This is Jimmy for those of yall who don't know me. Those who do know I don't normally get involved in politics and drama and things. I just liked to play paintball and give folks a great place to play and feel at home. I didn't read this entire thread (it is quite lengthy), but here is a comment from those who were done wrong - simply facts...

There was an agreement between Kerry, Frank and myself. That agreement was not met, with maybe half of the monetary terms unfulfilled. Then, without fully meeting the terms of the agreement whereby said person could assume full ownership - many key items were removed from the premises without our permission (some would call this theft). This in turn, has made it impossible for us to continue to host paintball games (or 'compete' with his games, I guess you could say). Said person also reneged on his contract with the land owner, and is currently in breach of contract for lease terms not met.

The land owner, is a long time friend of ours. So I was deeply ashamed at introducing him to someone of such low character who would do such things to those who were business partners as well as friends (please note the 'past tense'). Frank and I are attempting to come up with ways to make restitution to Mr. Black, the actual land owner for BlackLands Paintball. However, as it sits, without the money owed and the materials taken, BlackLands Paintball is done.

I am not one for involving others into matters, so charges will not be filed by myself. However, I do feel that what goes around comes around, and a pissed off redneck is NOT what you want to meet on a dark back road...

Now as someone who doesn't engage in politics and has been trying to get this resolved since 2007 in the back channels, I think it takes a lot to post here knowing that it will piss off some people just because you did it here. Now before some of you spout off, yes Kerry knows he owes all this money, yes Kerry has been asked on several occassions to pay this money and there is no way in hell that he didn't know that he owed this money to Doyle Black (Land Owner) or Frank and Jimmy (Field Owners). On top of that, he didn't just abandon the property and allow the field owner to come back, he took and sold assets of the field that he never purchased. It would be the same as you renting a house, and when you know you are going to get evicted, you gut the house and take everything with you. But I guess all the equipment (Chrono's, A/C, Netting, Cables, Generator, Air Compressor, and other things) was complimentary and donated to a good cause like the other shit that they facilitate stealing right?

Now I am sure that Kerry will be calling them and trying to get them to shut this off, and they very well might do that if he pays them. But this has been going on for 3 years. You people need to realize that regardless of who tells you about it, the truth is he fucked these guys and other people and figured it was just ok because no one but TB would tell anyone. Do I have to remind you he already tried to fuck Blanding and Scott Hall out of money he owed and it took a post here and on PB Nation and MCarterbrown to get Scott the money Kerry owed him since 2007? This seems to be a pattern, except some people (like Wayne) want to justify his behaviour based on the fact that I am talking about it.

Guess he never read the MXS or Packman wars fought here did he? Those that were here remember it right? It didn't matter what Patrick or MXS did, all that mattered was who they did it to. And that they weren't fucking someone that they liked, so it didn't matter to the masses. And people screamed for truth and proof and yet still did nothing. That is what Kerry is counting on, people not doing anything, people assuming that because they don't like TB that they will condone he lack of ethics and integrity in this instance. Is he right? What about all the honest people in the game? What about the sponsors who claim to be about helping players? What about PB Woman and it's supposed mission? None of this matches up with the truth that is Kerry Rosenberry.

He will fuck over anyone he can to get what he wants. He will use anyone until they no longer serve a purpose and then he will find a reason to get rid of them and then rationalize it to the world. And then he hopes that those people go away and in a few years that they come back and help him again or at least tolerate him. Houston scenario welcoming him back is proof of that. With the way he fucked over PB USA, and the people involved or the teams in the Texas area that he caused to split or quit playing his games or any games for that matter, for his involvement in the destruction of MXS. Seems that people have a very short memory and could care less about a lot of things that they should if they are the honorable or good christian folk that they claim to be.

No one is holding him accountable, well except me and Thunderstruck, but that is ok. We can be the only ones, we can continue to put the shit out there. It seems that more and more people are seeing it. The funny thing is, that the apologies coming in about how they are sorry that they didn't stand with us when we chose to leave (since according to Kerry, I was never banned, just unwelcome).

So what say you real people out there? Not the nut hangers and kool aid drinkers? Does he get away with this? Does he keep to get fucking over teams and people? Trust me, there will be more stories as to how he has fucked over people here in the next few days. Wait for that if you like.

What am I talking about? The theft of property from the Texas paintball field that he never paid for and evidently sold to Cousins Paintball in Forney, TX. Yep, you heard that right, now some of you may remember me talking about Kerry fucking Frank and Jimmy out of the money he said he would pay them for the field. But then like the snake he is, he went behind their backs and got the lease in his name, thereby shutting out any chance of them getting any money unless he chose to pay it. He was supposed to pay it or some of it after every game, but he didn't. He always had some grand excuse as to why he couldn't and the only time he would give them any money is if they came out to the field. See they didn't want to play for free or any of the other little tidbits he normally throws at people so he had to pay them money. But the truth is that barely covered the light bill or water bill, which he never took out of their name in the 6 years he did games there. But that isn't the worse part, at least not in my book.

