HG4 - Official Results

[Syd (NSPL)]

Heaven's Gate 2006 was an awesome event. If you weren't there, you missed out - plain and simple. The NSPL laid on a mini-millennium for its showcase event this year and HG is now firmly established as the best paintballing tournament in the UK bar Campaign. Start sweet talking your boss and misses now to ensure you have the time off for next year's event. I already have some plans on making the event even better and it will be one you do not want to miss.

Here are the official results from the event...

Division 1

1st - South Coast Quake
2nd - Stealers Am
3rd - Taunton Snatch
4th - MH2 Llanfair PG
5th - East Coast Irritant
6th - London Tigers Am
7th - Basingstoke Tsunami
8th - Bristol Loco
9th - HPG Factory Team

Division 2

1st - Reign of Fire [wsm]
2nd - Maidenhead Trauma
3rd - Evil Saints
4th - Bristol Recoil
5th - London Halloween
6th - Apex Assassins
7th - Bournemouth Riptide

Division 3

1st - Bath Corrupt
2nd - Portsmouth Halloween
3rd - Fallen Angels
4th - Southampton ABV
5th - Blitzkreig Weymouth
6th - Scratch
7th - Wycombe APEs
8th - Bridport Synapse
8th - Demolition Squad Worthing

5-Man Division

1st - NA Angels Red
2nd - SW 2Hot4U
3rd - Bloater Brothers
4th - Blitzkreig
5th - Bridport Synapse
6th - Southampton FX
7th - Demolition Squad
8th - NA Angels Black
9th - Southampton ABV
10th - Scorpions Red
11th - Bridport Hellfire

Thank You

As always, there are a huge list of people to thank including the Millennium, all of my staff, the sponsors, the players, and the venue itself. However, I thanked all of these people in my presentation speach and wont list them all again here. There is, however, one thank you that I would like to reiterate...

If it wasn't for one person's continual support, understanding and hard work, Heaven's Gate would have not been the event it was this year and I personally would have found it a great deal more stressful. I very much doubt that a year ago, this person could have imagined what she was getting herself in to by falling in love with me, but she continues to surprise and amaze me with her support in everything I do. Melanie, thank you so much honey - I love you dearly. x

Feedback

From what I've read on these and other forums, it seems like everyone really enjoyed the event. The scoring system and ramping seem to have been particularly popular and I'm sure you all loved the fields, netting and general infrastructure. But what about the three-day format? I still firmly believe that this is the way forward for the event, but I would like to hear from you guys about your experiences and whether, with a year's notice, keeping the format would again limit the team numbers for next year?

The NSPL made a big loss on this year's event, but it was worth it to kick the event, and ultimately the league itself, yet another step up the ladder. As I said before the event, HG is a big thank you to the players so I can take that one on the chin. However, the event cannot sustain losses like that every year, so please do be honest with your feedback on this matter.

I look forward to hearing from you all...

 

[Tony Wood]

hi ya this was my first tournament and it was excellent, due to it being my first ever tourney i found myself unsure to where i was ment to be several times througth out the weekend all of the staff were more than helpfull and well organised so they knew exactly what direction to point me in, the marshals were excellent and the accomadation was great.
It was my first tournament but i have been involved in sports my whole life and stretching compatitions over long weekends is always a good idea as it provides all partisapunts a chance to get excited about a large event which boosts there enthusiasm for the sport and also provides a large amount of time for socialising and making new friendships which is always great for sport. however it is very important that plenty of notice is given as work commitements nowadays are making it harder and harder to take time off for such events. once again id just like to say thankyou to everyone involved in the organisitaion of heavens gate, all other teams participating as they were all great and gave me lots of helpful tips. that improved my knowledge of paintball alot over one weekend, and i would also like to thank my team porstmouth halloween for a terrific weekend and i hope to see u all at the next event.

Tony Wood

 

[Tiny(D.R)]

Top job

Hiya Syd

This is my opinion was the best HG yet, I was a bit apprehensive to a few of your changes i.e the point system & the ramping but I’m happily eating humble pie.

I agree with you Syd about changing to a 3 day tourney that’s most certainly the way forward I mean a ½ day balling followed by a trip down to the beach what more could you ask for. Shame it wasn’t changed earlier as I know this did impact the number of teams attending due to getting time off work etc as July is holiday season luckily I booked the time off in January.

The venue is spot on right next to Bournemouth Airport hopefully will pull in some overseas teams in future & a bar on siteJ

Ramping loved it I think you should keep it for the rest of the legs this year personally.

Also thanks to my guys for playing there hearts out over the weekend not bad for a bunch of old gits Congrats to Reign of fire for coming first you certainly where on fire in the final.

Thanks again to the marshals & all the crew for HG & thanks to Dye & Sloth for the kit & cracking DM6’s & support over the weekend & last but no means least thanks to Neil @ Heaven for the Proto paint, it’s good stuff folks try it out.

For those people whom where not at HG this year I would recommend you stick it in your calendar for next year as an event of this quality can only get bigger

 

[newboy]

I loved the three days but would have settled for two if it had the impact of more teams attending.I talked to many people who all said there were more teams in the previous years and more people camping overnight, which is one part of the tourney scene i love.Overall the event was excellent ,the site and the feilds were spot on and the marshalling standard was very high.I say, make it a 3 day event but give people the notice to book holiday because I can tell you ,its worth it!