Team Bonding

Want to get a group of guys to have a good time together - give them paintball guns and let them run around and shoot each other.
Last Friday we went paint-balling for a little change from basketball practice. We had pretty much the whole team there and played at a course about 30 minutes away called Basefield. Supposedly it is the biggest paintball place in Austria. I think it has a couple of different areas that you can play, but we played in the indoor area that wasn't all that big. Not being so big made it more fun though because it meant that you were going to see the other team more often :)
We broke up into 2 different teams the foreigners and the Austrians. We had the paintball course for over an hour and played four different games. The foreigners won 3 out of the 4, with the game we lost being a little bit in question. The first two games we played the rule was whoever had people still left at the end, won (if you got hit you were out and had to go wait until the game was over). And, in the second two games we played capture the donkey (capture the flag). The foreigners were able to shoot all the locals in the first game without getting hit once ourselves. After that the rest of the games were a little more even and we had a blast.
It was a little bit expensive to go in Austria and do paint-balling but it was totally worth it. Hopefully, if not this year, we will be able to go again in the future.
(I don't have any pictures of it right now but some of the guys forgot to wear heavy clothes, sweatshirt or something long sleeved, underneath the jacket that was provided and ended up with a couple of war wounds. If I can get some pictures I will put them on as they are pretty funny to see).
To see what the paintball course we played on looked like you can type http://www.paintball-linz.at/Home in the address bar and it will show a virtual tour of where we played. Pretty cool. (The course had tunnels below ground that you could hide in and maneuver through and an area above that had lots of things you could also hide behind to shield you from the paintballs of the other team).