With Spring finally breaking in the Mid-
Atlantic and South after a long, cold winter
seemingly unwilling to give up its hold on
the East Coast, Paintball Central hosted a
scenario game drawing hundreds of players
and big personalities to North Carolina!
Just in time for the game, the area’s weather
finally decided to cooperate and presented
players attending the event with gorgeous,
seventy-five-degree temperatures and bright
sunshine April 28, while the northernmost
of Paintball Central’s parks, just outside of
Greensboro, North Carolina, stood tall with
an expansive, rolling woodsball field, a full
mounds field, Hyperball and more.
Based on the epic World War Two battle
of Iwo Jima in the Pacific, which pitted the
Japanese against the United States as the
war was drawing to a close, Axis and Allies
Iwo Jim at Paintball Central saw the red team
face off against blue, with the teams led by
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Maria Aponte and Miami’s own Philene
Harte, who was invited up for the game along
with David Justin, better known as Reaper,
who was brought out from California thanks
to Flip Wilson, who made the arrangements
with his major sponsors, G.I. Sportz, Empire
and Tippmann. G.I. Sportz also supplied
paintballs for the game. Paintball Central
Greensboro’s many amenities included full
plumbing, convenient air fills to 4,500psi,
plenty of staging, concessions, and the park
is very close to Interstate 85 and numerous
restaurants, convenience stores, hotels and
gasoline.
Once the paint was in the air in Greensboro
at Axis and Allies, the red team took control
and never relinquished it. The blue team, out-
manned according to their General Philene
Harte, fought valiantly and did all they could
do, mustering pushes to mid-field and into
the large mounds field near the