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This is the second part of our evalutation process after Berget 5, there will be a third and last one. We are sorry for the delay of this part but there has been a lot of other work that has been prioritized.


The loss of a friend and a fellow player
On Friday noon Urban was found unconscious in his tent in the Russian base. One of his friends alarmed the crew that called a doctor on call and ambulance. Even though fellow players and crew did a admirable effort assisting in the caretaking of Urban, his life could not be saved. Urban deceased in Sundsvall hospital during Friday afternoon. The cause of death is declared a cerebral haemorrhage. Berget-events and it’s Crew send our deepest condolences about Urbans departure and share the grief with his family and friends. We have talked to his family and they think that this have been taken care of in the best possible way. Berget-events will dedicate some funds to the “Swedish Heart-Lung Foundation”.

Active gametime, and early gameoff
On events of this scale we found it hard to keep a constant game flow with many strong minds and opinions as well as the huge amount of players. The best of plans can be toppled by off game occurrences, this is not something that can be foreseen and we feel we have been well prepared. Under the circumstances we the crew feel we made the right choice calling off the game after the tragic decease of Urban. We were all pretty shaken up and had to take a step back to regroup and get a handle of the situation. We want to thank the crisis management team sent by the church for their fast and competent support, we also want to thank the players who acted on site in the Soviet base starting to resuscitate Urban when he was found, the world need more people of your calibre.

The security of our participants is our number one priority. No game is worth permanent bodily injury. We felt that during Saturday evening we saw a great increase in bodily injuries. Sprained ankles, broken bones, people falling, feeling ill due to lack of sleep and dehydration became more and more frequent. The situation on the Swedish base became increasingly intense as the one of the largest airsoftbattles in history took place. Among the players we noticed that there was a growing irritation about some players not taking hits as the distances between the combatants were becoming to close. The situation was getting out of hand and we felt that due to some people’s lack of judgement we could not keep security on a reasonable level. We wanted to end the battle while most were having a great time and without any major incidents. Others may have seen the situation differently but we feel that we acted correctly according to what we saw.

As we mentioned in the first part of our evaluation we are looking at different solutions to solve the problems of players not sleeping and eating during our events. One of the suggestions is to have a fixed six hour game off during one or several nights for players to take a break and see to their personal needs. On Sunday there was no active game, this was decided after discussions with the commanders who did not see that enough players were active and ready for duty. Many players had started to go off game and return radios and other materials, transports etc, therefore our administration became overstrained. People were getting ready for the beer party and there was not enough activity among the players to get the ball rolling again. With the information given to us by the commanders we did not feel that continue playing was worthwhile.

Bases
Also with people going off game in the bases and people moving around outside the game, this also became a concern regarding security. Our solution to this is that we will supply military tents for all players in all bases. This will solve the logistical problems with players not knowing were to set up the tents and the bases will not look like a festival area. All tents will in this solution be fixed company wise and no players will have to bring their own tents and send large packages to us. Furthermore no tents will be taken down during the game and this will not be a disturbance on future Berget-games if we choose this solution.

During this event we felt that in the future we need to make all bases more self-supplying with Crew and other helpful elements. All logistical elements should be found in each base, information and contact with Crew should also be close at hand.

Players who sleep in the off game area should become fewer since this is a problem for the commanders who do not have all his soldiers in one place.

Players
It has become clear to us that the airsoft community is greatly diversified. With a great variety of players whom all expect different things we need to find solutions for all players to have as much fun as possible. We need on future events information from all players how much they intend to be part of the game and were they plan to sleep. On Berget5 we had situations were commanders could have as much as a company in the off game area or in their hotel rooms.
This could be solved by each player when they book their ticket. This information will be used by us and by the commanders so we can better balance the forces and so the commanders know who will be ready for duty during different hours of the day.

Commanders
During big games there is of great importance that everyone is on the same page concerning what we expect to get out of the game. Commanders has a great influence over the outcome and overall experience of the game. We have put a lot of time and effort into recruiting our commanders. This has been done by looking over credentials and interviewing a lot of applicants. This was not enough, even more effort needs to be put into this in the future This process needs to be refined in the future and we know now more than ever what to look for in a commander. We the Crew will demand a signed consent form from all commanders what we expect from him/her and that they understand the role and position they have been given. We need to have backup commanders for all forces in case of injury, illness or lack of cooperation or if the commander feels that he/she is not up to the challenge of being commander. All commanders, players and crew need to understand that there is the commanders’ number one concern that all players are having fun. Every commander need to give everyone the same amount of respect and not favouring some players while others are given mundane and monotonous assignments. We feel that all commanders brought something new to the table and we want to thank everyone who took a commanding role on Berget5 for their efforts. Even though we have not seen eye to eye with all commanders on all points we have learned a lot from every commander on Berget5.

Game Area
We are very glad that so many players loved the game area and found it as beautiful as we do. This was not a coincident that we choose this site for the game, much time and effort went into choosing this particular game site. We are glad that many liked the installations in the bases but regret that it was not as strategically correct as we would have liked. We found it hard and time-consuming to keep contact with a large number of landowners not to mention expensive. In the future we will try to find game areas that are owned by fewer and are less scattered. After some evaluation with the local inhabitants they are very pleased with the arrangement and with all the players. Some got lost and went into forbidden zones but no real damage was done. Some roads got damaged but overall we managed together to leave Hemso Island in the same condition we found it.

