Sat June 12, 2010: Boss Paintball hosted an-Naksah and Big Bear got to play general for the Egyptians. The 96 degree heat beat down the troops, but Section8 kept hammering away as Bear sweated working the radios trying to keep the troops in order. Major props go out to Boxer (MVP) and and Brute Force (MVT) in helping keep this one a tight finish. Psychological Outcomes also deserves mention as Angela put up quite a few points and helped keep Bear straight.

From Section8 we packed in: Bear, Go Kart, Eddie, Travis, Brett, Thumper, Gabe, David, Sean and Kinch. Travis gets voted in Sat PM over Pizza and beer - congratulations sir.

June 6, 2010: In attendance (21) : Thumper, Bear, Ricky, Patty Cakes, LB, Killiam, Eddie+Brett+Travis, Eric + Vic + Amy, Reservoir Dogs (5), John-John + Marion + Chris.

Games began at 9:00am and ran until 12:15

Games included:
2 x Kick the Can @ Castle
1 x rescue plushie from Lions Den
1 x center flag (kids game)
1 x rescue plushie from Zulu

Comments: This was the dogs first visit - and gentleman : welcome to the Nam! Good times.

May 22, 2010: In attendance (12) : Thumper, Bear, GoKart, Eddie + Brett + Travis, Killas + Travis + Killiam, Eric, Link + Alex

Games began at 9:00am and ran until 12:15

Games included:
2 x Kick the Can @ Castle
1 x rescue plushie from Lions Den
1 x rescue plushie from Zulu
1 x Kick the Can @ Castle
1 x Kick Eddies Butt @ Lions Den lol.

Comments: When you practice this hard, big games come easy. Man, that was some intense action. The two plushie games were amazing. We ran them w/ 5 defenders vs 7 attackers and in both cases the attackers had their hands full as they moved further into the field and closer to the enemy spawn. From a coaches point of view this type of drill will force the attackers to stick together, work quickly and together, mass their strength, and when the time comes, strike decisively. *** very good skills for a mission running team to have***

>>> lesson to be learned: uncoordinated piece-meal tactics occasionally just don't work. On occasion, you HAVE to MASS fire and QUICKLY take the ground and objective.

Byron : Great to have you out sir, and welcome to the Nam.

Link, Eddie & Caribou : great hunting you fellows.

GoKart: found a new toy.

May 16, 2010: Hell Valley Madness : Solid good time .. but hot and a bit muggy. from section8 we had : (5) bear, raptor, wilson, me and Paul - joining up with maybe 14 or so PureKhaos and guests.

games included:
Shoot the radar dishes X 2
Zombie X 1
Center flag X 1
Speedball X 1
Total elimination x 2
Defend the tower x 1

Around half of the games included a "20 ball restriction" - meaning 20 balls in your hopper. which really puts a twist on things. Great fun - good times. Byron - thanks for the invite! on the perk side : we ran into Romeo Mayo - an old school player who used to run w/ Silent Thunder but has been in retirement since Free Finale 2004.. He is injured at the moment from mountain biking and midnight ultimate frisee injuries - but I think with a bit of Link's help we may be able to convince Romeo to come out of retirement.

May 15, 2010: Section8 MVT's at WAR : Deebo, Sean, and David represent.. Deebo adds "Yep, I enjoyed it a ton. I would call it a "more-glorified" rec day too, but without breaks, better talent, and lots of fun actually running with some good friends. GQ, David, Milkshake, and Hendi are some fun ballers! The 15 minute headquarter "missions" were nice - no confusion, just capture, defend it, and attack it if you are on the other end. Simple, and fun. I enjoyed the field too: thick vegetation in areas, more clear in others, good number of bunkers and buildings, valleys, just a good variety. Anyways, I'm rambling but it was fun, I shot a lot of people, and I got ripped a few times too! All in all, a great day and so close to home! (GQ props to you for your trip, it was great running with you!)"

Apr 10, 2010: Cambodian Practice : In attendance: (12) Thumper + John-John, Big Bear, Eddie + Travis, OneCaribou, Evil PopTart, Malcome, PattyCakes, Deebo, Gabe, Wilson

games played:
3 X 8 Cones @ castle
Rescue Nemo from Ho Chi Mihn Tr
Rescue Goofy from Mounds
Rescue plushies from village

Games started just before 9a and wrapped up by 12:30. Field, weather and fellowship were exceptional.

March 27th & 28th, MPP Games: La Drang @ PBC aa report
In attendance : 32+ Bear, David, Go-Cart, Goldwinger, Deebo, Eddie,
Wilson, Fatalis, O Junkie + DJ, Chappy, Goofy, Harry, Minikid, kinch,
John Taylor + Little John, Link + Alex + Zach + Mystique, Chuck + HotWire, Raptor, Enfamous13 + brother, SCpaint, Thumper + John-John, Slider, Swamp Fox +1,
plus Robert, Angela, and David..

