Originally Posted By ORjeepguy:
I don't do it to necessarily win. I do it to improve myself. Do better than before. Try harder than the last event. Meet awesome people and see the awesome people I have already made friends of.

I love our sponsors. The prizes are great. But I don't need any of that. I need the camaraderie and good times. The party booms and great food. Heckling and despair.

Originally Posted By Obo2:
7 years ago I saw some random post about a cola warrior not far from where I lived.
I followed directions to the desert in the middle of nowhere. I really new nothing about it aside from it was some shooting competition. I showed up with a friend and we drove right up to the start of the obstacles. Everyone thought my friend was Chris Costa. I tried to do hard things and vomited in the desert with strangers cheering me on or um... encouraging me. I didn't do terribly well. I still haven't really figured out how to chug.

I was inspired to improve myself further. That has never really born itself out in my time or placement (though one year I busted my butt and managed most of the obstacles and even chugged 4 cans). The past couple of years my personal improvements haven't had anything to do with cola warrior. It seemed absurd to drive to the middle of the dessert to meet friends and strangers year after year to try to do obstacles I know i didn't prepare for and would fail at, to not know there is an extra button on this particular ak and forget that I am eating peeps, to fail obstacles and still be too much of a pussy to do more than walk the half mile and to rely on all 140 rounds of ammo and still not neutralize all targets and to vomit in the desert surrounded by strangers and friends after just 2 cans of soda.

You can get better at cola warrior you can win awesome prizes (The sponsors have been more generous than I could have imagined) you can make great friends. All of that is wonderful but in a fucked up world doing something so crazy and stupid that makes you uncomfortable just to make yourself do it can be the only thing that makes sense.

Originally Posted By nvgeologist:
I added a new reason at West this year.

To do well enough to motivate the younger fitter people do better than this fat lazy guy who's over the hill. Several people reran to knock me out of top 10 on that basis.

Originally Posted By nvgeologist:
If you can shoot under stress, you'll do alright at a Cola War.

If you can chug, you'll do alright at a Cola War.

If you can obstacle, but can't shoot or chug, you're gonna have a bad time.

Originally Posted By Seiran:
The fact that Baja less than a week after having stents put in whipped about thirty people that were younger and in better shape than him should be a huge wake up call to a lot of people.

Originally Posted By Kolat:


If I could get a couple stents put In I bet I could get top10.

Originally Posted By JohnStoner:
Meeting the best people. Constant improvement and competitiveness. Enjoy watching others do their best, learn and improve. Observing someone realize an AHA! moment and the pieces click into place.