Props
We think our new generation of airsofttanks was much more realistic than the previous version and they worked great. We will continue to build more and better tanks and we think this will help develop our hobby. On another note like many of you have pointed out the AT:weapons were hard to use and the Crew who showed them to the players did not have the sufficient training to do this. We see this as a failure and will look at other solutions to make this better at our next game. During the final battle in the Swedish base we can assure you that all hits on the tanks were confirmed by GM´s. One standing by the shooter and one by the tank making sure the driver took the hit. Furthermore some players lost all the cartridges of CO2 and all bullets to the AT:weapons so those who could teach the players to use the weapons could not once this was possible.

Artillery was fun and a great element during the game, this takes a lot of game masters attention but we found that all players liked the feeling when fireworks went off around them in battle. We feel that this was secure and almost everything went according to plan.

Missions
We had numerous missions planned with props. Some of these missions did not become a reality due to miscommunication with some commanders. There was no use to send out one force on a mission when there was not opposing force to obstruct them along the way. Some missions did not become a reality since many players were out in the field doing recon missions. Again we need to stress that we need to have better communication between crew and commanders. All commanders need to know when he will receive his orders and when he needs to have all his personnel ready. We had planned a huge assault on the beach at the Swedish fortress landing troops with a ferry. With could not secure the concrete landing bridge securely enough so we called off the landing of Soviets. This was a call that was made due to security and we did not want any more injuries. We had planned to use the fortress in the Swedish base for an underground assault, due to previously named reasons we choose to call off the game before this became a reality. There were some early missions in the base were Spetsnaz managed to destroy some tactical points in the fortress.

We are right now missing 4 player-rented motorola GP340, 21 Battery´s and 4 monophones. We have signage from players that have rented but not returned their radios. Please send your rented or found equipment ASAP to:

Berget-events
Aspvägen 4
87152
Härnösand
Sweden

Put your name and ticket-ID inside and send us an email to info@berget-events.com

Last week, we sent player packages to Portugal and Nethterlands. Today player packages to United states, Canada, Spain, France and Germany left Harnosand 13:40.

Thanks for your patience!

So, you're back home after Berget 5. But did you enjoy yourself? What did we do well? Where is there room for improvement? Send us an email with your comments, and how we can do better, at our new feedback address: feedback@berget-events.com

The second part of our official summary is on its way; if your concerns weren't addressed in Part One, now's the time to get in touch.

This is the first part of our Berget 5 evaluation, and it is based on crew experience during the game and over 180 pages of feedback from player PMs and forums. Please keep in mind that this is just a brief summary and we will add more and more information, based on further discussions and feedback from you players.

First of all, we in Berget Events Crew are and have always been a non-profit organisation. We all have full-time jobs/school and have organised this event in our spare time. All crew members have been doing their best to make this event happen and many of us have been sacrificing several thousand hours of our spare time and taking numerous days off from work.

Our vision with the Berget scenarios has been to produce an annual international airsoft event, where people from different nations with the same interests can meet, have fun and play together. In our goals we have also implemented things like a beer party, invitation of retailers and manufacturers. In the end we would like this to become an international airsoft festival.

Before Berget 5 we all in the crew agreed that the most important factors to make the game a success were:

• Water
• Toilets
• Food
• Sleep
• Action/Missions

We in the crew feel that, overall, we have succeeded with at least the first three issues. As far as action and missions are concerned, we feel that we could have done better, but there are several others things that affected the outcome of this. We understand a lot of the problems that occurred during the game. In upcoming games, we will have to gather a larger crew and a larger number of game masters. Further on we will discuss this more thoroughly.

The issues that we didn’t expect, and weren’t prepared for were:

• Unexpected player transport
• Pre-game logistics / early arrivals
• Huge numbers of player requests


These issues haven’t been a problem during the other events and they had a huge effect on the game schedule and took too much time from crew. On this event participants arrived too early for us to handle, some as early as four days ahead. At this event we should have anticipated these problems and been more prepared to assist all early arrivals with better instructions. There were also more than 140 players arriving at Härnösand bus station and Midlanda airport without notifying us in advance. These unexpected problems took a lot of time and energy from the crew. Next event we will set a first arrival date, before which we will not provide for our guests. We will also clarify that we will not collect participants that have not pre-booked transport.


List of problems during Berget 5 and how we and other organizers should prevent them.

The definition of Milsim.
This is a huge problem with big international games. There is a big difference between the meaning of milsim from nation to nation. Because of this, players have different expectations of the game, and also different expectations on how other players should behave and act during the event. There could for instance be situations when players become irritated with each other when some want to sleep instead of guarding a post or someone wants to go and eat in the middle of the game. Players who roleplay can inadvertently insult players who don't, and so on. However we have come to the conclusion not to call Berget games Milsim just to avoid misunderstandings. There are of course a lot of parts that should be considered as milsim, but also some parts that are not. The game will stay on course but we will not call it milsim in the future.

Airsoft as a competition.
Airsoft is not, and should not be a competition. In airsoft there should only be winners. When commanders and players believe that the game is possible to win, they develop a competitive spirit that is bad for the game and makes many people more likely to not take their hits and break other rules just to gain an advantage in the game. We believe that the winners are the people that are having a great time among friends, and not the ones going out like winners of a particular battle. We feel that many players became frustrated when they felt they could not win; in our opinion, in airsoft it is the experience that counts rather than the outcome.

The gameflow
Before the start of Berget 5 the crew had not scripted a winner. Both sides had of course different conditions at the start, for example the defending faction was scattered and had to cooperate and interact to solve different missions. We understand that during the game, some parts of the flow felt scripted to some players. This is something that we as crew need to consider in future events because it’s very important to us that the players do not feel overly controlled. But some elements of the gameflow need to be gently directed (because of the massive amount of players) without losing real game feeling.

