Dustin burgin

Review of Tempe Paintball

I played at ACP for the first time this weekend an...

I played at ACP for the first time this weekend and thought I should give it a quick review.
APC is a indoor air conditioned air-soft/paintball field and retail store. The retail store had a very nice section with all of the normal supplies you would need during a day of play. The section isn't huge but their prices are fair. The staging area was what you would normally expect, a few picnic tables in a open room. I will admit that the room was much cleaner then other fields I've been to. The snack bar offers lots of cold drink and a variety of snacks. If you wish to have to a real lunch you will need to go to a local drive through or restaurant. The field its self was separate from the paint ball field. This was very nice! You don't get covered in leftover paint goo. The field looks small at first until you go in and play on it. Its setup with many small rooms with lots of cover. It also has many doors that can be opened and closed dung game play. Another thing I really liked about that field is that they separate the adults and children during game play. FPS was set at 350 and allowed full auto during some most games and do not require Bio or House BBs. I really like this because I use really cheap BBs for CQB. Now here is the part that I think could have been done better. The refs didn't really ref the adult game play and really leaves it up to the players to govern themselves. At the start of the day we all really just stood around BSing till someone finally said lets go onto the field and play. The ref only started telling us when to start and stop playing after more people started showing up and we needed to alternate game play with a smaller group of kids. Even then they only told us when to start and stop the game play without any guidance of what game mode we where running. I don't think the refs need to been on the field during game play. Honestly they just get in the way and never even see what happens on the field. I do also enjoy the refs allowing the players to choose the game modes because most fields just run the same game over and over again. The only down side to allowing the players to choose is this can been time consuming. Honesty my only real complaint is I would have liked them to be more prompt on starting and stopping the games. Over all the is a awesome place that I will play at again. Good prices, nice field, friendly staff.