Last night the boys and I went to Ultimate Airsoft to play, it’s been a while so some of us figured why not. There was a large crowd at UA, I guestimate that there were at least 40 people at the height of it so the UA staff divided the people into groups A & B and we rotated having access on the field. We were part of group B and to make things fair the ref split us up between the walk ons which was fine by us. I think we played 6 or 7 games and they were all great, these were the types of games where if you get shot you think “damn that was nice” and congratulated your opponents after the game.

At the end of the night management decided to put both groups together for one last big game and that’s where things fell apart. I’ve always had problems getting the guys from Pacific Recon (they were in group A) to acknowledge hits, whether it be at UA, Flag Raiders, TTAC3 or where ever and knew it probably wouldn’t end well and yeah I was right… It wasn’t just us, a few guys from the 1st Rangers who were playing with us (good guys, played for years with them) also had a ton of problems. Non calls were one thing, Chris even had a propane tank thrown at him at one point!

The blatent cheating was so bad a few of us just walked off the field since it wasn’t worth it. I was next to Tom when he tried to get one of the PR members to go with him and talk to the ref to which he replied “I’m not talking to the ref” and ran away. If there is no honour in airsoft then it’s not worth playing.

It’s too bad because we got along great with the founders of the team but they don’t play much now and it’s gone down hill… I guess that shouldn’t be a surprise when the only criteria to join the team is that you’re Filipino… Please note I’m not trying to paint all Filipino players with the same brush, there are plenty that play fair (hell we have a couple on the team, who helped PR get off the ground) but this group is definitely making all of them look bad.

I posted my thoughts in a constructive manner on Airsoft Canada and a few guys who were running in my group posted video evidence of the BS we had to put up with. We’re suppose to be playing for fun, what’s the point when the other side cheats and ruins it for everyone…