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and Dawn Mills of WARPIG.com, the original
paintball news and information website.
There were more than a few tearful hugs on
Saturday as Bill and Dawn made their rounds
amongst players happy to see them back on
the scene.
Fields used for the Southern Open Ten-Man
Classic included one of Lane’s woodsball
fields that had been updated and improved
for the event, and a well-built Hyperball field
with a fortress on the fifty on one side and
a long snake along the opposite tape. After
a few of Saturday’s games on the woodsball
field Lane was concerned the field wasn’t
playing well as the games were heavily
favoring the near, higher side of the field.
However, teams like Ground Zero laid an
eight-alive ass-kicking on their opponents
from the low end and the Bibb City Bad
Boys went so far as to choose that end after
having good luck from the low side early on.
Teams on both ends of the field, game after
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game, sent faster players to a large trench
freshly dug into the roped, but not netted,
“spectator” side that saw dozens of goggle-
wearing players watching games much like
they did throughout the nineties, before
paintball netting became the norm. If the
battle got intense between players in the
trench, or if a team turned several guns from
the center towards opposition using the
trench, spectators were getting the extras.
While the trenched spectator side of the field
was the focus of early pushes and late game
breaking moves, and the opposite tape saw
its share of deep-woods gunfights, most of
the moving and shaking came through the
middle of the field, as it was a high point
commanding both tapes with plenty of large
stacked log and man-made bunkers. Teams
like Farside, Ground Zero, the Saberwolves
and Gridlock looked strong through the
end of Saturday’s woodsball, with Sunday’s
Hyperball games left to play.