Sunday, August 12, 2012

Paintball Battlegrounds (Edinburg, TX) Recap

Good
  • Ridiculously cheap to play there
  • Clean bathrooms
  • Fill station worked well
  • Refs were courteous, very responsive and on top of things; always ready to run games for us.  Cycled through 13 games while we were there
  • Spacious, covered staging area, close to all the fields
  • Rules and signs very clearly marked
  • New, well constructed bunkers and buildings
  • Fields were separated by netting
  • Fun field layouts
  • Good hours
  • Used armbands; armbands were actually well made and fit, and they had plenty of them it seemed

Bad
  • Lack of an expansive woods field; their existing fields were still quite fun though
  • Straight elimination games only; didn't seem to matter much here though due to field design
  • Lack of initial player briefing, which I've kind of come to appreciate
  • Presence of airball poses a potential problem with a recball field, but everyone there seemed pretty chill, unlike Camp Pendleton, which oddly doesn't even have an airball field
  • They were good about chrono'ing us, but the chrono station itself was a bit out in the open
  • Music playing interfered with some of the fields.  Just turn it down a bit, aight?
  • It's like...  in Edinburg.

No Data

  • Time limits did not seem to be in place, although our games were over very quickly

Truthfully, most of the negatives were kinda nit-picky.  Overall, this is one of the best run fields that I've seen.  It's new though, so we'll see if they manage to maintain the quality.




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