New paintball site in Basildon, Essex with millenium field

[Revolt]

talk about a frosty reception lol good luck with the site

 

[Combat UK]

I don't know about what anyone else feels, but i certainly get the feeling that some people wish this to fail before its even started..

Yes the guy made a mistake with a misleading title, but from what i have read it seems near on everyone who has posted has been annoyed by a new site..

As most of us know value for money is a must and i for one with two teams look for a site that offers a safe enviroment and has the players best interest at heart..

As i see it at present we have two sites in the whole of the uk that offer this, and to me this is by far not enough...

I understand some of the concerns but hey, why not give these guys chance to prove what they are offering before anyone makes judgement..

As they say the proof is in the pudding, so lets watch this space and see what develops..

All i will add is that i hope that you make sure that you ensure all players that attend for event's are holding UKSPF Cards..

What you do for private functions is upto you, but as a tourney player i would want to see this enforced...

Anyway thats my 2cents worth...

Thank you for your input impulse raider, we shal absolutely make sure that this is a must!

 

[Combat UK]

Now that i know the location of this "New" training site i can back up some of their promises.

http://www.offroadactionpark.co.uk/
Google map
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=off road action park&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

astro turf ground - still got life left in it, but moving it will be difficult due to it being laid many years ago. Does have a drainage problem though

overhead viewing box - two cargo containers on top of each other (surprisingly good) see pictures

hard standing car parking - Mixture of hard packed hardcore, gravel and small cemented areas

hard standing staging area - Mixture of hard packed hardcore, gravel and small cemented areas

free paintball gun hire - unsure if free but infernos are already at this site, used for kids on a target range.

toilet and wash facilities - already on site (not porta-loos) used by all customers.

flood lighting - low power flood lighting was used for rc track

on site cafe - good food but at a price

pictures of site when it was still a RC track

toilet and wash facilities

Hi defied,

yes thats us, we are located on the off road action park.

with regards to the gun hire we will have 10 tippman bt4 guns for players who do not have there own guns and also 10 all black overalls for those who do not have there own.

I can only think that this will mostly apply for people who are fresh to the tourny side of paintball.

The inferno's on the site are for the owner of the action parks shooting range, but we are not actually part of the action park as such, but located on site if that makes sense?

I was over the site today and had a look at the drain situation , i dont think it should be a problem once the land is flattenned as the they were only man made so they just need filling .

the astro turf shouldnt be too hard to move just a LONG process.

I think that is everything covered from the list that may have been seen as problem.

any other questions guys please ask!

 

[Combat UK]

I think the reaction to them that you maybe sense as somewhat negative was mainly because first impressions always seem to make a big impression; with that in mind, they came in posting across multi-forums, which of course is against the rules and had all but one of their promotional posts deleted for breaking the rules .....

They also slightly indulged themselves in what could be viewed by many as ambiguous promo language in that there was more than a hint of association with the Millennium thereby giving them some sort of credibility ... there was no such link, and unintentional as it may be, I think for the benefit of our member base, we had to make sure of what was going on ...

All that aside, I am more than willing to maintain an open mind about them and see what pudding they come up with but I would ask you to forgive any negative reaction on our part mainly due to the way they came crashing into the place whilst breaking the rules and posting ambiguous, and slighty misleading information.

We just wanna make sure, that's all ... nothing more, nothing less, and if that comes across as somewhat heavy-handed, then I'm afraid that's the risk we take when trying to protect our member base.

Hi Robbo,

Not a problem, i can see exactly what your saying. Obviously if i relised this was breaking the rules and that the way i labelled the thread it would be very misleading i wouldn't have done this.

Joining the forum and booming on straight away advertising a brand new training site with a millennium field is going to make alot of people think something is up especially when not alot of people in tourny would have heard of us so i can understand some peoples suspicion.

But i can assure you we are genuine people and have nothing but the best intentions. Having been in the paintball business for a while (a woodland site just down the road) we have had many requests to start up some kind of tournament paintball and when the opportunity appeared, we took it, and thats basically how this site has come to be!

 

[onasilverbike]

All i will add is that i hope that you make sure that you ensure all players that attend for event's are holding UKSPF Cards..

Thank you for your input impulse raider, we shal absolutely make sure that this is a must!

AFAIK for the UKPSF player card/insurance scheme to be effective the site must be UKPSF accredited and/or the events UKPSF sanctioned.

Combat UK, if you do not already hold the site accreditation contact Steve Bull @ http://www.ukpsf.com/

Possibly due to the slightly misleading original title of the thread various wild rumours were flying around at the weekend, these seem to have been cleared up by the answers that have been given in the thread. Another training site can only add to the general well-being of paintball, especially one with an all weather surface.

 

[Combat UK]

Just to update you guys today the brand new 44 millennium series Bunkers were delivered through today.

I can also confirm that we will be using dark sport paintballs. We are not sure of prices as of yet however, this bascailly depends on how much they sell it to us but we can garentee that it will be at an affordable price for all !

Construction on the site will begin on the 9th of august, as they have the final RC tournament on sunday ( the only tournament of the year it seems which is somewhat of an inconvenience for us as we have to sit around waiting !)

 

[Combat UK]

AFAIK for the UKPSF player card/insurance scheme to be effective the site must be UKPSF accredited and/or the events UKPSF sanctioned.

Combat UK, if you do not already hold the site accreditation contact Steve Bull @ http://www.ukpsf.com/

Possibly due to the slightly misleading original title of the thread various wild rumours were flying around at the weekend, these seem to have been cleared up by the answers that have been given in the thread. Another training site can only add to the general well-being of paintball, especially one with an all weather surface.

onasilverbike thanks for the heads up, as of reading your post I have just sent an email to steve with a request to make our site an accredited venue.

 

[defied]

I was over the site today and had a look at the drain situation , i dont think it should be a problem once the land is flattenned as the they were only man made so they just need filling .

the astro turf shouldnt be too hard to move just a LONG process.

the astro furthest away from the toliets is well and truely stuck down to the ground, moved a section when i help re-model the track and it easily tore.

astro after very light morning rain, extremely bad after heavy downfalls

I can also confirm that we will be using dark sport paintballs. We are not sure of prices as of yet however, this bascailly depends on how much they sell it to us but we can garentee that it will be at an affordable price for all !

Seeing as no one has asked, i assume we can use our own paint?

 

[connor91x]

the astro furthest away from the toliets is well and truely stuck down to the ground, moved a section when i help re-model the track and it easily tore.

astro after very light morning rain, extremely bad after heavy downfalls

Seeing as no one has asked, i assume we can use our own paint?

hi was over there yesterday and the astro turf will be easily removed as we had a go yesterday its not stuck down the best

 

[Combat UK]

the astro furthest away from the toliets is well and truely stuck down to the ground, moved a section when i help re-model the track and it easily tore.

astro after very light morning rain, extremely bad after heavy downfalls

Seeing as no one has asked, i assume we can use our own paint?

Defied how long did it take you to lay out all the astro? i am just asking for the sake of when we have to remove it all to flatten the ground as the owner who has the heavy machinery to do this is going on holiday the week we begin construction so we are hoping to get this all removed within 2 days if possible?

the astro turf i looked at today briefly was at the closest end to us in that picture and it literally was just lying on top so i presumed the other half was the same, but obviously we will know exactly whats going to be a struggle on the day we begin ! hopefully not too much !
With regards to bring your own paintballs, absolutely fine.