Super 6/1 - so, how was it?
- Thread starter Tony Harrison
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What a brilliant days paintballing.
Organisation brilliant.
Site superb.
Organisation unbelievable.
Choice of traders onsite - amazing.
Scenario top notch.
Standard fantastic.
And everything played in a brilliant spirit - friendly and fair.
Will post up more when a little less tired ....
PapaPrawn out!
Organisation brilliant.
Site superb.
Organisation unbelievable.
Choice of traders onsite - amazing.
Scenario top notch.
Standard fantastic.
And everything played in a brilliant spirit - friendly and fair.
Will post up more when a little less tired ....
PapaPrawn out!
The fist of the super 6 Was a great success from the organisation to the games and the players. the atmosphere was brilliant sportsmanship was outstanding.
and the Aliens had a very convincing victory 3000 to 845 give or take a few points. Cant wait for the next one so if you toying with the idea just say yes and be prepared for a brilliant weekend
and the Aliens had a very convincing victory 3000 to 845 give or take a few points. Cant wait for the next one so if you toying with the idea just say yes and be prepared for a brilliant weekend
I will post a more detailled report when the pain subsides.
Suffice to say D10 was as good if not better than the hype that preceeded it. Super 6 is alive and the beast is set to grow and grow.
Organisation was exceptional, I saw very little queues at the reception area, air fills or chrono area, everything moved seemlessly. Credit must go to Shoreline, especially Suzie, Jen and (apologies for not getting your name) the other lady for doing the hard graft on reception. HPac for great air, Nick from Skirmish Nottingham for allowing us to use his wonderful site, all the traders for lending their tech support and providing us with lots of tempting goodies, some absolutely top notch marshalling all day long,and finally to Tim for making D10 happen.
The battles were brilliantly intense and the sportsmanship was extremely high. We (the humans)got totally smashed and credit must go to the prawns for starting at a very high tempo and never letting up all day. My ear was on fire from members of our team checking in to say that this base had fallen or that they were getting over run and they needed reinforments.
That said pretty much to a man (or woman) everybody enjoyed themselves, win or lose. I personally spoke to quite a few new players and 1 new team (Bangor University) who all said that their first introduction into scenario paintball was a great fun and they all said that they would be back for the 2nd leg of Super 6. I reckon that is mission accomplished for the brains behind Super 6, we need to grow our pastime that we love so much and I think this seems to be hitting the mark. No pressure Mr. Sable, but Chocolate Factory has a lot to live up to.
Suffice to say D10 was as good if not better than the hype that preceeded it. Super 6 is alive and the beast is set to grow and grow.
Organisation was exceptional, I saw very little queues at the reception area, air fills or chrono area, everything moved seemlessly. Credit must go to Shoreline, especially Suzie, Jen and (apologies for not getting your name) the other lady for doing the hard graft on reception. HPac for great air, Nick from Skirmish Nottingham for allowing us to use his wonderful site, all the traders for lending their tech support and providing us with lots of tempting goodies, some absolutely top notch marshalling all day long,and finally to Tim for making D10 happen.
The battles were brilliantly intense and the sportsmanship was extremely high. We (the humans)got totally smashed and credit must go to the prawns for starting at a very high tempo and never letting up all day. My ear was on fire from members of our team checking in to say that this base had fallen or that they were getting over run and they needed reinforments.
That said pretty much to a man (or woman) everybody enjoyed themselves, win or lose. I personally spoke to quite a few new players and 1 new team (Bangor University) who all said that their first introduction into scenario paintball was a great fun and they all said that they would be back for the 2nd leg of Super 6. I reckon that is mission accomplished for the brains behind Super 6, we need to grow our pastime that we love so much and I think this seems to be hitting the mark. No pressure Mr. Sable, but Chocolate Factory has a lot to live up to.
Superb day. Everything was spot on! And to think this was the first event of a multi year plan - wow!!
Thanks to Tim and the shoreline guys for a great weekend. Great time was had by all.
Legs, back, throat all killing me. Peach of a shot on my neck lol, i felt like just collapsing where i was hit it was that bad.
Learnt alot. Met a few people, hopefully more as we go,i like putting names to faces. We're only a small, very early on team created and sponsored for this year, but i hope with the S6 series we can get to meet the and play along side alot of you
Roll on WOR!
Thanks to Tim and the shoreline guys for a great weekend. Great time was had by all.
Legs, back, throat all killing me. Peach of a shot on my neck lol, i felt like just collapsing where i was hit it was that bad.
Learnt alot. Met a few people, hopefully more as we go,i like putting names to faces. We're only a small, very early on team created and sponsored for this year, but i hope with the S6 series we can get to meet the and play along side alot of you
Roll on WOR!
