HV2 CastleBy: Dave Araki - Photos by GetShot.org
Monday November 5, 2007
High Velocity 2 in Coram, Long Island (New York) is one of the most fun rec-ball fields on the East Coast. The owners and designers simply go mad and pour tons of time and money into the design and construction of their fields. As if the massive WWII-theme field, with its trucks, tanks and airplane fuselages wasn’t enough when added to the woods, western town and trench fields, Rob and Stan went further and built the best fighting castle field on the East Coast, and probably in the country. And since we have the best fields in the world, that means it’s probably the best castle field in the world.
Say what?! Well, this brutal cruel field is 300 feet by 300 feet square, with mirrored cover. You break out from opposing corners and have a choice of running the top-level wall that encircles the entire field, or you can run across a small bridge that leads from the ground level over to a hillock on which sits a two-story tower. Around the tower is defensive walling, but here’s the killer; it’s mirrored on the other side and connected by a bridge! So both sides get a tower!
THEN, like seriously it’s not enough already, down below all this is the most incredible killing pit ever. Dug out below the circle wall and the towers is a fighting maze that is pure paintball insanity. You’re thinking, no way am I going down there, but when you go down there, you’re so amped up it’s exhilarating.
This September, Orion Paintball hosted the first HV2 Scenario Castle Tournament. In this madhouse brawl, 300 players split off into four teams that would fight it out in a round robin of 45-minute constant-respawn games. This meant endless battling and massive amounts of paint in the air at all times. In each tower was a pair of flags on a pole; pull down the bad guys' flag and raise up yours. All well within range of the reinserting enemy! Points were given for pulls and hangs as well as for elimination counts.
The white team, led by Got Kills, a well-known scenario team, racked up 964 points in eliminations in three games. Do the math. The pink team, led by the West Point Cadet Paintball Team, the Black Knights, racked up 1,069 points in eliminations! The green team, led by one of Long Island's finest scenario teams, NYOC, pulled and hung in their first game right down to the wire against pink and ended the prelims with 2,409 (909 eliminations) and the BBB, led by Carl and Larry of the Bone Brittle Ballers and joined by Team Prozac and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy cadets, broke the bank with a total score of 3903. This put the BBB and NYOC into the final match, and after a brutal 45-minute mauling of each other, the BBB emerged victorious with an elimination score of 587-257.
WOOOT! Look out for the next Castle Tourney coming in November! www.Hivipaintball.com!
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