So he was trying to sell the field, a field he never paid for, but nonetheless, supposedly several people were going to buy it and try to run recball on it. When those deals fell through, it appears that Kerry then decided that he was going to sell the things that came with the field as well as the structures on the field. Now it is no secret that he has forsaken the field in Mt Pleasant because he thinks the field in Forney is the way to go. And he either convinced them to purchase the items I am talking about or they don't have a lot of money to build objectives. See it seems on several websites that some people are concerned about the lack of structures on the field. Now I have never been there, but it seems to be a valid concern. But what happens next is not anything I thought would happen.

So Jimmy gets a phone call from the owner of the property that there are trucks out at the field and they are dismantling objectives, hauling away material and barrels. Jimmy immediately asks the owner has he been paid for the lease, the owner says no and goes out and stops them. But not before they take down the stage, and haul all the barrels that were out there (a substantial amount) and a few other objective bunkers. It seems Kerry was going to gut the field, the field he never paid for, the field he never even renewed the lease on (the real reason there are no more games out there) and so he was effectively stealing property that wasn't his. Property he never paid for and he sold or gave stolen property to Jed at Cousins. I wonder is he knows that? You know in Texas, possession of stolen property is a crime. I have advised Jimmy and Frank to file a police report and then tell the Titus County Sherrif's Office where the property is and let them get it back. And that they should sue Kerry's ass for everything he has (which ain't much these days). So I guess on that front, we shall see what happens. But I think that if you are a honorable person, you should email both of them.

You should pressure Kerry to pay the people who helped him in Texas for no reason other than he needed it. They didn't make a profit, they never charged him for labor. They sold him the field for the amount of lumber that was put into it. And neither of these guys are in paintball or big money people, they are hard working people who live paycheck to paycheck like a lot of us do. And you should email Jed at Cousins and tell him that the items he has wasn't Kerry's to sale or give and that he should compensate Jimmy and Frank as well for the product that he has. I mean Viper attempted to gut the field, and now Jimmy can;t even throw a quick game to get a little of his money back because of the amount of work that will need to be done. Now I have told Jimmy and Frank that I will be happy to come out and spend some time and money to get the field back up and will even run a game or two there to put a little something in their pocket, but they are pretty sure that Kerry, being his normal piece of shit self would attempt to black ball the event or anyone who went to it, so they are pretty sure that paintball will never be played there again.

And that is a damn shame, that was a very cool field. SO while Ratsnake may talk a good game about how he is trying to build scenario paintball in Texas, the truth is, he is trying to build his empire in Texas. He gives a shit less about anyone else in Texas, be that players, teams, promoters, fields or people who just try to help him. How many will let his stealing this property go on? How many will turn a blind eye to this episode of the Kerry Rosenberry is a shithead show? The property owner isn't, I was told he served all of them with a No Trespass notice and that his son has orders to shoot any of them that come back out. One can only hope that Ratsnake doesn't listen, as I would love to hear that he took a slug or two to the chest.

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Here is a map that was made by the TechPB guys and submitted to Viper (he did a lot of prep talk in their private forum). So an argument from him that he didn't know would be well, bullshit.

First and foremost is the distance for the west side of the base. As one person put it, the West base has it the worse:

West = 1050 Foot

East = 580 Foot

That is the distance that an inserting person is supposed to take to get into the game as you have to go to your hospital first and then your base.

On a side note it is .51 miles from base to base.

Now the 50 of the field should start at roughly the west side of 10 by about 100 feet and then runs due north. 9 is a full 200 feet closer to one side than the other however the other bunkers even it out if everyone started from their bases. You can see the distances BTW. Now that is as the crow flies and you have trails and underbrush, but the East side has the definite advantage, now this is a slap at the producer, you count how many objectives are on the one side VS. the other. The objectives are there for a reason to be sure, as the missions come in for that. If you are on the west side well you are pretty much fucked. Where is his sense of 'everything being equal' now?

Anyone with half a brain much less 13 years of scenario production would know better than to lay the field out this way. The first Living Losers saw the base at 8 and the field played just as harsh with a chokepoint in the middle. Now me, I love choke points, both ways actually, you can push choke points a lot easier closer to them but there are no objectives and less cover on one side of the choke point than the other. Why wasn't that built up? Now I know Kerry knows how to do that with blow up bunkers and such and he could have made a deal with any number of people to work with that. I gave him that Idea at Blanding and people loved it.

