Do you possess superior precision shooting, communication, and movement skills? Can you make every shot count? Or might you simply want to reduce the impact on your wallet or affordably double up on your play time? If you answered yes to any of these questions, your team will want to play the new Tactical RaceTo or Pump divisions at the June 23 - 26, 2011 PSP Chicago Open.
Tactical RaceTo builds on PSP's current world-famous RaceTo format, adding one enhancement: Each team starts each point with a full hopper for each player, plus five 140-round pods to divide up amongst the team. Give a pod to each player, or give them to your back players, or give it all to the player who has to hold down that key lane into the snake. The decision is yours, and in Tactical RaceTo, these decisions matter.
Tactical RaceTo will not just bring new strategy elements to the game and put greater focus on communication and precision technical skills, but also cut paint consumption by up to 80%, dramatically reducing the cost to compete.
I think this would go over well for Voodoo. Of course you'd charge a higher entry fee (or less pricey payouts or both) to offset the reduced paint sales. Some people suggested limiting paint to 400 rounds instead of just saying "a hopper and a pod" but I like the ambiguity of it. Leave it slightly vague to make it more exciting yet still limited enough. Someone wants to use a 400rd Pinokio - fine. It's a bigger target so it's a trade-off.
I think it'll make it much more fun and even across skill levels.
Seriously though I think a 300-400rd per person limit sounds fun. Just double the field fee for that day. You could do it on Saturdays to try to bring out more people and newbies. Or make it a mechanical gun only day. Something to improve skill and bring out people who just do t like the spray and pray style of play.
400rd per person tournament, minimal prizes. Sounds fun!
