This tourney was a local one, held at Tombstone Paintball. Our team took 5th place. I feel that we played well. We could have used more practice, but I am very happy with how we did. We really learned a lot, and the three of us that actually played really improved our games. Phil and Aaron were unable to make the tourney, so we had two guys from the rookie team of Organized Crime play in thier place. As a team captain, I really learned a lot. Here's some stuff I learned; hopefully it will help somebody:

-Always double check your scorecard before you sign it. I made the mistake of not doing so one time. The 10 points we lost wouldn't have gotten us anywere, but still, check the scorecard.

-Buy paint as early as possible. The tourney had two kinds: midevil and point blank. They sold out of midevil right before we got our paint, and that pointblank stuff was terrible. Bore size varied from .689 to .695, and through my gun it shot like there was paint in the barrel (OK, so it wasn't as bad as a wet barrel, but nearly every shot had a noticeable curve or twist to it. In other words, it didn't shoot straight at all). I honestly think we could have done better if we had the midevil paint (No, I'm not blaming our performance on the paint, but when you can hardly hit anything it does make a difference).

-Don't give up. The day before the tourney we were 2 guys down. We did whatever we could to find our two subs (talk about bad luck... we had two players unable to play, and the two subs we had lined up to play in their spot couldn't play either. A special thanks to George at I&I Sports for hooking us up with David and Ryan).

Random thoughts about the tourney:

-Boy did the second place prizes suck. They got scooters (you know, like you stand on them and push yourself along...)

-The ref we had needed a hug or something. He let our first game time out and didn't realize it. When we asked him to check the timer, he yelled at us. He had a pretty bad attitude the whole day. Oh well.

-I think we did pretty well for a rookie team playing with a few novice teams, with 2 guys we had never played with before, and with awful paint. It was definately a good experience.

 Our Back Players: Tony (can barely see him) and David

 Tony playing the crackpipe.

 Tony with his dad loading up his pods

 Us waiting for the other team to finish crono

 Left - Right: Tony, Ryan, James, Jason, David

 Tony in the back; Ryan working up in front

An Insomnia player sliding into a double

 An Insomnia player at the castle getting the flag

 Jason playing the stand-up

 Heres him shooting the left side

 Ryan (right) shooting it up against other guy (danny)