Paintball Magazine, July 2020 July 2020 | Page 85

Marcus Davis Talks Woodsball if you build it, they will come By Marcus Davis, Captain, UK Predators Gruett from all the like-minded woodsball brothers, sisters, supporters and friends that agree with Kevin Donaldsons and myself has brought me to this point in my paintball life, 7 days ago we announced we would be holding a 7-Man true woodsball event here in the UK. It was after a considerable amount of very persistent pressure from Kevin and Jerry to put on an event I finally took the step to put my money where my mouth is. As most of you guys know that read and enjoy my articles and podcasts with Kevin I have persistently banged the drum as loud as I possibly could about all real woodsball classic events and how we thought the games fields time etc needed to be implemented for real woodsball to flourish and grow once again. The last seven days have been a complete revelation and a humbling experience that has almost left me lost for words. I have spoken in the past with close friends like Kevin Donaldson, Jerry Braun and an array of team captains from all over the globe with regards to how we can push forward Woodsball. This has been also present in my articles that have been brought to you reading this with the help of Joshua Silverman and John Amodea. The overwhelming response and support that has been shown from the podcast with Brad So last week on our regular pod with Brad Gruett I released the details about my own all woodsball event , and the response which to be completely honest has blown me and Kevin out of the ballpark with the endless amount of kind encouragement and support from the woodsball Community. Hence to say that within one week the event was completely sold out with 8 American teams 2 Mexican teams, teams from Sweden Germany and obviously the Uk and Europe plus a growing waiting list. www.paintball.media 085