This is a great article:
Hotel transforms into military simulation battleground
The Muskogee Hotel stands empty with little activity — until September when a military simulation event will take over for two days.Claymore-Frosty Productions will bring the “Fireproof Challenge” to the Muskogee Hotel and Coffeeshop, a city icon on the corner of North Main Street and Broadway, on Sept. 4 and 5.
However, there’s no fire involved, just firepower, in a military simulation event that Kelly “Claymore” McCoy and Blake “Frosty” Danyeur organized.
Twenty teams of eight from across the nation will compete to determine who is the top MilSim team in the country.
The simulation, or MilSim, involves highly skilled airsoft players dressing up in protective military gear and shooting each other with BB guns.
Not just a BB gun anyone can pick up at Walmart either, Danyeur said, but professional replicas of real military guns that only shoot 6mm plastic BBs.
Claymore-Frosty Productions holds the highest respect for members of the military, Danyeur said.
They do not allow participants to wear military insignia they didn’t earn and expect everyone to play honorably.
“That means that even if I get hit on the tip of the finger, I yell hit, hit, hit and I’m dead,” McCoy said. “This game requires honor.”
MilSim is for highly experienced players, while Airsoft groups play in the woods with less sophisticated equipment and are a good place for beginners to start.
The teams that participate in MilSim have to complete objectives designed by Danyeur and McCoy to simulate true military objectives.
They may have to rescue a hostage in a certain amount of time or find and disarm a dirty bomb, McCoy said.
“It’s very intense, very hardcore,” he said. “Not just anyone can play in these games, you have to be invited, and it takes a lot of experience.”
A practice MilSim event at the Muskogee Hotel is coming up soon as an opportunity for McCoy and Danyeur to plan and design the objectives for September.
Normally, MilSim is played in an outdoor setting, but the national event is set in a CQB setting — close quarter battle.
The four-story hotel has 149 rooms to utilize, a basement, three staircases, and 65,000 square feet of playable space.
McCoy and Danyeur already have staged some practice events at the hotel and said they were quite interesting experiences.
A CQB environment is very fast-paced, more dangerous, easier to get lost in, and in the case of the Muskogee Hotel and Coffeeshop — haunted, Danyeur said.
“It’s an environment to play where you are alive and sneaky one minute and dead the next second,” McCoy said. “The game is ever-changing.”
Reach Wendy Burton at 684-2926 or wburton @muskogeephoenix.com.
What to do
The general public is not invited to observe or participate for safety reasons, but anyone interested in beginning an Airsoft hobby can go to www.okairsoft.net to find local groups that allow beginners.
Information on MilSim events: www.MilSimEvent.net
http://muskogeephoenix.com/local/x1601576950/Hotel-transforms-into-military-simulation-battleground
For all your airsoft needs just go to www.discountairsoftstore.com
No comments:
Post a Comment