Redfox Aug. 31, 2013

[Romba]

Uh... The point is that its amusing... Lol

[crossfire876]

Your point Crossfire? Most people don't really NOTICE like when you correct dates.

Fixed that for you

Specter, someone turned in what I think is your buttplate, I have it in lost and found for you. I also have a couple other things from the game, if you lost something, let me know.

I don't normally like to do pros and cons lists, but everything I have to say clearly falls into one of those categories, so I will this time.

Pros:
-Great turnout, even with a lot of people missing RF for SF we still had a total of 74 players. This entire summer has seen a consistently high turnout, definitely the highest average summer player numbers we've ever had in SC. (Note that 31 people voted in the poll, and 74 showed up; this is further proof of the "poll votes are less than half of total attendance" rule.)
-Vaughn gave us permission to use pyro at this particular game, and has given us permission for future games to play pretty much as late as we want to.
-Great gameplay, it never got stagnant or slow and the entire day was full of action for me and everyone I saw.
-Overall good sportsmanship, there was the incident mentioned where someone got shot from behind a few times and kept saying "stop shooting me, I'm Bravo!" instead of calling it. Even if it had been a Bravo player mis-identifying you, you still are hit. Otherwise I didn't see or hear of very many problems at all, even with any new(ish) players.
-Good number/experience balance between factions meant challenging play for both sides all day.

Cons:
-Late start. This was my fault, I did not anticipate the high turnout and had one chrono line that caused a time sucking bottleneck. In the future I will arrange to have two chrono lines and I think it'd behoove us to start doing that at as many games as we can. I got permission from Vaughn to play late to make it up to everyone, but you all know what happened with that.
-It was hot. Fortunately lots of players kept reminding other players to keep drinking even if they weren't thirsty, and we had very few drop out due to the heat.
-At about 4PM or so, when we were transitioning from Mile High to Valley of Doom, a huge thunderstorm rolled in with tornado warnings (or so I heard). Everyone started heading for the parking lot to get their stuff out of the water, but when a few people started looking at the weather reports, it turned into a mass exodus. I was hoping it would blow over, but after about 20 minutes there were only 7 people left and it was still pouring, so I figured it was time to call it a day (albeit a short one).

Dom covered most my likes and dislikes.

The overall attitudes on the field were great. Sportsmanship issue were at a minimum, and outside a false friendly fire incident, I don't remember anything standing out. Those who had mags in while eye-pro was off were cordial and removed their mags when asked.

Alpha had a more seasoned player base and it showed. The teamwork and competition were so much better since neither team really dominated the other. Overall, one of the better days at Redfox.

On a side note, this is around the 6th time we've made the trip to Redfox, and it's either rained, stormed, or snowed on us 4 of the 6 times.