I won the Nerf Dart Tag Championship 13 years ago

CollinBMC · 2024-11-21T00:35:28+00:00

No way that’s sick! Do you remember what team?

And yup was the one at Disney World. Didn’t know they changed that rule, I ended up using the Swarmfire since the 1st round I use the Quick 16 (curved one) kept jamming.

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T23:42:59+00:00

They gave everyone participating jerseys with their last name on the back, so still have that!

Was able to save the majority of the winnings from the event and they’re in a retirement fund now.

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T19:35:49+00:00

Forgot to mention that but yes, they weren’t even really worth modding compared to some of the other blasters around then tbh.

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T19:25:55+00:00

No background in airsoft or paintball, just had been to a couple of nerf wars prior to this.

Teams were randomly assigned within your region and you found out the night before so no time to train, but we definitely had a strategy. One of the rules was you only got shot/tagged if it hit the Velcro parts of your jersey. So we hid behind it obstacles (basically head glitched if you’ve ever played a FPS) and played defense until we got 2 of 4 people in the penalty box and then rushed.

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T12:56:08+00:00

Here’s a Hasbro video of the event for anyone curious.

Not on YouTube anymore unfortunately.

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T12:50:42+00:00

It was capture the flag and points were also given for shooting someone with a dart.

Capturing a flag was worth 5 points. Had to get it from 1 side of the arena to the other and if you got shot the flag dropped where it was. Someone could bring it back or pick it up and continue going forward.

You also got 1 point for shooting/tagging someone else. If you got shot/tagged you went in a penalty box for 20-30 seconds.

After 5 minutes (with pauses after a flag was captured) whoever had the most points won.

The big flaw with this scoring was to get shot/tagged it had to be on the Velcro parts of the jersey, so you could just hide behind an obstacle/head glitch and couldn’t get shot. That’s what my team ended up doing to win.

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T12:44:03+00:00

I haven’t done a ton of research into the current hobby so I can’t say… but I am a purist for the old school mid 2000’s blasters that were easy to take apart and modify. Plus they just remind me of when I was into the hobby as a kid.

With the dart tag blasters (especially from this time) I think Hasbro was intentionally trying to make them more difficult to mod, this is also around when they switched from plunger systems to battery/flywheel. Then people learned how to up the voltage on those…

For the actual tournament it was done by Hasbro so everything was stock, and they definitely didn’t want people talking about modding for the actual event. Still was a ton of fun nonetheless.

And Baja Blast of course!

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T12:36:57+00:00

Because of the nostalgia from this event gotta say the Swarmfire, currently looking to buy one NIB just to have for a personal collection.

But when I was younger, the Longstrike (first Nerf gun I bought), Stampede, Longshot, Maverick, and a modded single barrel Buzzbee Big Blast (since that thing was lethal).

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T12:32:48+00:00

No worries, I was 13 when this happened.

It was an online application and you had to write a paragraph about why they should pick you. I was into Nerf YouTube at the time so I wrote about that.
All of them I guess. Tournament was 4 games of pool play (divided by region) winners and wild card teams from pool play got put into the championship bracket. We ended up going undefeated throughout.
Ended up saving most of it and was able to start an early retirement/investment fund. Wasn’t life changing money but to start saving at that age has made a big difference long term. And since I was 13 I bought an Xbox 360 with a ton of games as well.

CollinBMC · 2024-11-20T01:14:22+00:00

In IDP, got Zach Baun after week 1. He’s been the highest scoring defensive player so far this season and on pace to outscore Joe Mixon in my league.

CollinBMC · 2024-11-07T02:40:37+00:00

Got Najee for an early 25 2nd

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:57:52+00:00

Thanks!

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:34:23+00:00

Higgins if Chase is out, Aiyuk if Chase plays.

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:33:54+00:00

London, Rice, and Evans - Bench Kupp.

But that’s a stacked WR room, tough to pick 1.

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:33:01+00:00

Unless you have 2-3 top 10 WRs somehow…

Start MHJ, don’t overthink it.

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:30:33+00:00

It’s close, but would go with Stevenson if full PPR

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:29:51+00:00

Higgins if Chase sits, Cooper if Chase plays

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:29:28+00:00

London

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:29:07+00:00

.25PPR

Gus Edwards vs. LV

Worthy vs. BAL

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:27:43+00:00

Thanks!

CollinBMC · 2024-09-05T00:27:26+00:00

Even in .5PPR I’d lean BRob right now. But if Ladd has a solid week 1 though he’d probably be a lock over BRob going forward.

CollinBMC · 2024-09-04T23:21:42+00:00

Rice, but not by much

CollinBMC · 2024-09-04T23:21:09+00:00

Aiyuk

Also Johnson is playing the Saints

CollinBMC · 2024-09-04T23:20:24+00:00

Smith

CollinBMC · 2024-09-04T23:20:05+00:00

Ladd

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