$1 Million Dollars Paintball Tournament

[ktran]

Operation: Paintball Island
Real Action Paintball is proud to announce "Operation: Paintball Island," the $1,000,000.00 grand prize paintball tournament! The tournament will take place on a private tropical island, with an undisturbed natural wildlife environment with raw forests, rivers and beaches surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean

Operation: Paintball Island is a two-stage woodland style paintball tournament for 10 to 12 player woodsball teams. The first phase, the qualifier stage, will take place in Mississippi, on the US mainland, during August of 2007. At least 10 qualifying games will take place around the country, to find the teams most worthy of this ultimate paintball challenge. The winning team of each qualifier game will earn $50,000 dollars.

The second stage of the tournament will take place during March of 2008 in Brazil, South America. The tournament will take place on a private tropical island—an undisturbed natural wildlife environment with raw forests, rivers and beaches surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. The winning team will earn the grand prize of $1,000,000.00 dollars!
Every player that registers and pays the regular registration fee gets a FREE RAP4 T68 SMG—the official paintball marker of Operation Paintball Island.

Participation in the tournament is open to anyone, from any country or continent, who is at least 18 years of age. Players may enter the tournament individually, in groups of two or more players, or as a complete team of 10 to 12 players. Players who enter the tournament together will be placed on the same "squad."

This tournament will be the most rewarding, most unique, and most intense paintball tournament ever played. Contestants will have the opportunity to enjoy—and endure—nature, their competitors, and their own will, on a tropical island. The human spirit will be tested in this ultimate game of survival and strategic paintball warfare. Players are encouraged to sign up with their friends, other paintball enthusiasts and even non-enthusiasts who have wanted to play paintball, but have not gotten the chance to play.

Have you read "The Most Dangerous Game"? Now's your chance to live something closely akin to that, on a tropical paradise, with a million dollars on the line.

More information on the event

[Kaiza]

WOW, sounds fantastic! 

[Stan The Hitman]

WHat is the entry fee is everyone gets a free T68 with entry?

[Crawdaddy]

its probly more then the t68 cost. hahahahaha

[Muttly]

Probably more like 10 t68's

[Crawdaddy]

I ment it as in nothing is free.(ie "Every player that registers and pays the regular registration fee gets a FREE RAP4 T68 SMG".)

[Muttly]

I ment it as in nothing is free.(ie "Every player that registers and pays the regular registration fee gets a FREE RAP4 T68 SMG".)

LOL  I thought you meant the registration free, I mean fee. he he he 

[Bach]

I've searched everything I could find (so far) and haven't seen anything about what the registration fee for this event will be.  Does anyone have any information that I might be missing?

Thanks!

[Sharky]

Sounds Like a blast, does the big payout mean big entry fee

[Crawdaddy]

ok on there web site there field fee is $1.299USD
i told you guys it was more then the marker!...
you guys can play in my back yard for $500.00......B.Y.O.M (bring your own marker)
hahahahaha wow thats alot of money to pay and then have to spen more to fly to an island to play.

[Muttly]

that would be a fully loaded rap4, its kind of hard to think of spending more on a game than i have into my marker. Crawdaddy; where is your back yard? i'll bring my own paint too

[Phecri902]

Well for a $50,000 prize purse, I'd say that's worth the $1,299 to play.  Who else is sponsoring the event?

[Captfish]

Shadow Group will be there!!! HOO-RAH!!!

[OPI Command Center]

Hello Everyone,

This is the Operation Paintball Island Command Center. The Command Center is communications entity for the tournament. We have reviewed your posts thus far and would like to answer some of your initial questions.

(1) Though the initial registration fee is $1299, when the website opens this Friday, March 23, the registration fee will be discounted to $899. This price will last until April 30. Then it will go up to $1299.  

(2) Included in the registration package is the T68 SMG, worth $350. The registration also includes paintballs, food, water and some equipment that will be used in the tournament.

Remember that the tournament is two phases. Phase One is in Mississippi, USA - lots of winners, $50,000 prize per winning per team. Phase Two is on the island, $1,000,000 to the only winning team.

(3) Teams that win in Mississippi will be transported to the Island for free (most likely via cruise ship), no travel costs.

Be sure to visit the site now (temporary version) and fill out a guest card. If you do, you will have an opportunity to register for free and win a drawing for a T68 SMG - FREE MARKER, FREE REGISTRATION, the best of both worlds.

One Week. One Island. One Million Dollars.

Regards,

Command Center

[Phecri902]

But up top it says,
"At least 10 qualifying games will take place around the country, to find the teams most worthy of this ultimate paintball challenge. The winning team of each qualifier game will earn $50,000 dollars."

So I need this clarified... Will there me multiple games across the country for Phase One, as I noted, or is Mississippi the ONLY location for Phase One?
This is going to make or break a lot of contestants, who won't want to pay $1300 PLUS costs to travel to Mississippi.