Welcome to SPECTRE Paintball
We are a scenario paintball team located in the Greater Thumb Area of Michigan. Our vision is to attend scenario games in the Michigan and Great Lakes Region, assist in achieving victory by using practiced tactics and abilities, have fun doing so, and shed some positive light on paintball in our hometown areas.
Our home field is The Landing Zone in Columbiaville. If you’re interested in being a part of an organized, mature, and fun to be with team of dedicated recreational paintball players like yourself be sure to stop by our Recruiting page. If you have any other questions about SPECTRE email us HERE.
On this site you'll find our news (below), our rosters, schedule, photos, and information on our home field, Landing Zone Paintball in Columbiaville, MI.
Key Tenets of SPECTRE Paintball
Our team has grown from miscellaneous individuals into a group of friends. Members come from different backgrounds, genders, age groups, and career paths. We have worked hard to transform from an unorganized collection of players into a well trained and coordinated team. As such, we expect nothing but the best conduct, on and off the field, from our teammates. We respect each other and extend the same courtesy to other players, teams, and officials. Any insults or lack of respect towards SPECTRE and its members by anyone are to be ignored and left uncommented. We do not need to defend ourselves.
Sportsmanship
SPECTRE practices conformity to the rules, spirit, and etiquette of our sport. We do not trash talk, we’re not sore losers, we don’t brag about our victories. Our team members take great pride in bringing new players to our sport. The best way to entice new participants to any sport is to demonstrate our fair play, good character, and sports ethics.
Integrity
We do not cheat. The two main cheats in scenario paintball being “The Wipe” and “The Dead Man Talking”. You won’t find any of our members doing either of these, or any other type of integrity violation. We hold each other to the highest standards ethically and morally. We pride ourselves on fair play and being honorable on and off the field.
Dedication
SPECTRE membership is based around participation. We have monthly practices to improve our teamwork and tactics, work and cleanup days at our home field, local games at our home field, games we travel to compete in, and team meetings in the off season to keep everyone up to speed on all of our happenings. Every member that attends events with SPECTRE is awarded participation points. We expect a certain level of participation from all members, which is displayed by your point total. SPECTRE understands that its members have real life commitments outside of paintball, but also wants all members to understand that the more dedicated you are to the team, the more rewarding the team experience will be to you.
Majority Voting
Anything that affects SPECTRE is put to a majority vote of the Core Membership. This means new members, team officers, our schedule, even our uniforms are decided on by the team itself. No one member makes a final decision regarding the direction the team is going in without approval of the rest of the team.
22January2010
SPECTRE Paintball is proud to announce our recent sponsor agreement with Pinokio Hoppers out of
“Pinokio Hoppers is the brain child of entrepreneur, inventor and paintball enthusiast Evan Estrate. Evan saw a void in the hopper industry when he and his son went out to play one sunny Sunday afternoon. After much trial and error, Pinokio Hoppers was born, a hopper like no other. Lighter, faster, more efficient and higher capacity than anything else available, the Pinokio Hopper holds 250 rounds with the small nose and 400 rounds with the long nose. While your opponent is still reloading, you’re still shooting! Our concept is simple: carry more, shoot more, reload less and WIN MORE! You gotta have balls to rock a Pinokio, pick one up today and experience the power!”
SPECTRE is extremely excited to extend the Pinokio brand and equip ourselves with some of the finest gear out there!
22OCT2009
The Landing Zone and SPECTRE Paintball are proud to announce their next game.
1944: Normandy Revisited with a twist
Main Objective:
The Germans own all the land and the Americans must take it. The catch is they have to go through Normandy . If you have played at the Landing Zone before you know this is no easy task.
Reinserts:
Until the fall of Normandy , the Germans will reinsert at the Alamo . Only 6 players can reinsert at a time and one must be an officer. A ref will be reinserting the players. The Americans will be reinserted at the boats. A ref will reinsert one boat at a time. After the fall of Normandy both teams will reinsert at a team owned base.
Points:
Each of the following bases are worth 20 points every half-hour:
Russia
Alamo
Ghost Town
Castle
Alpha
Bravo
Bridge
Players values:
Regular player 1 points
Officer 2 points
General 5 points
Airplanes:
Each team will be able to use three airplane insertions. The players on the airplane can not be shot at. The players on the airplane can drop off at any time. When they drop off they are live players. Each airplane can hold up to 8 players. The airplane only has 10 minutes of fuel. Any player still on the plane after 10 minutes will be out.
28SEPT2009
The 2009 Tippmann World Challenge is in the books and Tippmann will be, once again, wearing the title of Victors!.
We went out, had a great time, made some great connections, and helped bring the win back to Tippmann Team after a two year draught!
We will have plenty of pictures and video posted very shortly and can't wait for our next event, the 2009 Landing Zone night game, "Underworld" on October 10th 4pm to Midnight.
Be sure to join us!
26AUG2009
The Landing Zone and SPECTRE Paintball are proud to announce their next game. The Hunt for Bin Laden will pit Allied Forces against Taliban and Al Qaeda to bring in this notorious outlaw.
19AUG2009
Paint is now available for pre-sale along with pre-reg to the games at the LZ. Just bring your receipt to the game with how many cases you purchased and you'll be given them once you register.
In addition to the convenience of not having to lug around extra paint or stand in line to buy it, you'll be saving 10% when you pre-buy paint!
18AUG2009
We're in the final steps of listing paint for pre-sale on the site. Once we get the finalized prices we will start listing them as available.
It will be RPS Stinger, Diablo Heat, and Wrek Elite paint being sold at the LZ from here on out.
In other news, the Pump Only game is this weekend and the rules have been modified to allow pump markers, pistols, and mechanical markers with no feedneck or hopper.
27JUNE2009
We're working on getting a pre-reg system running for the games at the LZ. Check out our Web Store page. If you pre-reg you'll save 10% on field fees. We're also checking with Chad to see if we can sell paint on the site also. Keep checking back for more info!
~Randy
21JUNE2009
The 2009 Charity Game was a huge success, mainly due to the outstanding volunteers and help we had, along with the great turnout despite the weather and being a holiday weekend! This is the first year The Landing Zone has broken 100 registered players in a game, and we've managed to do it for our first two consecutive games, with Halo Wars coming in at 106 registered players! I believe Chad said around $1500 went to the American Cancer Society - Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Here is some news coverage of the event:
Once again thanks to everyone for the help and support. Thanks to WNEM TV 25, WWBN-FM Banana 101, Daryl Marshke (the photographer), Chad and his family, Ken and his family, and the rest of the team and volunteers that were out there to make it a great day of paintball for everyone involved!
One last note, if you're interested in seeing the photos from the event that Daryl took, head over to our Sponsors & Affiliates page and click on the link to D's Fine Arts and Photo. They are all there in a gallery and available for purchase.
Thanks again!
~Randy
18MAY2009
The 2009 Invasion of Normandy has came and went. We had over 115 registered players at the event.
The Landing Zone and SPECTRE Paintball would like to thank everyone that came out. You can see photos and videos here on our site. If anyone has any photos or video of the event they would like to share please let us know!
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