April 11, 2009 (April 4 and 18 left open as replacement dates if the 11 turns out to be problematic), from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
The where:
Promontory Point Park in Chicago (meeting point at 5454 South Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60615).
The park is enormous and open to use; there is another park a block or two nearby that can be used as a secondary site in case it gets boring here.
There is a Metra stop within five blocks and a 55 bus stop within two (the 55 departs from the Garfield Red Line stop).
The who:
Attending:
Ice Nine
Zorn's Lemma
Merzlin
Suitcase Murphey +1
Snake51886 +1
bobafan
Demon Lord +n, n ε N
mindlord +m, [{m ε W} ∩ {0 ≤ m ≤ 10}]
Maybes:
Daniel Beaver
supercellghost
bigred1rifleman +2
Salindin_Naz
Carbon
Ryan201821
LiterSize
Mehku +2
nerf mafia
deathwolf +1
Unsane +1
The relevant information:
I've been to a few wars in SoCal (none recently) and now that I'm in college I've got the Nerfing itch back. There's a decent amount of people on my floor of the dorm who really enjoy playing with our blasters when we bring them out, but the weather in Chicago winter basically limits us to indoor stuff only; plus, my room mate (Zorn's Lemma) and I are the only two modders on the floor making the volume of modded guns available to others here rather small. It seems that the Midwest, while not barren, is under-repped when compared to the East and West coast and we thought we'd do our part to change that.
Here's what to bring:
- A few guns; at least one primary and at least one pistol. We'll have loaner guns but you'll be more comfortable using what you have used previously. The pistol is for pistol rounds.
- Ammo, and a fair amount of it. Once again we'll have loaner darts but we can not promise they'll fit your barrel material.
- Eye protection. We have some of those goofy Dart Tag protection glasses and two chemistry lab protection goggles so we can provide under pressure but there's a limited supply. If you don't bring any, you can't play; there's a dollar store two blocks away where you can buy some crappy sunglasses to use.
- Some food, or at least some money. We'll probably order a pizza or something for lunch, or we can walk to one of the nearby restaurants.
Here's what you shouldn't bring:
- Absolutely no singled Titans. Plugged Titans must be shotgunned to at least three barrels - a minimum of three barrels attached to the airtank, with all barrels firing upon the trigger pull.
- No singled AND plugged 4Bs, LBBs, National Geographic Guns, or Signal Launchers. Plugged will imply shotgunned to at least three barrels.
- Special cases on the above banned guns will be considered on a case-by-case basis; if you feel you have something that is listed as banned but doesn't perform powerfully enough to warrant banning you may bring it, but please don't waste our time with a singled, plugged Titan where you shotgun-load a single barrel. I would ban SM5Ks but almost no one has one or uses one.
- Air-powered homemades (spring-powered ones are acceptable) will be considered on a case by case basis as well but the limitations on those will be stricter, since they're generally able to put out a lot more air than most of the big blasters.
- In the pistol rounds, the following will be banned: any of the PistolSplat variants, SM750s, Secret Shot 2s, and Splitfires. Basically, no airtank blasters; however, Spiderman guns in their wrist-strap forms will be allowed. Again, if you feel that you have a gun that should be an exception to this banned list, by all means, bring it along for testing.
- Do NOT bring anything painted all black. That is bad and you won't be allowed to use it.
We'll play a variety of types of game throughout the day, generally leaning towards the West Coast standards laid forth in Badger's etiquette thread (stickied, please read it). The three certainties thus far are CTF, team deathmatch, and pistols round. ZL and I will work on creating other, more unique games.
Now, after lunch today we went out to the park we're playing at and took some pictures. There's still a lot of snow on the ground but these plus the GMaps pictures should give you a good idea of what the playing area will be like.
Edited by Ice Nine, 18 April 2009 - 08:32 PM.
