Skirmish SA in conjunction with SAPPA (South Australian Paintball Players Association) have been running a 3 man tournament series that fills in the time between the 5 man series games. The most recent 3 man tournament was played in conjunction with a 3 man pump tournament. Mun Chen aka Ed aka JCS_Liason_Neo has been working over the years to try to get interest up in the pump game. Running a pump tourney in conjunction with the 3 man series was an excellent way to conveniently test the waters. It being the first test, the tournament consisted of only 3 teams; RC Red Star, Ruin, and The Reffs (appropriately named as they were largely the guys reffing the 3 man semi tourney).
Using Millenium rules each team played each other in a 3 game series twice. In other words RC Red Star played 6 games against Ruin and 6 against Reffs over the course of the day. All teams played well and there was an unmistakeable commeraderie between all the pump teams. Ruin was largely a bushball team and were taking this pump tourney as an opportunity to check out tourney play. Jas from Ruin showed me his collection of very unique pumps ranging from pumped mags, to customized phantoms. The rest of Ruin were rocking sl68II's. Simon aka Funky from Fusion Red threw his hat in the ring to give the pump game a try. He and I were shooting SL68II rentals while our teammate JCS was shooting his stockfeed phantom. The Reffs were doing it right with some really nice open class snipers complete with CCM pump kits.
No matter what level of experience or gear, everyone proved to be a hero at one point or another. Ultimately The Reffs dominated the tournament. Ruin took one game from them, but RC Red Star got blown up game after game. In the end RC took the 2nd place position, but the main purpose of this day was to get some pumpers together to have some fun and encourage others to join in the pump game. Congrats to The Reffs for showing us all how to kick it old school.
Congratulations to Fusion Blue as well for pulling out their win in the 3 man open class tournament. See you guys in November at the 5 man (Fusion Red's coming at ya).
Finally, I have to share a quick story of how much of a tool I can be. Because it was a 5 man tournament we didn't play on the entire field. A line was put on the field to demarcate the new boundaries. Over the course of the day it was noticed that one bunker was inhabited by a beehive. As it warmed up and the games got more intense the bees became significantly more active. From the sidelines we joked about guys diving into that bunker and getting swarmed, sometimes you heard "Bee's are Hot... shoot bee's" and other tomfoolery (tomfoolery?). Anyway, during an intense game I ran through to trade out with the snake. I got the drop on him so I shot him and decided to run through to the back of the field. It was 2 on 1 and their 1 player was in the center 50. I figured if I ran through to get behind him he'd have no chance as he'd be between two RC's. I picked the bunker I wanted to stop at to start the gunbattle. As I rapidly approached said bunker at pace I realized it was the dreaded Bee Bunker. Without missing a beat I yelled 'BEEEEES!' and kept going to the next bunker in the line... subsequently running out of bounds at full speed. Luckily JSC was able to pull out the 1 v1 and I was saved a little bit of pride.
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