Originally Posted by thumper

Hey Toby - thanks yall for coming down and the complements. No biggie about the paint, and it was 100% my fault. No biggie - we just chaulk it up to lessons learned. That orange go gets in the players black webgear and stands out like a fresh hit from across the field even after you wipe it. I know I personally wasted 15 paint checks on old hits like this.

Do you remember who ran the the Raiders of the Lost Ark game? Grendel? Link? Dennis? TW? I want the biggest SC game record, and Raiders is likely the game that Greg at National said topped 492 - (Super 64 = 445 players by my count after all is said and done - without adding magic ref number expanding dust ) -- Grendel, Aerion - Yall know? Link - you here?

Im looking for confirmation on their 492 back in 96/97

Originally Posted by thumper

chronic & evil are great paint for tourneys and woodsball - because you have time between games to clean up...

Originally Posted by thumper

chronic & evil - bad for hot spawn / rapid reinsertions scenarios - because there is no time to clean up well for antiwipe paint. It wouldnt have been too bad if we had more refs than needed, but being short handed and wasting time checking old hits is bad in a lot of ways.

Key lessons I learned:

> More players refs (15 instead of 10)
> Make payer refs more obviously player refs (tag + arm band)
> More hand held chronos (6 instead of 2)
> Radar chronos & dedicated ref at spawn points - at least a 50% sampling
> Field paint only (keeping prices low 35/45) - for numerous reasons.
> Better deal with owner to make sure the staff gets paid. (Passing the tip box covered 20% of what we needed to pay the field refs) (add $3 to event air fee & pass tip jar should work for free entry events)
> Add one chinook helicopter (50 player capacity)
> More field refs (6 more would have been better)
> MASH units need to be ref installed and fixed in place.
> The choppers and spybirds worked better than planned. No changes needed.
> The prop drop for prises worked great. No changes planned
> Fill more stump holes ASAP
> The 6 objective missions were awesome, and the rest of the missions ran great. Im disappointed in the final battle (the exfiltration)
> A 4 to 5 ratio Rangers to Mogs is good. (This is what we used)
> Check with generals more often.
> TriggerTyme as a field plays GREAT with 455 players. It could hold a few more, and 600 would be too many.
> Electronic Markers and Night Play dont mix. (Mech. & pumps only for Night)
> Stopping night play at midnight is a good idea. (This is what we used)
> The Christmas lights at night were great. Make sure they are there for all future games.
> A few more portajohns (I think we had 6 - 8 would have been better)
> Mike Curtis runs all non-mission refs (Del & I)