Over 400 players attended my annual charity airsoft event, Evike.com presents Operation: Bad Blood, was again held at EMR event park in New Millford, PA. Threats of thunderstorms caused many to cancel their tickets in the week leading up to the event, despite the advice of the EMR.
The weather turned out to be ideal for an airsoft event. Cool and cloudy in the morning and by 1:00 the sun broke through and swiftly dried up the mud for a bright and warm afternoon. There was thunder and a brief 10min rainstorm but that occured an hour after the game was over and 15 minutes after the end of the epic Evike raffle.
This year, I handed off Game Manager duties to my friend and long time co-producer Ian Conolly who will be producing the event moving forward. We raised over $7000 for Breakthrough T1D to help diabetes research. It’s a great way to end my era of airsoft games.
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I produced another successful Operation: Bad Blood airsoft event at EMR Event Park in northeastern Pennsylvania. Over 600 players signed up for the event, fewer than last year due to inflation many opting out due to June thunderstorms. There was a down pour on Friday afternoon and rain through the night which made me fear a huge no-show for the following days game. As it turned out over 570 players showed up to play by the morning briefing; this despite a morning rain shower.
The rains were welcome as there were no serious heat related injuries this year. The game ran non-stop all day, with the players forming 4 different competing factions and non-aligned Tribal forces warring it over 200 acres of woods, multi-leveled forts, and simulated villages. The objective of the game for the factions was to collect up to eight different blood sample stamps hidden in the field and on the person of each faction commander.
A bonus mission this year was the capture and extraction of my niece who played a CDC Research Scientist who’s medical convoy was destroyed and needed to be evacuated to safety. A Marxist squad was the first to locate her in Fort Wor and ran off with her into the woods and back canyon. They weren’t seen again until nearly an hour later and were able to get her to her “chopper” and score a bonus which pushed their faction into a tie for second place by the end of the game.
The final score was Greens 1st (6 stamps); Deus-X and Marxists 2nd (5 stamps); Black Shirts 3rd (3 stamps)
After all the players exited the field and recovered, they gathered around the EMR stage for the legendary post-Bad Blood raffle. Each player received a complimentary raffle ticket and over the course of nearly an hour we raffled off over 20 AEGs, pistols, plate carriers, weapon lights, gift cards, and accessories supplied by Evike.com, Jackal Tactical, Amped Airsoft, O-Light, and EMR.
The next morning, I organized a bonus game of OP: Dead Blood, a zombie game. Over 200 die-hard players spread out around Tipmon Town and competed against each other to find bio-hazard declas. As players were killed they added to the ever-growing zombie hoard which swamped all the players after nearly an hour of intense play. The rest of the Sunday, EMR ran skirmish games for everyone.
Operation Bad Blood is a MilSim-Lite game with unique game rules designed to support an immersive experience. This video helps explain those rules to visual and auditory learners for whom a printed rule packet is TLDR. I strongly encourage all participants at this event to download the player packet from the Evike ticket page and follow along to this explainer video.
Key Rules Concepts
Body, clothing, gear, and gun hits count.
When hit, get out of the line of fire, then wave a red rag.
After calling your hit, go to your Triage to respawn.
The Triage/Respawn moves with your army so keep tabs its location.
The goal of your team is to safely get your Ebola sample collectors to each sample stamp.
The game is a 5-hour non-stop moving battle; prepare accordingly.
I sat down (virtually) with Corey of Upstate NY, who was our winner in my July 25th Moondog R&D Contest. I gave away $100 in Evike gift cards and a H&K promotional cap from Shot Show.
Corey is a mid-thirties engineer who enjoyed playing paintball and airsoft while growing up. He got back into airsoft this last year. He plans to use the card to buy a Hi-Capa with his prize since he won a drum mag at the OP: Bad Blood raffle. He stumbled on my YouTube channel Moondog Industries leading up to the OPBB event this last June.
We were forced to reduce our event by 50% due to COVID restrictions but over 500 players attended this year’s event. Marxists achieved a fifth consecutive victory, edging out Black Shirts.
I’m sharing our short staff meeting with the faction leaders for Operation Bad Blood 2021. Every year I organize the largest charity airsoft event on the East Coast. This is our first big airsoft event after the 2020 Pandemic and we have over 500 players from all over the country to attend.
