PaintballX3 Magazine November 2013 Issue | Page 83

TOURNAMENT
number). Apparently, goggles are what
Tippmann makes when they’re not making Tippmanns. And this time they’ve got
a winner on their hands.
In handing me their latest goggle creation
at the 2013 World Cup, Tippmann’s
timing couldn’t have been any better,
as shortly thereafter it was time to head
to the hills of North Carolina for the always-amazing Fulda Gap scenario game.
This year, a thousand players came together to battle it out in sometimes-warm,
sometimes-chilly weather over rolling hills
and challenging terrain to see who might
have won the inaugural battle of World
War Three in Europe. While the weather
was pretty all weekend, pounding around
the hills of North Carolina on a cold
morning in a pile of clothes that winds up

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in a warm afternoon while hundreds of
people shoot at each other sounds like a
challenge a substandard goggle couldn’t
handle without fogging or giving the
wearer a headache, and a quality goggle would step up to. Tippmann’s Intrepid
goggle handled business all weekend
without any problems whatsoever!
The Tippmann Intrepid offers all the
features modern paintball players have
come to expect from high-end goggles. A
thermal lens with a simple quick-release
system prevents fogging and is easy to remove for cleaning, the strap is adjustable
and comfortable, the triple-layer foam is
com fortable around the wearer’s face, the
frame is ventilated and the lower portion
of the mask is soft. Soft enough, in-fact,
to encourage the occasional bounce as

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