My first Nationals and WOW. Now I understand why it's so challenging. The stages aren't elaborate but there's like a million ways of shooting them and the disaster factor is high! You have a high-risk option with huge payouts but really bad penalties if you screw up. The big boys risk it because their skill level let's them do so.

Was so-so with my shooting, had one stupid double feed which costed me 10 secs and 2 mikes.

On to day two!

Day Two started very early in the morning and I would like to call it, the Day of Slowness. I was super slow with everything and I'm not sure why. Perhaps I was trying to be careful. Had only two stupid mikes but time overall was really bad. I think I should speed up tomorrow :)

Day 3 was slightly better. Had some stupid mikes again and they were really stupid ones. I know what my problem is, 1) Gun shoots high at 25yrds (n00b) and don't rush off your shots on wide open static targets. I get too excited and throw a shot off an easy target. Done that 4-5 times this match.

Came in 58th overall. My best stage was a 10th place on Ultimatum and I was stoked as I beat a lot of top level shooters on it.

Had a ton of fun at the Nationals, it was a really rewarding experience seeing what national level stages and shooters are like, meeting great people, YouTube fans and meeting idols.

Great job Loke!

thanks! could have been better :) but I learned a lot.

Pretty cool! Where was this held?

It's interesting to see different ranges, different climates and different stage setups.

"Luke with an O" . . . lol.

This was in Frostproof, Florida.


so damned hot and humid.