TACTIK FIELD REVIEW

Blackthorn recently had the privilege to attend Tactik paintball August big game "urban warfare". On August 22 blackthorn rolled out to Tactik in Gatineau, Quebec to play a scenario, on arriving blackthorn had the opportunity to do our first field review at Tactik paintball.

First a little background about blackthorn and playing at the Tactik field. Backthorn has now gone to almost every big game Tactik has held over the last 3 years with hitting at least 3 games per season now. Tactik is a rare field owned and run by a rare owner, by rare i mean someone who loves the sport and is more about making a player experience memorable then about profits.

Now blackthorn has recently decided to get more of an online presence and to focus on our roots of woodsball, Milsim and Tactik has been apart of that since the inception of the team. So its only fitting that our first ever field review for our online presence be on Tactik. Now blackthorn has a full video of the field review and some more on just the urban warfare event,.

This small blog is basically showing the criteria we set forth in our field rating. so before i go into the criteria please watch the vids added and again thank you for your support and watching

now zero stars would be worst and 5 would be best

criteria : field/staff/owner/blackthorn vote

Field Review:
This is basically the overall structure and layout and basic maintenance of the field and creativity and playability 5 key points each with zero fill of star to full star to make the 5 tier star system

TACTIK FIELD

Structure: all field parts are well built and very safe (full star)

Layout: all fields are laid out with easy access to one another and very close to clubhouse (FS)

Basic Maintenance: all fields are clear well maintain and in safe repair (full star)

Creativity:village /plane /train /cartel /tower /city /fortress /woods /urban amazing(FS)

Playability: with there blend of urban and woods the fields alone or part of a scenario play play amazing and game flow is unmatched at Tactik with time flying by while playing the fields(FS)

overall 5 stars out of 5

Staff Review:
This criteria is key to a player experience, we sectioned it off into this system. on field fairness, speed at paint and air/co2 fill, on field vision and safety, personality, game flow and knowledge

TACTIK STAFF

Fairness: the Tactik refs hear out off points and make calls based on all knowledge (full star)

Speed: the staff has separate player Manning a separate both for both paint and air (fast) (FS)

Vision & Safety: Tactik staff are very fast at getting to any situation and all have full ref training and always 10 plus refs around field and all under radio contact (Full Star)

Personality: not only do most speak both English and french but all info is relayed in both also very nice and personable staff who are all polite and well mannered at all times (FS)

Knowledge and Game flow: all staff are pre briefed and the game is pre run before event so that all staff know there roles for the scenario down packed always flows nice at Tactik (FS)

5 stars out of 5

Owner Review:
This criteria is special for us as most review don't take owners into account, Blackthorn has placed these key points as the criteria: creativity, personality, heart, knowledge, funds

Tactik Owner Review:

Creativity: Steve always has fresh ideas for his big games and field construction never a moment where nothing is changing at Tactik and his ideas and concepts are well done thought out (FS)

Personality: Steve is very funny and personable guy rarely see a owner go out of his way for player's as Steve does, even to us non member non regular player (full Star)

Heart: Steve not only is nice but he focuses on the player over his own personal profit which is by itself very rare in today paintball world and refreshing and nice to see, main reason blackthorn keeps coming back and will continue to do so (Full Star)

Knowledge: Steve knowledge of what players want is uncanny and he goes out of his way to make a player (experienced or first timer) memorable each and every visit (full Star)

Funds: Tactik goes above and beyound when it comes to funds in there pursuit to make the best field imaginable(not a lot of field have a real 727 plane to play on) also no matter size of event alway 1k plus of prizes to give out to the players and cant not mention the lunch included in gate fee is a plus (full Star)

Blackthorn vote
Last criteria is blackthorn vote review, this we base on all player on the team giving there own experience vote out of a star and average it to 5 star sytem

Tactik Blackthorn Vote Review
Every one of our member give 5 stars and not once has any of us been disappointed in a days event at Tactik. (full 5 Stars)

over all blackthorn review of Tactik was perfect and for this reason Tactik will always have blackthorn player attending for years to come

20 out of 20 Stars

Again this REVIEW is based on Blackthorn team experiences at Tactik, below is a list of events we have played at Tactik(for a non home team or area team we are very knowledgeable and experienced at Tactik)

Blacthorn game played so far at Tactik
operation medussa (generals protection)
night game
operation bridge to far (i was the winning general which should of lost lol)
operation blackout (special team squad)
customer appreciation
madness (kinda generals)
lost souls(generals protection)
urban warfare (switched sides to side that was being over run)
night game(oct)


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special thanks to steve mayer and staff of tactik for another great day of ball
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