UPDATE: Scotland Won Op: Instant Justice
After recounting the score tallies from Operation: Instant Justice, Matt Belgrove has determined that the final score as originally announced after the game ended was incorrect. In fact the final scores added up to:
England 964 – Scotland 1000
Matt has already called Scott Allan from Landwarrior Airsoft and given him the news. We’re sorry for the confusion but wanted to get this news out to everyone as quickly as possible to make it absolutely clear that
Scotland Won The Stirling Shield
This year’s England Vs Scotland Stirling Airsoft game was a hard fought battle and one of the closest games we’ve ever held.
After England’s victory last year the Scots were determined to win the Stirling Shield for their country and the English were just as determined to get their country’s name on the Shield for the second year running.
Team Scotland's Commanders Drawing Up Their Strategy
The Scottish Team’s Commanders worked hard to get their team working together in this year’s game.
Like all Stirling Airsoft games at Catterick the teams scored points by securing certain buildings across the site at particular times as well as locating and maintaining control of moveable objectives like money or weapons caches.
The teams were very closely matched throughout the game with the points lead changing hands several times during the game.
Stirling Airsoft England V Scotland 2009 from Stephen Reynolds.
Finally, with EndEx looming, the English Team delivered their moveable objectives and scored enough points to tip the lead back in their favour. but weren’t able to pull back quite enough points to tip the lead back in their favour.
The game ended with the score:
England 1002 – Scotland 981
England 964 – Scotland 1000
England won the Stirling Shield for the second year in a row with the narrowest points margin we’ve ever had in a Stirling Airsoft game. With England’s name engraved on the shield once more it will spend another year on display in Airsoft Skirmish‘s stall at Stirling events.
Scotland won the Stirling Shield and will have their name engraved upon the Shield which will now go to be put on display at Landwarrior Airsoft’s Showroom in Scotland.
The 2 I/C of Team Scotland, Scott Allan from Landwarrior Airsoft sent us this message to pass on to everyone involved with Op: Instant Justice.
On behalf of the Scottish team players I would like to extend my thanks to all the event organisers and the marshals who made the event as great as it was.
Our team this year was better organised, better prepared and more motivated. The results showed this throughout the weekend and even when we lost the lead we clawed it back.
We are confident that next year it will be our name on the trophy!
Everyone here at Stirling Airsoft would like to echo Scott’s sentiments. Op: Instant Justice was a great game and we’re pleased to see how much everybody enjoyed it.
The friendly rivalry between England and Scotland never turned unfriendly and the whole game was played in the best of spirits by all involved.
A feature length DVD of Op: Instant Justice is being prepared for release and will be available soon for the usual price of £11. Email matt@stirlingairsoft.com for more details or to place your order. A few people have shared pictures from the game on the Stirling Airsoft Facebook page. If anyone reading this has any pictures from the game please post a link in the comments here on the Stirling Airsoft Blog or go and share them on Facebook.
Plans are already in place for next year’s Stirling Shield game, Op: Anvil, to be held at Catterick in the first weekend of December. We’ll just have to wait and see whether England can win the Shield three years in a row or if Scotland’s confidence and determination will pay off for them in 2010. We’ll have to wait and see whether England can win the Stirling Shield back from the Scots or if Scotland can make it two year’s in a row.
