Foosball snakes Paintball again

We had a day full of practice and drills set up for today. We all met at Marks house and Cooked a Fatty. We ate most of it and didn’t feel like going out to play(doh, go figure)! We then started gathering around the foosball table and hitting a few balls around. Mark has a Tornado table that he won from a tournament many moons ago. She’s well played and plays well =)

The day wasn’t a total loss though. We ended up doing some minor snap shooting drills and we all went for a serious bike ride to try to burn off some of the billion calories we consumed. Later on we re-consumed any lost nutrients by making a case(or two) of beer disappear. Mostly New Glarus Spotted Cow and their Road Slush(I call it Road Grime with love). We also had some of their Fat Squirrel, all very good stuff.

Tomorrow is the team practice day at Jungle Falls and we hope to have a butt load of team’s there to help the now “dryer” paintball field recover some costs from the flood clean up. We’ve got about 7 or 8 teams committed so far and several others talking about coming out. We will be trying to switch things up during the days session and play a few switched team round robin type games. It should be a fun day and affordable as it is BYOP. As always, paintballs will be available for sale.

Next week we are going to try to setup a paintball equipment swap meet. Kind of like a rumage sale for everyone to bring their stuff out and trade/sell/barter their old unwanted guns, goggles, ect… It will be a free event and we hope to tie it into a DYP scrimmage. I know I have a Tippmann 98 Custom to get rid of =)

Clean up at the Paintball Field

We have been cleaning up the field and are trying to convert it from Jungle Lake back to Jungle Falls like it’s supposed to be =) With our area getting alot of flooding it has been a challenge. Most of the water has gone down and all of the upper fields are playable again. This weekends organized team practice should take place as scheduled pending no heavy rains on Saturday. The turf field dried out quite allot in todays beautiful sunshine.

This was the river last weekend taken from the bridge just down from the field. As you can imagine the lower fields were completely covered. Although, the water level is down from the fields, they are still muddy and unusable for this weekend.

On a good note, some junk has floated onto the field property that we can use as bunkers =) Ya I can always find a positive note to something like this. Most of it was just put into a couple of piles in the wooded areas and it’s officially a “make shift” bunker. We just made sure there were no sharp edges or rusty protrusions that someone could get hurt with or ruin their equipment.

We have managed to run a few drills over the last few days and get in some halfway decent practice. Mark has been working alot due to the flooding. The city has been asking him to work overtime, so our practices have been limited. He should be here in full gear and ready to play this weekend though. Jeff has a family obligation but will also be in attendance at this weekends team practice. He wants to tryout his new Tippmann X7 paintball gun and give it a good break-in!

Flooded Paintball

Todays five man trophy dash was canceled due to, you guessed it, rain/water/flooding. Most of the fields were muddy at best. Several had standing water and the lower field had 4 feet of water.

We decided to take some of our old non-electronic equipment and play in the water. It was really hard to move around and after a short while we quit. We thought it would be cool to go under water and pop up at a different bunker or bunker someone by coming up behind them. The water was so dirty you couldn’t see two inches in front of you. Luckily, we originally designed the field so we knew where all the lower bunkers were and didn’t run into any of them. The crazy things we do when we are bored, lol.

Next weekend is a organized BYOP team practice and we expect a huge turnout as usual. There will be several grills and the huge picnic area so bring plenty to cook. Alcohol will have to wait until after the practice is over. And as usual, please no minors drinking, we will be checking again. Oh, thats also a BYOB thing =)

We think the airball field will be cleaned up for the practice. If it’s still to wet though we will be playing on the hyperball tube field with the pee-gravel. We don’t want to tear up the expensive turf grass on the airball field if it’s too wet. The woodsball areas will be closed for this week too. Many of the bunkers are dug in ground and full of water right now. Any of the lower fields by the river are totally under water and probably won’t be playable for a week or two. I hope its all clear for the Scenario Championships!

The “club house” received no damage and both the compressors and paintball stock room are totally fine. Mother nature just decided to dump on us a little. Nothing we can’t handle I guess. although, it would have been nice to play the five man event today. We had several more teams express interest since my last post and it would have been a fun event. We will be having a five man trophy dash every month through October though. These are great affordable events open to all level of play and provide a great opportunity for people to come out and learn or go up against some of the better teams in the area.

Paintball vs Foosball

Ya, we are all hardcore foosball players here. Today it was; go out and work on snap shooting and other paintball drills or hang out and play foosball. Guess which we chose? Foosball! Mark even got his new Tippmann X7 paintball gun this week. He has plans of upgrading it before he breaks it in though.

So the four of us spend most of the day playing foosball. We did a round robin one on one tournament. Then we played teams of every variety. Then we did a forward shoot out, which I hate, and a goally wars, which I also hate. As usual, I dominated on the five man! I am the only one who is a lefty though.
So with our air ball practice field set up and the grass freshly mowed, we didn’t practice paintball today. All the local paintball teams can breath a sigh of relief, lol. Tomorrow(Saturday), you can bet we will be arming our paintball guns and hard at it shooting each other and any other team that wants to scrimmage us.
There is a five man open tournament at Jungle falls paintball field though this Sunday. We aren’t reffing so I’m sure we will be playing if our fifth feels like traveling up here. There are only 5 teams preregistered though. I’m not sure it will be a great turn out. Its only trophies for first through third and a trophy for the sportsmanship award. But, entry fees are only 15 per person and include all day comp air fills and free lunch. Its also a field paint only event with PMI Premium paintballs for $55.00 a case, not a bad price.
I guess if we don’t play we will be inside playing foosball all day. I need to work on my roll over any way. I have a hard time hitting a long pull snake. IDK what my problem is. I guess my arm just doesn’t work that way.

