Okay. My airsoft day has been spoiled even before starting.
A little bit of boring context first.
We live in a sea town, we don't really play (as in organized games) in the summer, we usually call it quits around mid June and resume in early September. If we feel like playing we gather a bunch of people from different clubs and have a skirmish somewhere.
Then we have tournaments, two types mainly (4 hours and 8 hours, one year we do the 4h ones, the year after we do 8h, you get the idea) with some 12/24h events thrown in, but they are quite rare.
At the 4 hour long ones, the minimum age threshold is 16, 18 for the longer 8 hours ones as there are more "safety" risks involved. More on that later if anyone's interested.
Due to the slowly dying community here, in the past we've resorted to inviting other clubs so we could reach a reasonable number of players (15 total, on average), including the cheater team I have mentioned several times, both in the OP and in various threads/statuses.
We also have a few father/son couples playing with us, they really make it fun as they are always on opposing teams so they can settle every affair they might have (seriously tho, they are freaking hilarious at times).
We happen to have this F&S pair who are friends with the cheater club's president, so they always push to invite them and often play with them during the summer break.
The dad is a cool cat, he just wants to sling plastic with his friends from both clubs, fair player who calls his hits and brings laughter.
His son, though, has been behaving like a cunt for the past year or so. Decent player with a great ego, he couldn't attend tournaments because of his age (he's turning 18 in a short time), the only one he could attend was a bit disappointing for him as another person was picked. Always tries to stand out (the bad way) from the crowd, expects to be praised for the individual plays (team game? Hello?) and, most importantly, gets super upset when someone points out any mistakes he might have made.
/boring prelude.
Let's jump to present day, I'm organizing the 2nd official game after the summer break. The 2 people aforementioned said that they wouldn't play because they were busy with family stuff (completely fine with it, family trumps everything else). 6 people, shit, not enough, so I started asking other clubs too, when I called the cheater club's president he told me they were playing with another club (completely fine with it as well) and that the 2 guys were joining him (NOT fine with that).
Now, if you join a soccer team, the team expects you to play with them.
You can't join X club but then play with Y only, it's not very respectful of X.
I did just call the kid asking what was it about and he told me his will to permanently join the other club because we never let him play tournaments.
Now, let's pause that for a second.
Since he joined us he could not participate in tournaments because he wasn't of age:
2018 (16yo min) he was 15
2019 (18yo min) he was 16
2020 (16yo min) we got the 'rona.
2021 (same 2020 series, postponed because of the virus) he'd be 18, so he could play and we are always happy to have new people in the competitive team.
I pointed that out to him and he suddenly hung up the phone.
Oh, we also have a somewhat bland "don't come back policy" that both guys are well aware of, if a member has an issue with the team or one of the members, we try to discuss it and come to a solution together. If the member leaves without actually giving an explanation, joins another club but then wants to come back, heh, train has been missed mate.
We actually try to solve problems.
I fully expect them to regret their decision and try to join us back within 2 months.
So yeah, tomorrow will be a sad skirmish, regardless of what happens..