Thanks for coming out everybody! That's a really fun way to spend my birthday, watching so many amazing teams in action. The competition was very close, some teams were only seconds apart, as mentioned previously. A lot of the return teams have improved drastically since they started coming out to CQC competitions.
My camera crew was very impressed with the event, I believe we may have turned them all into future Airsofters. Aaron, Fred, and Mike have a lot of work ahead of them. We've got a bazillion gigabytes of photos to sift through. You guys really brought it to a professional gear level this time around, I was impressed with your loadouts and how uniform the teams were.
Actors - you went the extra mile. The MOUT scenario folks, I really appreciate your effort to use arabic phrases instead of just throwing out lines from Team America. The security scenario, amazing of course. Sheraya called me at the last minute on Friday to ask about acting in the event, and I'm glad she did. She made an excellent shooter, and also one you least expected to be the shooter. To our teachers, you guys took abuse after abuse in that little room! My girlfriend was in that scenario on day1, got lit up many a times. Needless to say, I owe her some flowers
I'm faced with the daunting task of weeding through 30 some hours of video footage. As for the helmet cam wearers, you guys are effin rock stars, seriously! I have so many amazing shots from first person view of people getting flat out pwned in the MOUT mission. You can always count on Tommyboy for violence, he was wearing the helmet cam when he shoved the Iraqi into the wall and put 3 in his chest. When East Side Rangers ran the scenario, you can actually see the BBs exit the barrel as they're backlit by a tac-light.
We hope to have photos going up in the next couple days, a trailer of highlights released in the next couple weeks, and a DVD within a month. The DVD should feature compiled footage for each team in it's own chapter.
Airsoft International magazine and Airsoft Xtreme magazine will both be running stories on the event. A few of the many amazing photos we have from this weekend will be going into the magazines. Softers all over the world will be reading about and watching what you guys did last weekend.
The players and teams make the event what it is. With Airsoft Pacific, I've always wanted to promote team competition and team building, I'm happy to see events like this cater to teams and give them something they crave.