Paintball is a cruel game. One minute you can be flying high, the next you can be licking your wounds wondering what if. ZOO had one of those "what if" weekends at MPOC leg 3. We did well to make it through the pre-lims with only two losses given that most of the games we only had 4 guys with working markers. Chak made the play of the day after running on to the field with no marker after his gun was shooting hot (over the 300fps limit)... he played rabbit (decoy) for a while and called out positions and then when I ran out of paint, he dived between bunkers to collect paint from Brian and delivered it door to door to me to the cheers of the appreciative spectators...

On paper we had what we thought was an easy draw for the quarters coming up against Ultimate Speed, Hammer Zero and Rhymber X. Unfortunately I hadn't learned my lesson from Leg 2 and didn't change up our breakout plan enough... Ultimate Speed targeted my blind spot break out and I ended up with an unseen hopper hit and a 1 for 1 which had us lacking firepower and over-run by a determined opponents. In the match against Hammer Zero we were on equal terms with them but we lost both our fronts midway through the match and my tank unscrewed and lost all it's air after a 2 minutes... Hammer Zero played aggressive and it paid off with their fronts streaming down the dorito tape side taking out Brian then Chak leaving me hiding in the snake with no gas waiting to get bunkered... with two losses we were out of the semis. Determined to go out fighting we took it to Rhymber X and even though Abdullah also lost all the gas in his marker we managed to play aggressive and take the win.

Let's hope we can resolve our marker issues that have caused many a grey hair on yours truly lately and show what we're truly made of in Leg 4. The battle for the MPOC Leg 3 series championship is going to be tight if we don't come back with a championship trophy in the last 2 legs of the season.