Great time first time i have ever went to a scenario game! friendly welcoming people and extremely honest!
lots and lots of shooting! prawns dominated through out! due to good leadership!
hope all had a great day!
thanks robbie to whoever found my radio! and to yourself and the renegade rebels!
The lemming!
lots and lots of shooting! prawns dominated through out! due to good leadership!
hope all had a great day!
thanks robbie to whoever found my radio! and to yourself and the renegade rebels!
The lemming!
So far i have yet to hear of anybody complain about super6/1 in any regard what so ever, so to answer your question Jonathan, Yes everyone who went had a fricking awesome time.
As for my self it was my first big game and i was blown away by it all, the organisation was amazing. Every single member of staff on site was so kind and helpful. The games on sat were perfect for a good laugh and a bit of a warm up for Sunday’s game, and as for Sunday’s game, GOD DAM IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!
The whole site was kept clean and tidy all weekend long, the live updated maps were so much help and nearly always all red and the LED flags in the field really should be made standard by all field they were that awesome, all the players there were so helpful....
I could so easily go on and on, D10 was awesome, in fact awesome as a word doesn’t describe how awesome it was ><
If you have been sitting around waiting to see what happens at D10 before you try a super 6 event, consider super 6 tested and passed with flying colours!
Get your tickets to Super 6/2 as soon as you can and ill sure as hell see you at 6/2!!!
As for my self it was my first big game and i was blown away by it all, the organisation was amazing. Every single member of staff on site was so kind and helpful. The games on sat were perfect for a good laugh and a bit of a warm up for Sunday’s game, and as for Sunday’s game, GOD DAM IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!
The whole site was kept clean and tidy all weekend long, the live updated maps were so much help and nearly always all red
and the LED flags in the field really should be made standard by all field they were that awesome, all the players there were so helpful.... I could so easily go on and on, D10 was awesome, in fact awesome as a word doesn’t describe how awesome it was ><
If you have been sitting around waiting to see what happens at D10 before you try a super 6 event, consider super 6 tested and passed with flying colours!
Get your tickets to Super 6/2 as soon as you can and ill sure as hell see you at 6/2!!!
This event format is so amazing. The organisation and support it has is on another level to anything I've ever seen.
The whole weekend was busy with drinking and paintballing. There is no other even that can touch these (scenario side, never been to a tourny event). Even the technology they used was a amazing.
Im still knackered but its that good knackered type of tiredness.
Every last person Ive spoke to loved it, usually there are little niggles and gripes and bitching, but not at this. Thats a testamant too Timboy and his organising skills.
The support from companies was out of this world.
And the food was decent and cheap. 40p for a coffee, get in. They went for make it cheap to sell loads and earn profit, rather than high prices, sell few too make profit
Manned toilet aswell, was like walking into a service station bog.
Music blaring away in the background.
Its all the little attentions to details that made it excellent
The whole weekend was busy with drinking and paintballing. There is no other even that can touch these (scenario side, never been to a tourny event). Even the technology they used was a amazing.
Im still knackered but its that good knackered type of tiredness.
Every last person Ive spoke to loved it, usually there are little niggles and gripes and bitching, but not at this. Thats a testamant too Timboy and his organising skills.
The support from companies was out of this world.
And the food was decent and cheap. 40p for a coffee, get in. They went for make it cheap to sell loads and earn profit, rather than high prices, sell few too make profit
Manned toilet aswell, was like walking into a service station bog.
Music blaring away in the background.
Its all the little attentions to details that made it excellent
what can i add to what's been said?
when i saw the weather on saturday and the forecast for sunday, my thoughts were with you guys in fear of a washout.
fortunately, the rain stayed relatively subdued on the saturday (thanks to LIPS and Manic we kept ourselves out of much of it) and sundays weather was ideal.
saturdays little games were fast, frantic fun and a great way to see some of the zones. the site being open to regular customers on the saturday and the traders on site gives these customers a view of what comes next on their paintball journey. the UK 'balling community wandering around in a friendly atmosphere paints us in a good light to the public. which leads me to wonder whether anyone thought to drag the local media in? It's the kind of thing local TV news crews need to fill up their "and finally" slots, and local rags are always needing pages filled.
saturday night - don' think worksop new what hit it. half the players must have been in the millhouse eating plate loads of meat. the kitchen were...... troubled. lol!! then we raided the unicorn (via the KE7 to reclaim the cake me and craig had stashed for willie). got a few bevvies in and the barmaid had to call in help from the rest of the staff who were on a night out.... then the warriors did the usual and found somewhere else to drink after closing time, with some help from some local lads who were even more drunk than us. bumped into cessle and co. too. picked up a cheeky wee (okay extra large!!) kebab on the way back to the travelodge just to finsh off.
sunday. great game. i'll put a few points up:
LED "flags" were nice n bright. it made it easy to pick out the stations and see clearly what colour it was. no more edging towards it to work out the colour of the manky flag then getting lit up when you find it's not yours (damn those amber lenses)!!
