Problem with an event tha size of
tha Cup is that even when you talk to people who were there, it's still Chinese whispers cos everything is so spread out. I've talked to a lot of people who were at Florida about contentious issues and I'll give you some examples of what I mean. These are all from people I have spoken to who were there...
Salm Incident
One guy swears blind Salm had a white T-shirt on, three say black.
One very notable Paintball personage is adamant that Avalanche drove Salm out to the treeline and dropped him off.
Another insists that everyone on the team knew except Eric Roberts and Rocky. The same person claims Eric Roberts left immediately after and has now joined Aftershock.
A third told me that several top team captains had a running joke going about that field and were grabing friends and supporters and telling them to go snipe from tha treeline, and that it was a standard gag until Salm actually did it.
One guy told me he saw Lasoya talking to Salm after the fact in the WDP tent. Conversely, two reported that Lasoya said, right after the incident, 'If I ever see Jeremy again I swear I'll kill him.'
Rage thing
One person said a Rage player hit a ref with his air tank and the police turned up on site to take him away.
Three people told me they had seen and heard nada.
One said he'd heard of the incicdent, but heard it was between two rookie teams.
See what I mean?
And besides, surely the biggest incidents are the fact that there were a dozen portaloos between 3,000 people, that spectators couldn't watch the finals unless they got to the right field 3 hours in advance, and that X-Ball was poorly pulled off.
Way to go to get spectators involved in Pball...
