Let me start off by saying I’m not a player, but I have attended numerous different fields with my significant other’s team, and have interacted with a number of the refs at each location. Unfortunately this was not a field I would not return to for a number of reasons.
1) When, as a ref, player or even just a guest, you ask to see a players equipment and they say, jokingly or not, if you break it, you buy it, don’t complain about your pay and say that you live off of the tips you make and then look at us expectantly when we have barely arrived and you have done nothing to help or guide or even do any part of your job other than talk to a single player.
2) When a ref is inquiring about members of your team/party, don’t come up every 5 minutes asking for a specific person when it’s clear that no one new has joined even just to talk with the people at that table.
3) When, again, as a ref, don’t come over and say that your manager said that you are to ref, but only if you are needed, and that the party is able to open play at their leisure, THEN come over and say that because we are walk on, we HAVE to go with the birthday party of young teenagers, and try to control the games.
4) When a player tells you he has to go in through a different entrance due to the equipment he is carrying, and you disrespect not only the equipment but the player as well, you need to reevaluate your position.
5) I understand that this location is primarily paintball, hence the name, but when you are in the safe zone and almost get hit by said paintballs when you are only there as support, or even as a player for airsoft and you ACTUALLY get hit, again by a paintball, that’s an issue. Either raise the bets, or put a cover on that field.
6) It’s disrespectful to continue to ask for tips, with your hand out, literally, after disrespecting the players and their equipment.
7) Don’t get upset when players go up to you, as a ref, and tell you that there are players who aren’t calling their hits, or are cheating and say that you can’t control how others play.
If they change the way they train their staff, or hire more respectful people, we might consider coming back. But to pay to play from 10 am - 6 pm, and basically get told that it doesn’t matter what happens to you or the equipment you bring, that you have to follow their rules or not play, when it’s a simple accommodation, I don’t recommend going. If you can look past all that and more that I haven’t mentioned, it’s a beautiful field with a variety of options and space with nice covered seating.
