Hi All,
I was wondering what everyone's impression of the LV PSP was.
I'm not doing 10-man but I decided to drop in on Saturday and say "hi" to a few friends ("Hi Amy"
) and oogle the twins from Smart Parts (yes they are blonde but they remind me of Jennifer Lopez, which I like, so I was amusing someone by doing the "Big Butt" dance from "Charlie's Angels"). The field and staging area layout seemed very player friendly, with some teams taking the baseball dougouts for their team staging area...with the afternoon and morning brackets separated there seemed to be enough tables/tents. It was nice having individual tents again, like HB. Yes there were security guards controlling the player staging areas but it seemed that they weren't sweeping the area after you got in, which I kinda liked since I snuck in, but I'm a pessimist and believe the most of the stealing happens from other teams, not from random strangers and I tend to believe that just having gate guards is sufficient. There was plenty of food, not really cheap, but okay, and there was easy access to fast food places all around the park. The location was good, and close to downtown LV. The parking was kinda okay, I didn't really like the mini-stream going down the parking lot, but it could've been worse so I'm not complaining...just if your bag had wide wheels you were better off. I was unhappy that I didn't need a JT large bag 'cause they had a good deal going...the PMI Omen was out, and on a large backorder already, rumor has it that they're going to concentrate on pumping them out to fill the backorders and then after that see about the sponsored...ooops, ahhh, other orders that they have. Did I mention the SP twins? Apparently there was no dunking booth this time around...darn. I missed the Maxim party over at the Rio, I had to head home about midnight to help out a friend on Sunday...sorry about missing practice
Now for the not-so-nice comments: My roomate/exteammate's team wasn't doing so well so of course there was some grumbling about the reffing but I took that in without comment until I could see examples myself. Their comments seemed true to me...I watched a friend get drilled on a bunker move, he had bleeding welts and was asking the judge to chrono the guy who just bunkered him, and the gun was never chrono'd. I believe the guy was pulled (??? reason ??? he was never shot) so counted as a dead man since that bunkering ended the game, my maybe the guy flopping around on the ground in pain should've clued in the ref that a chronoing was going to be asked for? There were multiple instances of apparent favoritism related to me but that was the one that I noticed and remember. There was another instance where there was a critical player that looked as though he was going to break open the game against a Diablo sponsored team that was shooting only pink...a ref ran up and pulled that player on what looked like an old, green hit on an angle that the player wasn't taking fire from. From what I was told, from multiple sources and teams, it seemed that if you were known by some of the refs, you were getting some "lovin'", but it was egregious enough that people were noticing. You could take the stance that I'm just bellyaching and everything was normal for paintball, but from what I've seen, the Super-7 has made extra-ordinary efforts to stop biased reffing, while the PSP still needs to work on it. I'm sure I'll take some flak for what I'm saying but I'm saying it because no-one else seems to be addressing it, and I'll stand by what I saw. Yes, I only saw a day's worth of play, and no, I didn't watch NXL.
For anyone else that was there, pick up this thread and tell me what you think.
Ray
I was wondering what everyone's impression of the LV PSP was.
I'm not doing 10-man but I decided to drop in on Saturday and say "hi" to a few friends ("Hi Amy"
) and oogle the twins from Smart Parts (yes they are blonde but they remind me of Jennifer Lopez, which I like, so I was amusing someone by doing the "Big Butt" dance from "Charlie's Angels"). The field and staging area layout seemed very player friendly, with some teams taking the baseball dougouts for their team staging area...with the afternoon and morning brackets separated there seemed to be enough tables/tents. It was nice having individual tents again, like HB. Yes there were security guards controlling the player staging areas but it seemed that they weren't sweeping the area after you got in, which I kinda liked since I snuck in, but I'm a pessimist and believe the most of the stealing happens from other teams, not from random strangers and I tend to believe that just having gate guards is sufficient. There was plenty of food, not really cheap, but okay, and there was easy access to fast food places all around the park. The location was good, and close to downtown LV. The parking was kinda okay, I didn't really like the mini-stream going down the parking lot, but it could've been worse so I'm not complaining...just if your bag had wide wheels you were better off. I was unhappy that I didn't need a JT large bag 'cause they had a good deal going...the PMI Omen was out, and on a large backorder already, rumor has it that they're going to concentrate on pumping them out to fill the backorders and then after that see about the sponsored...ooops, ahhh, other orders that they have. Did I mention the SP twins? Apparently there was no dunking booth this time around...darn. I missed the Maxim party over at the Rio, I had to head home about midnight to help out a friend on Sunday...sorry about missing practice Now for the not-so-nice comments: My roomate/exteammate's team wasn't doing so well so of course there was some grumbling about the reffing but I took that in without comment until I could see examples myself. Their comments seemed true to me...I watched a friend get drilled on a bunker move, he had bleeding welts and was asking the judge to chrono the guy who just bunkered him, and the gun was never chrono'd. I believe the guy was pulled (??? reason ??? he was never shot) so counted as a dead man since that bunkering ended the game, my maybe the guy flopping around on the ground in pain should've clued in the ref that a chronoing was going to be asked for? There were multiple instances of apparent favoritism related to me but that was the one that I noticed and remember. There was another instance where there was a critical player that looked as though he was going to break open the game against a Diablo sponsored team that was shooting only pink...a ref ran up and pulled that player on what looked like an old, green hit on an angle that the player wasn't taking fire from. From what I was told, from multiple sources and teams, it seemed that if you were known by some of the refs, you were getting some "lovin'", but it was egregious enough that people were noticing. You could take the stance that I'm just bellyaching and everything was normal for paintball, but from what I've seen, the Super-7 has made extra-ordinary efforts to stop biased reffing, while the PSP still needs to work on it. I'm sure I'll take some flak for what I'm saying but I'm saying it because no-one else seems to be addressing it, and I'll stand by what I saw. Yes, I only saw a day's worth of play, and no, I didn't watch NXL.
For anyone else that was there, pick up this thread and tell me what you think.
Ray
