MLTA's 7th Summer Season Concludes

What an awesome way to end the season!  Although Mother Nature still managed to land the hottest day of the week on our game yet again, it's still better than other games we've had this summer.  The extreme heat felt through the midwest certainly fatigued even our most seasoned players, but in the end, it's another successful run that I'm proud to have been a part of.

 Cookout was one of the best we've had, in my honest opinion.  Burgers, hot dogs, Gatorade, chips, cookies, we had all the bases covered. Great turnout too, with 21 people making it out, despite the heat.  We usually see a slight drop in attendance on the last game as some folks are already back into the swing of things with school and such.  Still had a great bunch of folks for the evening's activities.

Games went well, with the exception of one drawn-out "Veterans vs n00bs" game.  6 veterans on a team up against 13 of our newer players looked to be a fun game until everyone decided to hide instead of play the game.  Our last game of the night fixed that problem though, as we unveiled a new rule for our Zombies game.  With the LTXs and LTARs, if you leave the blaster on for too long without any activity (ie, shooting, reloading, taking hits), the blaster automatically turns itself off.  We made a rule for the Humans that traditionally like to stake out a spot and hide the duration of the game that you can only reload/fire when there's actually an enemy present.  While this is a nearly impossible rule to enforce, everyone took it to heart and played a great active game of Humans vs Zombies, lazer tag style!  It came down to the final minutes as the remaining Humans were fighting for their lives against the rest of the zombie horde.  Upon tagging them out in the last minute, we learned there was still one more human left.  By our rules, the humans still won since one of them survived.  It was still a great game though!

And now the MLTA recedes into it's "Off-Season" mode, planning Mod Nights to work on gear and getting the players together occasionally for a game or two as we eagerly await Season 8 in 2013.