Language at international games.
There were some problems during the event with players not understanding each other, as well as crew and players not understanding each other. Therefore we believe that all players participating in the game should be able to speak and understand basic English, and the ingame lingo. To make this clear as day all team leaders should carry a pocket version of the rules. This is of great importance especially when it comes to safety aspects, like understanding the rules. In the future we will try to make sure that all players speak acceptable basic English, before they book their tickets.

Safety.
In our experience safety is more important on bigger events since people tend to disappear in the crowd. Before the game we therefore prepared for different scenarios that could occur during the event. First of all, we had a doctor on site throughout to take care of people in need of medical attention. All crew members also had basic training in CPR.

During Berget 5, the heads of the police and the local rescue service had participated in all security meetings and had complete information about the event. These meetings produced our safety rules for the event. When it comes to thefts and fights between players, the only thing we can do is to contact Swedish police and let them take care of the incident. We have no right according to Swedish law to take care of this kind of things ourselves!

One possible solution to this is to have a unique number, clearly visible on each armband to make identification easier. Of course, the best would be that none of these things would happen, and it could in many cases be prevented with more and better information and stricter control by personnel in each camp.

Information flow.
Communications between commanders and crew must be much better, and radios are not reliable enough; therefore all commanders should be provided with cellphones pre-programmed with numbers to crew. There should also be information boards in each base to keep players updated with offgame information as the event progresses.

There must be better ways to contact crew on future events. During Berget 5 we had problems with people spreading rumours rather than talking to some of us directly, which made it very difficult to address the specific problem. Of course there were players that contacted us directly which made it easier to solve the problems. At future events, we will have more personnel out in the bases to make this contact easier.

Micro logistics.
During Berget 5, we experienced problems with people coming to us with different kinds of problems that we shouldn’t be bothered with. For instance people missing battery chargers, people missing weapons due to problems with shipping or customs, weapon malfunctions and such. We made the mistake of trying to help all these people which disturbed our more important crew work. In the future, we must be clearer about which kinds of problems we will assist with, and we must have our priorities in order.

Sleeping.
Both players and crew need to sleep. Therefore we plan to restrict our future big games with off game times between 0300 and 0900. There must be time for people to rest and sleep. This is mostly for safety reasons; tired people make mistakes that can hurt both themselves and others. We also believe that a person who is rested will enjoy the event more than a person who is tired.

Hygiene.
Our goal during Berget 5 was that all participants would have easy access to toilets. We used algorithms used by festival organizers, along with past experience, to calculate the required number of toilets. However, providing toilets during airsoft events is usually not as simple as at festivals or sporting events because of the terrain in which such events take place. Therefore we chose not to have any toilets in the Russian base, but in the safe zone; the toilets weren’t many minutes away from the Russian base by foot. The toilets could have been driven out to the Russian base, but the 24-ton truck that is supposed to empty the toilets would have been unable to reach the base. We thought that the toilets worked fine during the event, and they were emptied twice.

About the water issue, we used military and festival calculations for how much water would be required. There were however problems with having enough water tanks ready before the game, and it is both time-consuming and expensive to refill the tanks during the event. Nevertheless, we consider that the water was no problem during Berget 5. Every player had water near their base. We had enough water in place in the bases to last the whole event; all that was needed was to fill some of the small tanks with water from the bigger ones.

Showers may seem like a luxury, and there were no showers in the Berget 5 game area, but we have come to the conclusion that it is necessary to increase the experience of the event. Showers help to keep diseases at a minimum as well as help players to feel more fresh and comfortable. This will help players to have more fun during the event. Of course this will cost a lot more, both economically and in terms of organizing, but we think it will be worth it.

Cheating.
There tends to be more cheating on bigger games. There was obviously some cheating during Berget 5. There is however no easy way to solve this since it’s up to the individual players. At future events we will make sure that we have a lot more game masters out in the field. Both game masters in crew vests and hidden players with no signs of their crew assignment. These undercover game masters will have the same rights as regular game masters to give warnings and ban people from the event. These players will be selected before the game, and will be trusted and experienced players. Armbands with unique numbers will also make it easier for game masters and players to track down cheating players.

Accidents and deaths during airsoft events.
Bigger games with more players naturally result in a higher risk of serious accidents and even deaths. This isn’t restricted to airsoft; it happens at other big events also, such as festivals and sports events. The organizers have a great responsibility to set rules and make sure that people follow them. But it’s also up to the players to know their own limitations, and if somebody suffers from any significant medical conditions, then they must let both crew and their own team know. For the next event we will evaluate whether or not we can have a registered nurse in every base.

Use of alcohol and drugs during the event.
As we stated before the game, alcohol and airsoft shouldn’t be mixed. We don’t want people to drink alcohol during the event, but it’s not illegal according to Swedish law. During berget 5 there were people breaking our rules (not the law). Whenever we were informed that people were drinking alcohol, we sent out personnel to check; however, as we never saw anybody drinking or indeed any evidence, there was nothing we could do about it. In future events we will equip personnel with breathalyzers to find those who have been drinking. It is also important that players who see somebody drinking alcohol remembers the unique armband number and pass the information to crew. We understand that people want to relax and take a drink before going to bed, but this is not acceptable when it can affect in-game safety. Instead of drinking within the game area, attend the beer party instead; it was a huge success following Berget 5.

The Crew.
The hardest thing about organizing big games is getting trustworthy people that are both competent and ready to work a lot for free. We had too few staff, particularly marshals, during Berget 5, and many people that had promised to help us either didn’t show up or couldn’t participate fully during the event. Our goal is to outsource key tasks, like catering, transport, and utilities management to local companies. This way, service should be better and Crew can concentrate on more game-related assignments.

