had spent $2 more on a rental mask), stuck my arms up to surrender to dude running up behind me and got blasted all over as he screamed, "Surrender or die!'

Marbles and masks?! We had rocks and scabs!

[shartley]

[UTDragun]

Age: 8
Marker: really old nelson
Where: friend's grandfather's plantation
Attire: Camo sweats, my football jersey, soccer cleats, scott mask

My job was to protect the water tower. After hiding behind a log for about 15 mins I went directly to the tower. When I got there, I came to find out that all my team had been eliminated along time ago and I jumped down into the bunker that was made by a back hoe and then became pinched between both attacking teams and shot out half of both before getting 5-6 bouncers in a row and called myself out. our version of chronoing was stand 15 feet from this tree and if the bark fell off when you shot it, you were hot.

[MonsterMag]

Age: 13
Marker: 98 custom Rental
Where: Basecamp (local indoor rec field (sawdust and wood)
Attire: Scott Mask , Sweatshirt and blue jeans.

My older brother gave me these free passes things to go play (coupon booklet thingy) I took a friend with me that played 2-3 times and went to play.
We shot 280FPS in a room no bigger than a stand school gym (old YMCA building)
When I first got hit I was thrown back agent the wall and was left with a nasty welt. Then in the gear room some idiot left his safety off , but had a barrel plug in a rental. He picked it up and shot the barrel plug into my natts. Those red barrel plugs are heavy and thick at 280fps.He apologize and I got over it. It was a accidentent. The Adrenaline of just the sight of it got me hooked. This is gonna sound like a crack addict here but I NEEDED more. I couldn't stop , I bought a 98 custom and upgraded it with every penny I made. I played 1-2 times a month , now I am playing every weekend. As far as I know the rush and feel is like no other....

[mr.mag218]

age:12
gun: bob long millenium
atire: full motocross gear (chest protector, arm and knee pads, and gloves....yes i was a pansy)
actually i think this was the best play day i have ever had in the history of my paintball career. because of the excessive protection i had, i was fearless. it was an outdoor field "lone wolf paintball" out of michigan. i probably shot 2-3 people per game and advanced the most out of everyone on my team. at the end of the day, i won a medal of valor, and all of the vets hated me for my extremly fast movements. shoot i was probably 4 foot nothin at the time so they didn't have anything to shoot at. great trip down memory lane. thanks, i needed that.

[M98Punk]

Lets see either it was A) when I was mowing the lawn and my brother shot me in the leg with his Tigershark or B) and a 2 man tourny at a field that some semi-sleazy friends of mine and my brother had set up in their backyard. I don't remember the first time that I got out or anything like that all I remember is that I grabed the flag.....and then ran it back to my startbox instead of the other teams for the amusment of all those watching

[Aslan]

Oh no

I sort of told part of this embarrassing story last year, I guess I'll tell it again.

Year: 1999-2000
Field: Behind my buddie's church with his church group
Gun: I was using my buddies Vulcan and then a Talon
Clothes: See story for details

So my friend invites me out, tells me he's got all the equipment I'll need. I ask him if it hurts when you get hit and he says, "Hell Yeah! You better where something heavy!" So...I stay the night at his place...that morning, I get up ans start to get ready. He comes downstairs and there I am in my underwear taping bubble wrap around my legs and chest. He laughes so hard that I thought he might pass out.

The first game I used his Vulcan. For thiose of you that have never seen these...they were $15 brand new...used a 10 round tube...plastic pumps...red and black in color. In the first game, I was hiding behind a tree and somebody shot me in the gun....the stock broke off and the gun broke in two more pieces. The rest of the day I had to use a Talon and the bottom was sort of stripped and was so tight that I had to take a wrench with me to replace the air cartridges which seemed to last about 95 seconds.

It was capture the flag...really nice field dimension-wise and with good boundries. Most people had Talons...the one guy with the Raptor and the guy with the Model98 were split up because their guns were "so good." I dind't do very well...and after about 3 games...I had to take my clothes off in the middle of the field and rip all of the bubble wrap off because it was making me so sweaty that it was sliding down my leg and I was tripping over it. Then everybody else at the field got to laugh at me.

But, I loved it...went out that night and bought my first gun...a Tiger Shark...put a scope on it...got some camo gear...and about 50-60 games and 15 guns later...here I am. Unfortunately, of that large group, my buddy plays 1-2 times a year and the rest of his church group never plays.

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

Age: 10
Marker: PMI Tracer
Attire: old sweatpants, about 2 sweaters, wool gloves, and an old rental mask
What I Did: shooting a gun in the general direction of the opposing team was an adrenaline rush by itself, heart raced just thinking about going to the field, butterflies in my stomach before the start of each game, i was just a 10 year old newb playing with my uncle and my brother :)

[jenarelJAM]

Age:13ish
Style: Woodsball
Marker: Shyder Shutter
Attire: Sweatshirt, Jeans, Sneakers

I went with my cousin's 4H group,they were all older than I was, and basicly i went out there thinking it was the best thing ever. Got shot about twice as much as i shot anyone else, or maybe more... cant remember. Had a blast, and their 4H group even payed for me. It got me hooked, now I can't stop

[MoeMag]

[mastershake44]

Age:12 (Still)
Gun: Vl Triad (But it blew a seal so i had to use a 98)
Threads: Empire 05 React Home (Yellow/Black)
What I Did: Laughed at noobs with ions who couldnt turn there guns off, lit up a whole team once, shot my friends sister in the neck, she stopped, used a friends brother's trilogy, and, only got out twice, but once i ran out of air, and the other time i got bunkered (running out of air in the woods, got lit up.) Oh yeah it was at Route 40 Edit: Also, using Proto Switch ELs
Edit again, grammar, i dont know how i get an A in Language Arts...

[camilion705]

Age: 13?
Gear: Good 'ole rental gear. Oh yeah, that mean a Diable Inferno Rental series with a shake and bake hopper and 12oz CO2 tank...
Game time:? The only thing I remember was being super frustrated that every time I fired, the hopper would shoot off like 20 feet away and I'd have to run and go find it. Lol, good times, good times...

[Teamslayer76]

Age:9
Where:Woods
Type: 1 vs. 1
Marker: Spyder Hammer
Setup:12gm 20 rnd tube feed.
This is how it went. There was this open area as I recall near my friend Andrews home. He was I belive 3 years older than me. He said hey look at this. It was a gun, I thought it was a toy until he said paintball. I was completly oblivious to what he was talking about until we went out back and shot it at the sewall across the canal. His father came out and asked if we wanted to play. Well we drove down the street, and across the main road to a wooded area. We had target practice for a little bit. Then we played. I don't remember who won, but I lost my feedtube a 20 rnd one. I thought it was so expensive at the time and was really embarassed. His dad passed it off like nothing. Good times. From then on I was fascinated. I didn't get my own marker until
I was 11. It was a B.E. Posion. Then I went to a JT Raider, Automags, more JT Guns, Spyders, Cockers, A Viking, A old Imp, a B2k2, more mags, now the Nerve and a rental automag. :)