Thanks to Pete and P8ntballer for putting up this new forum 
Folk reading this may be thinking, what's all this competitive woodsball about and why does it have it's own forum? Competitive paintball is surely played on sup'air fields, through the CPPS and the Millennium...
I am now in my nineteenth year of playing paintball and I came in right at the end of woodsball and the introduction of sup'air fields. What I don't want to do is tell you that "the woods is where I started off" as that is not the reason I enjoy playing in the woods now.
Woodsball has more variables, bigger fields, more interesting plays and is a much greater challenge for teamworking. Ian Miller, the former editor or PGi, once said to me that paintball was about playing the game in front of you and playing a game of chess in your head at the same time. That is something that is amplified on woods fields.
I see the teams at woodsball events generally having a better experience at the end of their day, regardless of whether they won or lost, they got a lot of playing time out on the field. That is not always in the case for sup'air where getting stomped 4-0 normally only leaves one team smiling.
Full disclosure - I am a co-promoter of the Woodland Masters and I do have an interest in growing competitive woodsball. Before the woodland masters, woodsball helped get my team, ECI, back together in 2013 and it is those core of players that will be playing 2016 in the CPPS Elite division.
Enough from me. If you already play these events, what do you enjoy about playing competitive woodsball? Never played, what do you want to know about woodsball?
Folk reading this may be thinking, what's all this competitive woodsball about and why does it have it's own forum? Competitive paintball is surely played on sup'air fields, through the CPPS and the Millennium...I am now in my nineteenth year of playing paintball and I came in right at the end of woodsball and the introduction of sup'air fields. What I don't want to do is tell you that "the woods is where I started off" as that is not the reason I enjoy playing in the woods now.
Woodsball has more variables, bigger fields, more interesting plays and is a much greater challenge for teamworking. Ian Miller, the former editor or PGi, once said to me that paintball was about playing the game in front of you and playing a game of chess in your head at the same time. That is something that is amplified on woods fields.
I see the teams at woodsball events generally having a better experience at the end of their day, regardless of whether they won or lost, they got a lot of playing time out on the field. That is not always in the case for sup'air where getting stomped 4-0 normally only leaves one team smiling.
Full disclosure - I am a co-promoter of the Woodland Masters and I do have an interest in growing competitive woodsball. Before the woodland masters, woodsball helped get my team, ECI, back together in 2013 and it is those core of players that will be playing 2016 in the CPPS Elite division.
Enough from me. If you already play these events, what do you enjoy about playing competitive woodsball? Never played, what do you want to know about woodsball?