Big screens. a godsend when couple with Jen and radios! so easy to find out what's needed where. think jen talked herself hoarse relaying stuff across all day, and stella got his ear cooked radio chatter.
Players. Probably one of the, no i'll go further, it was the best self-marshalling i've seen. ever. one exception was the bloke in the maze zone with "itchy foot syndrome" - that netting doesn't cover below the ankle. it's why i shot you three times on the boots and watched you dance/scratch it off three times before deciding you weren't worth the paint..... congrats to the red guy in the fort i practically ran into. you did well getting in there with a good dozen blues still dotted around in the place. i did the decent thing and volunteered to walk.
Teams. It's great see everyone having such banter/moaning/storytelling in the safe zone and then disappear to go fling paint at each other. Good to see everyone again, and roll on call to duty so we can do it all again. Thanks to the Convicts for dragging some of the guys from The Firm tourney team along to cover our speedball missions - at least we won something!!
Other things.
Traders. Excellent to see a good turnout. Special thanks to LIPS and MANIC over the weekend - I know we stole your tent space on saturday, but much appreciated.
HPAC. spot on 4.5k air all day. 'nuff said
Toilets. Like, Wow. That site has just set what should be the international (ok,UK) standard for toilets. A bit of a weird thing to rave about, but let's face it - will you ever look at a portaloo on site the same way again?
Marshals - big thanks to all the guys (and girls) that gave up the chance to play and thanks to the regular skirmish staff. hopefully we made it easy for you guys. certainly seemed like it should have been.
Think that's about long enough. If tim can do war and peace for a players pack, i can do lord of the rings in return.
AND FINALLY: Gassy, I can now put a face to a name
when i saw the weather on saturday and the forecast for sunday, my thoughts were with you guys in fear of a washout.
fortunately, the rain stayed relatively subdued on the saturday (thanks to LIPS and Manic we kept ourselves out of much of it) and sundays weather was ideal.
saturdays little games were fast, frantic fun and a great way to see some of the zones. the site being open to regular customers on the saturday and the traders on site gives these customers a view of what comes next on their paintball journey. the UK 'balling community wandering around in a friendly atmosphere paints us in a good light to the public. which leads me to wonder whether anyone thought to drag the local media in? It's the kind of thing local TV news crews need to fill up their "and finally" slots, and local rags are always needing pages filled.
saturday night - don' think worksop new what hit it. half the players must have been in the millhouse eating plate loads of meat. the kitchen were...... troubled. lol!! then we raided the unicorn (via the KE7 to reclaim the cake me and craig had stashed for willie). got a few bevvies in and the barmaid had to call in help from the rest of the staff who were on a night out.... then the warriors did the usual and found somewhere else to drink after closing time, with some help from some local lads who were even more drunk than us. bumped into cessle and co. too. picked up a cheeky wee (okay extra large!!) kebab on the way back to the travelodge just to finsh off.
sunday. great game. i'll put a few points up:
LED "flags" were nice n bright. it made it easy to pick out the stations and see clearly what colour it was. no more edging towards it to work out the colour of the manky flag then getting lit up when you find it's not yours (damn those amber lenses)!!
Big screens. a godsend when couple with Jen and radios! so easy to find out what's needed where. think jen talked herself hoarse relaying stuff across all day, and stella got his ear cooked radio chatter.
Players. Probably one of the, no i'll go further, it was the best self-marshalling i've seen. ever. one exception was the bloke in the maze zone with "itchy foot syndrome" - that netting doesn't cover below the ankle. it's why i shot you three times on the boots and watched you dance/scratch it off three times before deciding you weren't worth the paint..... congrats to the red guy in the fort i practically ran into. you did well getting in there with a good dozen blues still dotted around in the place. i did the decent thing and volunteered to walk.
Teams. It's great see everyone having such banter/moaning/storytelling in the safe zone and then disappear to go fling paint at each other. Good to see everyone again, and roll on call to duty so we can do it all again. Thanks to the Convicts for dragging some of the guys from The Firm tourney team along to cover our speedball missions - at least we won something!!
Other things.
Traders. Excellent to see a good turnout. Special thanks to LIPS and MANIC over the weekend - I know we stole your tent space on saturday, but much appreciated.
HPAC. spot on 4.5k air all day. 'nuff said
Toilets. Like, Wow. That site has just set what should be the international (ok,UK) standard for toilets. A bit of a weird thing to rave about, but let's face it - will you ever look at a portaloo on site the same way again?
Marshals - big thanks to all the guys (and girls) that gave up the chance to play and thanks to the regular skirmish staff. hopefully we made it easy for you guys. certainly seemed like it should have been.
Think that's about long enough. If tim can do war and peace for a players pack, i can do lord of the rings in return.
AND FINALLY: Gassy, I can now put a face to a name