Close Quarters Combat 7 (CQC7)

[Tombstone]

Amazing, absolutly amazing!
I've had a mental boner since the awards ceremony.
When the pictures come out, I may shit bricks.
When the video releases, I may blow out the front of my pants.

[Ollie Twist]

Yeah, I have a seriously great feeling about the media.

[Variable]

OLLIE TANK was awesome, I look forward to more events at CAGE.

Us yellow bastards are wall hackers


I had a great time admining this event. I saw a lot of great teams run.

F*ck I'm tired.

[Ollie Twist]

OLLIE TANK was awesome, I look forward to more events at CAGE.

Us yellow bastards are wall hackers


I had a great time admining this event. I saw a lot of great teams run.

F*ck I'm tired.

shazaam Yeah on the shoulder tactics.

[Thompson]

OK, I have had a few hours to recover, feed my face, and hydrate.

Congrats to SOTA/Mithril. You guys earned it. Bravo, and my offer stands for some inter-team training time. I'm sure we can make something happen.

No. 5 RAC, its always an honor working with and against you. I'm glad you were able to come out ahead, even if it is JUST temporary.

All the teams had their hiccups... and its to be expected. Everyone did their best.. the only ones who do not fit into this category are they ones that decided to either not show up with no notice, or those who couldn't field a team.

Actors and Admin- Thank you. You have once again shown me what it is to be part of this community.

We were rough, loud, and straight to the point. That is a known fact for the record. So right now, from the BSG organization, we apologize if we made anyone uncomfortable or in pain. Several people, (especially those on opposing teams) were aware that BSG was making use of this competition as a training tool to see where we stand against an unknown foe of strength, motivation, armament or organization level. We were using real world tactics according to our SOPs for our units real world application. It was our number one goal however, not to inflict harm on anyone... and we achieved that minus a few ringing ears and bad dreams. I just hope none of you guys need to experience our tactics at full tilt for real, but it is what we are training for.


Good job, everyone!

[Little Brelinski]

yes i enjoyed it very much
sorry for blinding you kendo

[Junto]

The event was exceptionally well done. The interlinking scenario is something that should be standard in the future. The immersion was exceptional. I felt that I, too, had to be in character the whole time, so I was. I loved standing outside the briefing house with my guys bitching about how the feds bitched about the way we did the job, but neglected to bring in their own HRT teams to do the job, and so on. The whole weekend was fantastic. None of my people can wait for the next one.

[Aeacus]

yes i enjoyed it very much
sorry for blinding you kendo

Hehe you weren't the only one to strobe him with 700 lumens of COMPLETE AWESOME! It was money well spent on the flashlight, and the competition too I guess. I was just there for the raffle. :P

[LiquidSnak]

I'm just waiting for myself to buckle down and buy this 4700 lumen light like I want to for some insane reason.

i have been waiting for this day for 4 years. got what i came for.

Exactly what I personally was shooting for. I wanted everyone to get what they came for and have a lot of fun!

I appreciated all of the little details. (the drug lab, the SWAT vans with red and blue rollers, the sign for the club, all of it.)

I was super stoked about getting all the little details to work thanks!

Thanks, once again to all the actors, you all were pretty spectacular. All the players, you guys were awesome. And, Matt, your video team rocked. I watched how fast they got all those cameras up and running with good feed, it was amazing.

Almost as amazing as how fast they came down

I myself had an awesome time, even though our scenarios were set, they changed every time for me, and there was never a dull acting moment.

I thought I was never going to get tired of playing with the light bars. It's the day after, and I am still exausted. Great job everyone.

[Matt]

Thanks everybody for making CQC7 a very fun success! I'm tired and sore from running around that whole building for 3 solid days. We put in about 10 hours on Friday setting up. We had high hopes for the acting, the set building, and the scenarios. Everything was up to our expectations. That's not to say we didn't want to do more, we did, and we will next time.

I'd like to congratulate SOTA/Mithril for taking 1st place, you guys seemed to have your movement and your communication down perfectly. You worked well as a team, scratch that, you worked well together even as a compilation of 2 different teams. Anyway, 1st place couldn't have gone to a nicer group of guys. When we have CQC8, I hope to see you guys there as a top contender. If you have too many for a stack, maybe we'll even see a SOTA and a Mithril team compete against each other.

And 5RAC was just 3 points behind at 2nd place. I would have liked to see you guys claim first, I can definitely see why it was so close because you guys did an exceptional job. BSG - Like I said, you were definitely the most thorough out of all the teams. Everyone who came out of that place was identified and tagged. The actors may have been a little bit scared of your tactics during the event, but I'm sure at the same time they were thinking you guys really had your shit together.

The actors; you guys and gals went above and beyond the call of duty with your roles. We don't typically have the budget money to spend on costumes, but still a lot of actors voluntarily buy costumes from Value Village or GoodWill all on their own - and out of their own pocket! They also come up with a lot of really cool dialog completely on the fly. You guys made these scenarios very believable and realistic, without your help we couldn't have done it. I would personally vouch for any of you guys for acting in any other event.

