Airsoft Action - December 2023

AA LEGION
TAIWAN
round off the shooting festivities we made a departure
from the typical fifth stage most of our Level 1
competitions would entail, and instead each division
saw its competitors paired off by virtue of handing in
their shooter number cards and having them drawn
from a ballot box. Each pair would then undertake
a duel, engaging identical target arrays of 6 distant
poppers with a mandatory reload somewhere of their
choosing between first and last engagement, with
the final poppers being arranged at an angle so that
whoever engaged it first would have their popper fall
beneath their opponent’s signifying their win.
This was a really enjoyable aspect of a more direct
one on one competition and everybody was in great
spirits as the pairs were called up to engage the
targets with the winners of each heat progressing to
the semi, quarter and final rounds playing off against
each other until the final champion was arrived at. I
was drawn against team Spring Rain’s Guo WeiPeng,
and we seemed to have one of the most exciting
face-offs, reloading in near unison and eliminating
the poppers almost simultaneously with his final
popper being struck at apparently exactly the same
time as mine but just sneaking under mine as they
fell! A most exhilarating aspect of the competition
compared to the post-match stats based scoring
related time-trials where you don’t get the same sense
of comparison as you are shooting, and something I’d
like to see more of in future as it certainly adds to the
excitement and spectacle of the proceedings.
All told I ended up placing eighth out of ten
competitors in the production division, with 44%
of the winning score; I thought the DNF start would
totally have scuppered my efforts. Lai YuChen of Team
Spring Rain took first place in the production division,
with Zhou YuTing of Team Yamars taking second place
and Zheng YangShou taking third place. Standard
division was championed by our own leading lady
Ou YiChing, Lin GuanLiang taking second place, and
Guo ShiMing taking third place… the man behind the
organisation of the event. Open division saw Team
Yamars’ ‘Jacky’ Hou BoXian taking first place, our own
Team leader ‘Mars’ Liu HanLin taking second place
and Team Spring Rain’s ‘Bear’ Zhan DengXiong taking
third place.
Every champion of each division was then also
provided with a box of 50 rounds of Eley .22LR live
ammunition to distribute as they pleased within their
“EACH PAIR WOULD THEN UNDERTAKE A DUEL, ENGAGING IDENTICAL TARGET ARRAYS OF 6
DISTANT POPPERS WITH A MANDATORY RELOAD SOMEWHERE OF THEIR CHOOSING BETWEEN
FIRST AND LAST ENGAGEMENT, WITH THE FINAL POPPERS BEING ARRANGED AT AN ANGLE
SO THAT WHOEVER ENGAGED IT FIRST WOULD HAVE THEIR POPPER FALL BENEATH THEIR
OPPONENT’S SIGNIFYING THEIR WIN!”
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DECEMBER 2023