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Redbeard75

04-25-2009, 12:40 AM

I'm not just saying it because we are sponsored by the UWL. We have played the format more then a few times, and cant stop. Well worth checking out. A great Format for the woodsball or speedball team alike!

http://www.playuwl.com/chicago.html

Chicago 2009

Badlandz
Chicago Illinois
May 16-17 2009
Registration
Venue Info

Hosted at Badlandz just outside of downtown Chicago. The Badlandz was originally developed to be a practice facility for multiple time World Championship Team Aftershock. With that in mind, it was easy to accomplish our mission to draw other top teams to play against! Almost immediately we created a competitive vacuum in the Midwest. Most, if not all; the best players and best teams gravitated to the Badlandz. Other fields continued to focus on the full paying general public, Not Us. We wanted to remain committed to the competition player.
Badlandz Website
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Hotel Info

Country Inn And Suites Matteson
950 Corporate Lakes Drive
Matteson, IL 60443
(708) 748-4740‎
Website

Baymont Inn
5201 Southwick Dr
Matteson, IL‎
(708) 503-0999‎
Website
Vendors
Is your company interested in sponsoring this event or setting up a booth in the vendor village? If so, please contact us at info@playuwl.com.

Redbeard75

05-01-2009, 11:16 PM

Hey guys! I wanted to let you know more about the UWL Chicago event coming in May. If you haven't heard of it, its a new woodsball league. The format is a blast to play. We ran a practice session in the format a few weeks ago and it was alot of fun. They have divisions for mech guns and divisions for electro's as well as positions for pump players. They just finished their first event at SC Village and it went off very well. The Chicago event will be at The Badlandz in Crete, IL and is bring your own paint... Also if you can't get a 10 man team together for the event, the league is putting free agents together and forming squads for the event. So if you want to try out a woodsball tournament you can swing by and get in on the action with minimal effort. The cool thing about this leauge is that they keep individual stats for each tournament. So playing on a free agent team still gets you your points.

You can get more info about the league at: http://www.playuwl.com.

DFSniper

05-01-2009, 11:25 PM

nice. i've known one of the organizers (Chris Brown) for years. sounds like a lot of fun. too bad chi-town is a good 10-hour drive for me.

Redbeard75

05-01-2009, 11:31 PM

Redbeard75

05-12-2009, 08:48 AM

Posted by Pirate on PBnation http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?p=58806458

I saw big smiles and friendly gestures everywhere I turned during the inaugural event of the Ultimate Woodsball League at SC Village in Corona, CA. The UWL brought in plenty of steep competition, but there was a greater sense of camaraderie and fellowship than you find at your traditional tournament.

UWL Commissioner Tom Cole, a veteran woodsballer who played with Bad Company for most of his professional career, realized that many players long for the days when tournaments were more about crawling than rate of fire.

As both a format and a league, the UWL is a shining star. There are a growing number of players who want to play competition paintball but are jaded or otherwise turned-off by aspects of the speedball game. The UWL represents a happy medium between recreational paintball and full-fledged, in your face tournament paintball.

Playing in the woods presents different challenges and learning situations for players of all ages and skill levels. The UWL is running an advertising campaign featuring the slogan "These players started in the woods" with pictures of Hall of Fame paintball players including Chris Lasoya, Richie Maliszeweski (Image), and Shane Pestana, Darryl Trent and Dave Youngblood of the Ironmen, among others. The UWL's other tagline is "Woods, Dirt, Camo" which any woodsball veteran can get behind.

The UWL divides teams into two divisions, Open and Skills. Equipment restrictions make the difference between the divisions; Infantry players (open division) can use any electronic marker in semi-auto, Rangers (skills division) must use non-electronic markers. Both Infantry and Rangers must use 9-volt loaders (Kingman Fasta, VL Revolution, etc.).

Teams consist of a captain, a scout, a heavy weapons man, 7 infantry / rangers and one sniper. The captain can use any electronic marker set to semi-auto and calls in the use of special weapons -- revives and "missile" strikes to strategically eliminate the other team. Scouts break out 10 seconds before their teammates to pull a flag or set up in a forward position. The heavy weapons player can use any marker in any mode with any mode. Snipers must use a pump gun or pistol and count as a +1, an eleventh player on a ten man team.

Bob Long took full advantage of the heavy weapons position, using his brand new Marq Victory in uncapped full-auto to chop up the competition. I came across Bob in a ravine and was so scared of his machine gun that I retreated to another position.

Tom Cole and the UWL team spent several days grooming SC Village's world famous woods fields for the tournament. Despite the inherent difficulties in creating even fields in the woods, the two fields in play were adequately balanced, with neither side having an inherent advantage due to a coin flip. Additionally, the team that loses the coin flip receives a handicap -- either more revives or the option to start with a flag base in their possession.

