The lovely
BI team all met up for Lasertag at 16.30 and headed over to West Berlin (via
the shop for some supplies for the half hour journey). Once there we all suited
up and went through the safety briefings and got acquainted with our
"weapons" as well as putting some laser hit markers on our velcro
tennis bands before heading off into the Arena for games.
First game consisted
of an all v all melee with five lives which resulted in complete chaos, laser
beams flying everywhere and some who would scream quite loudly whenever someone
shot at them.
Second game
again elimination with the addition of teams denoted by glowsticks stuck into
our headbands. It quickly became apparent that some players were taking a human
wave approach to "combat" with hilarious results. Special mention
goes to one blonde BI member who's vietkong-esque sneaky tactics meant about
three people were trying to look for him by the end of the game. We were half
expecting him to come out with his face painted in mud and Camouflaged with
leaves (which would've been dumb as we were playing in a warehouse).
By the
second half of the evening we were all nicely warmed up so the next round was
team v team again with the addition of competition. With the team with the most
points in 10 minutes winning. Victory went to the reds quite decisively with
some extremely aggressive kamikaze tactics in play especially from the CRO team
members resulting in very high scoring.
The final
round was the most complicated with a team ground domination game where we had
to control the area around "the atomic weapon" for as long as
possible and/or capture the bomb from the other team. Again aggressive
play and fearless/suicidal tactics from the Red team members but with the
additional requirement of a long walk back to the other side of the arena for
every death the final round went to the Blues slightly more methodical
approach.
Possibly
this victory was aided by an "accident" resulting in one of the reds
nursing a black eye and the reds a man/woman down. These accusations of dirty
tactics are of course emphatically denied by the Blue team....
The evening
was finished up in a nearby argentinian/mexican/spanish restaurant with a split
personality disorder (Capirinhas with Tapas!? blasphemy I say....) and an
extremely exciting sounding hazelnut schnapps which, as it turned out, was just
Hazelnut flavoured Baileys, can't have everything I suppose....
Overall
chalk up another successful BI social with 100% less inebriated Judo practice. Always
a success by my standards.
Written by Tom