Crew must also be trained prior to the game to prepare them for the various crises that may arise, and must also be more thoroughly briefed on their authority to ban players. We must be quicker and stricter in our reactions when players misbehave. Our calculations with support from our military adviser and festival organizers we must have 1 crew for each 20 participants. To gather this number of crew, we have already talked to regional airsoft associations to help us with upcoming events.

Pre-game information
We have learned that there were problems getting information to all players before the game. A lot of information was stated on the website and on the forum months before the game, but for some reason a large proportion of players didn't read either. We have decided to try to send more detailed information directly to players by a email system and open the phone service earlier before the game. We must work closer with commanders on all sides, and provide more and clearer information. Maps should be released earlier, and maps with vital information like respawns will be posted on the information boards in each base.

Blacklist.
Further on, Berget Events will have a Blacklist. On the Blacklist we will have names and information on people or teams that have misbehaved on events. They will be excluded from future events. Information about players or teams on the list will be strictly confidential.

Finally
We would like to thank all the players and all others who made Berget 5 possible. We are now in the progress of planning future events. This summer we will host Crossroads II; more news about this game will be posted on the website further on.

More releases about Berget 5 will be posted as they are completed.


//Berget Crew

We are right now very occupied with cleaning up after the event and returning all rented and borrowed stuff.

Summary, information and more is to be expected in 3-5 days.

Thanks, Berget-crew

As of Monday, all contact with Berget crew will be possible only through our telephone customer service.

The number to dial is: +46 60 60 60 014
If you are in Sweden: 060 60 60 014

The number above will be the official player service number to call during the event. There is a voicemenu to help you contact the right crewmember or operator.

If you didn't buy one from us, dont forget to make and bring one to the game. We will not allow any player on the field without proper armband. Check the rules section for more info.

Note! We are not selling any at checkin.

When you arrive at the game site on thursday:

1. Park your car at the designated parking field, bergetcrew will be there to direct you.

2. Leave your gear/weapons/packing in the car.

3. Proceed to main safezone, bring only your passport/photo-id.

4. Take your place in a line - if there are any, aproach the checkin tables directly if no.

5. Have your ticket-id written down or memorize it, tell/show it to the checkin personel together with your passport/photo-id.

6. Receive stuff you ordered like radio, armband, food tickets, etc..

7. Return to the car.

8. Head for your side's main base camp with your gear, if the gear is too heavy for one trip you may take your car. (Drive back to the parking field immidiately after unpacking.)

9. Chrone your weapons at the base. (this can be done after game-start as well, if you arrive late)

10. Return to the main safezone for briefing and pre-game information.

If you arrive on wednesday or earlier, you will get base direction at main safezone. If checkin is closed you may enter your base and checkin as soon as it opens.

CombatZone will be in the main safezone with a shop were they will sell BBs and other airsoft releated items. They will have some of the latest items from Classic Army and ASG for show and testing. If you get any trouble with your weapon, they have a full service centre with them.


Please go over there and get your Classic Army gun signed by Mr Jackie Pong, CO from Classic Army.

If you have any questions please contact Combat Zone at info@combatzone.se

For some reason there has been some problems for us to send emails the recent days. We get stuck in a broken spamfilter, so if you dont get a reply, dont worry changes have been made.

Note! If you dont see your changes in the playerslist, please email us again.

On friday the first of June, administration, rules & player data will go into lockdown mode. That means that the rules wont be changed anymore, You cant change team/role, we wont change owners on tickets and you cant sell your ticket in secondhand after friday.

Why? We are starting all the preparations on the game-area and there is less time for administration. We will still anwser emails and calls but we wont make any changes.

Note! Changes in departures and arrivals can still be changed.

More and more people are signing up for the beerparty after Berget 5. It seems that Härnösand City will be full of happy airsofters & locals. We have now decided to have a beer drinking contest!

The winners will get free tickets for Berget 6!

Dont forget to sign up for this massive party before we run out of tickets!

The party is held on sunday night at Mellanholmen in the central Härnösand. It will take place in an enclosed area, only accessible to those with prebought beer party-tickets. There will be an all-you-can-eat barbecue buffé, beer and cider available to a reasonable price.

We will arrange with parking and a place to sleep in a school on Sunday night.

Follow this link to book your ticket.
http://www.berget-events.com/b5/party

Note that you are now only booking it, you pay for it at the event checkin.

/Hampa, Berget Crew

Your respective commander is working his/her ass off to get all companies together. If you want to play with your friends, please register at the forum and follow the instructions in this LINK to the forum. If YOU dont register, we assume that you dont care and place you in a random group.

Berget Crew´s transport service will be at your disposal at all hours, given you have booked and paid for this transportation in advance. For your own convenience we need to know specific times and dates when you are planning to arrive and depart from Midlanda airport or at Härnösand Busstation. We also need to know when you will be leaving the event.

Send this information to travel@berget-events.com with the topic "travel-service"

It’s been a while since we said anything about our programme to recruit women to the hobby. We now want more teams who are interested in taking on up to three female recruits in their squad.

The teams who are interested have to supply the girls with proper equipment (weapon, camo, load-bearing gear and eye/face protection).
For this the girls pay the lender 300 SEK per person.

Interested? Please email me at girlsairsoft@berget-events.com.
We also need a phone number and email address to your contact person.

Best regards,
Hanna, Berget Crew

Daniel "Daffy" Lindberg has selected as commander for the Swedish forces at Berget 5. Daffy was born in 1977 in Sweden and did his military service as a sniper at the Swedish recon academy.

