The West Coast Paintball Players League and ProPaintball.com are proud to unveil the layout for Event 1. We invite you to and your team to compete in the premier West Coast “Race-To” Regional paintball series, starting off with event 1 on February 25th-26th, 2012. For those unaware, the WCPPL features the premier format, match style play and regulation fields. During the off season we had a chance to catch up with League owners Jessica and Mike Hinman. Based on what we have heard and seen, this WCPPL season will be off the hook!

ProPaintball is proud to unveil the WCPPL Field Layout for Event 1.

Be sure to print a copy and set up your local field!

West Coast Paintball Players League Field Layout 1, Breakout

West Coast Paintball Players League Field Layout 1, Side View

West Coast Paintball Players League Field Layout 1, Grid View

The West Coast Paintball Players League is known for professional reffing, tier 1 event management, and prize packages worth tens of thousands of dollars. To top it all off, the PSP has announced a partnership with the WCPPL to help expand competitive paintball on the regional level. Rumors are circulating that brand new scoreboards and a possible webcast are inline for 2012. Stay tuned!

WCPPL Registration is filling up fast. Sign up your team today!

Following on the heals of the 2011 WCPPL Cal Jam paintball event, the West Coast Paintball Players League has begun releasing details for the 2012 season. 2012 will mark the 4th season of the WCPPL and from the sounds of the announcement, Jessica and Mike Hinman continue to raise the bar. Here is a news alert sent out updating players and teams on the latest:

With 2012 fast approaching and people wondering what the word is I thought I would drop a line for next season. We at the WCPPL have been waiting to see if the two big boys would come to an agreement and unite paintball as we all would like to see. Now that the Vegas event is over and no deal has been reached it appears that it will be business as usual and we are excited to drop some info as to our plans.

2012 WCPPL Season News:

• Event 1 will be March 3rd and 4th!
• We will be expanding the field to 170′ by 120′.
• We will be eliminating the D side coaching.
• We are going to be working closer this year with the PSP to standardize our format and increase our sponsorship to our league and ultimately to the teams.

We as a feeder league to the PSP realize that a national quality event with regional pricing is our ultimate goal. The PSP has also offered its marketing machine to the WCPPL for us to use. And the talk of our finale being Web Cast has me super excited.

It is great to see the West Coast Paintball Players league begin to receive the recognition and respect that it deserves. In the final line, Mike mentions that the 2012 WCPPL Cal Jam event will potentially be webcast — definitely exciting news.

What do you think about the changes in store for WCPPL 2012? Do you want to see a closer relationship between the WCPPL and the PSP?

The internet is abuzz with players talking about their recent WCPPL Cal Jam experiences. In typical WCPPL fashion, league owners Jessica and Mike Hinman pulled out all of the stops to make sure paintball players had the best possible tournament experience. In case you missed the action (or were lucky enough to have competed), ProPaintball photographer AndrewH has published over 70 high quality photos from WCPPL Cal Jam. We caught up with our friend Robert Enriquez from the Premier division winners “The Cobras” for his take-

SoCal lived up to its reputation and gave another weekend of perfect paintball weather at Camp Pendleton Paintball Park. Everyone I ran into had a positive attitude and was really stoked to be playing paintball. I seriously could not have asked for a more perfect weekend and every grade of paint that was provided by WCPPL was on point. GI Sports Imperial paintballs shot like darts! Everyone is going to have their feelings about the reffing but if you really think about it, it’s not the easiest job in the world so we should cut them some slack. I appreciate the fact that the WCPPL referees were all experienced paintball players and knew the rules of the game. Not only did we get to see old friends we made new ones and can’t wait to see them next season. -Bert from the Cobras

2011 WCPPL Cal Jam Results

WCPPL Premier Paintball Division

1st Place: Cobras
2nd Place: Paintballgateway
3rd Place: San Diego Pirates
4th Place: SD Mob

WCPPL D3 Paintball Division

1st Place: Royalty
2nd Place: Coalition
3rd Place: LA Hitmen
4th Place: LVPP.net

WCPPL D4 Paintball Division

1st Place: IE Unseen
2nd Place: Fuzion 415
3rd Place: eLusive
4th Place: Az Ampd Kids

Stay tuned to ProPaintball.com for official news covering the WCPPL 2012 event dates and locations.

Pro Paintball photographer Andrew Holtegaard spent the weekend at the 2011 WCPPL Cal Jam season finale capturing the action for your viewing pleasure. Check out this gallery of over 70 paintball photos featuring some of the best paintball teams California has to offer. For more great photos or to hire Andrew at a 2012 event, be sure to visit Andrew H Photo.com.

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Pro paintball photographer Andrew Holtegaard (AndrewHPhoto & PhotoMob) has put together another great paintball photo gallery from the WCPPL Event 3 Battle Royale. Check out all of the action in part 3 of our 3 part gallery.

In case you missed it, view the rest of this series here:

1. Part 1 – WCPPL Battle Royal Gallery.
2. Part 2 – WCPPL Battle Royal Gallery.

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Pro paintball photographer Andrew Holtegaard (AndrewHPhoto & PhotoMob) has put together another great paintball photo gallery from the WCPPL Event 3 Battle Royale. Check out all of the action in part 2 of our 3 part gallery. Part 3 of the series will be available tomorrow morning.

In case you missed it, view part 1 of our WCPPL Battle Royal Gallery here.

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Pro paintball photographer Andrew Holtegaard (AndrewHPhoto & PhotoMob) has put together another great paintball photo gallery from the WCPPL Event 3 Battle Royale. Check out all of the action in part 1 of our 2 part gallery.

