Saturday we had a full day private party booking, a video gaming community that has grown up around a youtube review channel, and get together to play airsoft once a year.
They are online acquaintances, some of whom had never met in real life before.
Some had their own kit some rented.
I have to say, they were brilliant to marshal for.
The mood all day was fantastic, there was not one single complaint about hit calling, in fact quite the opposite:
In the last minute of one game a player grabbed the objective and made an heroic sprint.
Afterwards i overheard an opfor player say:
"I'm pretty sure I saw my shots bouncing off you"
And I thought, uh oh, here we go. But he followed up with:
"But sometimes when you're running like that you just don't feel it".
Why aren't all airsofters like him these days?
Sunday I managed to play, instead of marshaling for a change.
One of my closest friends has been out of the game for months, and came back yesterday, so I was glad to be out there with him, and we had a great time.
Ran my TM MWS for a few games, and my Secutor (well, the exterior is) DMR for a few.
We got absolutely SPANKED by the red team, but had fun in the process.
A couple of the MWS mags were gassing out on the first round, so I'll need to sort that out, but overall a great day.
Photo title: "Oooh, shoots you sir!"