Special Ops Paintball Brigade

How It Pays to Play...

By JOracle
March 1, 2005
www.specialopspaintball.com

You're a committed paintballer. You've invested a lot of time in becoming a half-decent player. You've spent a lot of money gearing up to a respectable level. You've read a lot to learn the ins and outs of the sport. But, none of that matters when you walk onto a new field. Nobody knows you or your skills. For all they know, you're another newbie who's gone out and bought a marker.

Somebody should be paying attention to the hard work you've put into becoming a great paintball player. Somebody should be keeping track of your successes and achievements as you become an advanced woodsballer. And, it probably wouldn't be too much to ask for someone to cut you a break on gear prices and throw in a couple of freebies as you prove that you're seriously committed to the sport.

A great way to get the street cred you deserve is to join the Special Ops Brigade. It's free, it's got more uses than a Swiss Army knife and it'll give you the props (and the free stuff) you've earned.

The Special Ops Brigade is an informal association of woodsball™ and scenarioball players in the U.S. and Canada and it's backed up by the hottest woodsball™ company in paintball today.

Here's how it works:

Sign up for the Brigade online, for free, and automatically get your own, personal paintball website (click here for an example). Your website allows you to track your play, upload photos and list your gear.
On your website, the Play Log is an easy way to keep a journal of each time you hit the field. You log your "kills" and the number of times you've been eliminated yourself. This "kill ratio" is a really good indicator of how you're doing as a paintballer. If you're taking out more guys than the number of times you're being eliminated, than your skills are above average. Track your play and watch yourself improve over time.
But, watching your skills increase isn't the best reason to track your play. Each time you play, you're awarded 25 Brigade points. The more points you earn the higher your rank in the Brigade. The higher your rank, the more free stuff, discounts and special privileges you earn.
And, logging play isn't the only way to earn Brigade points. When you shop at SpecialOpsPaintball.com, you get one point per dollar spent. As you build the ultimate woodsball™ arsenal, you earn props for putting your cash into the game.
The Brigade doesn't just talk paintball, it plays too. The Game Locator (for Brigade Members only) is the biggest thing to hit woodsball™ since the semi-auto. Brigade members are treated to the first online paintball game clearinghouse. If you've got a good game going on this weekend, whether it's at a commercial field or in the woods outside of town, you can blast an announcement to every Brigade member within a hundred miles – all with the click of a button. Also, if you're looking for a game, as a Brigade member, you'll get an email call-to-action every time someone starts a game in your area. The Game Locator is the key to bigger games with better players.
As a Brigade member, you develop rank and you establish experience in one or more of the standard field positions. As you gain experience, you'll pick up the Brigade patches to match. Now, when you show up at an unknown field or scenario event, other Brigade members will know your skill-level, your experience and your specialties – just by looking at your patches.
Special Ops Paintball also offers the most complete library of woodsball™ strategies, tactics, gear info and general information found anywhere. Gain access to killer info, cool photos and brilliant strategy animations. And, if you're looking for the most up-to-date information, check out the hugely popular forum. The best and brightest of woodsball™ call it home.
And, once you climb the ranks of the Brigade, you'll be invited to participate in the creation of the woodsball™ gear of your dreams. The Special Ops Design Room is available only to officers and allows you to suggest and comment on gear designs – in every area of paintball product: clothes, vests, gun mods, internals, etc., etc..
Special Ops Paintball attends many large scenario events across the country each year. And, the SpecialOps Team travels with the Razorback – the baddest paintball tank around and winner of the 2004 Oklahoma D-day Tank-on-Tank Battle. The Razorback runs tours-of-duty throughout each day of scenario play and Brigade members are invited to enter their names in a drawing to man the tank. If you win a chance to get behind the big guns, Special Ops Paintball will also throw in a case of tank paint.

There are a mountain of other reasons to join the Brigade that you'll just have to see to believe. And, what do you give in return for all of these benefits? Nothing, nada, zilch. Special Ops Paintball won't even share your email address with anyone else. Special Ops is committed to being the driving force behind the woodsball™ revolution and the Brigade is our way of giving back to the great sport of woods paintball.

All in all, we think you'll agree that the Brigade deserves its reputation as "the coolest free thing in paintball." Sign up, sign in and let the good times roll.