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[Hal9000]

So, last weekend I went to this event in Portland called the Mini Bike Winter Olympics. Totally insane, no-holds-barred series of (quasi-) bicycling events. The highlight of the weekend was an event called the Ben Hurt Chariot War. It was indescribable.

I took some photos:
http://halbergman.co...cts/chariotwar/

To get the feeling of how insane it was, I direct you to a short film my friend Richie produced:


The whole thing reminded me of Armageddon, which was... whoa, eleven years ago now. This was quite a bit more fucked up, and in many ways a whole lot less mature (despite the makeup of participants being "adults"), but nonetheless, the energy felt the same. Same DIY-style ethos with weapons and armor, same raging adrenaline, same general disapproval by mainstraim society. There was even a spectator at the chariot war with a home-made PVC potato cannon, indiscriminately launching chunks of potatoes at the participants.

Take away the bikes and give these guys Nerf guns (or even leave the bikes in), and it's the same idea, with alcohol and fireworks.

Makes me want to go to a Nerf war now.

I'll keep lurking and if something pops up in the SF Bay Area, I'll definitely try to make it. I've got a group of friends in LA that would probably be super-down with doing a Nerf war again.

Does anybody have fireworks?

Edited by Hal9000, 25 February 2010 - 10:14 PM.

[sublimedom777]

Man, I remember when nostalgia used to be so cool.

Edited by sublimedom777, 25 February 2010 - 10:49 PM.

[zaphodB]

This doesn't really strike me as something that belongs on a website with a large population of children.

on the other hand, it does look totally fucking balls out kick you in the spleen awesome. I don't know what to think

[1337]

Heh, that looks awesome. Kinda reminds me of the Twisted Metal video games.



Also, I looked around for you and saw this war. Baff 6

[VACC]

Do you kids even know who Hal is? It's shameful, but I guess a hobby populated by 15 year olds is doomed to a very short memory.

[Groove]

I'll bite. Hal = Webmaster of the former Nerfonline, since a majority of you were too young / not into Nerf at that point. Coincidentally, that was also where Nerfaholics previewed.


-Groove

[Hal9000]

Jesus christ VACC, what kind of show are you running around here?

Are those... purple pirate boots on your feet?

I mean, this is the internet... you're always two clicks away from seeing something you can't unsee. And I feel like the guy who just took his pants off on the subway. But where I live, apparently that's not even socially inappropriate.

I was going to make some kind of crack about being on the NerfList with VACC-boy here when most of you were still in diapers, but I'm not going to do that because I don't think most of you were even born yet.

If a video of bunch of grown men getting drunk and beating the shit out of themselves in public with homemade foam weapons is taboo... I mean...

...You let these kids out to play in the Nerf Wars, right?

[VACC]

We require parental permission for them to take part in the sacrifices. Mostly virgin sacrifices, cause, ya' know.....nerfers.

[CA13]

I do have a full mail suit of armor for tall bike jousting. When is this held?