Paintball Magazine Paintball.Media January 2018 | Page 82

After the success of Tim Montressor’s Iron
City ten-man mounds event, Lane Wright,
longtime pro ten-man player and PSP event
director, decided he needed to keep the
ball rolling with an event of his own at his
field, Paintball Atlanta. The concept he came
up with was the Southern Open Ten-Man
Classic, a ten-man woodsball and Hyperball
event hosted at Paintball Atlanta on the
weekend of December Second, 2017. With
great weather, an excellent turnout and an
atmosphere of nostalgic excitement for what
it was we all fell in love with about paintball
in the first place, friends, family, fun and
shooting each other, the Southern Open
Ten-Man Classic was an amazing event that
blended paintball history with camaraderie
and competition that everyone left smiling
and asking for another.
all over the country to shoot it up, while the
industry supported the event as well, with
a G.I. Sportz paint truck on the property
along with companies like Simon Stevens
and Inception Designs, Meteor, Exalt, and
even Virtue showing off equipment from
goggles, soft goods and accessories to
complete custom markers! That said, the
most talked-about product at the event was
from a company that wasn’t even there, as
a handful of prototype Planet Eclipse GMek
mechanical markers showed up at the event in
various hands and wound up passed around
from player to player and team to team, with
teams even borrowing the coveted markers
from other teams so they could field more
from game-to-game!
Players that didn’t get their hands on one
of the few prototype Eclipse GMek markers
Lane’s Southern Open was well-attended, floating aro und brought quite the arsenal of
with 22 ten-man teams making the trip from old-school markers to the Southern Open
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