Richmond Riot Practice at Pevs 8/23/2009

Richmond Riot headed up to Pevs Paintball again this past weekend to scrimmage with the Arsenal teams and several other teams. Teams that made an appearance this weekend to practice on the Pevs fields for the DC Challenge 2009 event were: Richmond Riot, Intensity, Justice Kidz, Arsenal, Arsenal Evolution, Arsenal Predators, Spawn, Rockin Cockers.

The team played pretty well against everyone considering they lost a player friday night who got picked up by Arsenal Evolution and a player had to work leaving just 5 members of Riot to scrimmage the other organized 7-man teams. The team tested out paintballs made by Valken Paintball this weekend shooting a little bit of Graffiti and the rest of the paint being Zing. Overall this was much better paint than the previous week which was whitebox valken that was a winter formula and shell. This paint was still a bit bouncey compared to what other teams were shooting since teams were shooting DXS Gold and Marbalizers this weekend.

In terms of the paint the team would have to say that the Zing was definitely a great low end paintball and the Graffiti being the top of Valken's line definitely fell short of the performance that was expected. The Graffiti is much cheaper than other high-end tournament paints but was supposed to be comparable in performance and marking. This paint did break a little more easier on target than the Zing but it definitely was no match to the Marbalizer and DXS Gold being shot at Riot all day. The fill in Graffiti is nowhere near as thick and bright as the other brands and also not as brittle. Overall for the price of the Graffiti it is definitely a good bang for the buck though. The team would definitely shoot this paint for practice paint again if given the oppurtunity.

Anyways this weekend consisted of a totally drenched paintball park from the Hurricane Bill rain-bands streaking through the night before leaving tons of standing water between the fields which was quickly remedied by putting mulch down by the Pevs staff which was definitely a quick fix to the situation. The field was very quick and slid much further than the week before but was still a great surface to play on. No standing water on the field due to the excellent work that pevs put into the field when grading out the fields for paintball play. This was defnitely a great practice with great pricing yet again for organized teams. Riot is looking to continue to improve their performance as they head into the DC Challenge this Friday.