a three-man mechanical tournament! Night
play was offered Friday night, an opportunity
the Blue team used to jump out to an early
points lead when the score was tallied
Saturday morning.
Speaking of Saturday, it was this day that
was to play host to the main portion of
the Supergame event. As the hundreds
of players, referees and staff hit the field
for the game, temperatures soared past
the 90-degree mark and humidity crept
up, making the day’s weather every bit
as challenging as the paintballs and First
Strike rounds the opposing teams put in the
air. As the summer foliage was in full force
throughout the OXCC facility, East Coast
Supergame 2018 was a sniper’s paradise,
with unwary players picked off left and right
by crafty, First Strike-shooting players like
Alabaster Slim and Greg Hastings, who
crawled the field with his freshly sighted-
in CCM bolt-action, magazine-fed marker.
The players shooting round paintballs got a
little closer to one-another and several times
throughout the day, players on opposing
teams found themselves on opposite sides
of the same thick brush or berm leading to
some intense action.
While the Blue team had jumped out to an
early lead with their points from night play,
the Red team, with the early help of Sonny
Lopez and his Hitmen Renegades, turned
the heat up early and never let off, pushing
across the more open side of the field and
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to the “Lego Castle” and turning the corner
through the park’s boat graveyard, before
entering the woods and, by midday, bottling
the Blue team up into the thick brush and
trenchworks surrounding their spawn.
However, a spirited counter-attack along
their right side led by Madfrog and a tank,
with support from the Renegades, who had
swapped teams, pushed the red team back
to mid-field. However, Joe Perez and his Red
Team was not to be denied and they took
the Supergame East 2018 victory!
Finally, the referees at East Coast Supergame
bear special mention as they roamed the
field tirelessly throughout the hot, humid
weekend ensuring not only fair, but safe
play, going so far as to check players for
constant hydration and at several points
even offering cold water to players still on
the field. A massive portion of the credit for
the weekend’s success should certainly be
attributed to their hard work and dedication.
An impressive game in which each and
every player battled through intense heat
and humidity to have a blast at a remarkable
paintball park that keeps improving with
each event and each season, Supergame
East 2018 proved a great addition to the
Super Game lineup. Players who attended
the event are still talking about it, and plans
are likely already underway for next year’s
event! For more information on the event
and future games, visit their online home at
www.SuperGameEast.com.