Airsoft Action - December 2023

SPECIAL REPORT
G&G CQB WORLD CUP 2023
in below the line of sight of some of the targets for
both their own safety and to avoid such issues and
reactions in future, yet still achieve their own goals of
capturing the action.
Similarly some method of streaming the action
or making use of multiple GoPros on the stages
themselves, or even each competitor (many already
had their own setups in action for their own
content creation purposes) would help to capture
the excitement and allow for either future content
creation and aggregation, or even live streaming
of individual competitors runs to avoid the need
for crowded viewing platforms over the stages
themselves.
One of the main issues with
running standardised stages
for multiple competitors is
the question over the true
randomisation of some of the
systems; some teams seemingly
‘got lucky’ with a lot of targets
being presented in close proximity
sequentially in one region of the
stage 2 ‘Search and Destroy’
game, with the Japanese team
particularly clearing it very quickly
with a lot of the targets on
both sides lighting up in close
succession at one end, allowing
them to clear half the stage
very rapidly, it seemed. With my
experiences of IPSC and similar,
the practitioners all get the same
presentation of the same targets
and just have to plan the most
efficient stage run for themselves and take into
account ammunition limitations, but just have to do
their run as rapidly as possible on the same targets as
they choose to.
The difference with the CQB Cup is the electronic
nature of the targets, particularly with the ‘Search
and Destroy’ Stage 2; more extensive prior practise
had been available to some of the teams (depending
on whether they had both the sufficient space and
accessibility of target systems to train with before
qualifying heats in local national competitions) with
the order of the targets lighting up being ostensibly
random, players had to be prepared to hear or see the
cues and react accordingly, while being tied to their
teammate at the waist with a belt system.
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