Genesis, How good was that.

[Russell Smith]

I thought I experienced some sort of time-shift yesterday at the Genesis woodland event, without doubt the most fun I have had in a very long time on a paintball field.
We all had eight games and played (time wise) a lot more than we would in twice as many games on any sup-air field.
I know the expected player base for this series was/is older players who remember what proper fun paintball was all about, it was great to see a awful lot of younger players participating in what will become a great success for the organisers behind this rebirth of woodland paintball.
I was asked why I liked woodland paintball so much over the standard Sup-air stuff that’s played everywhere else and while I was thinking of an answer a team mate explained it better than I could.
He has played for years at every level from three man in the woods to world cup sup-air finals, “when you play woodland paintball every single field is different wherever it is and choosing the right end is even a skill, in Sup-air every field is more or less the same and the only thing that tells you where you are is the accent of the refs”.
All of the old school players remember with great affection fields that bring back happy memories ( field one at Koow Doow ) is one of my personal ones, can players even remember the colour of the final field at Campaign last year.
This is a series that will include sites all over the country, it will get much bigger and may even cause a split in paintball itself where quality teams align themselves to a type of paintball rather than a just going to there local sup-air tournament site because that’s what is available.
Well done to all concerned.


Russ

 

[Bully]

Cheers

Russ - Thanks for the comments

It was a first class day and there was some exceptional paintball played. One of the advantages with the Wakefield site is you can watch the games with ease.

There was a great atmosphere both inside the safe area, watching games and on the fields.

The marshals got paid to do nothing other than start and end games and collect arm bands. Players walked when they were hit, it was great to see.

I did think we would have complaints about reducing the chrono limit to 280fps, but no one complained and several players commented it made for a better break out because you could not be long balled from the break. On the playing time one player made the point that in one and a half games he had played more paintball than at a recent 5 man supair event he played and he shot a quarter of the paint he did at a sup'air event and probably shot more players - a very happy player !!

FUN was the key word and we expect the next event to have a few more teams.

www.genesispaintball.co.uk for more info
2 April Walk on at Powerplay-Skirmish - Wakefield

Steve

 

[Biscuit]

russ could not have put it better myself and to see you running round a field instead of proping up the butty van was asight to behold,the best thing all day was the way it was played ,no argueing with decsions and players calling themselves out when hit, all the teams played the games with great sportsmanship but most of all asmile on thier faces because it was fun and it did not matter how good your gun or tournie skills where. for example the powerbobs team was made up of players that had only played punter ball before and were using site guns,they came up against damage an established tournie side with thier all sing &dancing eclipse egos and proceeded to show these guys the reasoning behind this new tournie.its for ballers that can think on thier feet and not just play to set moves on fields that all look the same as the punters proved because they handed damage thier ass and maxed out.so what conclusion did i get from the day ! leave your preconcieved ideas at home come have abrilliant days balling the way it should be played with a smile on your face with more game time in one game than most supair players play in 5 and where else would you get to shot russell rule book and own his ass . so allyou tournie players see the light and come and have a go at genesis i garuntee you will have fun use less paint ,shot more people and start to think outside of the box and use your brain and maybe allsides of paintball will gain anew respect for each other because its open to everybody.punters all the way up to the likes of nexus.so come on down for more info goto [url ]www.genesispaintball.co.uk or the talkpaintball forum and go on the genesis thread and see what every different type of baller thought

 

[phil-boy]

GENESIS

I was given a flyer on sunday where i was playing and told to have a look.

Looked at the site and reading this, im getting the Horn!!!!!!!

Looks like im going to have to try this out.

Hope to see you soon.

 

[jokersmoker]

damage hand their asses back.

I think you will find the team that entered on the day was only about a third of damage as most of us were at work. And the punters that "owned" them as you put it, were let off lightly, in one specific point due to a guy from our team not wanting to shoot a kid at point blank range in the top of his bonce and put him off the sport for the rest of his life, which he later got mocked for, being a nice guy and a father, because he would not pull the trigger so close to a boy. Go figure. So b15cu1t, get your facts straight before you open your punter mouth and start calling teams that are as you put it "established", when you yourself are clearly not. As a result of this, i think we will enter next round with the regular team, who do not have a problem with shooting people at point blank, any age.

"established tournie side with thier all sing &dancing eclipse egos"
oh, and we're a matrix team dimwit, but since when did getting the facts right bother you?

 

[papalongchops]

oooh shoot from the hip Tim!!!! We had 3 Damage players down out of 7!!!! The way everyone who won most games played, was sitting down not shooting paint til the oposing team got bored and moved into positions with no cover, thats when a 4 year old with a catapult (sp?) could take a "established team" apart. Damage been a Div 1 Masters team prefer a more aggressive game and 3 of us used this for a bit of trigger time for the Masters this sunday. Every team who played this way did really well and gained good results. Take Venom for example. They lost all morning by playing aggressive and coming forward, then after dinner decided to change tactics and hang back and wait. They won all four games after dinner and took 3rd overall after the change! (WELL DONE BOYS!!!)

Like I said before, Damage prefer sup air and found that format a bit boring Not saying that anyone else wouldn't like it cos in all honestly this is any woodballers dream but not really our cup of tea

 

[lambchop131]

we played to win all the time. we just come up with teams with better tactics than us on the games we lost,we seemed to gell together beter in the last 4 games which we won,
we are a new team never played together before same as most teams on the day.
we went to suport fatbobs and bully in the Genasis thing and had a bloody good time,so lets keep it light and in the spirit of the game

Fair and Fun

my 2pence worth

 

[jokersmoker]

thats the point i was trying to make tony, fun, and no slagging teams off.

 

[Biscuit]

jokersmoker no harm intended i saw what happened and it was very sportsman like of the player to do that ps the guys playing for your team used egos and a shocker how do i know this i was there pps and a matrix

 

[Biscuit]

jokersmoker the point that was being made was that a team of punters could compete on a level playing field with a team like yours and win .they knew if they locked horns with damage and tried to trade paint you would have whooped thier ass ,so they sat back and picked your guys off when they came at them,so thier tactics worked but at the end of the day the big winner was the event it self because most people had fun and went home with asmile on thier face ps no hard feelings to the guys from damage even when one of them lite me up like a christmas tree on field 4 and then told me well i knew he was near the marshall some were ,we all laughed about it that was the sort of day it was just good fun and when was the last time a marshall and player laughed something like that off! so do come to the next event but take it at face value this event is not about the winning its about meeting all types of paintballer and having a laugh and maybe you will enjoy it . pps i aint no punter been around about six years played tournie but mainly marshalled events