Since the 3man the team has had a couple of changes. First, Diesel retired from competitive paintball (for now) so we've picked up Luke Martin. I really loved playing with Diesel, he was a perfect fit for our team and a great guy. He was always alive when it counted, and I always felt like he was putting in 100% to the team and he really believed in STK. Come back soon you scraggly manky creature. Luke (Zooey) has already settled in well with us. He's a strong pickup, he used to thrash us around a bit when he played for Menace Kids.
Next, the boys won the first round of the TK while I was away. The finals came down to a 1vs1 which Rambo won! Apparently Rambo was king of the tournament and was shooting 3+ people a game... and I believe it because Rambo is awesome!
After the TK, we all went to Pattaya in Thailand for a tournament. We didn't play paintball so good over there. We seemed to be doing OK, like we'd win the first 2 points outright, and then let the other team come back with 3 unanswered points. We did that EVERY game. It was incredibly frustrating. I think there were a couple of reasons for it. Firstly, we were definitely understaffed. We only had Brad in the pitts, but he was trying to coach as well. So we'd play the first two points, then be out of pods, so we'd frantically try to fill pods, air up, change the game plan all why dying in the billion degree heat. It was just too much and we threw so many games away. We did as well as we could given all of this, with Zooey power-chucking and Rambo looking like a giant red beetroot. Despite a disappointing performance, we still enjoyed the event! And we loved Thailand too... crazy place.
Following Thailand, Mason left the team. It's a huge loss, he was a great player. He could have left on good terms by just telling us he's out of money, or out of passion, or whatever, but instead he has just ignored all 400 of our calls to him? And we've found out through other people he's quit. It's a little bit hurtful how he has gone about it but we wish him the best...
In light of this, we've picked up Timmy Colgan and Travis Strurcke. They both played really well at WCA last year for Menace Kids, and we're already friends with them so it should be a good fit.
We're going to prepare for playing the Philippines event now.
