First All Ireland Airsoft Event - "The Gathering"

Mrs MaxForce

Hi All,
First off respect to Falls for coming up with this idea. Thank you to all who have shown interest and have registered. The following should answer some of the questions been asked. I would also ask that the mods please if possible sticky this and the interest thread together so to avoid any confusion.

Payment
Questions have been asked about Prepayment. To facilitate this, two payment options have been put in place. By PayPal or by Postal Order. Please note that if paying by PayPal the PayPal rate of 3.4% + .35c will apply and should be added to your payment. When you PM us for email details please specify which part of the event you want to pay for and we will let you know how the cost. To use either of these options, PM myself or Max Force for our postal address or email address for PayPal. Registration for the event will close at midnight on the 13th April or when 120 bookings are received and prepaid. No bookings will be taken after this time. The event itself, will take place on Saturday and Sunday the 26th and 27th April. The rates for the event are as follows.
Saturday and Sunday(Own Equipment) €35
Saturday and Sunday(Rental) €55
Saturday Only (Own Equipment) €15
Saturday Only (Rental) €35
Sunday Only (Own Equipment) €25
Sunday Only (Rental) €45
You can arrive from 4pm onward on Saturday to give you a chance to set up tents and so on with the first games starting around 8pm.
SAFETY
1. There is to be no alcoholic drinks and or drugs consumed prior to or during the Saturday Night Games or at any time on Sunday. Anyone caught doing so will be dismissed from the site without refund.
2. All Eye protection will be of the fully enclosed type. IE The totally encompass the eye with no gaps for BB's to fit through.Anyone found wearing non regulation eye-wear during or before a game will not be allowed to play until they obtain regulation eye-wear. You have plenty of time to sort this out so do not come down with bog standard safety glasses.
3. There will be no firring of guns, dry firring or otherwise, in the safe area, car parks or camping area. Although the safe area will be marked, if you are not sure just ask.
4. A chronograph will be on-site but part of G-TAC's Terms and Conditions are that the player acknowledges responsibility to ensure that their equipment is with in spec. Random checks of guns will be done before and after games. Anyone not sure that their gun is firring with in spec can have it checked. Anybody found using an out of spec gun will be dismissed from the site without refund and be reported to the IAA.
5. Due to the high amount of participants expected, it may be necessary to have 2 or 3 games going at once, but every attempt will be made to keep periods of non play to a minimum.
6. Please read the G-TAC Terms and Conditions and print out, read and sign the G-TAC Waiver of Liability form prior to arrival at the site. All players must sign the Waiver prior to to been allowed to play.
7. The age for playing at G-TAC is
12-14 Only accompanied by a playing parent or guardian
14-16 Only with Parental Consent and accompanied by a verifiable telephone number.
CAMPING
An area of land has been set aside for camping. There will be running water and toilet facilities.
FOOD
Food will be available for purchase at the site. We will let let you know when this is finalised.
GAMES We have a long list of games but if anyone has any suggestions we would love to hear them.

Finally I just want to finish by saying, that this is a huge event. We all hope that it brings Irish Airsoft forward and shows us in a new light and that it is the first of many. We hope it goes off with out a hitch, but for this to happen we need everyones cooperation. Our hope is that all borders and team constraints can be dropped so that all airsofters old and new can learn from each other. Please feel free to contact either my self or Martin if you have any further questions.

kdouglas

Looking forward to this, it's gonna be a good weekend.
Prices are fairly reasonable too

For anyone paying by paypal, this tool will calculate the amount to send including fees etc...

Gatling

night games cool,

is the no alcohol rule apply to all or just those taking part in the night games

MaxForce

Gatling wrote: »

night games cool,

is the no alcohol rule apply to all or just those taking part in the night games

I knew it would be you:D We have no problem with a few bevy's after the games have ended for those playing but AIrsoft and alcohol don't mix. The plan would be to either have a few tins around a campfire or am looking at the cost of a bus to go into Portumna for a few hours. The landowner drives a bus every so often and he reckons it wouldn't be to much.

Masada

looks like a great day out., sorry i cant fully comit to it yet but im very interested in getting to this.,:)

sci-ops

Seeing as how I will be down on-site tomorrow, any chance I can prepay then?

MaxForce

sci-ops wrote: »

Seeing as how I will be down on-site tomorrow, any chance I can prepay then?

Of course you can. Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow. Talk then.

CrazyRabbit

4pm start on saturday? I thought everyone was heading out on the Friday so that we get two full days of skirmishing?

Night game? I really should pay more attention as that's the first I've heard of this.

Oh, and for game scenarios:
http://churchofairsoft.freehostia.com/games.html

Gatling

MaxForce wrote: »

I knew it would be you:D .

:) has to one thats asks a silly question,
if you need a marshall for any of the days let me know and il give ya'a a dig out

weeder

whats the date

MaxForce

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

4pm start on saturday? I thought everyone was heading out on the Friday so that we get two full days of skirmishing?

Night game? I really should pay more attention as that's the first I've heard of this.

