Thar be Aliens in them thar Rockies!

So, I went to Aliens in the Rockies this weekend. It kicked so much mother-loving butt that I just can't contain it. Sanpete Militia (team I'm in) took Most Valuable Mercenary Team for 2008 out of 400 people. Yes, 400 people were there paintballing. It was awesome.

First there was a night game that went from about 8pm-10:30pm. There are a total of two main teams which are the Red Team (Marines) and Blue Team (Mercenaries). I was on the Blue team. During the night game, each teams were defined by red or blue glow sticks.

The night game was really fun. There were people with HUGE spotlights that were spotters. As regular militia, you are trying to capture flags and eliminate the other team. When a spotlight would go across our path, we would all have to dive down into the tall weeds so that we weren't seen. It was so intense. I loved it.

Then we played Paintball ALLLLLL DAY Saturday. There are so many things to explain that I won't list them all. I will just focus on the main special character: Predators.

Predators wear full blown ghille suits, which is like a suit that goes over your body that mimics vegetation so that you look like you're a tree. Predators kill either teams, and are very hard to kill. My friend Shawn and his twin brother Shane had an intense encounter with a Predator.

Shawn was kneeling down in a heavily wooded area shooting at the Marines. After about 5-7 minutes, he looked down, and saw a knee 5 feet (not an exaggeration) from him, as well as a camoflauged gun. Shawn asked "Dude, are you red or blue?" and the Predator identified himself. The Predator did not kill him because he was too close to shoot, and there was a brance between them so he couldn't tap him with his barrel. To this day, Shawn is still freaked the hell out by how close that Predator was and did not see him for so long.

Its that type of element that made me love Aliens in the Rockies 2008 and I can't wait for next year. There was so much more but I just can't go through it all. They gave out tons and tons of prizes which was awesome. Our team won Most Valuable Team, which is pretty much the best thing to win at an event like this. We were awarded a trophy and all of us were given medals which is shown below.

I haven't had as much fun paintballing as I did this past weekend. For more information about Aliens, check out www.paradoxgames.com

Dave

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