Daffy has a great deal of airsoft experience both as player and organiser, and was one of the first persons arranging milsim games in the Härnösand/Sundsvall area. Daffy has participated in Bergets 1,3 & 4 as Special Forces commander and Battalion commander.

With his 13 years of experience, we feel confident of his ability to get the job done.

It has been decided, in light of the predicted weather, that all pyrotechnic grenades or smokes are forbidden at Berget 5 because of the fire risk. Players are strictly forbidden from bringing any pyro whatsoever; when necessary, carefully tested smokes and other pyro may be issued by company commanders and game staff.

Anyone found violating this rule will be ejected, along with their entire team, without refund.

The time has now come for the pronounced cutting. 23 needs to be cut from SF and 12 from Spetznas. This post includes a short survey that ALL of you that have applied for SF and Spetznas has to fill in. If you do not answer this survey in the given time, you will automaticly be cut.

We will once again state that the slection process really is necessary. Unfortunaly we dont have the posibility to assess you as thoroughly as we would like, but that makes it even more important for you all to answer the survey truthfully.

The ones that does not meet our demands, will be informed before the 23th of april. There will then be plenty of time to help you get transfered to another unit.

The survey must be answered and posted as soon as possible. The deadline for this survey is 16th april, and as stated before, the ones that have not answered before that date, will be cut.

See the SF/Spetznaz forums for the link to the survey form.

The party is held at Mellanholmen in the central Härnösand. It will take place in an enclosed area, only accessible to those with prebought beer party-tickets. There will be an all-you-can-eat barbecue buffé, beer and cider available to a reasonable price. There will also be one main artist performances on stage along with minor bands. The performing artists will be revealed at a later time. A big LCD-screen (160”) will be showing the highlights from Berget 5 during the night. Apart from having a beer with all your airsoft friends, you will also have a chance to mingle with the locals, since these tickets will be available to them also. All in all this will be a party not to be missed!

We have two different offers for you:
150 SEK (15 euro) = Entrance fee, all-you-can-eat barbecue buffé, 1 beer/cider
50 SEK (5 euro) = Entrance fee only.

In the beer tents a beer will cost 30 SEK (3 euro) and if you only bought the entrance fee and still want to eat the exquisite buffé, it will cost 120 SEK (12 euro).

We will arrange with parking and a place to sleep in a school on Sunday night.

Have in mind that you will not be able to buy any tickets once you get to Härnösand . There will only be 2000 tickets released, so hurry up before the local girls buy them all! ;) It will be a nice time to get together and relax after the game, take this unique opportunity meeting airsofters from all over the world building a larger airsoft community while drinking beer.

Follow this link to book your ticket.
http://www.berget-events.com/b5/party

Note that you are now only booking it, you pay for it at the event checkin.

/Hampa, Berget Crew

The MP platoon is slightly below strength, so we are looking for nine volunteers from the Allied/NATO forces.

MP is only for those with an interest in the milsim/roleplaying aspect of the game; gear standards will be higher, roleplaying is expected of everyone, and so on. You won't see as much action as other units - duties will largely revolve around prisoners, guard duties and policing the bases and occupied areas. You will be issued (at a nominal cost) a warrant card and an MP brassard.

We are particularly interested in medics and support gunners.

For further information or to apply, contact Torak by PM on the forum.

As the picture shows you have to make a secondary armband if you are a "ingame" medic or engineer. This should be worn on your right arm and the "team-armband" on your left. This armband should be in the same size as the "team-armband".

Medics also need to bring a pack of bandages. You dont need to buy real ones, just rip a sheet into sutable pieces.

Engineers will have to bring a small wirecutter, screwdriver, and lighter.

Primary Spetsnaz Commander will be Yves Timmermans aka Waffelke who was born in 1973 in Belgium. He has done his conscription in Belgium in 2nd regiment recce, 1st division which was based in Germany.


Yves: " I will expect all Spetsnaz participants to give it all, but I´ll give you the tools to success. I´m not democratic because in the field democracy is for sissies!!! In that way I will lead my people."

At this moment Yves is active in several security companies in Austria,
Germany and Belgium operating in Iraq, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Yves has a leading place in the Dutch airsoft team "Limburgian guard"
(aka Limburgse Garde) Besides that, he runs a group of people in survival
camps and airsoft training, (also some juvenile boot camps).

His 2IC will be Arthur Pfaff (1967) aka "WhiteAce" from The Netherlands,
team leader of MASq (Mercenary Airsoft Squad) leading some 20 members. He is
also one of the few airsoft organisers in Belgium. Arthur has been a
sergeant in the Dutch army 42nd supply company, based in Seedorf, Germany.


Yves Timmermans aka Waffleke.

Major Rocco A. Spencer
Retired United States Army Infantry Officer.

Experience:
• Rifle Platoon
• Anti-Tank Platoon
• Scout Platoon
• Rifle Company Commander
• Staff Operations at Battalion, Brigade and Division.

Schools:
• Airborne School
• Ranger School. (non-grad, medical)
• Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses
• Command and General Staff Course
• Staff Command School
• Anti-Tank School

Extensive operations and command experience.

Organized and Trained the Ranger Platoon (ASG)
Numerous ASG command assignments.

I am looking for Company Commanders and Staff.

I am also looking for volunteers to beef up the Rangers at Berget, I need 8 personnel. Ranger quality.

I am a forceful direct leader in action, I believe in leading from the front. Expect mission orders and then I expect you to execute. I will tell you what, not how. The only time I get into Company or Platoon business is when things are not happening. Expect to see me at the cutting edge of battle.

Hooah
Rangers Lead the Way!


