Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine June 2016 Issue | Page 97

EVERY YEAR ON THE FIRST Sunday of May and

the first Sunday of October Splatterpark paintball field
north of Columbus in Mount Gilead Ohio, holds their
big game! These are the largest paintball events in Ohio
and typically have over 1,000 players in attendance! They
also have tons of items on sale for cheap! So if you need
something for your gear, get there early!
I was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on vacation the day
before the big game, so I had to hurry home to Ohio and
pack for the big game! I had the new Tippmann Stryker
MP2 elite as well as the new Dye Proto Rize marker as I
wanted to try out these new markers in a big game setting.
If you have never been to a big game, they are SO much
fun! Huge crowds of players attend (953 were at the spring
game) and there are targets all over the field. So having a
marker that shoots fast and lots of paint is a great way to
spend the day! Or if you want to save money, you can play
limited paint with a magfed or pump marker and shoot a
lot less paint. I decided before the game that I was going
to shoot... A lot... So I budgeted for a few cases of paint!

Splatterpark has a lot of land and 12 different fields that
have many different styles of play, from speedball to pure
woodsball fields with forts and trailers and even airplanes.
This field is a must play for anyone in the Midwest who
wants to try out a big event!
There are no generals but each big game has a theme,
as well as objectives that are timed. So if you are into that
type of scenario play, you can get as involved as you want
and help others push for flags and collect points for your
teams color. This year there were orange and blue teams. I
was playing on the blue side with SAS Ohio. But don’t feel
like you “have to” worry about objectives or missions. As
most players just want to shoot the other team, and these
games you get so many opportunities to do that. You can
read all about the game objectives here on their event
page: www.splatterpark.com/big-game-info.html
The refs do a great job of collecting you in the staging
areas and dropping you off at different points on the field,
and there are typically firefights happening within seconds
of your drop onto the map, so always be ready! One of

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