So bravo to Honu for picking the better side for the longer portion of the game, but this should also show you why he had such a hard time on Sunday. It wasn't the 'rampant' cheating, it was that one side of the field was off balanced and on Sunday well he got a small taste of what happened all day on Sat for Barney.

Now take into consideration the starting points and realize that the distances now are about 300 feet shorter for the east side. I mean there it is in red letters from bus drop off point 365 from it to the CP. So let's look at the distances from starting points to the "50" shall we?

In the video below, you see that techPB was supposed to hold point 9. The distance took them roughly 2 minutes to walk or run to the point , 3 minutes in you hear Mike yell keep moving up, no contact yet. It is 5 full minutes before you see Mike start shooting and that is with his First Strike rounds. Listen to the audio of other people shooting and you will see it 8 minutes until you hear any type of real fight at the choke point. By then, well the Red side is in the speedball field to the valley. There is NO cover from the wasteland to the speedball field so there is about 100 feet of open space fighting and entrenched enemy. So the only place to fight from would have been the Valley, where you see 12 minutes into the video they mass a huge defense. Now from that side of the field you are fighting an entrenched enemy with the high ground. Didn't work out to well now did it?

Now I know Ratsnake claims 1200 people, but do you see 600 people starting the game? Or hell even in the woods? People who have played these games know what it sounds like with that many guns at game on. Everyone makes game on..... LOL. It takes 15 minutes for a consolidated force to push the woods, in a space that us roughly 380 feet across. That's right the choke point was a little over a football field in length. Where was the massive battle of 600 on 600? Where or even 300 on 300? By 8 minutes in, Mike has switched to his main marker and is dropping a lot of paint, which leads one to believe that they were pushing. He calls back that they are pushing about 70 in the valley. Again, the numbers don't match to what Ratsnake claims.

And people wonder why 30 minutes into the game, Barney starts sending Helicopters across the field to run missions.

By the way, let's look at one more thing before we drop off.

Posted by the game director Ratsnake: The red lines should go to the hospital, and THEN the base, since that's the route the players inserting have to take.

From point 6 and 8, which is where most of the fighting took place the first 30 minutes, you are looking at roughly 1300 feet to walk back to the hospital and then to your base to re-insert. That is if you didnt need paint and air. Anyone want to guess what roughly 1300 feet is? Yep, about 1/4 mile. So not, again, the fault on this was squarely on the promoter as it should never have gotten this bad right?

And while the promoter and refs allowed the red side to start 300 feet ahead of the other side, you can see now why that huge advantage played into helping them hold the choke point all day Saturday right? Once you set a line and you keep feeding it, well that is the nature of a grinder. And I am not even going to go into the people inserting directly at the 50 into Bedlam and Temple of Doom. And yes the game promoter was told about it, he shrugged it off and called a ref. And then the ref he called proceeded to watch another group of players do the same thing. If the 300 feet hadn't been allowed then the battle would have been at 10, 11 and 12, which is where I am sure that Ratsnake wanted the fighting to be. As that would be roughly the same distance for everyone, well except that damn walk. But then again I got told a lot of people weren't walking to either hospital and just walked straight to the base or they were allowed to 'hot insert' from the hsopital, but you wonder why the far base was never taken? Well as I see it 400 feet from one hospital on the West side and maybe 80' from the hospital of the East side and that doesn't include if they continued to let people insert from the bus drop off.

Well played Red for getting the choke point, I would have done the same thing. Poo on Viper for allowing the players a 300 foot head start and not thinking what would happen at the choke point and not building in ways for one side or the other to break out with scenario type toys.

And we didnt even touch on the other things, but let me lay them out for you too shall I?

Red Distance VS Yellow Distance with 300 foot head start to objectives:

#9 1320' VS 1414'
#11 1025' VS 1610'
#10 1010' vs 1570'

And do you really wonder why the lines was 300 feet on the other side of those objectives? And no I wasn't there, but with all the video footage and knowing that field and the players, did I need to be?

From the 6.4 rules: Game Start: When the game begins your commander will already know what the first missions for each segment are. Be sure that you at your base and ready to go when each segment begins!

You have about 3.5 minutes to figure it out. If after that, you haven't well, maybe you should ask some people who have played CPX and Viper games and such. Or take a look at what I have provided and see if you can see what I see.

Because his post on his website just drove more people away from his game quicker then I ever could. I love the preachiness and the sanctimonious coming out of his little mind these days. I would think the man has sun stroke, but that would require him to actually work for a living and well, I can tell you, he doesn't.

But he keeps mentioning the GSRP, the GSRP, the fucking GSRP. I am going to write a damn history of that document soon, since he was up to his fucking neck in it as well with MXS. But Kerry one thing that you are wrong at, the rules may have started out getting more and more, but that was because like you are now, they penalized out of the box thinking.