Rocco (Rock) A. Spencer
Major Infantry

Sergej "Brujo" Ivanus was born in 1975. He lives in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenija. He is the Commanding Officer of Salamander Unit, in Slovenija

Brujo wants to build his leadership on a strong team of commanders who are highly motivated and able. This team of leaders should quickly be able to adapt in leading their troops into any given situation on the field.

" - The soldiers need action, to feel participant and appreciated. They and enough rest that they can go on for days. "

He charactarises himself as calm with sound judgement and good communication skills. Furthermore he has extensive experience leading large numbers of players and organising airsoftgames over a long period of time.

He is recruiting HQ members/Officers and his 2nd in command. These individuals will set up a mailing lists, build a structure, make every ones responsibilities clear and develop rules of conduct for all troops.

Primary SF-Commander will be Mikulas Suk who was born year 1975 in Czechoslovakia and brought up in Sweden. He has done his conscription in both Sweden and in the Czech-Republic.

He is an active member of the Swedish national guard, and he has been active in different military exercises on national level and to help train UN-soldiers in training.

He has been playing airsoft since 1991 often with "LiveActionRolePlaying" as a part of the game to make the scenarios more realistic. He and his team members in TAC served with honor on Berget 3 leading the SF-forces.

His 2nd in command will be Martin Hejda from the Czech.Republic member of the team Silent Assasins. These two will be heading up the SF on Berget 5, and they will have full autonomy to make up tactics, strategy and how to deploy their troops. Furthermore they will decide on who else will be leading the SF-forces.

We suggest that all participants update their insurance to cover the risks of the game. Everyone should bring relevant insurance documentation that can be shown at the hospital in order to be given medical attention. If you should substain an accident during the game this could become very costly if your insurance lack in coverage.

You will need to bring this dokumentation into the field along with your identification. This ID could be your drivers licence with photo for instance.

For all of those who choose to rent a highperformance radios from us you will not be able to use your passport as ID. Your passport will be held as security since the radios are rentals, and very expensive. Thus we highly recommend that all bring alternative identification.

To gain access to your side's forum section, send a PM to the section moderator with your full name, nick, booking-id and request to join the respective usergroup. (from usergroups menu)

Note: Once added to a side's usergroup you can not request to switch factions any more.

There is now a new "ingame" rule for respawns called ATR & RTR (Allied time controlled respawn & Russian time controlled respawn).
These are special respawn locations that will be open between certain times. You can always "respawn" in your home base, but during huge operations there will be respawns closer to enemy territory.

The specific time for each ATR/RTR will be posted on a sign at the "respawn totem". All time controlled respawns will be marked on your ingame-map received at check-in.

To avoid problems or delays with customs we have arranged an option for you to send your guns to Sweden by mail/speed post.

You must pack your guns properly and place a paper inside the package with contact info to you, name, phone, complete address and booking numbers. Please also add a clearly visible note on the outside of the package with your Team name and the name on your contact person.

Send the package to:

Berget-events
Gunnar Nilsson
Aspvägen 4
87152
Härnösand
Phone: +46 70-6692160 (This is for transport company only)

When you arrive at the game-site & check-in you will receive your package un-opened. You will have to show proper photo-ID/passport and booking number. (Remember to check the delivery time before sending, if you don't use speed post it can take over 4 weeks before the package arrives to us.)

There is an administrative fee "200 SEK" for this service and you will have to pay this at check in.

There is also an option to send your guns back to desired address in your country. More about this will be explained on site.

If you want prices about the costs for this. Estimate the total weight of the package and talk to your local post office.

*Please note that we don't take any responsibility for lost/damaged packages or delays*

This is the situation, we now have more than 180 applicants for Spetsnaz and SF. With the current storyline, we only have 120 open slots. Doing some simple math shows that we have to cut out roughly a third of all applicants. Before we start the real selection process, we are giving you an opportunity to change to a unit of your choice. The sooner you change the better options you’ll get.

First of all we will have to give you all a proper explanation of what your participation on Berget will require if you stay in SF/Spetsnaz. You all will have to walk/run more than 50 kilometers and we cannot assure you any sleep. You may be asked to give up all your food. If you get captured you will have to endure some minor torture-simulations and questioning. In short terms our goal is to simulate a real special ops scenario, and as much as in reality, life in the SF/Spetsnaz will be hard. Have you been in real combat and have any traumas from this and may go berserk or instinctively harm someone in close combat? If so, and if these conditions could start a process of mental instability we strongly urge you to change to a less stressful deployment on Berget 5.

If you still are confident that this is your cup of tea, the real selection process will commence soon. There will be a survey for you to fill out, with questions concerning you mental and physical status. If you have any doubts at all, we strongly recommend you to reconsider another option and choose new unit in game. If you want to change, or have any questions regarding the selection process, send an email to sf@berget-events.com

Right now there are about 700 players that have chosen to create their own "Armband" to use at Berget 5.

Here is some important rules for this:

1. As the picture shows it have to be at least 10 cm (4.3") wide.
2. Players without armbands will be forced to leave the game area.
3. Russian players uses red, Allied forces uses blue, Swedish half- blue half-yellow and FFF uses half-blue half-white.
4. If you don't want to make this yourself, send 30 SEK to our account with your Ticket-ID as message and we will add this to your profile.

At today's meeting, the Berget staff decided to amend our plans for the post-game beer party. We are very sorry for this, but because of the considerable expenditure (staff, covering purchasing, licensing etc) that we can otherwise put to enhancing the game experience at B5.

We have therefore contracted out the beer-party to a local restaurant with experience of similar events. Negotiations with restaurant and council have ensured that prices can be kept minimal; to this end, Berget Events will also be providing staff at no cost.