Oh, and for game scenarios:
http://churchofairsoft.freehostia.com/games.html

Well I thought the night games would be a nice touch, especially for those who wanted to camp out. I thought Saturday and Sunday was the best way to go as it will give the guys and girls who have to work weekends the chance to be able to get there on the Saturday for the night games and then play all day Sunday as well. Due to the amount of work that is needed it really was not feasible to run full days on both Saturday and Sunday so this is is the compromise.

Thanks for the link. Will be using that.

MaxForce

Gatling wrote: »

:) has to one thats asks a silly question,
if you need a marshall for any of the days let me know and il give ya'a a dig out

Cheers. Might take you up on that.

MaxForce

weeder wrote: »

whats the date

Saturday and Sunday 26th and 27th April. If you are coming you need to register your interest in the interest thread.

kevteljeur

Mr and Mrs Maxforce, a question or two:
What's the situation with parking? I guess it should have gone into the original interest poll, but I take it there's enough parking space for everyone near to the camping?

Bio-degradable bbs or regular ammo?

Boston

I'd like to wish you the best of luck with this event. Unfortunately I've prior commitments otherwise I would be there. I hope all goes well.

zero19

Would it be possible to pay by Bank Transfer Maxforce?

Tommyboy71

That sounds like some weekend. I would love to go but the affliction that I call work will be striking me down that weekend. I hope it goes well for you all. Well done for organising it.

zero19

zero19 wrote: »

Would it be possible to pay by Bank Transfer Maxforce?

Also is there an additional charge for staying the night?

iceage

zero19 wrote: »

Also are the tents included in the prices?

Your out for a laugh! aren't you?

zero19

iceage wrote: »

Your out for a laugh! aren't you?

Lol no just making sure you haven't to pay extra for staying the night there i'll have to edit that question to make more sense lol

NMC

I CANNOT wait for this. First (official) skirmish and it starts with a night game! Brilliant! This is a team event isnt it? As in a limited number per team? Will we be assigned teams when we get there for ppl that don't have their own?

Stercus Accidit

You mentioned that you'd like to hear any suggestions for games,

well,

Id love to try a pistol only game, one life job, to get things started maybe.

Cuddlesworth

If its agreed could we have one or two milsim games. Limited ammo and squad formations.

MaxForce

kevteljeur wrote: »

Mr and Mrs Maxforce, a question or two:
What's the situation with parking? I guess it should have gone into the original interest poll, but I take it there's enough parking space for everyone near to the camping?

Bio-degradable bbs or regular ammo?

The land owner has no prefernece to BB type.

There is loads of parking on site, would probably fit about 100 cars. The main parking area is about a two minuet walk from the camp ground and the camp ground is located inbetween the car park and the main battle area.

MaxForce

zero19 wrote: »

Would it be possible to pay by Bank Transfer Maxforce?

No. Only methods offered are PayPal and postal order.

MaxForce

zero19 wrote: »

Also is there an additional charge for staying the night?

The charge for the night and day game is €35 if you come equipped and €55 if you don't. This includes the provision of camping facilities.

MaxForce

NMC wrote: »

I CANNOT wait for this. First (official) skirmish and it starts with a night game! Brilliant! This is a team event isnt it? As in a limited number per team? Will we be assigned teams when we get there for ppl that don't have their own?

The idea of this event was that everyone plays to gether. No Dublin Vs Galway or Cork Vs Sligo. We have no problem with teams sticking together but there could be two or three different teams playing together. It will not be set up in such a way that The Pirets are playing the Blackbirds and the best thing about it will be that people new to the sport will have the chance to play with more experienced players and learn from them. Also for the ammount of people planning on coming to the event, it would be hard to have limited team sizes.

MaxForce

Motosam wrote: »

You mentioned that you'd like to hear any suggestions for games,

well,

Id love to try a pistol only game, one life job, to get things started maybe.

Sounds good to me.

MaxForce

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

If its agreed could we have one or two milsim games. Limited ammo and squad formations.

Yes. There will be milsim's and we are currently looking at various scenarios. Some of these may tie in with Operation SSSSSSSSSH.

zero19

Motosam wrote: »

You mentioned that you'd like to hear any suggestions for games,

well,

Id love to try a pistol only game, one life job, to get things started maybe.

I'd enjoy that, must get more mags for one of my GBBs now

NMC

didnt mean local teams like that, i get it know.Cant wait maxforce. Can. not. wait.

I.A.S. Ltd.

What about the "Team Juggernaut" game?

weeder

registered. just to clarify you did say charging facility's on site?

i plan to go up in a camper (but ill be in a tent while my parents are in the camper) and i know somoene else who is coming in a camper so i was just wondering will there be an area for campers to park or can they park it in the carpark?

MaxForce

weeder wrote: »

registered. just to clarify you did say charging facility's on site?

i plan to go up in a camper (but ill be in a tent while my parents are in the camper) and i know somoene else who is coming in a camper so i was just wondering will there be an area for campers to park or can they park it in the carpark?

