Event - Chosin : MPP @ PBC Nov 07,08 2009

Nov 7-8 : Chosin - MPP @ PBCharleston -- pbc waiver -- mpp waiver -- team reg form
event thread -- directions to rice hope

By the numbers

In attendance for Section8 : (26) Big Bear, Thumper & John-John, Eddie & Brett, John Taylor & John Taylor Jr, Spooky, Chappy & Bradley + 1, Ricky, Link, GQ, Slyder, Ben & Pattry Cakes, Eric & Vic, with a few more guests : Goldwing, FriedMoose, Cory +3, Drew.

Eddie and Brett missed the team pic (at chrono).

4 Father/Son teams is pretty cool and a pair of brothers is pretty cool.

26 is a fair guess counting a few guys "roped" in at the last second.. 24 pic'ed + 2

Also: No Shows w/ good intentions : DJ (sick/hospital) & girl friend, Josh Davis (sick)..

Ben reported just over 300 players in attendance at game start -- after Ben picked teams I heard the sides were w/in one players of balanced numbers wised, but then after reviewing the paired teams he asked bonnie to swing 20 players from chinese to marines - making the inital side 130 chinese vs 170 marines.

Chinese : General MilkShaKe (RIOT), XO's : Big Bear & Thumper (Section8), Bon (Hired Guns), and Link (Phules Gold / Section8) got a field promotion to XO on Sunday at 9:15a working out of the swamp base on Saturday. Switched based on Sun AM.

Marines : General Omniforce (I'm lacking detail here)

Game Score

Saturday 12:05 ... game on

-------- highlights : final battle Saturday : Marines scored 4 of 5 objectives for 400 points
-------- highlights : final battle Saturday : Chinese scored 2 of 5 objectives for 200 points (castle, village)
-------- highlights : chinese base blown twice - no general kills

Saturday 6:00pm......... Chinese 1300 -- Marines 2525

-------- highlights : chinese are generally locked into swamp and marines score steadily as chinese work to break out of their own base.. (an ironic twist on history)

Sunday 9:00am ...........Chinese 1300 -- Marines 2625

-------- highlights : Sunday at game break Chinese get the jump with 800 unanswered points
-------- highlights : final battle Sunday : Marines scored 5 of 5 objectives for 500 points
-------- highlights : chinese base blown once - no general kills

Sunday 1:40pm ...........Chinese 2700 -- Marines 4025

Awards : Chinese
MVRef : Sienna, Mellisa (RFP)
XO : Big Bear (Section8), Thumper (Section8)
MVP : Jedi (Gun Kings), Ricky Jones (Section8)
MVT : Section8, Sabers, Necro Clan
Sportsmasnship : Nolan (Necro Clan), Project Sideways
Special Service : Hired Guns, AssasinNation

IMO : My assessment - This game reminded me a lot of past game I attended in 2005 where a decently movivated troop over ran a lesser force, and the lessor force ends up with a few determined players doing a lot of heavy lifting - eventually falling to overwheling numbers. In this case, the lessor force was the Chinese army.

As mission dispatcher it seemed we were around 80-90 players at game start on Saturday, well shy of 130 attached to the Chinese. To my recollection, it felt like our 80-90 player mass shrank as the day wore on to roughly 50 players on the field by dinner stand down.. but those 50 were playing their hearts out.

As we dispatched everyone we had available on every mission, the mission team would frequently be met by overwhelming opposition at the mission objective while at the same time our base was being surrounded by again impressive numbers. I guess there was a good Chinese football game on TV or something.

To our own fault, we had a lot of well known teams and players who didn't want to do anything mission oriented - making the remainder of the Chinese army have to carry just that much more weight.

The opposition made very good use of their tanks with some solid coordinated infantry support. (props to O.G. from Shadow Co) Our two tanks did not run radios on Saturday - and later fell apart. Once they left the base, they were not reachable for mission support. On Sunday morning Ben flipped Shadow Co's tank over to us and I gave him one of my radios - and at for a while we made good use of O.G. for mission support and pushing back a few base attacks.

Sunday for while we held our own, with a very solid start... but by mid morning it seemed the situation was back. It felt like maybe 50 chinese on the field as the final battle approached.

---Props--

Sienna : You rock m'Lady! Props from Section8 for all you do for PBC.

Jedi : you rock! any war, any day my friend.

Shake : I didn't know you had that much game in you old man.. Props to the cow -- lots of heart behind those udders.

O.G. : Thanks for the help on Sunday sir.. It helped considerably.

Aggsauce : You are a pain in my a$$.. nice work sir.

White Trash Circus, Pub Crawling : ^ ditto. We REALLY could have used you guys.

Riot : We tried fellas... Great effort and heart by all. - love the suits. lol.

Nolan (& Necro Clan): major props young man. I asked, and you delivered - and kept coming back for more.

Section8 : Hell of an effort fellows... and great fun to boot... Maybe next game we can kick back some and just go shoot folks... and contratulations again to Ricky Jones, Eddie & Brett Fenstermaker on making the team.

While I dont speak for Shake on this matter : To the Chinese who made it on the field, toughed it out to the end, and gave that extra 25% when nothing was left - my hat is off to you all. Great heart fellas.

Ben, Bonnie, PBC : Thanks again. I know we got whipped hard - but I had a blast none the less. And I learned a few lessons that only a solid whippin can teach... and even that is part of the game.