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The Pee-Wee team of Navy Blue Hockey topped off their season with a Sports Team Party at XP. Players, coaches, parents, and siblings all participated in this event.

They arrived around 5:40pm and had exclusive use of the laser tag arena from 6 to 8pm. The group played 4 games of lasertag and had time to have some pizza and drinks as well.

Teams were split with kids on one side and the parents on the other. Surprisingly the Parents won the first round. "It happens more often than you would imagine" said Marc Mueller one of the managers at XP.

"Parents expect to lose, but once they get the hang of it, they are just as strong as the kids." Mueller went on to say "We have a saying at XP Laser Sport...There are no kids and adults, we have big kids and little kids, that's all."

Want more information on hosting your own Sports Team Party, then head over to:

Released in the mid-eighties, Photon centers opened up in major cities all across the country as well as overseas.

Unlike modern lasertag systems, players wore a helmet and were allowed to run. The arenas were built symmetrically promoting it as a team sport / attraction.

XP Laser Sport is currently the only facility still able to operate with the classic Photon gear (which currently hangs in the back hallway of the playing arena).

Beamsport.com, which has been running since 2004, recently posted photos of different facilties that were opened around the country but are now closed.

This is a must see site for anyone who played Photon in the past as well as those who are interested in seeing where lazer tag got its start.

For more information go to...

http://beamsport.com

Points covered will be: sensor locations, lights, and displays.

The LT-11 lasertag vest is comprised of two main units: the vest and phaser. On the vest, there are a total of 9 infra red sensors. There are 3 in each shoulder (facing the
front, back and side), two in the back and one on the chest.

There are 3 sensors in the phaser as well. There is one on each side of the phaser (where the lights are located) and the bottom hole down the barrel.

Keep these locations in mind and use obstacles in the arena to conceal as many as possible. Also try different methods of angling your body (leaning) when no cover is available.

The ability to tag more than one sensor at a time on an opponent increases the farther you are away from that opponent (i.e. tagging the phaser and chest at the same time
if they are near each other) so try to keep a good distance away to facilitate tagging your opponents out faster.

The colored lights on the vest will indicate the status of a player during a game as well as serve as a warning when a player is currently activated with power-up/CHIPS. Solid
color team lights indicate that a player is active and can be tagged/tag (exceptions being invisible mode and deflector mode which will be discussed in future articles).

Slow blinking team lights usually indicate that they are currently unable to fire. If it is a game where players must return to their energizer, they are still an active target
and can be tagged.

If it is a recharge in place format their shields are up and cannot be tagged until their lights turn solid again.

The white lights can indicate a couple of things: a player is being tagged in a sensor, they currently have a power-up (shoulders strobing) or they are frozen (if ALL the white
vest and phaser lights stay on).

Check out XPLasersport’s website to see a list of CHIPS (power-ups) to learn how to differentiate the different types of strobing shoulders.

There are two displays on the LT-11 player unit: the phaser and the chest display. If the phaser display has two sets of numbers, the top is the amount of laser pulses remaining and the bottom is the number of energy units. If it is blinking 0 over 0 it means you have run out of either laser pulses or energy units.

If there are three dashes over three dashes, it means you are currently playing a format with unlimited laser pulses/energy units. The chest display displays both your current game score and your pack number in between games. It will also display how much time you have left in your power-up (there is a countdown on the left side of your display during power ups).

A countdown in the center shows how much time you have remaining in a penalty or time remaining until you thaw out when frozen by a freeze ray player.

If you want more tips to improve your game, check out the back issues of our newsletter at:

http://www.xplasersport.com/newsletters/backissues.htm