Yeah charging facilities will be available. The land owner has given permission for campervans to park on the roadway near his house but I dont think we can handle hook up for them. We very well might and will work on this.

Will need to know in advance the number of campervans coming as well.

NMC

I'll be prepaying anyway but I just want to ask if we can pay on the day? knowing my luck the prepay will screw up on me! Don't know if this was what you meant in answering zero19's earlier question.

weeder

well 1 anyway ill let the other one reggister and say it himself
any sort of hook up shouldnt be needed for us if theres charging facilitys on site

ED E

MaxForce wrote: »

Yeah charging facilities will be available. The land owner has given permission for campervans to park on the roadway near his house but I dont think we can handle hook up for them. We very well might and will work on this.

Will need to know in advance the number of campervans coming as well.

Depending on certain variables we may be in the camper or in 1/2 cars. If we are in the camper we are completely independant. Three 110amp leisure batts plus the 80amp for the engine, propane for cooking and 160L of H2O

MaxForce

Hi All,
Rather then call the All Ireland Airsoft Meeting the Event or somthing else naff we came up with "The Gathering"

I have set up a PayPal button on our website. It is at the end of our home page and is located at G-TAC. Just select what you want to pay for, click Pay Now and it will automaticly bring you to the Secure PayPal page. If you are not sure about how much to pay, just PM us and we will let you know. Dont forget that the payment must include the PayPal 3.4% + .35c charge. Mr Douglas added a handy calculator to help you with this or again just PM us and we will work it out for you, or we can send you a request for payment.
Looking forward to seeing you all there,
Martin and Evelyn.

iceage

MaxForce wrote: »

Hi All,
Rather then call the All Ireland Airsoft Meeting the Event or somthing else naff we came up with "The Gathering"

I have set up a PayPal button on our website. It is at the end of our home page and is located at G-TAC. Just select what you want to pay for, click Pay Now and it will automaticly bring you to the Secure PayPal page. If you are not sure about how much to pay, just PM us and we will let you know. Dont forget that the payment must include the PayPal 3.4% + .35c charge. Mr Douglas added a handy calculator to help you with this or again just PM us and we will work it out for you, or we can send you a request for payment.
Looking forward to seeing you all there,
Martin and Evelyn.

Jeez man thats a great name, although I may not make it, we can always speak of it..the largest Airsoft event in Ireland...The Gathering!!! Woooooh shivers down your spine doesn't it.

MaxForce

iceage wrote: »

Jeez man thats a great name, although I may not make it, we can always speak of it..the largest Airsoft event in Ireland...The Gathering!!! Woooooh shivers down your spine doesn't it.

Theres a lad from Clonmel already signed up. Judge Dreed. Pity you wont make it though. Maybe next time.

Gatling

"THE GATHERING"


class:):):)

dav nagle

MaxForce wrote: »

The idea of this event was that everyone plays to gether. No Dublin Vs Galway or Cork Vs Sligo. We have no problem with teams sticking together but there could be two or three different teams playing together. It will not be set up in such a way that The Pirets are playing the Blackbirds and the best thing about it will be that people new to the sport will have the chance to play with more experienced players and learn from them. Also for the ammount of people planning on coming to the event, it would be hard to have limited team sizes.

God this sounds frigging awesome. Holy frag batman.

iceage

MaxForce wrote: »

Theres a lad from Clonmel already signed up. Judge Dreed. Pity you wont make it though. Maybe next time.

Commitments!! as ever the bane of my life!!! we'll see how it pans out.:rolleyes:

Mrs MaxForce

iceage wrote: »

Commitments!! as ever the bane of my life!!! we'll see how it pans out.:rolleyes:

we might see you there yet:D:D

Mrs MaxForce

As of this am there is 71 booked guys so that is brilliant If any one else needs to book please do so as the deadline is a approaching .Gearing up to being a fantastic event thank you all for your commitment. If anyone needs any more information pm maxforce or myself regards Evelyn:D

Cuddlesworth

Devilsbreath needs to book, I need to pay. I also like cheese.

zero19

PM'd you Mrs.Maxforce

Mrs MaxForce

zero19 wrote: »

PM'd you Mrs.Maxforce

recieved and answered many thanks evelyn:D

Mrs MaxForce

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Devilsbreath needs to book, I need to pay. I also like cheese.

if you need any addresses or help let us know not a lover of cheese myself though:D regards evelyn

weeder

pm sent also.

ED E

I would love an all pistols, but I'd have to buy a new pistol. The KJ M9 has no hop so range is sh1tty. Would an MP7 be allowed?

Also, Pred did a "Zombie" night game that would be really great to try. We could ask them for the rules but basically the spec ops guys had pistols and smgs with very little ammo, the rest hidden in the field in unknown locations for them to find. The rest were unarmed zombies who had to touch the spec ops in order to kill them. If they were shot they had to fall back and then come at them again, thing is, they were out on the 4th hit. Sounded like great fun. Please consider it.