Smart Corps World Team Takes Tippmann World Challenge IX

[gfgjester]

The teams of the Smart Corps helped earn a hard won victory at this year's Vforce Tippmann Challenge in Michigan.

Loyalhanna, PA – September 27, 2007 - Hell Survivors in Pinkney, Michigan is one of the oldest paintball fields in the United States, and in recent years it has been the annual home to the VForce Tippmann World Challenge game. This year the event was held on the weekend of September 22nd and 23rd. The World Challenge pits one massive team of players armed with Tippmann products against “the World” - a team of players using all brands of imaginable markers. This year things were different. “The World” included Smart Corps scenario teams equipped with markers and accessories from Smart Parts.

Acting as generals of the World team were Smart Corps Factory Team member, Sean Scott and Grassy Knoll Gunmen teammate, George Moschgat. Based out of Jennerstown, PA the Grassy Knoll Gunmen are one the fourteen teams that make up the Smart Corps Tactical Squads, Smart Parts sponsored scenario paintball teams. Also playing for the World were more members of the Grassy Knoll Gunmen as well as Smart Parts industrial designer, Dan Kanitz, sales staff member Dave Brewer, and Mike Tarasan who was on hand to supply Smart Parts technical support. The World team's combined firepower, ultimately provided an edge on the field.

At the start of play on Saturday, the Tippmann side of the field hosted 573 players to World's numbers of just 353 players. Tippmann's advantage in manpower gave them the ability to secure more bases over a broader area, but by directing forces to critical choke points, the World team was able to control field insertion points and eliminate Tippmann players very quickly as they returned to play. By Sunday morning, Tippmann's forces had dwindled to 472 players while the World team gained a few players, but still remained the underdog in manpower with 369 players for the day.

“A lot of people don't realize how powerful strategy and communication are in a big game or scenario,” said Sean Scott, “but in this last year, playing with the Smart Corps Factory Team along side the other Smart Corps teams, I've learned a lot about communication at the force level, not just within a squad. Getting hundreds of people to move in coordination is the key to success – that and knowing they've got the gear it takes to get the job done.”

By the end of the game's first quarter, the World team was ahead 605 points. In the second quarter, they raised the bar with a whopping 3404 points with the use of simulated bombing runs and grenades. On Sunday, the second day of action, the teams split their insertion points and bases evenly for a fresh, balanced start to the new day. Team Tippmann was able to gain 32 points. However, this balancing did not last to the fourth and final quarter. Once again, World was significantly ahead with another 780 points.

In the past several years, Team Tippmann has remained undefeated, winning the Tippmann World Challenge, but this year, World has taken back the title with a victory of 4757 points to their credit.

Smart Parts and the teams and players of the Smart Corps would like to congratulate all of the players for a game well run and look forward to being a part of the World team next fall.

The Smart Corps is an affiliation of woods, scenario and milsim paintball players who understand that Equipment Counts. Membership in the Smart Corps is free – visit SmartCorps.SmartParts.com.

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[MrWizard]

A big congrats to our fellow Smart Corps Teams!!!!