Congratulations to Alex and DJ on being voted in, and to Goofy for walking away with MVP, and to Raptor for scoring the General's Special Service Award

March 14 - Sunday : Practice@Cambodia : AA report : In attendance Section8: Thumper + John-John, Big Bear, Ricky, Eddie + Travis + Brett, Go-Kart, Patty Cakes, Wilson.

Games played :
3 X 8 cones @ castle
4 X rescue plushies from new village

comments : great weather, very competitive, very hard hitting ball - pump play at its finest. Travis : solid game young man. Go-Kart: Arnold Palmer is a golfer - not an machine shop worker. Ricky: great to have ya back out ya old buzzard - nice troll work sir.
Everyone : good times - see ya at Charleston.

March 07 - Sunday : Box Lunch @ The Painted Woods @ 2pm more pics -- from section8 : first time players john, josh, gabe, kyle and ben (our ringer) - joining up w/ maybe 14 others for a few games of two flag - just for kicks and giggles. Josh walks with first place - I think perhaps high-water goodwill britches is cheating!! - no fair!

games included:
4 x defend the tower
1 x defend the radio station
1 x bomb the tower
2 x presidents game
1 x speedball (4 on 4)
1 x defend the tower w/ endless spawn in the tower

It was great getting to get to know some of the guys a bit better, and meeting Lenny and her fiend from Florence. Nice folks all round. The weather was perfect and the competitive spirit is alive and well at hell valley. The field is playing real nice and aggressive - just the way I like it.

Kyle & go-kart showed up to help and/or supervise..lol around noon just in time for dogs on the grill, and by 2pm the kids wanted to play, and I hauled ass back to the house for my gear and john-john's gear and we got in a few games.

2 X shoot the satellite dishs off the barn
1 X 4 on 4 speedball
1 X pumps vs semi's on the hill.

It wasn't much ball, but after 4 weeks of nothin' it was just enough to get the blood going.

Kyle & Go-Kart spectated, John-John and I played along with the normal (9ish) Pure-Khaos guys.

Great time - Byron: thanks for the chow, fellowship, and the field is really getting sporty. I like moving, and it is a great field for that. BTW: Kyles right - you can see into the barn - you just got to get in there with'um.

Feb 19th, 2010: build your own Dora The Explorer Paintball Tumbler

Feb 13th, 2010: baseball practice and paintball practice got cancelled.. woo whoo..

Feb 12th, 2010:

As any PBJunkie will tell you, Section8 is all over the boards - with an abundance of "recruit" sigs everywhere.. well, that is changing this morning.

This morning Section8 officially voted in

Ron "Goldwinger" Sena
Heyward "Slyder" McDonald
Corey "TheOriginalJunki" Denny
Dalton "Friedmoose" Ellington
Matthew "Fatalis" Weas
Jesse "minikid" Olsen
Ryne "Goofy" Carr

with Sean "Mr. GQ" Williams as local chapter captain.

And on the recruit list we have: Harry Murphy and Steve "Simus" who are well on their way to full member status (and probably quite a few I don't know about)

Locally, this is a lot of old wisdom and a lot of young new blood - and some damn good guys.

Sean: Well done sir.

Gentleman: Welcome aboard!

And this morning, I'de like to announce that TeamSection8 : Charleston is open for business! -- Woot Woot!!

Jan 31, 2010: Hell Valley Madness : in attendance: 18ish : locals : (10ish) Byron, Ronnie, Travis, Chase, Jason, Bear, Cody, Tray, Samson, Brandon + section8 : (8) Thumper, Ben, Big Bear, Wilson, Eddie + Brett + Travis, Raptor

games played :
2 x total elimination 8 on 8 (no spawn)
2 x rescue plushies 5 on 10 (endless spawn then 1 spawn ea)
3 x speedball 4 on 4
1 x kick the can (endless spawn) 4 on 14
2 x total elimination (no spawn) 8 on 8

We met up at hardees as the temps rose above freezing. the trees glowed white in the sun with a layer of ice. first game around 11:00am - and played until 3:30. Afterwards a few made their way over to Beef's for chow..

This was the first real meeting between the Hell Valley locals and Section8 - and like any such first meeting there was bit of apprehension in the air. Byron paired the teams opposite each other (oh boy - here we go) - and well, we met. After that we mixed things up and blended teams and did more attack defend type games with spawns.

Solid sportsmanship all around. All in all, I had a blast. I love the field and local crew yall got going there. I'm sure this is just the beginning of good things to come.

Byron adds : "Yes sir - top notch Ballin all day - Can't wait to do it again"

Raptor adds : "Excellent day of balling, thanks for having us over... "

Jan 24, 2010: Run Charlie : Iin attendance : Section8 : (7) thumper + john-john, wilson, eddie + brett + travis, Ricky -- Hell Valley : (3) Byon, Camo and Travis

games played:
4 x 8 cones @ castle
1 x rescue plushie from village

The plushie game got pretty crazy as wilson tried to run it back, but found himself trapped on the wrong side of the creek - as I found myself surrounded and pinned against the tape and no where to run, except straight through Ricky.. Well, lets just say it got close and personal...

