Final decision on making a purchase for a Skytrak or GC2

[sherrow70]

I have researched and researched this now for four weeks. I plan on playing a lot of tournaments on TCG and JNPG. Their is no question the Skytrak is A better value. However regarding the misreads I have read about and the issue with chipping and putting on the Skytrak is it worth the price to buy a GC2? Is it really a big issue with SkyTrak?I actually like the design of the ST and the ease of use with 3rd party vendor software better then GC2. Please let me know your thoughts or experience with both systems. TIA

[Meatmiller]

I am going to get the Skytrak. I have to upgrade my projector and computer also so just too much money when you add a GC2. I have an optishot now and the non 1080p projector and computer are fine for that. The better graphics on TGC require a computer upgrade as well. I'm sure I will update in a few years to something else. I am waiting to buy early next month just waiting to see if any holiday sales come up.

I bought one of skytraks refurbished units. Have been using it for 3 months without any major problems. Saves you $500 in the long run. I was using it threw skytrak app in my phone till I got my sim done last week.

[sherrow70]

Ok thanks I'll keep that in mind.

[brob2k1]

What did you end up buying? I bought the skytrak myself. Couldn't justify the cost of the gc2 at this time especially with all the other cost of building my first sim. Was planning on around 3k and wound up going to 5k in price when all said and done. I will probably upgrade some point in time but as of now have no complaints whatsoever with my skytrak at this time. It will have a miss reads from time to time on a terribly shanked shot or a toed flop shot over the unit but I have played several rounds with zero miss reads. Hope this helps! feel free to pm me if you have any questions. Im running jnpg at the moment but once I get some more money saved up I'll be getting tgc as well. Here is a link to my setup. Still a work in progress but for being up a little over a week its getting there. https://flic.kr/s/aHsm4Hzxq1

I really like your setup and i"m thinking of doing something very similar. What projector did you end up going with? Great pictures by the way. Post up some more if you can :-)... I'm stealing as many ideas as I can find before making final decisions on what i'm going to do.