Came 3rd. Despite being slightly disappointed at not being able to have a flawless run through the series, with us set to referee the last round we have secured the series win.
STK winners of the TK series 2009.
Woot.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Super 7's Round 2 09
This weekend we played the 2nd round of the Super 7's at Action Paintball WA. We decided for this round we'd play with just the 6 of us plus our American import so that we wouldn't have to worry about rotating. We flew over Scott Kemp from the Ironmen to play for us. He's a really awesome guy. It was a real honour to have him play on the team.
Our weekend went well. The preliminaries felt a little shakey although overall we finished them in 2nd place, losing to Extreme twice and then Hostile and ECR once each (all pro teams played each other twice).
First up in the finals we had to play against Hostile Intentions, last years series winners. First game we were able to slow them down getting into snake by going to the center 50, allowing Griffin to get in first. We picked off a few G's, and Scott mowed some people down the snake. We took the first game. Next game, we got held up and they beat us to the snake. I finally managed to get in and crawl down it, but blew it coming over the top and getting shot. Skempy and Mason still had the corners and they fought them off for a while but the paint kept bouncing and they eventually got shot. Last game we pretty much had a repeat of the first. We slowed them from the center 50, Griff had a game down the snake bunkering out their second carwash fill. Skemp got down the snake also and did more damage, leaving it in a 2 vs 1, Mason and Diesel to clean up. We won the game, allowing us to move on to play for first and second against Extreme.
The game against Extreme really emphasised the gap between the American pros and us... Extreme had Justin Rabackoff, Marcello Margott and Greg Siewers playing all on the same side of the field. They were switched on too... Their technical skills burnt us... I think Marcello shot 5 of us each game haha. Needless to say we couldn't come away with the win at this round, leaving us in second place.
Final results were:
1st - Extreme
2nd - STK
3rd - Menace
4th - Hostile
Our weekend went well. The preliminaries felt a little shakey although overall we finished them in 2nd place, losing to Extreme twice and then Hostile and ECR once each (all pro teams played each other twice).
First up in the finals we had to play against Hostile Intentions, last years series winners. First game we were able to slow them down getting into snake by going to the center 50, allowing Griffin to get in first. We picked off a few G's, and Scott mowed some people down the snake. We took the first game. Next game, we got held up and they beat us to the snake. I finally managed to get in and crawl down it, but blew it coming over the top and getting shot. Skempy and Mason still had the corners and they fought them off for a while but the paint kept bouncing and they eventually got shot. Last game we pretty much had a repeat of the first. We slowed them from the center 50, Griff had a game down the snake bunkering out their second carwash fill. Skemp got down the snake also and did more damage, leaving it in a 2 vs 1, Mason and Diesel to clean up. We won the game, allowing us to move on to play for first and second against Extreme.
The game against Extreme really emphasised the gap between the American pros and us... Extreme had Justin Rabackoff, Marcello Margott and Greg Siewers playing all on the same side of the field. They were switched on too... Their technical skills burnt us... I think Marcello shot 5 of us each game haha. Needless to say we couldn't come away with the win at this round, leaving us in second place.
Final results were:
1st - Extreme
2nd - STK
3rd - Menace
4th - Hostile
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Super 5's Round 3 09
Sunday was the third round of the Super 5's. The field was a pretty cool setup. You didn't have to go very far to be in a position to get kills... there was a dorito not even close to the 50 that you could rip the field up from, and it was easy to get to. There was no back center, instead two towers just off center on the left and right. And a carwash up the middle. The "snake" side of the field was virtually unplayable.
Favourite games of the day were against Killswitch and Flashpoint. Flashpoint played harded but we were able to keep them out of the dorito, and Diesel was able to break the game up with a run through down the center. The Killswitch game was quite drawn out... although eventually they filled the unplayable snake and it made for an easy kill. From here Mason bunkered out their carwash players, and Diesel caught their player filling the corner.
1st - STK
2nd - Killswitch
3rd - Flashpoint
4th - Venom
Favourite games of the day were against Killswitch and Flashpoint. Flashpoint played harded but we were able to keep them out of the dorito, and Diesel was able to break the game up with a run through down the center. The Killswitch game was quite drawn out... although eventually they filled the unplayable snake and it made for an easy kill. From here Mason bunkered out their carwash players, and Diesel caught their player filling the corner.
