[Video] Archery Tag: An Addictive Sport that Could Replace Airsoft

If you love shooting games and related sports, you’re going to love this new-but-primitive combat sport.

This archery game is a threat to air soft.

This is a brilliant concept. The official Archery Tag website describes the game as “similar to dodgeball with our bows and patented foam-tipped arrows.” It’s like an archery 3D field course on steroids, where the targets move, attack and shoot back at you.

Here’s how the game is played:

Two teams, consisting of 5 players each playing opposite one another, are separated by a ‘safe zone.’ Each team also has what we call a ‘5-Spot Knockout Target.’  There are two objectives:  1) to tag the opponents, and 2) to knock out the five discs of the opposing team’s target. You eliminate a player by tagging him or her with an arrow, or by catching his or her arrow. The 5-Spot Targets work to save a ‘life’ of one of the players.  A ‘tagged’ player can be called back into the game when a target spot is knocked out or when a teammate catches an arrow.

Unlike the Airsoft shooting and combat game, Archery Tag does not require body armor and other safety gears, except for helmet.

The good thing about this game is that, this requires high intelligence, tenacity, speed, and endurance. Players can also dodge the arrows. The arrows are reusable as well.

It’s like playing Age of Empire in real life.

This game is now getting traction in Canada. Once equipment is available in other countries, this sport will definitely grab the attention of shooting fanatics.

Source: Wideopenspaces.com

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