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Event #3 was another great success for the West Coast Paintball Players League. The event was hosted by league owners Jessica & Mike Hinman at Camp Pendleton Paintball Park in Southern California. Over 47 teams competed for the their respective titles. Paintballs provided by GI Sportz and APX Gear shot well, the weather was great, and the reffing was on point. Players and teams hailing from Washington State to as far as Florida were able to enjoy 48 hours of paintball paradise.

The final match in the premier division featured Fuzion against Paintball Gateway. The match ran 3-3 and then went into overtime as the clock ran out. In the WCPPL, the first time to score a point wins the match. Check out this video provided by Almost Famous Media in which Fuzion with 2 players on the field (Feddy Cummins and an unknown Fuzion teammate) prepares to close the match up against Joel Buffington, the last player alive on Paintball Gateway.

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Last week’s WCPPL paintball rumor report highlighted in on the roster additions for many of the WCPPL premier paintball teams. As a follow up to the news that Xavier Linn from Fuzion was MIA; our sources indicate that Xavier will be back with Fuzion for Cal Jam 2011.

Final Results from each division:

Premier Division

1. Paintball Gateway.com
2. Fuzion
3. Davis Ambush
4. SD Pirates

Intermediate Division (D3)

1. Coalition
2. Golden State Knights
3. SCP Edge
4. Royalty

Rookie Division (D4)

1. Marine Team II
2. Outburst United
3. Envy
4. eLusive

The West Coast Paintball League’s event #3 is shaping up to be an exciting tournament. Several of the paintball teams competing in the premier division have been busy making last minute pick ups to solidify their rosters as they vie for the event title and season championship. Read on for the latest news and rumors from the WCPPL teams.

San Diego Mob picks up Heath Hoeper. Heath took a few seasons off after playing pro with San Diego Aftermath in 2009.

Paintball Gateway picks up Danny Park who also played with San Diego Aftermath in 2009. Both Danny and Heath played together on Drama back in the day.

Fuzion’s Xavier Linn (dorrito player) is oddly missing in action. Alexander Borromeo and Nathan Schroeder from DBS are joining the team. In our recent interview with Mike Hinman, Xavier was singled out as a player that could easily compete on the pro level. No word yet as to why he is missing.

Poso Paintball.com has called it quits due to not enough dedicated players. The team owner was footing the bill for the team, including paint, entry, and gear and all he asked was for players to show up to practice. Free rides are few and far between these days and its really sad to see a dedicated team owner have to give up on his team due to players not appreciating how good the have it.

Davis Ambush picks up Jessie Lapid. He played with Sacramento XSV and San Francisco Explicit in 2009.

Lance Hardwick of Top Gun Union is playing with San Diego Pirates.

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Come check out the WCPPL this weekend at Camp Pendleton Paintball Park and see what you are missing.

EVENT (Prelims) SCHEDULES - Master | Premier | Division 3 | Division 4

WHEN: Aug 27-28, 2011
PLACE: Camp Pendleton Paintball Park 
ADDRESS: 2386 Vandergrift Blvd, Oceanside, CA  92058
Camp P PHONE: (951) 323-9883

DIRECTIONS/Notes to this weekends event: Merge on 76E, Take the “College Blvd.” exit. Make a left on College Blvd, then a right on Vandegrift. Vandegrift will lead to the Camp Pendleton “San Luis Ray” Gate. From Highway 15: Merge on 76W, Take the “College Blvd.” exit. Make a right on College Blvd, then a right on Vandegrift. Vandegrift will lead to the Camp Pendleton “San Luis Ray” Gate. Once you are at the Camp Pendleton Gate: Tell the guard you are going to “The Paintball Park”. The guard will want to see your driver’s license, registration and car insurance. Once you are through the gate, go about 1 mile and you will see the paintball fields on your left. Make a left before the large MCCS Built-in Sign and follow the Paintball Signs to the Park.

The West Coast Paintball Players League has unveiled the layout for the leagues 3rd event of the 2011 season. The layout features a 3 part snake and a fairly traditional layout which should be a lot of fun to play. WCPPL event 3 will be held on Aug 27th and 28th, 2011 at Camp Pendleton paintball park in CA. Registration for WCPPL event 3 has been opened and divisions 3 and 4 have already sold out. Division 2 has 3 more slots available so if you are planning on competing you might want to sign up quick.

What are your thoughts on this layout?

A few weeks back we shared an update regarding a new FeatureThis paintball magazine zeroing in on divisional paintball in a special “Grass Roots” edition. Matt Dawson is back with an official FeatureThis update as well as a special gift to WCPPL players and fans; high quality desktop paintball backgrounds.

Covering the second event of the WCPPL’s 2011 season was overall pretty fun for me. With a laid back atmosphere that lasted all week I got as much material as I could before heading out early each day for a family wedding. It was great hearing all the support from the players about FeatureThis. Even with all of this, I must say I’m slightly disappointed. You see, I’m simple man, I don’t demand to stay in expensive hotel or drive a nice car. I purchase day old bread, store brand butter and clearance steak. Overall I would say I am a pretty laid back person who demands very little of life, but will someone please bring me bacon flavored sunflower seeds. Yes I know I can buy my own, but it’s a matter of principle. As a side note to this important issue the release date for the feature has been pushed back slightly due to life getting in the way.
Thanks you.
-Matt Dawson

Click here for FeatureThis Desktop Paintball Backgrounds.

Can’t figure out which background I like better, the one with Ambush on the breakout, or San Diego Mob shooting out of the dorritos. Which backgrounds are your favorite?