1st - STK
2nd - Killswitch
3rd - Flashpoint
4th - Venom
Monday, June 22, 2009
TK Tourney Round 3
Yesterday was the third round of the TK series. It had been raining heavily overnight so we were unsure if the tournament would even go ahead! The field layout was very simple... maybe almost a little too simple but it was still quite fun to play. The center was consumed by this massive U bunker, making it pretty hard to get kills of the break. The snake was difficult to make a huge impact from, and the dorito side was a little easier to move on, but didn't really have many shots either. It was kind of unclear as to what had to exactly be done to win on the field...
I think not being able to be as aggressive shook us up a bit and we played a little shakey. In the morning we lost to Mixed Nuts and WASP, and then had a controversial game against Nemisis, which resulted in a draw. We managed to win all our other games quite convincingly, which I think got us over the line.
We managed to secure another 1st in the TK series.
Final standings were...
1st - STK
2nd - WASP
3rd - Mixed Nuts
4th - Kaos
I think not being able to be as aggressive shook us up a bit and we played a little shakey. In the morning we lost to Mixed Nuts and WASP, and then had a controversial game against Nemisis, which resulted in a draw. We managed to win all our other games quite convincingly, which I think got us over the line.
We managed to secure another 1st in the TK series.
Final standings were...
1st - STK
2nd - WASP
3rd - Mixed Nuts
4th - Kaos
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Super 5's Round 2 09
On Sunday we played the second round of the Super 5's. The weather held out despite rain being forecast so it made for a pretty fun day of paintball.
With the day depending solely on points, a few slip ups left us with a 2nd place.
With the day depending solely on points, a few slip ups left us with a 2nd place.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Super 7's Round 1 09
Stiffla and I had started writing this blog on the plane, but it's stuck on my laptop now and I can't be bothered getting it off... so I'll start again.
On Monday night we got back from the first round of the Super 7's. The event had pretty much all of Australia's top pro teams competing. We had arranged for Bobby Aviles to play with us from SD Aftermath. He's the best guy. And he played amazing.
The weekend went really well. The field was pretty challenging. The snake side consisted of two little snakes which were pretty hard to paly and then a big "U" which was probably the best bunker on the field. The dorito side was easier to move down but probably a bit less damaging.
Some hightlight games... Stiffla beating down on Menace in the prelims. Bobby winning a 2 on 1 vs. X-fighters. I had a sweet game against ECR on Sunday morning... Favourite game was the one against Geelong who had gone undefeated in the prelims. We managed to beat them the second time around and I felt we were really playing as a team. Beating Menace the second game too in the prelims. Actually, we beat everyone at least once on the weekend now that I think about it. We finished the prelims in 2nd.
We had to play Menace first up in the finals. The winner of this game would go on to play for 1st and 2nd. First game up, their American's got up the field really quick and we just couldn't fight them off. The next game, we dug deep and played a long and exhausting game. I dropped all 8 pods. We were right about to win the game, with Bobby just finishing shooting the last player I think, and then time ran out. Now we had to win the next game to go onto 1 on 1's to decide the winner. We went with the same gameplan. We battled the game down to the dying minutes again. Bobby bunkered out their "U" and the game withered down to a 2 on 2. It was just me and Logan left. I worked my way down the dorito side. I'd shot 8 or 9 pods again. I was trying to snap out their guy posted on me, but as luck would have it I was breaking paint and it was just flying everywhere, so I kept going to the 50 brick. I continued to gun-battle with them, aware that time was running out. I ended up losing the gun-battle and got a 1 for 1... I thought the paint had bounced, but it hit right under my chin where I can't see with the mask on, and when it hit I caught the shell spiralling away in the corner of my eye... I thought it was the whole ball bouncing off.
I'm not accusing anything here, just saying exactly what happened. The Menace player ran up to grab the flag, as he did so he looked at the back of his leg, where there was a sizeable blob of paint, stopped what he was doing, and casually walked to the deadbox. What the hell?! Isn't that playing on with a hit?! We argued our point to no avail. It would have made the world of difference if that player was eliminated earlier though. 2 on 1.
