November 2018 , I photographed my first full paintball event as an independent photographer . I enjoyed photographing players , their lifestyle and met many in the Texas scenario scene … a side of paintball that I never fully understand in my tournament years . Sadly , Viper scenario moved their events out of Houston , Texas . This move , that was out of their hands , made it where I would probably never get to play one of Viper ’ s events because of work and college . For me it was becoming hard to play weekend walk on games .
Fast forward to 2020 and welcome “ The Pandemic .” COVID-19 has made a mess of all sporting events , and other personal expectation in our lives . Players are limited to local 3 vs 3 or 1 vs 1 . These modification to 2020 have caused depression for many players . Once Viper scenario posted their event at Black Tree Paintball this made me want to grab my mechanical Autococker and go play . After talking to Paintball Media , I again found myself behind the camera capturing those moments in paintball history . Viper brought the famous “ Quest for the Grail ” event to Black Tree Paintball in Smithville , Texas . This themed event is based around the 1975 movie “ Monty Python and the Holy Grail .”
Despite this sickening year with Covid-19 , the event brought many Texas scenario teams out to Black Tree Paintball that had an official count of 220 players . Many of the players I talked to wished that they had the full team for the event . There are many reasons for missing players for each team , but the common answer was because of COVID-19 . Kerry “ Viper ” Rosenberry knew and understood that the paintball industry was impacted and felt like right now people need to get their lives back on track .
The rules
Something that Viper does at all the events is “ The Young Gunz ” rules and orientation . This is led by Sean “ Spyro ” Riggs and Team Loyalty . The idea is to make sure the kids understand
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