July 19-20 Paintball Tournament in Warrens, Wisconsin

An email we received this morning: “I am just writing to invite you to a paintball tournament held July 19-20 in warrens Wisconsin. We plan on having this an annual event with this being the first year its being held. We our honoring my brother, PVT STERLING EAGLES who was in the army national guard who was awaiting deployment. He passed away March 15, 2008 while saving his nephew, sister and 2 friends from a house fire. we plan on a 3 man speedball tournament on the the 19th of July with a pig roast and then on the 20th woodsball all day!You can bring a tent to camp! If you are unable to attend thats fine but can you please tell others you know about it!!! If you need more info please email me! Thank you for your time!” ~Elizabeth

So if anyone from Wisconsin or close by that wants to travel alittle, please check it out. I’ll post more of the details about prices when I get them or I’ll give you her email if you message me.
By the way, Warrens Wisconsin is best known for its awesome skatepark. Its one of the best I’ve been to, if your into that sort of thing. I think it’s where they have that huge Cranberry Fest event too =)

Paintball Team Practice

Yesterday, between rain storms, we got out and did some team scrimmaging/snap shooting. We got together with three other teams and played around on the field we setup for the young guns tournament we had Saturday. It’s fun reffing a field and watching other teams play on a field layout you designed. Trying to understand how they react to certain valuable areas and how you would do it different. It’s really a lesson to see all of this.

We decided it would be beneficial for us to go out and apply what we saw other teams do on the field. We had some good lanes and ways of taking valuable areas that we had all been disusing as we reffed Saturday. Some of our ideas were bust and some worked better than we had though.

We are also going to try to build off of it for the next time we design a field layout. It’s hard to balance a field design for playability, spectator viewing and still have people shoot a lot of paint so the field makes money. Mark has a field design software on his computer that we were playing around with. We were trying to replicate some of the better PSP and NPPL fields. Should be fun next time…

Big day of Paintball

Wow, we had a sick day of dodging paintballs and ripping off arm bands. It was the young guns tournament at Jungle Falls Paintball field. 12 team showed up and went head to head in an all day fight fest. We split them up into two round robin groups. Lots of fun and paintballs were had. $ teams made it into the semi-finals and battled it out for the title of Young Guns championship!

Next month we are holding another young guns event open to all levels of play. We hope to get a slightly better turn out and we will probably advertise alittle more.

Next weekend(Sunday) we are having an open 5 man tournament. It is a BYOP event and we hope to keep it a low budget tournament so more people can afford to play.

5-Man young guns tournament

I just got home from setting up the air bunkers for this Saturdays 5-man young guns tournament at Jungle Falls. We set up about 50 air bunkers. The field is awesome, it’s built like a bowl with the people at the start able to see both the flag and the opposing team. It’s like a big taunt. Someone could ideally run straight up the field and grab the flag totally unobstructed. Of course the other team could see them coming and own them.

The young guns tournaments are always a good time with free lunch and cheap entry fees. We will be shooting PMI permium for $60.00 bucks a case. Not a bad price on quality paintballs. As always the air fills are included and both CO2 and comp air(3000psi and 4500psi fill stations). I haven’t heard what lunch is going to be, probably hot dogs and chips. Great for a free lunch.

We(The Paintball Kings) will be reffing with the help of the usual Jungle Falls staff. I think someone from Allen Paintball will be there with some of their products. I know two of the Hooters Paintball Girls will be there dishing out pain to anyone who wants to get shot by them =)

Captains meeting is at 9:00 and play begins at 10:00. This event is limited to 20 teams. We usually get about 15. Enjoy…

BioWars at Skirmish Paintball Field

We just got back from a long weekend of playing and partying. Sunday we went to Biowars at Skirmish paintball field in Jim Thorpe, PA. That was a crazy scenario and an all around fun time. Although, we were a little hungover that morning we did survive! I couldn’t blog like I though I could, because our stupid hotel didn’t have Internet and we didn’t feel like finding access else where.

They have one of the hugest castles that I have ever played in with tons of levels and rooms. There are lots of windows to hang out of and shoot from. Its hard to attack into it, but fun to defend from.

We originally set out to play with our(built for these scenario) Tippmann A5’s but I found myself switching to my Dye DM7 fairly quick due to the high level of players there. We ended up going through 2 cases of paint each. There was more paintballs flying at this event than any I had played for a long time.

I’m home this morning nursing my welts, including the dinger I took to the side of my neck! I also tore my camo pants like a fat man bending over. I think we laughed for about a half hour when that happened. Luckily, it was after the day was over and we were just packing up our paintball stuff.

They are having an “Invasion of Normandy” event in July. If we don’t end up in San Fransisco that weekend we will for sure attend that event too. The field is really awesome and they had food available throughout the day(maybe why I split my pants).

Tippmann X7 Sniper Upgrades

The Tippmann X7 is one of the coolest scenario upgradeable paintball weapons we’ve seen. The gun is totally able to trans form into a M16, MP5, AK47, UMP or G36. The available upgrade kits are almost endless and most are affordable. The cool appearance of these guns induce a tough war like impression.

Ome of the coolest things about this gun is the ability to field strip it and interchange repair parts with an A5. Its built with many of the same internals as the extremely popular A5. Many of the same internal mods will switch between the two guns also.

Our team doesn’t own any Tippmann X7’s at this time but we do have two A5’s and are looking forward to upgrading to the X7 some day. If your interested in looking at the available upgrades to trick out your X7 have a look at Tippmann X7 Upgrades.

Keep Paintballing!!