The objective-based format evened the playing field because games weren't won by eliminations, but flag possession time. Good teams worked the fields and developed strategies to control their flag stations while keeping the other team out. More experienced teams often found it difficult, and counterproductive, to steamroll opponents with no regard for pulling and defending flags.

Bob Long's Assassins took first place in the Open Division, followed by the CA Ballers in second. Playing alongside Bob Long were his son Zack Long, Tyler Harmon, Kimo and a number of the LA Hitmen.

The UWL offers an placement program for players who can't find a team to play with. The CA Ballers were a team of players assembled for the tournament by the UWL. The UWL offers this service as a way to build new teams and relationships in the sport.

The San Diego Daggers, captained by the voice of paintball, veteran Ironman Matt Marshall, took first place in the Skills division. The San Diego Daggers were a motley crew of grizzled vets and familiar faces, including Nicky Cuba (Ironmen), Todd Martinez (Dynasty), Brandon Lambertson (ex-Infamous), and Roy Richards and Cedric Roloff (ex-Avalanche & KAPP Factory).

The Daggers faced Team Gat in the final, a showdown many called the game of the tournament. Team Gat, using 7 pump guns, took the Daggers down to the final buzzer before they captured Team Gat's base flag for the win.

The event was a big success because everyone left the field feeling good about the weekend. Teams played with honor, respect and a tremendous amount of sportsmanship. Players of all ages and walks of life found common ground on the paintball field, and that has forever been what our sport is all about.

Tom Cole is doing a fine job running the UWL, the event went off without a hitch and everyone in attendance had a fun weekend. A hallmark of a good commissioner is the ability to take criticism and suggestions from their players. Tom was vigilant in pursuit of feedback from teams, constantly asking them how they were doing and what the league could do better.

Paintball photographer extraordinaire Chris Dilts was on hand to capture the events of the weekend; his photo galleries are posted at the UWL's website, www.playuwl.com

Thanks to SC Village, Giant Paintball, Chris Dilts and all of the teams, friends and families who came out to share the weekend together. Thanks to Kingman Training, DYE, JT, BT, GenX, Ultimate Paintball, Bob Long Technology, and Tippmann, the UWL's event sponsors.

DFSniper

05-12-2009, 09:01 AM

good stuff. i really want to get up and meet bob and tom cole, but it doesnt look good right now. :(

http://www.playuwl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=217

The first UWL event wrapped up last night with smiling faces everywhere. No matter how the teams placed, I only heard everyone was having a great time.

The format took a little bit getting used to, i heard a couple of players mentioned they figured out the rules on sunday, which made for some interesting discussion on saturday, hah.

The event was great. I had a fabolous time. I was on the league's "solo player" team(s), CA Ballers and SC Mercs and the teams worked out great. I got to play with a friend who i had played with before and a few other friends. We had a great time and we placed second as CA Ballers and third as SC Merc's in the open division. I think there is defiantly potential for the solo player team's to be doing some damage in the upcoming events.

The 10+1 man format was super fun. Seeing 11 guys run at the blowhorn was awesome. Watching 4 take the left, 2 charge up the gully in the middle and and 5 cover right right flag was super fun. Our scout (F3TT) was excellent and got MVP for the whole tournament. He got the flag every single time we sent him out and then we backed him up and covered the flag for some points. We had an awesome format by the end of the tournament and although we were tired, we were loving it. We got beat by Bob Long's team and by Matty Marshall's teams but that was expected. We did feel good about how did against both of them, however, i was very happy with the fight we put up against them.

I can't say enough how much fun it was to romp through the woods trying to shoot people. There were several breakout where i stomped over waist high weeds, dove into some dirt and then crawled up behind a tree to post up on a spot. Incredible fun. I crawled over everything this weekend, if you were in a fire fight area and you wanted to move, you were crawling. Plenty of times i found myself crawling closer to the brush as i had a guy lay paint in my area. I found myself completely flat with my face down trying hoping the brush infront of me was going to stop all of the paint.

I heard several of the pro's say, "man, this is the funnest tournament i've played in a long time" and i believe it. I played an incredible amount of paintball in the 2 days of the tournament and can't tell you how much fun i had.
Our rag tag team of players was great, it was really fun playing with people i've never played with and have them cover me and help us win.

There was a fair amount of blunders that happened. Most notably is when one of our best players shot my brother in the back as my brother bunkered 2 players that was holding our guy down. Our teammate assumed it was an enemy and shot my brother out and then realized what he did. He say's he wanted the glory of clearing that side all to himself, hah. Woodsballs is awesome.

There was a ton of press and a good amount of pro's. Hopefully someone can come in and write up a pro list but there will defiantly be magazine articles and video's up on the internet in the coming weeks. This league is going to go far. If you're in one of the upcoming events, Get ready to get super dirty and have a ton of fun.