Archive for August, 2008

Mythbusters meets Paintball

Watch on Youtube This past Thursday the Mythbusters built and demo’d what could be the largest paintball gun ever to recreate the MONA LISA in less than 80 miliseconds. Watch from 1:30 to end.

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Making the return from the beach

Mrod (formerly of Dynasty) took a leave of absence after having smashed on his old teamates at HB with a 5-G game playing with SF Design (check out the video). Mike ended up ditching the SF guys for some big waves in Newport, and now hes back on the field with Dynasty Entourage. Moving around [...]

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Pittsburgh All Americans back in the game?

Can Frank Connell rebuild the Pittsburgh All Americans before its too late?

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Moving and shaking; Aftermath, HK, Bad Company

This week in paintball news we hear that Aftermath has picked up two D1 players from another podium team and cut Nick Hooper for being heartless. Bad Company is setting up to compete at World Cup, the question is will they finally shoot spyders? Gio of Giant Paintball / SC Village has bought some time [...]

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The PSP considers moving to 4 events

4 individuals, each representing different aspects of the PSP/Xball met during NEO to discuss the idea of eliminating the 4th event, a traditionally non-profit / low turn out event and beefing up the remaining 4 events. As a regular pro paintbal reader you are aware that there are several teams “rumored” to be leaving. Problems [...]

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Tyler Michaud responds

A few weeks back we broke the news that Tyler Michaud was taking a break from paintball to settle some legal issues. Tyler wrote in to let us know what he was up to; Yes it is true, my playing days are over. I recently got an amazing job as a technical illustrator for an [...]

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PSP Final Standings @ NEO

NXL 1st – San Diego Dynasty 2nd – Philly Americans 3rd – Legion 4th – Ironmen Division 1 XBall 1st – RNT Allstarz 2nd – Damage 3rd – TX Justice League 4th – Vicious Division 2 XBall 1st – Cross-Eyed Paintball 2nd – TPA Revolution 3rd – Shockwave Canada 4th – Raiden Division 3 XBall [...]

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NEO Day 3 NXL Results

The Aftermath vs. Impact game was a shutout, Impact appears to be unable to dent the aftermath machine. Final score: Aftermath 9, Impact 0. Xfactor started the match against the Ironmen 4 to 1 and from the spectator side they seemed to be dominating the Ironmen. The Ironmen seemed to hold Xfactor at 4 points [...]

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Impact’s Josh Davey with broken leg

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Day 2 of NEO NXL Results

Day 2, Friday August 15th (1v4, 2v3, 5v6, 1v3, 2v4) 07:30am – Ironmen (5) vs. Aftermath (4) 08:30am – Infamous (4) vs. Damage (7) 09:30am – X-Factor (8) vs. Legion (7) 10:30am – Dynasty (6) vs. Americans (7) (6:6 OT Game) 11:30pm – N. Dogs (8) vs. Aftershock (7) 01:00pm – Ironmen (4) vs. Legion [...]

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Chris Raehl responds to Smart Parts teams using official NXL field for practice

Yesterdays post stirred up a hornets nest on pbnation. 173 responses and 9 pages later we receive an official response from Chris Raehl. Not sure if he’s speaking on behalf of the league or anyone in particular but he’s the man behind the APPA and therefor a credible source. As far as the rule goes, [...]

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Thursdays NXL Results

07:00am – Ironmen (1) vs. BYE (0) 08:00am – Infamous (8) vs. Aftershock (6) 09:00am – X-Factor (3) vs. Impact (8) *Flight Delay / Game moved to 5:00pm 10:00am – Dynasty (7) vs. N. Dogs (9) 11:00am – Legion (7) vs. Aftermath (6) 01:00pm – Americans (8) vs. Damage (4) 02:00pm – Ironmen (9) vs. [...]

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PRO PAINTBALL EXCLUSIVE: NXL Grandstands @ PSP North East Open

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LIVE from PSP NORTH EAST OPEN 8/14/2008

This years PSP North East Open is being hosted at Smart Parts All American Paintball Park in Greensburg, PA. While the paintball community has complained over the years for NEO event being “in the middle of nowhere”, this year brings the pro paintball event out of the soccer fields and to a professionally operation paintball [...]

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NPPL creates a 5-man division

With two fields field setups (turf / nets / inflatables) sitting idle in Boston and a shrinking attendence the NPPL has decided to open up lower divisions to 5 man. This move will enable teams who could not afford to compete on the Super 7 level to take advantage of professional events for a fraction [...]

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