Stacius

A very mixed weekend here, as we visited a site running an event. My group and I played both days, Saturday being the better one in my opinion. Day 1 teams were split, and ours ended up with a lot of first timers, either to the site itself or rental players. There was an issue with hit calling, that was brought up with the marshalls who described the guy involved before the sentence was finished. However, even wet and a little disillusioned by this we still returned. Sunday was awful though, had 13 players on our team with not many returns from the day prior. Counted 20 on opposing side at the end of the day, again with a large proportion of our team leaving early, and even more plastic magnetos in play. At one point the only players out in the field from our side were the 2 marshalls, and this was indicative of the day. The day finished early for us, as we did try and continue but between the massive imbalance, players leaving early in frustration, and not being able to leave the spawn in some cases meant that even trying to keep involved became an impossibility. This was a shame, I felt, as the member of our group who was on the other team even said he was bored with the fact he couldn’t find any of our side by midday. I don’t want to name the place, as honestly it could of just been the group on the opposing team but I know I spoke to a few rentals who I hopefully convinced to keep having a go. However, as one of our group said “if that had been my first experience of airsoft, it would be my last too”

An instance of this occurred in a game I had, in the days prior to lockdown. A group of 6 decided to dead mans walk out of a tunnel, that had been getting absolutely peppered, and behind our team. I was actually in a different area at this time so can only recount what I was told, that they were challenged and one of them did raise their hand, so we’re left. When I arrived this same group were in an elevated position, shredding our team with concentrated fire now. Due to the bottleneck of the tunnel mouth we were assaulting. 😂 speaking to the players this group walked past, you would absolutely have called cheating. However, like most in here I believe that if unsure then a few semi auto shots will soon determine. Technically it’s not cheating, in my opinion, just dishonourable.