RC Army: Home of the Rockin Cocks and the RC Revolution. Pump Paintball in Virginia: August 2011

Last weekend both Rockin’ Cocks and RC Revolution competed in the CFOA Battle at the Beach.

This event is possibly the last event of the season for the CFOA Pump Division and had 7 teams competing for the final 1st place medal of the year. Here is how it went…

The teams all started to head down Thursday for the event and about two months prior the teams had
been chosen. Initially the plan was to enter three teams for this event, however all said and done only two teams made the trip, Rockin’ Cocks and RC Revolution. Rockin’ Cocks consisted of Amish, CMCD, and I all of which had been practicing together well before deciding to enter this event. RC Revolution consisted of Scott, Dana aka The Shark and Bob. The Revolution team hadn't practiced together too much before the event due to work or illness.

However none of this mattered because when we arrived at the field the morning of the tourney it was a cool 89 degrees and by the time play started it was 113 degrees.

The day started off early, both teams arrived at the field around 9:30am despite not having to take the
field till around 12:30am. Even though we had the layout in advance, we still wanted to walk the field and check the lanes. The field layout was somewhat aggressive, with a dominant snake and a d-side that seemed to make or break games. Most teams chose to send two players on the snake side and one on the d-side, however a few teams differed here and there.

The first game for either RC team was RC versus Custom Pump Creations and true to tradition RC lost the
first game and that tradition also seemed to follow RC Rev. However after that first loss, RC had gone 3-1 and RC Rev was holding their own and then it happened… RC versus RC Rev. RC switched the break-out for the 3rd time this event with Amish going out to D1, CMCD staying back center, and me going to the snake corner. RC Rev broke-out with Dana going to the snake side Tall Mayan, Scott staying back center and Bob going to the D-side. The first K came when Dana got shot by either CMCD or I. After that I was able to fill the snake and Amish got a quick shot on Scott who was in the bunker next to him crossed up on me. At this point the feeding frenzy was on, however Bob shot Amish and continued down the d-side. Which lead to a battle between him and CMCD, confident CMCD would win, I jumped out of the snake and grabbed the flag, about this point I heard CMCD call out and I realized Bob was now somewhere around D3 or D4 on our side of the field and I was on their side of the field. Rather than chance losing a gun battle, I ran with whatever energy I had left and dove into the flag station hanging the flag for the win. After that game each team had one game left and won both. Now the wait to hear who was moving on to the semi-finals, when the announcement came it was Custom Pump Creations in 1st(7-0), RC in 2nd (6-1), RC Rev in third (5-2) and DNS in 4th (5-2). Now normal thinking would have figured it would be CNP vs. DNS and RC vs. RC
Rev, however the semi’s where CNP vs. RC Rev and RC vs. DNS.

I honestly don’t remember much of the semi’s except we won and RC Rev didn’t, which faced CNP vs. RC
for and 2nd and RC Rev vs. DNS for 3rd and 4th. The first match of the finals was RC Rev and DNS which went to time. The next match was CNP vs. RC and that two went to time. The second match was RC vs. CNP and that game ended with an RC win. The winning moment came when I shot the back center in the face as he tried to fill the 40 center small dorito, rather than going out he stayed in and got a 1 for 1. After this with the help of CMCD, I ran down the snake player and RC had the first win of the finals. The next game was RC Rev vs. DNS and this was a close game. It came down to Scott and Dana in a 2 on 1 versus 1 DNS player. Scott on their side of the field and Dana in the snake, Scott told Dana to grab the flag and pull a Chrispy (me) but Dana didn’t hear him and within a few second both had been shot, however DNS could not hang the flag prior to the time running out. The last game of the finals was tense, all we had to do was draw the game and we won. Both teams had clean break-outs and the game began to stalemate, however one of the CNP guys shot Amish on the d-side and then proceeded to fill our D1. All pinched in CMCD and I tried to fend of the fill and luckily CMCD shot the guy in his stick feed. But in the process got shot by the snake guy, this now left me in a 2 on 1. Luckily I had just reloaded and both players where on the snake side of the field and about 15 intense seconds later time was called and the game was over. RC had just won their first tournament ever. RC Rev and DNS played one last final game which again came down to time and RC Rev finishing in third due to DNS being able to pull the flag in game 2.

Overall it was a great event, and I probably didn’t realize it until the next morning when we were chilling
on the porch at 10am reminiscing about what we had just accomplished. Additionally I want to give a big thanks to the CFOA peeps, the folks at Adventure Beach Paintball, all the teams that showed up and grinded it out despite the heat, my teammates, our sponsors Exalt, St!ffi, The Lifestyle Clothing and our supporters MCB and CCM. We also want to give a special thanks to Dan and his parents for letting us use their beach house.

Additionally please stay tuned for the epic tale of Bob and Chris go to Cook Out…A seven hour tale of two
dudes epic quest for quality southern fast food.

-Chrispy