Paintball Media Magazine August 2020 August 2020 | страница 92

The paintball was fantastic. The heat slowed
things down a bit and Covid had created a
demand for refs but everyone was having such
a great time that these issues were largely over
looked. The Expendables stepped up in many
cases to help with the reffing, and they even
held a small 3 man speedball tournament. I
need to give credit to David Weez Cook here
as he immediately headed to the sidelines of
the tournament offering pro paintball tips to
anyone interested in learning to be better.
Having a THREE TIME PROFESSIONAL WOLRD
CHAMPION taking the time to just hang out and
teach because he loves the game and wants
to share his knowledge is not something that
happens every day in paintball. Which brings
me to my personal favourite part of the whole
event. All weekend, I had the absolute best
paintball guns in my hands. I had brand new
Luxe Ace’s with Spire 4s, the new Shocker CVOs
with trigger mods, the Field One Force, new
MacDev guns and others. All that greatness
and my favourite moment of this charity event
happened with 50 cal Tippman pump marker
in my hands. You see there were a bunch of
young kids at the event who were too little
to play but old enough to really want to. The
Modern Day Pirates noticed and decided to
change that. Weez who is part of The Order of
MDP came and grabbed me by the shirt and
said come on, we need to go play 50cal with
these kids. So, I pulled on my OG Ironmen
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