Paintball Magazine Paintball.Media Magazine September 2019 | Page 24

for this event, large and small. Finally, while
a great logistical challenge in and of itself,
parking for the event was as well-handled
as it could have been between a few nearby
fields, a little nearby VIP parking and some
convenient street side parking thanks to the
recent construction bringing new roads and
a new highway through the area and right by
the host field.
Speaking of the fields, the aforementioned
Hyperball, Mounds, woods and Hybrid were
standing tall for the event. In contrast to 2018
when the new mounds field was barren with
freshly-turned dirt, 2019 saw the field looking
like a long-standing feature of the landscape
with tall grass adorning the mounds making
an already-challenging field all the more
intense to play, with no long sight lines and
opportunities for fast, aggressive players
to smash into one-another along the long
“snake” bunker on the netted top side of
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the field, or through the large mounds in the
center of the field. The mounds field boiled
down to a simple philosophy - aggressive
paintball. Hunt or be hunted. Players that
chose to simply sit in a mound and shoot
their gun found themselves “dinked” out by
a random paintball shot over the top, or run
down and shot in the side or back. The event’s
Hyperball field was an amazing corrugated
pipe construct allowing plenty of spectators
to watch from above along with plenty more
online via the GoSports webcast. A long
snake gave fast, aggressive players a great
way to get in, get low and get up the field,
while the large center fifty bunker allowed
aggressive center players opportunities to
get work done. Even the opposite side from
the snake saw games broken open thanks
to plenty of large bunkers that players could
use to work their way to the fifty yard line and
beyond.