Once they started introducing a lot more running, and ridiculous scenarios for stages, I lost interest. Couple that with the politics of it, gaming of stages, and the sucking out of the fun factor, I was done. When they started with the wobbly platforms, and shooting weak side with the rifle tilted 90 degrees one way while standing on a stool after running across a field in Texas in July off the top of a brick wall, I was out. I once was told I had the opportunity to engage a target at 900 yards during a torrential downpour in Florida while laying on the side of a dirt (mud actually) mound. You couldn't see squat past 500, and that was tough as it was. I didn't get mad, I didn't complain, I just didn't go back.
Very nice. Not sure your age, but I just turned 60 this summer and was born/raised here (Columbia). Maybe just rose-colored glasses, but as a kid I remember our little town (then) being more like Mayberry than the small city I've now come to call, derisively, "Little Beverly Hills." You could say Columbia is going through some pretty serious growing pains, but it's home and still a nice place to live as long as you can get out to the surrounding country regularly.