But here is the ruling from the 'newest' GSRP:

CHARACTER/ROLE CARD: Your Character Card is your ticket to get into your base and defines which team you're on. Keep this on you at all times. Your commander's base security will ask to see it every time you insert onto the playing field (if they know what's good for them!) This colored card has the identity and character details you will be playing at the event. Get into your character, whether it be "Exalted Supreme Commander" or "Tailor" - this is the best way to get the most fun out of the event. Also on the Character/Role Card, you will find a space to enter your Player ID Number from your ID badge (see above.) Write your Player ID Number onto your Character/Role Card prior to game-on Saturday. This will speed your team's taping up and get you in on the first battle!

Funny since for well since the start of the document, this has been how it has always been. Losing your player card, put your security at risk. Want to know, if the guy who has the card is on your side. Simple. Barrel Tag him and walk him to your insertion, watch if he re-inserts, make sure the base ref checks on him and issues that if he is on the other side and doing this it is against the rules and then don't worry about it.

It ain't like you used a gift jersey to sneak someone into the base to eliminate the other commander and then stand behind your sanctimonious tower and talk about honor, right Ratsnake?

Since you have "stolen" a lot more of the GSRP these days as you ratchet down innovation in an attempt to get the big game players to come to your events while selling them as scenario, just realize you are losing your base, the people who play your games all the time. What a fucking dumbass!

But here, just add this to the rules as it was in the GSRP and your problems will be solved.

THE FINAL WORD

If it’s unclear;

If it’s not covered in orientation;

If it’s in a "grey" area;

If it’s not written in the GSRP, game-specific addendums, or on a game-specific card:

It Does Not Exist.

Ask the Event Director First!

;) How do you guys like those apples? Probably as much as I did when that ruling came into the GSRP.

Everyone wanted my opinion? It's simple, I don't place his fucking games anymore, you couldn't pay me to play them, so he can make all the fucking stupid rules he likes.

That's what sell-outs do........... they sell out!

So this morning I'm pointed to this:
http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=3397789

A Custom Event Jersey (Special Forces or Inmate)
A Custom event Barrel Cover (Special Forces or Inmate)

Custom Jersey
The custom jersey and barrel cover are a limited edition run made specifically for this event. You will be required to wear the jersey and play as an inmate or Special Forces. The jerseys are very cool, a collectors item and yours to keep.

If I were a sponsor, and my teams had to cover up the logos I paid money for them to wear, I'd be upset. Just sayin'.

This whole thing touches on a lot of issues at once. I won't lie, custom event stuff is cool. I like that... but being forced to wear it? Now you're back into the pit of further reducing the skill level of play. Where does it stop?

Player packet: When you check in you will receive a packet with a player ID card (tells about the character you are playing) and a Player Badge. DO NOT LOSE EITHER OF THESE. They will not be replaced for any reason! If you find one you must turn it in at Central Command immediately. Use of lost credentials to gain access to the enemy HQ, or acquire armband tape, is strictly prohibited.

Now, here's some funny things. For years, role cards did not have a number on them. Why? Losing it might have gotten you a replacement, but the person who found that card, it was as good as gold. No attempts to spin it otherwise can change what's well known to players who were actually there.

In the evolution of that security, teams started specially marking role cards. At each event, we had special "hole punches" in a variety of shapes, to denote that that card was verified as valid to our side, and you were allowed past the insertion point near the base. We were also writing numbers on the cards, well before there were ever blanks for them. None of this was ever about turning in lost cards, it was about base security, pure & simple. Players made their own adaptions to the rules, and didn't fucking cry about it.

Why do you think a card is even watermarked? For event immersion? No, not at all. It's because Wayne never watermarked anything. In fact, he frequently had fun poked at him because of his lack of basic security features. People sat in the parking lots with typewriters and just made their own.

Counterfeiting has always been a part of scenario culture, from props to IDs, and has never, ever been against the rules at any event I've ever played.

Anyways, here is what you should have been doing in the first place instead of relying on dropped cards:

1) Buy a laptop. It is just as an important piece of scenario equipment as your marker and mask.

2) Buy an all-in-one printer, scanner, fax machine.

3) Have power available at the field.

4) Have an internet connection. Field wifi, cell modem, tethered phone, whatever.

5) Amass a mighty collection of Fonts. See, Viper uses special fonts in an attempt to differentiate his cards and make counterfeits more difficult.

6) Go to Hobby Lobby. Buy card stock in every available color, you'll need them.

7) Go get your eyeballs on an enemy role card. Do whatever it takes. Ask nicely, hang out around registration, go look over shoulders, find a dropped one and memorize it on your "way to command central".

8) Go flex your Google skills finding a comparable image. Find the closest font you can, and make your own creation in MS Word.

9) Print it, chop it, start infiltrating.

It's not hard, just practice at it.