Paintball Magazine Paintball Magazine December 2019 | Page 79

As summer fades to Fall and tournament
players start talking about World Cup, scenario
players across the Southeast begin finalizing
their plans for a game that has become a
must-attend for thousands each season –
Fulda Gap. Held each year at Command
Decisions just outside Hickory, in the North
Carolina hills, the Fulda Gap scenario has
long-since cleared the thousand-player mark
due to a unique mix of mil-sim game play, a
pile of roving tanks, a great vendor presence,
a remarkably challenging host playing field
and signature Carolina hospitality.
hosting a major scenario event in order to
best accommodate their customers and this
was evident almost everywhere a player could
look for the 2019 event. While at any large,
major paintball event there are bound to be
some lines, air was well-handled, and the field
was showing off new bunkers and structures.
The vendor area was bustling with Valken
providing paintballs and companies like First
Strike, Planet Eclipse, Inception Designs,
Social Paintball and Engler in attendance
(not to mention a Huey helicopter parked
right in the middle of things), and parking had
been reworked with nearby overflow parking
In recent seasons, the Fulda Gap game and added to accommodate the attendees, who
its Command Decisions host park have been numbered almost 1,300!
tweaking and fine-tuning their approach to
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