Xtreme Paintball Park — Local services in Millstadt

This review ONLY applies to the annual Sugar Fire event held on 6/5/22 and NOT the paintball park as a whole. I would happily go to this park to play open play paintball but I will NEVER go to another Sugar Fire event This is my 3rd year in a row going to this event. The event started late, and while they did explain certain rules.....they were routinely broken time and time again. Players with electric markers were told to keep the fire rate to 10 bps (balls per second) or lower since there were players with rental guns and new players checking the game out for the first time. I heard a player brag after the 2nd round about how he had his electronic gun set at 25 BPS and was "lighting people up". There was not enough refs covering ground to maintain rules or help players out. There was LOTS of friendly fire incidents. You are given and piece of red or blue plastic ribbon to tie to your facemask, arm or gun and it is so thin you cant see it...causing the before mentioned friendly fire incidents. There was a group of African Americans on my team that I was near and when they took fire form the opposite team, they would yell out the "N" word. I am a white person and think it is a very offensive word and if I was to yell it out you bet my butt would have been called out for being racist and most likely kicked out of the game. The refs also told players to let players who are "hit" get out of the way and walk back to respawn. The person who is hit is to yell "Im hit" very loudly and hold up one or both hands while walking to respawn. There was a young kid on my team that was hit and as he stood up with BOTH hands in the air saying he was hit....he got lighted up by several other players even though the original player who hit him told the others that the kid was out and they kept firing. I played the first one hour round and after playing 20min in the 2nd round I had had enough and quit. This park is a 50min drive from my home and I was looking forward to this event but I will not be returning except to do...

Do not base your time out on what the previous post's have to say, if anything is ever bad at Extreme its the clientel who think that just because your getting into something new its going to be all you want or expect it to be. For the rest of the population including myself and friends who had never been before, we think its hands down the best deal in the metro st.louis/Illinois area (we have played also at Gateway and wacky warriors in wentzville, both are over priced and neither accommodates all levels of players, the Milstadt option for wackywarriors is a little better but still expensive). We (friends and myself) play at this field (Extreme paintball park) weekly now and have never had any sort of experience like that of which these post's speak. If it means anything, they are also the most reasonable price wise if you have your own equipment and they offer many options for parties, groups and teams to allow yourself the best time. Extreme paintball park offers game types and areas for all ages and levels of players, the refs alone will set teams up according to how players are archived by gear and experience so not one person is over worked by skill level.

In regards to PBallers comment about firing a ref midplay. I was there for that and yes he mouthed the kid off but then even later apologized to the kid explaining he didnt deserve that, then escorted him off the field. There are a few other fields around but to be honest when you catch a field doing a halloween event and they set up such field rules just take it in stride and enjoy what you can. Its like if you have a haunted house in your basement or something and during the day you dont want people goofing off or fooling around because your trying to preserve the items and scenario all through the holiday. And believe it or not the reason they made people play the one field was because during regular hours kids were shooting the props and destroying...

Let me start by saying the layout of each field was absolutely awesome! I genuinely loved it. Every year, my church group and I get together for a paintball event, and the setup this year did not disappoint.

Unfortunately, the experience was tainted by the behavior of our tour guide. Early on, a group of white males walked past us — we’re an all African-American group — and one of them asked the guide, “Are they treating you well?” The guide responded, “Yeah,” and I found myself wondering, What did he mean by that? It felt off, but we decided to let it go and continued on our break.

The guide himself talked way too much. At every stop, he had a long-winded story to share instead of just giving us the rules and moving on. It started to get frustrating.

We ended up teaming up with another African-American group. At one point, I made a casual comment to our team saying we were about to go up against some “real YN’s” — an urban term. The guide then chimed in with what he thought was a joke, saying he had his own term for babies: “niglets.” I was shocked. My jaw dropped. When we confronted him, he defensively replied, “What? I have Black friends.” That was incredibly offensive and inappropriate.

Later in the day, he yelled at one of our teammates — someone we’ve played with for years and know well. At that point, we were just about ready to leave. But since we only get to do this once a year, we decided to shake it off and keep playing.

To make matters worse, he kept cursing throughout the event. We’re a church group — we had elders with us, and no one in our group was using that kind of language. The lack of respect was disappointing.

Despite all of that, I wouldn’t say he completely ruined the experience. A big shoutout to the young lady who joined us later on — she was phenomenal and brought such a great energy. We wish we’d had her...