Paintball Tournament

I joined a paintball team recently, and after one practice we played in our first tournament yesterday. Our team (GXP) played in the GPL event at Del Hobbies in Pedricktown, NJ. We played in the rookie division and out of 32 teams we finished 3rd.

In the prelims we went 6-2 and in the finals we finished 3-2. The results were a bit frustrating. Early in the day they turnaround time between games was inordinately long and we ended up playing the last few games of the finals in the dark. Forget seeing the balls, you couldn’t see the players or bunkers. A couple of times I shot at gun lights, and in the last match of the day we actually shot out a couple of our own teammates (thankfully we still won that game.) We missed out on 2nd place by 20 points, which is particularly painful considering the prize for 2nd was a new Smartparts ION.

Regardless, it was a fun time. You couldn’t ask for better weather…upper 70′s and not a cloud in the sky. Del ran a pretty good operation other than the early timing issues and the fact that the kitchen ran out of hamburgers way too early.

Our team is sponsored by Smart Parts and System-X. Below is a photo of my sponsor gun. I didn’t use it in this tourney but I hope to get it tuned up and ready to go for the next one.

As you can see, I got welted up pretty good yesterday. On one particular series I was the last guy in. I shot 2 guys out but got bunkered and took about 5 shots up close. Good stuff…

All of the pictures from the event can be found here, including a photo of our prize package.