I was really proud of how the guys played. We were playing against 3 professionals from America. We gave it everything. I felt absolutely spent mentally after the Menace game. We bought it right to the wire.
Following this, we had to play Hostile, last year's series winners for 3rd and 4th. I don't think we played terrible, but that edge just wasn't there. It was sort of just like "damnit here we go again." Without that extra drive they beat us in two games, leaving us with 4th place.
Above all, I had a heap of fun over the weekend. This was the team's first trip away for the year. I don't think we can be disappointed at how we went.
On Monday night we got back from the first round of the Super 7's. The event had pretty much all of Australia's top pro teams competing. We had arranged for Bobby Aviles to play with us from SD Aftermath. He's the best guy. And he played amazing.
The weekend went really well. The field was pretty challenging. The snake side consisted of two little snakes which were pretty hard to paly and then a big "U" which was probably the best bunker on the field. The dorito side was easier to move down but probably a bit less damaging.
Some hightlight games... Stiffla beating down on Menace in the prelims. Bobby winning a 2 on 1 vs. X-fighters. I had a sweet game against ECR on Sunday morning... Favourite game was the one against Geelong who had gone undefeated in the prelims. We managed to beat them the second time around and I felt we were really playing as a team. Beating Menace the second game too in the prelims. Actually, we beat everyone at least once on the weekend now that I think about it. We finished the prelims in 2nd.
We had to play Menace first up in the finals. The winner of this game would go on to play for 1st and 2nd. First game up, their American's got up the field really quick and we just couldn't fight them off. The next game, we dug deep and played a long and exhausting game. I dropped all 8 pods. We were right about to win the game, with Bobby just finishing shooting the last player I think, and then time ran out. Now we had to win the next game to go onto 1 on 1's to decide the winner. We went with the same gameplan. We battled the game down to the dying minutes again. Bobby bunkered out their "U" and the game withered down to a 2 on 2. It was just me and Logan left. I worked my way down the dorito side. I'd shot 8 or 9 pods again. I was trying to snap out their guy posted on me, but as luck would have it I was breaking paint and it was just flying everywhere, so I kept going to the 50 brick. I continued to gun-battle with them, aware that time was running out. I ended up losing the gun-battle and got a 1 for 1... I thought the paint had bounced, but it hit right under my chin where I can't see with the mask on, and when it hit I caught the shell spiralling away in the corner of my eye... I thought it was the whole ball bouncing off.
I'm not accusing anything here, just saying exactly what happened. The Menace player ran up to grab the flag, as he did so he looked at the back of his leg, where there was a sizeable blob of paint, stopped what he was doing, and casually walked to the deadbox. What the hell?! Isn't that playing on with a hit?! We argued our point to no avail. It would have made the world of difference if that player was eliminated earlier though. 2 on 1.
I was really proud of how the guys played. We were playing against 3 professionals from America. We gave it everything. I felt absolutely spent mentally after the Menace game. We bought it right to the wire.
Following this, we had to play Hostile, last year's series winners for 3rd and 4th. I don't think we played terrible, but that edge just wasn't there. It was sort of just like "damnit here we go again." Without that extra drive they beat us in two games, leaving us with 4th place.
Above all, I had a heap of fun over the weekend. This was the team's first trip away for the year. I don't think we can be disappointed at how we went.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Pre-event Super 7's Round 1
So... 3 days till we fly off to Sydney for the first round of the Super 7's. I'm really excited and looking forward to a good weekend with the guys. Everyone better bring their "A" game... this tournament probably has the most competition at one event that Australia has seen in a little while. As long as we keep our heads and stay focused, I think we should be able to do OK.
We've managed to arrange for Bobby Aviles, a professional from America, to play on the team. Everyone is stoked. Having him should give all the guys a little extra confidence, and I think we're going to be able to learn heaps from him.
Everything is pretty much in place now... all that's left is to play the weekend out.
We've managed to arrange for Bobby Aviles, a professional from America, to play on the team. Everyone is stoked. Having him should give all the guys a little extra confidence, and I think we're going to be able to learn heaps from him.
Everything is pretty much in place now... all that's left is to play the weekend out.
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