Monday Rumor Report
Note from JM: Our Post-Practice Report, traditionally released on Mondays has been moved to Tuesdays so that the players have additional time to travel and recover from practice prior to contacting us.
Contrary to the rumors flying around, the Orange County Bushwackers will in fact be competing at the PSP Chicago Open.
Sounds like some of the kids from a well known semi-pro team were caught up at the wrong place at the wrong time. Word is five players are being held for questioning regarding a shooting that happened Saturday night at a party. Yikes! Update: We removed references to protect the identities.
The WCPPL is said to be adding another field to support the growing number of teams joining the league. There is talk that they will be standardizing on one layout per event to allow teams to focus on playing paintball rather than memorizing several layouts. Great move WCPPL!
Speaking of leagues, the AXBL is busy preparing the fields for their 2nd event (being held this weekend). A sneak peak of the setup is available here.
As a follow up to our story that Joy Division is considering playing World Cup, we received a credible bit that leads us to believe they may be the 14th team playing in the pro division. The idea is that they will help even out the brackets. Having both the Russians and the Swedes competing at the PSP World Cup will definitely lend international crediblity to the league as well as the sport of paintball.
Gino’s new company VALKEN is said to be getting back into the business of distribution, and big time. Gino was formerly the head of National Paintball Supply and through his career he lead a giant buyout of several of the lines he was distributing. Rumor has it Gino has patched up his relationship with Bob Long and will be carrying the entire line of markers. Other names on the distribution list included Eclipse, Redz, JT Sports, SLY and strangely enough, XYIENCE.
This article was authored by Justin – who has written 875 paintball news and gear articles.
Justin was introduced to the game of paintball in ’96. Since then, he has been actively involved in promoting and playing in recreational and tournament paintball.
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Why dont you figure out what your talking about before you speak.
Yikes, harsh words. We removed the slanderous bit. Remember guys, people outside of paintball follow this site. Lets try and keep it professional!
Love the site, great updates!
you need to take the part about them down… you’re messing with peoples lives by posting stuff like that.
Like you said:
Justin says:
June 15, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Yikes, harsh words. We removed the slanderous bit. Remember guys, PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF PAINTBALL follow this site. Lets try and keep it professional!
What if a future employer for some of those guys stumbles upon this article when searching them in the future….
I guess if people in this world are thinking ahead they would not get themselfs into trouble. I am not so much talking about the players I am saying in life. You want to have a good future then do put yourself in a spot where you could have a bad mark by your name. Think ahead people before you get in trouble. Does anyone even know if the thing is even true?
yeah but stuff just happens sometimes beyond your control no matter where you are at. It could be the simplest thing happening and a terrible situation could come out of it irregardless of what you are doing. Now these guys have a mark on their name just because people know who they are.
Something did happen that weekend where they were at…. but you shouldn’t go posting something like that… especially when this website is supposed to be about paintball… this involves paintball players and what is happening outside of the paintball world and I feel this should stay that way…
If this was for sure true or not.
it happened sat after practice
speaking of, who the hell brings a gun to a party.
it was a real gun… if you click the link it leads to the news website down in Florida… a kid was killed
Do they bring real guns to the events?