Monday, May 2, 2011

Supergame XLI

Supergame 41 ended with a bang yesterday afternoon, with Red army taking home the victory plaques for the first time in a long time. They worked hard at it, and kept it in gear all the way through Sunday, maintaining a 200ish point lead through the entire weekend.

I personally had a lot more fun on the Red army, as far as play goes. I have a ton of friends from all walks of life, and all up and down the west coast who attend Supergames every year, so off the field it didn't matter what band of tape you had on your arm. As far as on the field however, I tend to only like to play in the DMZ, which is only one area of the entire facility. It's flatter, has plywood buildings, spools, barrels, and a few forts, which turns it into an over-sized urban type of speedball. Right up my alley. I've never been a huge fan of playing in the trees and bushes and things(although with the help and love of my friends at Full Clip paintball, I wont feel right next game playing just the DMZ in tac gear...adjustments may be made ;D).

I give massive props to Warpaint and Dan Bonebrake for running a safe, fun, fair, efficient event year after year, and making an effort to even out the playing field in the DMZ(which is the only area you can really see on the 80 acre field, and gets far and above the most traffic and action of any other section), but this year was one of the worst one sided turkey shoots I've seen yet. Yellow has always had a bit of an advantage(and this can be vouched for by anyone who's played, I think) and this year was especially bad. On Saturday I played Yellow Army, but by Sunday I couldn't take it anymore. To me, there is nothing fun about having a team pushed basically all the way back into their spawn point for 5 straight hours. So I switched. In this particular turkey-shoot, I'd rather be the turkey.

Then, my weekend got really fun! Belly-crawling through trenches, staying so small that a single barrel was my best option for cover, rushing at a castle to try and facilitate an offensive push from a cowering team, and getting lit to shit every time... It was a fight for every inch from the red side. That is the type of scenario ball that I love. The only downside was that for Red, it wasn't a fight for the flag, and points... It was a fight to just get out of the spawn point. I'm sure that feedback from myself, as well as others will help the Warpaint staff find a way to make some much needed adjustments that will level the playing field in the most popular area of this event.

Everything was wonderful, as always, and this Supergame was the biggest yet. I'm not entirely sure what the final max body count was, but I know it was well over 1000 players on Saturday. I can't wait for August to roll around. I'll be in California during that time, but I have a feeling that I'll find a way to make it to the next event. Huge shout outs to all the sponsors who contribute to this event, and put together such great prizes as well as resources for the players.

Kinda a short blog entry this time, but I'm not home yet. I'm still in Oregon, exhausted and sore, but I always find it difficult to put this event into words. SO MUCH fun, action, and so many good people over a 3-day span, that it's something you kinda just have to check out for yourself.

All information on sponsors, Warpaint Paintball, and upcoming Supergames can be found at www.supergame.tv

That's all for now amigos!
-Steph

Friday, April 22, 2011

Blog Slacker Double Fail

Yeah so, nothing at all came of that last post. Same as before, it's been an extremely hectic year. Mostly because I've stressed myself out about a lot of things that don't deserve my attention.

The biggest contributor to my lack of activity on here and twitter has been my laptop. I finally got myself a Passport removable hardrive, so now instead of havig a measley 250 kb of availiable hardrive space, I have a good 30 GB... which makes everything with my laptop run much smoother. It no longer takes me 30 minutes to get online!

So yeah, it's not like I have any followers who pay attention, but more posts will be coming soon. I have been up to tons of stuff, including: work, the 2011 track season, a new tattoo, paintball, my first ever national event experience, the 2010 hunting season, and some exciting opportnities in Calfornia that have me chomping at the bit to get out of here. Needless to say, I have a lot of things to catch this blog up on, as well as anyone who might stumble across it. Now, however, I've got to fund my Paintball and shameless Victoria's Secret addiction, and go to Track practice before I head to a 7 hour shift at the Dirty Bird.

-Steph