The weather kept some folks at home and the numbers low - but the weather behaved very well indeed. What struck me was how well the field played with small numbers. The speed and aggressive play + the new spawns makes the games play much much bigger. Ricky and Eddie sounded pretty sick and we called the day off around 12:30 - but the fun didn't end there. John-john and I hooked up w/ Knife to catch "the book of eli" and then met up w/ bear, chappy, go-kart over at Chappy's for the afc and nfc play off games.

If you missed it, ya missed out. But there was a lot of fun activity off field as well.. Good times.

Jan 17, 2010 : Section8 Day @ PBC.. woot woot.. TC Pics

In attendance : 31ish : Section8 : Bear, Thumper, GQ, Go-Cart, Raptor, David, Wilson, Chappy, Slyder, Ron, Moose, Cory + DJ, 2 Johns + 4 | Thunder Chickens : Papabear + 3? + Chris | Bryon + 5 from Blythewood | Ref : Goofy
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Comments : I had fun once my hangover cleared out - and I think this is one of the better ways to play paintball.. a private group of solid ballers at a professionally run field...very much like the outlaw ball we play when we get a good turn out, but with a bit more variety of fields. Well worth the drive and the few bucks paid to play. For me personally, it was a nice change of venue... and Ill be back.

Thunder Chickens : **RESPECT** I enjoyed getting to play w/ and against you guys. I see a solid team-team thing building.

Slyder : solid ballin sir. You have your sec8 sponsors lined up. Keep up the good work.

Chris : you're a beast young man.

Bear: great job rallying the troops - solid turn out and fun.

Goofy : sorry you couldn't play - thanks for running junk. Good fun.

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Raptor Adds : "Great day, excellent playtime, it was good to get to know some more people down there, hope to do it again, excellent reffing job by Goofy"

Cory Adds : "Just wanted to say DJ and myself had a awesome time. Thank you section 8 for traveling to PBC to play. Thanks Goofy for the fine reffing."

Moose Adds : "awesome day today guys, need to do it again"

Bear Adds : "I had a blast to day and this will be a must do thing every few months for Section 8!"

Jan 02, 2010: Sat : Dawn of the deaD: aa report : in attendance : Section8 and friends (16) Thumper + John-John, Bear, Eddie + Brett + Travis, GoKart + PattyCakes, Malcome93, Wilson, Raptor, David, Two Johns, Zach + Alex.

First game : 10:45a -- Games played:
3 X 8 Cone Castle / Fuel Dump
2 X Island of Dr. Moreau
2 X rescue plushies from new village

We wrapped right at 2:45 and headed in mass over to Beefs for fun and fellowship - and to watch the Gamecocks get punished in their bowl game with UCon (7-20)

We tried two things that were fairly new : introducing LZ1, LZ2 and LZ3 as spawns for the defenders - which can be "taken out" - and playing the Island of Dr. Moreau using LZ2 and LZ3 as bases for the two main teams, and with a plushie protected on the island by monsters.

Everyone seemed to really like the LZ/Spawns and how they worked. It tends to make the games play a bit more aggressive - as if that were possible. I view this trial run as a success and the LZs as well placed permanent fixtures ... and in concert with the theme of the day, the dead kept coming back to life - hungry for more brains..

"more brains"

The Island of Dr. Moreau seemed to be very average if not a bit boring. I think if we had more players this would have played a bit different - perhaps we should try King of Ban Me next time.

The rescue the plushies in the new village proves to be the most fun and challenging for a few weeks in a row now - and with the new LZ3 nearby, well it just keeps getting better and better.

Great fun guys.. poor showing by the Gamecocks. ..and I hear Link made contact with Timmy ... itching to play... woot woot!

Bear Adds : "Great time today guys. Lots of fun... First gsme does not count for me cause I could not hit shit cause of the red dot! lol Thumper put the smack down on me in that game... I do believe I got his ass back! I must say he need's to look both ways before he cross's the creek... lol Malcome played well today and it was great to meet you my man. Looking forward to playing with you againg real soon. David you got me fair and square. Good shot bro! All around good times today and looking forward to the next one!"

David adds : "Yeah It was great Time good to see everyone again yeah I went 1 for 3 against the bear ...but ill take my one..lol It was nice to meet malcome. Sorry about the friendly fire malcomb and john...and shooting inccocent civilian bystander go-cart...lol It was great to balll with everyone some amazing play... John held the island by himself against like 4 people for 10 minutes.. Brett long balled the heck outta wilson 1 shot pow...and wilson single handedly fended of like eight people for a long time keeping his spawn alive just to name a few of the many many good plays I saw great times"

Ben and Bonnie simply put on the best games ever - and where they are, thats where we will be.

Thanks yall - you rock!

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Thanks Rich and all of the mods at PBJunkie.com - you guys rock!

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