WCA 2008, ReVisit

FRIDAY

It was a gloomy Friday morning when we arrived at Xtreme Park in Bukit Jalil, site of the WCA 2008. It had rained earlier in the morning, but had tapered of at about 0500. The tournament fields looks good (better than in 2006/7, but hey, this is just the first day :) ). By 0700, the participating teams have started to arrived. Team banners and flags were put up; the vendor tents have slowly started to come alive. The first games of the tourney started early. Ahh..Was a perfect morning..

Then it happened, about mid morning ...there was power failure which affected the air compressors which subsequently delayed the games for about 1.5 hours. The power came up after repairs were made and the games got underway again. The competitions at the games were intensed with lots of D2 and D3 teams providing the initial actions. D1teams were to play their games on Saturday.

Listed are the teams that Team KL Killer Beez played against on Day 1, Friday;
Team Immortalz
Team Rimba Bandits
Team Global Pinoy(Phil)
Team Splatzone Dragoons(Sabah)
Team Dynamics(Taiwan)
Team Infernal 2(Thai)
Team Wasp Black(Aust)
Team Demonic(Thai)
Team Splatmasters(Phil)
Team Highway Star(Thai)

It was a good day’s performance for Killer Beez, We liked to think that we'd played well on the first day, winning 9 out of 11 games that we played. We lost only to the Thais. We played a tight well coordinated attacking strategy in almost all our games. Unfortunately, the saying that “don’t fix it if its not broken” was to be our achilles heel, during the final stages of the tourney.. Oh...i also managed to get to play a game (I think it was against one of the Pinoy’s team) using the new Eclipse GEO (thanx Big Bro Aris of Raskal,, heh heh), the handling felt good, the marker had the accuracy and consistency....wish i could get it..hmmmm.

We got some of our friends together to help out and would like to thank them for being our crew. Thanks Ayie, Wilson (thnx for the pix) and Mike (hope the toothache is gone) for helping us out there.

By end of the day, about 1600, the skies assembled with storm clouds and the rain fell later in the evening.

Saturday

There were no games for us on Saturday, so took some time to look around the products/vendors booths.There were a lot of discounts for paintball items at the vendor stations, Dye, Proto, Eclipse, MacDevs and others. I went to visit the vendors today to find some parts for my trusty PMR, The Tech from Dye was gracious enough to replace the PMRs battery harness and also got some good discounts from them on other items. Thanx guys. I would like to advice paintballers to take the opportunity to visit and get them to look at your markers.

SuperSunday

For Super Sunday's second round, Team Killer Beez would be pitched against the following teams;
Teams Aggression(Thai), Rimba Bandits ,and Highway Star(Thai). The day started early as usual, the 2nd round games were about to start. Our groupings (Group C) consist of Teams Aggression (THA), Isi Rimba (MAS) and HighwayStar (THA). We lost against Team HighwayStar, but managed to win against the other teams in the group. However, it was also unfortunate that we also had to take out Team Rimba Bandits. Something about the Thai teams, we seem to find it difficult to win against them, in the prelims we lost to teams Infernal2 and HighwayStar, luckily we won against Team Agression. In the group crossover, we had to beat Team Warrior, which we did, although we wish they would not have to be out of the tourney. We were setup to play Australia’s Wasp Black in the semis. The ozzies took the first game before we fought back and took the second. The decisive 3^rd game was in favour of the ozzies, these guys were reading our gameplay and countered. Wasp Black went into the finals.

Killer Beez and IronSea fought for 3^rd and 4^th placing, after an even fight, Killer Beez took the 3^rd placing in the Division 2, WCA 2008. That concluded our campaign for the year.

Pictures courtesy of Dezmond-Residentevilchef, axn, 9w2XI.