However, to make this possible, we need to know preliminary numbers based on a cost per head of 180 SEK; this will include a large barbecue platter and a beer. The party will be in central Härnösand, and free sleeping space will be arranged nearby for those wanting to spend the night. Parking exists adjacent to the area.

Anyone needing transport to airport and bus station will still be able to attend; transport will be available through the night and the following days.

No pre-payment is necessary; we just need preliminary numbers so the restaurant can start planning.

Remember to pay as soon as possible. If we haven't received your payment within a few days we will sell your tickets to other players.

Do not email us if you recently have paid and are not in the list; please wait 5 days, as international transfers are updated weekly.

To make email-administration faster and more effective, we have recruited additional personnel to ease the heavy load of emails and questions.

Please use the following email addresses if you have specific questions regarding payments (you have paid but are not in the list), vehicles (you want to bring/drive an in-game vehicle at Berget 5) or Girls Airsoft (you want to help introduce girls into airsoft).


Payment questions:
payment@berget-events.com

Vehicles questions:
vehicles@berget-events.com

Girls Airsoft questions:
girlsairsoft@berget-events.com

The successful applicant will have considerable military or civilian leadership skills, as well as a great deal of experience in hiking. You will have exceptional people skills, with experience at making a group function as a unit. Your written and spoken English should be fluent, and you should be aged at least 25. Ideally you will have some military experience, preferably with deployments abroad.

Your tasks will include the following:

- Organising the Spetznas forces;

- Recruiting a 2IC (second in command);

- Ensuring that all members of the Spetznas unit fulfil their responsibilities.

We cant stress enough that active service is a great merit.

Send your aplictation to info@berget-events.com

The remaining 500 tickets got sold out in under 20 minutes, which makes it a new record!
Congratulations to everyone who got theirs.

The last tickets will be released on the 17th of January 20:00 CET.

On the 30th of January we will be closing for bookings entirely, and any unpaid tickets will be removed on the 17th of February, giving us the final total for players.

The ticket price from now until the 30th is 550 SEK, and payments must be received within fourteen days. If your payment arrives later than that, your ticket will be forfeit and your money will be returned.

At the moment we have some unidentified payments; if you have paid but are not shown on the "booked list", please contact us as soon as possible with as much information as possible - who paid, when, full name, city, adrees and so on - to allow us to identify your payment correctly. Please also add full personal information, extras, teamtag, game-side and character so we can add you to the players database again. Send this to info@berget-events.com

FFF and Allied sides are now fully booked and soon payed for. In the following ticket release (20:00 CET 17th of januari 2007) there will only be possible to book as the Russian Side or Swedish forces.

Remember that players on the russian side can be "Soviet allies" or "mercenarys" so it is not neccesary to have russian style gear.

Right now we can get up to 100 emails a day, this resulted in bouncing emails when our mailbox was overfilled on friday the 24th.

We need you to re-send your mails if you sent them during 24th - 27th of november.

Please do not send us emails about extra tickets. We will post about this on our homepage when there are tickets available.

We have now removed about 75 unpaid bookings from the first ticket release. Those of you who book these tickets have 10 days to settle your payments.

If you have difficulty settling your account, contact us by email. If you have paid your ticket and still been accidentally removed, contact us at the usual address.

There are now 70 tickets free for booking.

We're about to delete the unpaid tickets, releasing them for booking. We'll start with the unpaid Swedish bookings, then get on to foreign bookings on Friday to allow for the longer processing time on payments from abroad. We will also be allocating some of them to people on the queue.

Those who have contacted us to let us know about delays in payment will not be removed; if you've told us your payment will be late and have been removed anyway, let us know at the usual address and it'll all be sorted out.

Oh, and we've already got through the first 75 unpaid Swedish bookings.

We're well on our way to reaching full strength - but we still need more people! Come on, folks, anyone else fancy being an MP for a few days? Do you value roleplaying in an unprecendented game over the shooting that you've done a thousand times before? Do you want to wander around with handcuffs looking for looters?

If so, join the MPs! Aid the Allied quest for freedom for Sweden! Help keep order in the Allied base! Arrest drunken Finnish Freedom Fighters staggering around pinching things! Arrest the commander of the Foreign Legion detachment and sent him home to France! (Yeah, we did that last time. It was fun.)

Drop by the MP board of the forum and join up today!

Due to a heavy workload, it's taking us longer than usual to go through our current haul of emails. If you've sent us an email in the last few days, please bear with us.

There seems to be some DNS problems with the www.berget-events.com adress. We are working on it right now, the page may be unavalible for one or two days for some parts of the world.

Credit card payments are now accepted through Paypal, our accountname is "info@berget-events.com".
To cover additional administrative costs and bank fees, Paypal takes a percent of every transaction. Therefore use the following conversion rule when paying: Ticket cost x 1,065 = Total amount to pay. Dont forget to send your booking number as a message with the payment.


Example: 450 SEK x 1,065 = 479 SEK

Yes, happy campers, it's that time again! Those of you who haven't paid yet - you know who you are - have a week to do so. After that we're releasing those tickets, and your precious shiny little ticket will go to one of the several hundred people in the reserve queue.

So get your bank details ready and wander in to your favourite bank by this time next week... Sweden's very nice in the summer, you wouldn't want to miss it. Would you?

We are now at a stage where we can appoint a commander for the Allied special forces. The successful applicant will have considerable military or civilian leadership skills, as well as a great deal of experience in hiking and generally wandering about in the woods. You will have exceptional people skills, with experience at making a group function as a unit. Your written and spoken English should be fluent, and you should be aged at least 25. Ideally you will have some military experience, preferably with deployments abroad.

