Heat in the woods???
The best time we’ve had since
winning!
Amsterdam HEAT, originally a
CPL Sup’air team fell in love again with paintball. As war stories started to
dry out, HEAT members Sebastiaan Hoogendijk, David Veltman, Aren van Unen and
Adham Laamraoui took their game back to it’s roots in Dutch scenario
competition. Fully equipped with Eclipse camo gear, ETHA’s with EMC
kits we felt confident heading in to our first 7 vs 7 woodsball series. Arriving
on the scene with ‘all the gear, yet no idea’ we started realizing that
just as Sup’air paintball, Woodsball as a sport also evolved in to quite
a serious scene with some serious ballers. We quickly started to
understand the seriousness of our miscalculation. Having no communication
equipment, no idea what to actually do, and even not a clue what rules apply
for what reason. The heck, we didn’t even really knew how to win a game and by
what metric a wins where measured… Fun times…! Luckily, after teaming up with veteran team Madballs, all rules were explained
and the concept of the game slowly started to make sense to us rookies.
After misinterpreting the
rules, we found ourselves passing the gunchecks with PSP 3-shot burst
mode (FTW!). Swiftly grabbed the greatest practise paint we could
find( GI 2-star), loaded up our pods and headed on the field.
Finding the field was easy, the field was everywhere, the scene was
mind-blowing big. Houses, rivers, bridges, valleys, CQB spots and even a
mountaintop promised a spectacular day of paintball!
Cocky as we are (sup’air
playing snobs), we expected to win & look good in every battle we
encountered. The idea was to simply cherrypick a random enemy on the
field, shoot him, and proceed to the next target until there is nothing left to
shoot at. I was rather surprised, to only find HEAT players in the
deadbox after I was shot of the break and pulled for what ref called a “hit”…..
After a heated but strategic dead box meeting, we made clear to each others
that ‘sticking your head in to paint’ is a bad idea in any league… After
7 minutes of deadbox monologues, we where about to respawn (how cool is
that!?!) to play the remainder of the 30 minute game. So let’s start
crouching, hiding, camping and playing possum for the next 23 minutes of
gameplay.
Playing on such a big field,
with no walky talkies pretty much lead to loosing track of everybody, all the
time. We just had to assume that our fellow team members of the Madballs where
holding down the fort just long enough for us to make safe trip back. After
playing 4 matches, equal to 2 hours (!!!) of playing time, we were both
physically destroyed but technically winning! We don’t know how, and what we
did in order to win the tournament, but we won! More importantly, we fell in
love again with paintball! Till this day, we are trading war stories about our
heroic battles.
The day that boys became men!
Thank you paintball for being
so cool! Thank you Planet Eclipse for outfitting and equipping us with Etha
EMC’s! And thank you Amsterdam HEAT for not taking yourself all to serious!
Yours sincerely,
The Amsterdam HEAT’s men club
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