The Wild World of TB!

So yeah I admit it, I read PBNation and I see this post from the boys at Delta. Don't get me wrong, for the most part I like Delta. I think that they don't really know what hate is and they like to play at being bad boys but how many promoters have they been banned from just by voicing an opinion and destroying the will of the other side to even attend events? Yeah, that's right not that many. However they are the consumate little group to get some press. In this instance, they are petitioning for paintball players to donate money. Not to a real worthy cause, but to bring Sean Scott back to Chicago to 'play' this game he 'created'.

What the fuck ever.......I wouldn't give him a nickel if it cost a quarter to go around the world. First and foremost, Sean chose to move to Argentina, I didn't pay for him to go there, why in the name of god would I pay for him to come back? On top of that, he didn't create a damn thing. He re-created the IAO and the scenario game that they used to have that Black Cat put on. You realize that they did a Blues Brother game too right? Oh yeah, the master of scenario and the most innovative guy who puts on games must have forgotten that, then again like most things his jackass mind comes up with, it is just more copycatting (I mean OZ was already done a few years back too, but that is another story as well).

But what did he 'create'? Wayne Dollack was doing games at CPX, Paul and Sean brought Kerry in because they didn't think Wayne's games were 'fair' enough. Hence why Wayne did the role play and Viper did the missions/points. Regardless of what Ratsnake says, his true thoughts on the founder of scenario aren't that respectful. He has always given Wayne his due credit for innovation (not that he knows anything about it really much these days, another fucking Vampire game, damn Ratsnake) but always felt his games were too 'magic tree' and open to interpretation to who won the game. So that is why Viper was there, and trust me it wasn't all that 'awesome' behind the scenes. Seems the money was an issue for quite a few of those at the top to include Smart Parts.

So we fast forward to Living Losers II, Ratsnake decided that TB needed to be banned from his events and Sean Scott decided that TB was bad for the sport. Although he still wanted to sponsor my team, if I could be turned into a force of good. I called Paul at CPX and asked could Thunderstruck register to play, since it wasn't a Viper game but a CPX game that he was hired to produce. I was informed that Smart Parts rented out the field that weekend and the event was a Smart Parts event and Sean Scott had banned me from any event that Smart Parts was going to be at. I sent a few emails to the Gardners since well we were one of their 'star' teams and nothing had changed. I was the same guy that they wanted, still played the same way had the same attitude and the same website. Never heard anything about it one way or the other.

Then I read about him on Viper's site that he might lose his job. Since you know he is the Director of Awesomeness, but that doesn't pay much these days in PA. However that did bring up what would happen with Living Losers III. I mean Smart Parts is gone, Wayne is gone (they weren't going to pay the man what he wanted to just do some role playing and Kerry bitches about how MXS pushed him out of Shatnerball) and now all that is left is CPX and Viper. I can assure you that he isn't doing it for the same money he was when it was a 4 way split. So if Viper wants Sean Scott there so damn much, why doesn't he buy his good friend a plane ticket? I mean, as successful (LOL) as this game is, you would think he could afford $1200 bucks for the payday he is bound to get. Want me to add it up? OK.....

$20 bucks a head entry, 700 player game = $14,000
$15 a case of paint, times 1.4 case per player (national average) times 700 players = $14,700

So Viper's total take is about $28K and he can't afford a plane ticket for the founder of the feast? He expects the hard working paintball players who are struggling to get to the event to cover Sean Scott's travel? I mean what the fuck? I am sorry that Sean Scott hooked up with some latin hottie and got kicked out of his house by his wife who was paying for his rock n roll lifestyle and he got fired from Smart Parts (oops excuse me, layed off). But why should other paintball players pay to bring his ass to Chicago to party, drink, and just generally act like he is entitled to something. I mean, I like Paul and CPX, but well this is their choice and they make quite a bit off this as well, so why aren't they paying Sean Scott's way? Again why are the paintball players expected to do this? Like they owe Sean Scott something?

You know there are some who will email me and say that my team owes something to him because he sponsored my team. And let me tell you, no the fuck I don't. We were hired and paid for with free markers. He wanted street cred, he wanted instant credibility and the other teams he sponsored weren't giving him that. He came to us because he wanted to win, he came to us because we didn't care and he bought us, plain and simple. And we fulfilled our end of the contract, so I owe that broke fucker nothing. You know what I owe him? Some advice, and here it is, "It's called Krama (SP) Sean and I hope you get all your colon can fucking take." As for people giving him money, there are much more deserving people out there that need help with paying their bills while they are battling cancer or their kids or sick or any of another 30 or so immediate charities. Why give money to him?

I wouldn't attend Living Losers if they paid for my flight since the format is a joke, the promoter is a bigger joke and the only thing going for it is the field is cool and some of the teams are cool. But the entire premise of going out to play with people who give a fuck less about scenario paintball or the scenario game that is being played and more about them getting their ass kissed for what they have done is not appealing to me at all. I personally think it is funny, Sean was all about his command record and then he lost last year and couldn't wait to tell people how proud he was to lose the game. I bet you his command staff didn't feel that way, to be sure. But who knows?

So don't give a dime to him, had he not fucked up, maybe he would still be here in the US and could get his own damn way to the game he 'founded'. Then again you would think someone would be smart enough to get some residuals from a game he created, right?

Another song for you; this is the best lyric out there, in more ways than one.

"Piggy Bank": "Kelis say her milkshake bring all the boys to the yard / then Nas went and tattooed the bitch on his arm / Im way out in Cali, niggas know you cuz / First thing they say about u, you's a sucka for love / This is chess, not checkers, these are warning shots / After ya next move, I'll give ya what I got. (YEEAH)"