team:tango alpha2 overview

Tango Alpha2 is a coordinated, scenario paintball team whose primary goals are to enjoy the sport of paintball, promote the sport through integrity and good sportsmanship, and to have fun while improving our skills and teamwork.

Tango Alpha2 is an independent, scenario paintball "non-team". We describe ourselves as a Non-team because we play without the egos, issues and baggage that a lot of regular teams bring to the party. For us it's about the integrity, practicing our skills, and most importantly having fun. This isn't about attitude or who's best, it's about who has the most fun. We are not above ribbing other teams, stirring up a "feud" (in fun) or creating artificial rivalries to make it a little more interesting, but at the end of the day, it's just a bunch of people playing army and IT'S A GAME!

The lack of ego allows us the freedom to enjoy the game a bit more without taking ourselves or the game as serious as others might. We want it to be the guys who laugh the most, make the best jokes and who make the game the most fun while maintaining the integrity of the sport, ourselves and most of all, the team and our teammates.

Some people take paintball (and life) a tad too seriously. Paintball is supposed to be about having fun. I play more than most, have spent too much time and waaaay too much money on it, but at the end of the day it is just entertainment. It is NOT life and death. It is NOT the most important thing in the world. Real soldiers risk their lives and die defending our country, way of life or just following orders. I PLAY soldier on the weekend. Huge difference. A buddy wanted to name a team after a real world division in the military and I argued against it because those guys die everyday for us and for a bunch of out of shape wannabes who have never spent a day in the military, to be using their name to play shoot 'em up on the weekends seemed kind of disrespectful. And you really don't want to piss off guys that carry around REAL M-4 rifles with REAL bullets. I don't care how much you spent on that fancy speedball gun. Full metal jacket trumps gell-cased, vegetable oil-based paint every time. Hell, they could kill us just making us do push-ups!