Your tasks will include the following:

- Recruiting and organising the special forces division;

- Recruiting a 2IC (second in command);

- Ensuring that all members of the special forces unit fulfil their responsibilities.

Send your application and a photo to info@berget-events.com

We have now removed about 60 unpaid bookings from the first ticket release. Those of you who booked on the 17th of October now have 30 days to settle your payments.

If you have difficulty settling your account, contact us by email. If you have paid your ticket and still been accidentally removed, contact us at the usual address.

There are now 25 tickets free for booking.

With just two hours to go, (20.00 Swedish GMT+1 time) we want to remind you to not to rush when booking, but to make sure every vital detail is entered correctly.

The most important details are:

*Name
*E-mail address
*Country
*Faction and unit

If you're booking your whole team, use your own e-mail address for each one of the teammates.
If you later want to pay for everyone at once, mail us the Ticket-ID of each booked player and we will return you a Group-ID.

Good luck.

Tomorrow (Tuesday 17th October) at 2000 CET we are releasing the second batch of 300 tickets. This will probably be the last batch for 2006 and then we will raise the ticket price.



Dont miss this release! Get 'em while they're hot.

This is just a reminder to all of the teams and players who still havn't payed for their ticket. It is now less than a week left before your unpaid booking is erased, so make sure to do the bank transfer before the end of the week. Should you not make it before the end of the week, mail us and we will hold your booking till the transfer is completed. But no longer than to the end of next week.


Next ticket release is scheduled as planned to October 17:th. The amount of tickets released depends on how many unpaid bookings are erased.

There is a possibility of forming an MP platoon, tasked with traditional policing duties as well as elementary base defence, as part of the Allied force.

This will be a small unit, certainly under 30 and probably more in the region of 10-20. It will have a higher degree of LARP and milsim, with relatively little action. There will be tighter restrictions on gear (diverse uniforms will be accepted, though uniforms and gear must be correct for the country represented).

Off-base activities may include things like investigating allegations of war crimes, etc.

MPs will, if all goes according to plan, be issued with appropriate badges and a professionally produced orientation booklet; these may incur a small expense, almost certainly under 100 SEK/person in total.

For more information, see This Thread in the forum.

The magazine and ammo rules have been revised and clarified. They are up for your delighted perusal on the Rules page.

We are now currently looking for three commanders for the Soviet side at Berget5. The successful applicants will have a quiet authority about them, will have experience with leadership (military or civilian), and will speak fluent English. Russian is a bonus, but by no means a requirement. You will play ingame characters and you will lead and organize the Soviet forces.


Send your application, with a photo, bio and a brief comment about why we should select you, to info@berget-events.com

We have now added an option for group payments. To take advantage of this, collect the booking numbers and fees from those you are paying on behalf of. Send the booking references to us at the usual address and we will send you a unified booking reference for the whole group. Then pay as usual.

We have now provided a simple formula for those wishing to pay in Euros. For more information, see "Prices" on the Game Info page.


This is the correct formula: X * 0.13 = Price in EURO

Unfortunately, because of the limited number of tickets, we have decided to restrict bookings for the Finnish Freedom Fighters to people who speak Finnish; if you do not speak Finnish, please do not book for FFF in the next ticket release.

Those who have already booked for FFF and do not speak Finnish, please contact us at info@berget-events.com with a preference for an alternate team.

We now need someone to play the part of Harry Jäärvi, leader of the Finnish resistance. The successful applicant will have a quiet authority about them, will have experience with leadership (military or civilian), and will speak fluent Finnish. Swedish is a bonus, but by no means a requirement. Your role will be to ensure that those playing the resistance get as enjoyable a game as possible.


Send your application, with a photo, bio and a brief comment about why we should select you, to info@berget-events.com

At Berget Events, we are currently starting a scheme to introduce more female players to airsoft. As a first step, we have been recruiting locally to find girls who would be interested in playing. It is our view that it is easier to get started in airsoft at a large game with lots of people and lots to do.

At the moment we have just over twenty women aged between 19 and 29 who will be needing a "host team" during B5.

We have noticed that in the first ~100 bookings, the Total Amount to pay was set incorrectly in the summary and the email, ignore that final number and add your selections yourself.
This concerns only the first ~100 bookings.

Should you have booked incorrectly, email your Book-ID together with description to your country's organizer. If your country doesn't have one, mail it to info@berget-events.com instead.

As written previously, mail all questions and remarks regarding the bookingsystem to timpa.

Just one hour left till the release of the first 300 tickets. A form will be availble under "BOOK HERE" in the menu to the right.
The procedure is very simple;

- Fill out the form, press Submit.
- Doublecheck your details, and make sure the emailaddress is correct.
- Press CONFIRM, on the bottom of the page.

A new window will open with your ticket information and payment details, the same text will be sent to your emailaddress aswell.

The bookings will automaticly close when 300 entries are reached.
And that's it.

(Since the new window with the ticket information is a popup, turn off your pop-up blockers, if you have any activated.
If you have any questions regarding the booking system, send a mail directly to me at timpa@berget-events.com)

Q: When do you release more tickets?
Bookings are cancelled if they remain unpaid 30 days after booking. These will be re-released on the 17th of October, a release which will consist only of unpaid bookings. More tickets will be released only when the first 300 are fully paid-up.

Q:What happens if I don't get a ticket but my team mates do?
There are a total of 1200 tickets, so it is very likely that you will be able to get a ticket in the second or third round of releases. Just make sure you book with the same team tag, and settle your account within 30 days.

Q:What about repayment?
Fees paid are returned only if the event is cancelled.