The admins: To my team, without the help of the team as a whole, even many of the guys who couldn't be there - this wouldn't be possible. Ryan had a lion's share of all of the planning in this competition, from concepting and designing the idea of the flash on our website to building and designing sets at the location. Every time I saw Josh Beran, he'd ask me what needs to get done, and if I had anything he would go do it. In costume as FBI agents, the admins and Scene Commander Belcher delivered some of the coolest briefings we've had. Even still - I think there's room for improvement there given the feedback about debrief and we will work on that next time.

PDX-CAGE: We couldn't have had a cooler facility for planning a multiple scenario CQC competition than PDX-CAGE. Al and Rod are really awesome guys and they went over the top in supporting us for everything we needed for our scenarios. They basically let us take that place over for the weekend, and I hope that as a result there are a lot of new teams interested in checking the place out for future use. They have shown that they are willing to tap into the community and ask what we want for a place to play Airsoft indoors. Check out their website for more info about them. Our own moderator, Nic Redfield, has started as their full-time manager and many other familiar faces from around here will be working there as game admins to ensure everybody has a fun time out at CAGE. Thanks again guys!

The media production: We've had the best coverage we've ever had at CQC7; with 7 stationary cameras mounted in the building, 3 hand-helds and a helmet camera we were able to get multiple angles of coverage on all teams in every scenario. And I believe this is actually the first time we've had cameras rolling on EVERY TEAM in EVERY SCENARIO in a simultaneous scenario CQC competition. I'd like to thank Tim Planagan and Aaron Gotthardt for putting so much hard working into troubleshooting those seriously finicky security cameras. We spent many hours on Friday getting those ready. Thanks Allen from PSC for coming out; you made it possible to for us to have enough cameras during the 3 team block in the afternoon on Sunday. Who's interested in having a custum DVD with only your team's coverage, all three scenarios, everything we got? We'd like to focus our emphasis on teams this time, seeing as it seems like that's what folks want. Happy to hear your feedback.

Placement was as follows:
1st: SOTA/Mithril Alliance
2nd: No 5 Royal Air Commandos (5RAC)
3rd: Black Sierra Group (BSG)
4th: Pacific Security Contractors (PSC)
5th: Team America (eff yeah!)
6th: Desest Rats Airsoft Team (DRAT)
7th: East Side Rangers (ERA)
8th: Terra First

We'll have scoring sheets available soon, Ryan has them and we'll probably just scan them in and turn them into PDFs for you guys. Our criteria is very simple, as you've already seen from the handbook.

Other awards won:

Biggest Gear Whore: Went to Mono for having a Pedo-Bear tac shield. He'll receive a CQC7 plaque for his valiant gear-whoring efforts.

Epic Fail Award: Goes to the Terra First, because Mark in the club scenario knifed them all to death. sorry guys, tough break! You'll get a CQC7 plaque too.

Best Actor: Was Patrick Campaign, the hostage taker / interrogator on the Diane Young rescue scenario. Ryan wrote up this part for an ex-military mercenary type who had to be ripped up; 3 days later I get an email from a body-builder who wanted to act at CQC7.

Since I went and forgot the plaques, I'll send those out to you guys, I'll be in touch for a mailing address or arrange to meet up with you guys to hand them over. I just want to say thanks again to Wade Moss from Spokane Airsoft for building some cool awards and trophies for us.

Thanks again everybody, I am sure I missed some acknowledgments. I'm still caught up in the event afterglow. You know how it is

[LiquidSnak]

it is now:

smithril

[Geschutz]

it is now:

smithril

we actually were going by S&M although it was sota + abe and john
we did all our training at S4 (thanks S4 for letting us train there) i definately look foward to CQC competitions in the future!

[KA-BAR]

thanks SOTA for the mention, and it was our pleaseure to compete against you, and we are glad that the training paid off for you in a big way.

it is easy to defeat a broke tool enemy.

back in the day in fuedal japan, there was a general named Takeda Shingen had a enemy named Usugi kenshin. they went to battle 7 times at kawanakajima. one winter Usugis troops fell short on salt and rice. instead of going in and beating the crap out of a already defeated enemy, instead Shingen sent a envoy with rice and salt, because he knew there was no honor in shaming Kenshin.


i feel the same way, i want to compete and win against the best.

[Ryu Arcturian]

I am wiped out, awesome time. This was actually my first CQC competition and it was a good un

Congrats to everyone who was a winner, S&M, No. 5RAC, Mono, Patrick Campaign, Terra First, and all the raffle winners.

Shout out and standing ovation for the actors, and event administrators and coordinators, the people who made it happen, good job.

This thread needs more pics. I know I'd like to see our Raw Footage if possible Matt. And I can't wait for the video epic video will be epic

[Bad Karma]

Thank you so much to the actors and administrators who hosted this phenomenal event. Once again, the bar has been raised both for the immersive realism of future events and the quality of play exhibited by players, and that kind of encouragement is exactly what this community needs. CQC7 was an immaculately conducted competition and my appreciation goes out to everyone who made it run so well. Great acting, realistic scenarios, fantastic sets, and a great location.

Congratulations to BSG and RAC5, and, indeed, to everyone who came out and played. There aren't really any losers at a game like this, just opportunities to learn what needs improvement and what your team does well.