Massachusetts Fields

[Magadeth]

This is for the Field report project outlined in Killer Kats 'A call for help' Thread. His idea is to get reviews of all the different fields from people who played there.
" Only use this if YOU YOURSELF! have been there and
played. Let's not have any second hand information in here. "





Business Name: UMass paintball club

Location: Ahmerst
Telephone Number:

Website:

Registration Fee: 5 dollar field fee if you purchase paint from us
10 dollars if you BYOP


Rental Equiptment Fee:rental packages 30 dollars (all day air,gear,500rounds)

Fill Stations:co2 fills 2 bucks any sized tank including 68oz
HPA limited to 3000, 1 buck per 1000psi

Fields Paint Available/Fee:paint (was Diablo last time I was there)
65 per case
35 per half case
20 per 500 bag

Styles of Play Available:Speedball and woods.

Comments/Conculsions:A good place to go if you want some stiff competition. When I was up there pretty much all the players were very skilled and used nice, high end markers.

Safety rules were strictly enforced, and all guns had to be checked at the chrony.

The speedball field was fun, with plywood bunkers and large plastic drums to use for cover. Quick intense games are the norm.

The woods part of it, was the only drawback. The field is quite narrow, making it very hard to get around the other team. Also a stream runs through the woods area meaning that if you are playing hard, you'll get your feet wet. I still had a great time playing woods there.


Maybe dan can fill in the blanks on the contact info. I just have some email addys and am not sure it would be good to post them.

[Magadeth]

Last sat. I played with With a guy named Ivan who is reopening the field in Westfield. Seemed like a real nice guy. He played all day with a cheapo marker, just to make sure they would work ok for rentals. He did pretty good with it to.
The field should open next spring. I'll post more info as It becomes available.

[unknown]

Business Name: Global Park Paintball

Location: Abbington
Telephone Number: ?

Website: www.globalparkpaintball.com

Registration Fee: 15 dollars or FREE when you buy field paint - field paint is RPS Advtange.


Rental Equiptment Fee:rental packages 10 dollars, all day c02, tipp-mann prolite, mask, hopper, pack.

Fill Stations:all c02 and n2 fills. not sure on price.

Fields Paint Available/Fee:paint (was Diablo last time I was there)
85 / case
45 / half case
30/ 500
10/ 100

Styles of Play Available:Speedball and small woods

Comments/Conculsions:Great Place. Lots of Good Speedball.. barrels, skyball, sup air..

Safety rules were strictly enforced, and all guns had to be checked at the chrony.

[unknown]

oh and maga, that new field, do u know if they are looking for refs or anything?

[Magadeth]

I'm pretty positive Ivan will be back to play with our group sat after next, I will ask him then. I'm hopeing that there might be a shop set up there also, If there is I've got dibs on a job there.:D :P
The local shop out here in west springfield, 'Point Blank' really sucks. There are a couple of good employees, but the prices are ridiculous and I get the feeling that the owner really doesn't care about his customers. If they had some competition, they would be gone in a flash.
I really try not to go there exept for emergencys, and when you ask for parts the guy gets this blank look on his face, then trys to charge you twice what the part is worth, for the wrong parts.

[Magadeth]

Heres another field review for you all, Hope you enjoy it as much as I did checking it out. :D



Business Name:Agawam Paintball

Location:Route 159 369 Main St. Agawam, Ma 01008

Telephone Number: (413) 789-3306

Website: AGAWAMPAINTBALL.com

Registration Fee:$20-byop, $10-purchase field paint

Rental Equiptment Fee:$15 rental (field paint only)

Fill Stations:7-9oz-$2.50, 12-16oz-$3.50 20oz-$4.50
Call for hpa prices

Fields Paint Available/ Fee:"We sell and use only quality paint and do not allow others to sell paint on our fields. Type of paint varies."
1 Case (2000 Paintballs)-$75.00
1/2 Case (1000 Paintballs)- $40.00
1/4 Case (500 Piantballs)- $25.00

Styles of Play Available:Speedball- A nice Speedball field that is quite large and made up mostly of barrels, very well arranged for good play.

Woods- A great woods field that is well manicured and has a nice mix of cover for all styles of woods players. there are bunkers mixed in with the natural cover and the field is large enough to be able to flank and manuver around the other team, but not so large as to slow the games down. This was my favorite field. (I'm a confirmed woods player though :) )

Storm the hill- This was an interesting field on wich teams take turns assaulting a large fortress at the top of a hll. The fortress has mutiple gun ports cut into it from wich the defending team can cover the entire field. The attackers have one large bunker in the middle and many smaller bunkers that they can move to to provide themselves with cover as they make thier assault. the fortress looks nearly impregnable, and for a while we all thought it was untill the fourth game when Mike, one of our resident "snipers" evened the odds with some amazing shooting through the gun ports of the fortress. Great job MIke!

Attack and defend. This is the newest field, and although it was a fun one, it still needs a little work. It consists of a "town" setup in a clearing that one team must defend. The defending team may not leave the "town" and the attacking team may attack from 3 sides of it. This field has a lot of potential, but needs to have some of the brush that surrounds the town cleared out a bit so that the defenders have more of a chance. It was still a blast to play on though and it was fun to watch from the out of bounds side as people made thier moves.

Comments/Conculsions: We all had a great time and played well into the night. I have to give special thanks to our Ref. Tony, and his Store Madmans Corner (413) 599-1448 who sponsored my teams play for the day. FYI if you live in the western mass area, give him a call before you buy any gear, he can probably get you a really good deal on any new equipment you desire.

Tony had just setup for night games and sponsored us all with free glowballs to try it out and see how it would work. After an intitially dissapointing experince with the not so glowing balls, it was figure out that they needed to be rechaged right before play. Thanks to a player that had a (Million candlepower?) car spotlight, the balls were charged up and put to good use.
All players were provided with glowsticks that were either yellow or orange, depending on what team you were on, and the refs and the sides of the field were marked with red glowsticks. Confusion reigned as glowing paint flew through the air and bobbing lights ducked for cover. Quite a fun time!

No matter what kind of play you prefer, this place has something for you. The four differnt fields allow for A nice mix of differing types of play that will definately keep thing from getting boring, and the refs where great at keeping the action rolling right along. Good sportmanship was the order of the day, and I did not see any player conflict at all.


:)
So check It out!

[BigVigalante]

Location: Bourn. Along the Bourn Automile
Phone 508 759-5130

Website: Cape Cod Paintball (http://www.capecodpaintball.com)

Feild Fee:
/w your own $20
w/o $50 including equipment, air, and paint
BYOP is allowed!

Rental: Paint, Air, Tippmann98, Barrel Codom, and hopper.

C02/N2: $10 all day air.

feilds: Speedball/Consept/Woods

Conclusion: Great Feild to play at if you like fast moving games. They recently got a super air ball feild. They also have 5 hyper ball feilds, 2 attack defend, and 3 wood feilds. They do a $3 luch special where you get 2 slices fo peperonie pizza and a coke. Staff is freindly. Only flaw is in the summer; they get alot of wasps. If you can ignor them it's the best. They are only in the staging area and when there are alot of them the time between games is reduced to 5 or 8 minutes which means more games. At the end of the day there is a recycle game. Overall i give it an 9 because it isn't a CS village.