making it more difficult to race to the halfway point. The
halfway point had flag stations, in true Living Legends
fashion, with players from both sides making dives for
them in order to turn it to their respective color. The Red
Side won by a huge point margin, led by Israel Lagares.
Lagares extended his hand to the Blue side’s Commander,
Willy Galarza, and both wielded Dreaded Legends Event
custom-made Swords during the Awards Ceremony.
A WELL-ATTENDED AWARD CEREMONY
Most scenario games are followed by a well-attended
award ceremony, and it was no different for the Dreaded
Legends event.
At the beginning of the Ceremony, DJ Fox introduced
Route Seven’s Pastor Charles Parker. Pastor Charles was
asked to pray for Jonathan Cornell. Cornell was there with
Team BBK when on Saturday, he collapsed. On Team BBK’s
Facebook Page, they posted, “One of our teammates,
Jonathan “Mispeld” Cornell had to be taken from the
field by ambulance. We thought it was from heat, but it
has now been diagnosed as a sort of brain aneurism. He is
now in emergency brain surgery and not breathing on his
own…If you can please say a prayer for our brother.” That
following Monday, Cornell passed away. Team BBK will be
at the April 1-3 Scooby Doo vs. The World Game at Low
Country Paintball and will be conducting a Memorial for
Cornell on April 2, 2016.
DJ Fox gave away many different prizes from the event’s
supporters, but the best rise from the audience came when
DYE gave away the DAM Paintball Marker, presented by
The Wolf. In order for people to win the DAM (DYE Assault
Matrix) CQB, they had to go to DYE’s Instagram Page to
enter into the contest. Wolf said, “I experienced one of
my most memorable moments at a scenario event when
we gave the prize away and the prize winner decided to
give it to a young girl… I fell in love with the sport all over
again.” The winner was PowerPlay Paintball’s Manager,
Mike Quinn from Waco, Texas, who humbly shared, “I
honestly didn’t give this away to be recognized for it.”
When Quinn told Wolf, “Give it one of the youth here in
the audience,” the crowd erupted and started to chant,
“Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike!” During all the chanting and
commotion, on the stage, one of the Blue side’s Captains,
Jeremy Downs, walked over to Wolf and pointed out a
little girl around the age of 12 years old. Wolf called her
over, “Have you ever played paintball before?” And she
said, “No, but I would like to!” The crowd went wild,
chanting Mike’s name one more time.
When Quinn was asked why he decided to give the
paintball marker away that he just won, he explained,
“That was actually the first gun I have ever won from a
drawing at a paintball event and I’ve been doing this for
eleven years! A few months ago I was hanging out with
some teammates and the conversation came up that if I
ever won, I was going to give it to a Young Gun. It’s funny,
a few months later, it actually happened, and well, I am a
man of my word.”
CPX plans to have a 2nd Dreaded Legends Event next
January. Stay tuned at CPXSports.com or attend the 2016
9th Annual Living Legends Event May 20-22, 2016 at CPX
in Joliet, Illinois, to get all the details! • • •
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