Ultimate Risk

Pre-registrations can be made by emailing

with the following info:

Please include-
First & last name of the registrant(s):
Phone/cell#:
Email Address:
preferred team: (Urbanites/Junglists)

Due to some logistics issues at this time we will not be
requesting prepayment for registration. The reduced registration
fee will still be valid at the door for confirmed preregistrations.
In lieu of the fee, we would request that any preregistered players
please sign in at least 1 to 1/2 hour before game start (10:00am) to
ensure the slot(s) with the team you have requested to play on.

Walkons & late preregistrants may be assigned to a team by the
organizer to a team to ensure balanced game play.

Walk on players will be processed after 9:30 am if there are
still available slots for the game. Slots may come available
if other players leave the game early or are disqualified from play.

You will receive an email to confirm your registration.

Starting the day
7:30am I finish packing the car and head to the field. Seeing other cars on 25 side road I wonder if they are heading to the tournement, sure enough some are. By the time I arrive at 7:50 there’s already a dozen cars in the lot and people getting geared up.

Ultimate risk promises to be one of the biggest games at the field ever with over 175 preregistration’s we’ll be looking at over 200 players by the end of the day.

Setup
8:10am start the final run through of rules, tickets, maps and other game related stuff with Larry & crew. Time to meet and great people who are filtering in in ever increasing numbers.

Enough of that, time to get out with Dean & Sean to tape the boundaries for the southern swamps, thankfully its dry right now. Wrap that do another brief meet & greet and head back out with Dean to make the flags & mark the fields. Little saw from Lee Valley makes quick work of some saplings and we get the flags tied up pretty quickly.

Back to meet & greet and I finally meet Sam & Canadian Justice (the Canadian arm of Blue’s Crew). We do a quick run through the day and share a few jokes. Ultimate is their “sentimental” home field and they will be leading the Urbanite team for the day. It’s good to have them on board.

Time to chrono my main marker before the line up gets too big. Good thing too, my stabilizer seems a bit cranky and my FPS is all over the place even with HPA. Get that tuned in so I don’t shoot “lobbers” all day.

At about 9:30 when everyone is looking for flagging tape to mark teams it sinks in that I have to General the Junglists as well. After reeling off tape as quickly as I can betweeen various questions coming in, I sit down with my team mates from Kamakazi Commandos we set a strategy to get up and cover the northern forest ASAP while the rest of the team fills out our territories between there and our home base in the hog patch.

Back to handing out flagging tape and getting ready to do orientation over the loud speaker. After a few glitches with the team sign up (mixed up paint/team colours, players switching sides) we’re finally ready to go by a little after 10am.

The game starts
Our strategy to rush then end works out well as the Urbanites take a long time to get out of the village. The junglists push forward and take castle easily before encountering heavier resistance at the hill. The junglists maintain the advantage for a good chunk of the morning but by noon the Urbanites are starting to take ground with a lot of wide northeastern flanks. Many of the junglists break for lunch and the Urbanites take a much stronger hold on the field

For the rest of the afternoon the game is very dynamic with the control of territories changing almost every 1/2 hour. Canadian Justice crew does a wide northeastern flank with some very heavy ramping and we get swept back into dark forest agian. I get tagged and have to walk back out for re-insertion. Encounter some Urbanites attacking from the hog patch. After informing them they’re out of bounds they’re understandably ticked off being directed there by a ref. Reminder to self, have a meeting at least 1 week in advance with all ref’s & support staff to cover all the rules & logistics.

At some point I take a large squad and we air drop through the bush into the northern forest, we pass a lot of Urbanites heavy in the bush outside of castle. Happily we land in Junglist controlled territory. We leave a few more support and move up to to dark forest to clear out some resistance. After some really constrained fire fights in the heavy bush I move up to support a friendly behind a bunker. We exchange a couple rounds of fire and I take one in the mask. As I get up and walk out the guy realizes he’s just TK’d his General, good thing the paint got mixed up or we’d have a heavy penalty there.

Gong Show
One of the last insertions of the day we hear a bunch of screaming in the bush near the bottom of hill that turns out to be a 7 on 2 mortal combat style brawl, by the time I arrived on scene 1 of the 7 was screaming at one of the refs. WTF… Gong show over, exit stage right. Close off Village & the eastern swamps from play and open unlimited air drops in the last hour.

The last 1/2 hour of play remained heavy in the central region. “Word on the street” was the Junglists were dominating, if that was the case our players should have taken more of the flags.

Wrap up
Junglists ended up in control of their home territory, hill & castle, the Urbanites in turn taking control of Back 40, darkwoods and D-Day.

Teams were fairly even in recorded penalties; 6 for the Junglists, 7 for the Urbanites. Junglists stopped the most terrorists at 12, with only 7 for the Urbanites. Urbanites cleaned up with the medics, returning 3 medic cards & a total of 32 healings, Junglists with only 2 cards returned & 18 healings.

All in all feedback for the event has been very positive and we have a “tactical list” of improvements and tune ups for next year