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© by Patric Boelstler
May 8, 2006 on 9:16 pm | In Patric's Blog, Singapore
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This weekend all of us were looking forward to play paintball or “Gotcha” as we say in Germany. We all became very flustered that Saturday morning. We booked the openfield paintball court for 2 hours. It is located near the OCC or Orchid Country Club.

The address of the playing field is: Orchid Country Club, 1 Orchid Club Road Singapore 769162. Contact number 6324-0038 / 9662-0038

We took the MRT from Bugis station to city hall and switched to the North-South-line to NS 14 which is Khabib. Once arrived there we took a cab to the OCC. It was only about 4 SGD. The paintball area is not that easy to find. You need to enter the OCC club and it will appear on the right hand side. You need to look very carefully because it’s all covered with a green net to keep the paintballs inside.

Initially we ordered 2000 paintballs for 11 people. The game started with a security instruction and a whole set of strict rules. This was a bit annoying but if you got hit by a paintball the first time you will know why those rules are so important.

We built 2 teams (5 against 6 but with one Dutch guy … ) and started the game. It was really exciting; everybody was wearing a breastplate and a mask to cover the face. There were many barrels and other items to hide behind. 2 tactical objects that were very important were the bridge and the tower. From those points you had a very good overview of the whole combat field and a perfect position to sniper “the enemy:

Why did I mention the Dutch guy earlier?? Ok, as I saw him the first time this morning coming out of the plaza he already looked a little pale. I asked him if he was alright an he said: “Just a normal hangover, I came home at 6 am“. After the first round of the combat this “normal hangover” literally knocked him out. He was totally pale and the referees decided to take him out of the game. This was a very wise decision as you can see on some of the pictures.

Apart from that “incident” the game was just perfect. We even decided to get another 2000 paintballs to extend the game to 2 hours.

TAG paintball is really fun to play and I would recommend it to everybody that is not afraid of bruises. Those small spherical balls made of a thin gelatin can really hurt and sometimes give you red and blue bruises. Did I mention that not a single paintball hit my breastplate … instead I got hit at the arm, at the legs etc etc …

Oh another thing … don’t play against the Canadians as the media always wants you to believe that they are harmless. This Canadian guy playing with/against us, turned out to be the number one assassin.

For more information just visit their website at www.paintball.com.sg