The third stop of the 2009 Regional Paintball League (RPL) West Coast Series broke in the brand new Tournament Paintball Park at Camp Pendleton last weekend in Oceanside, Calif.
Teams from as far away at El Paso, Texas and Reno, Nevada made the trip to the San Diego area to be part of the 75 teams that were the first to fire rounds on the freshly rolled turf fields.
On Friday 16 seven-player teams comprised of active duty Marines competed in the Marine West Coast Paintball Championships. After showing their skills in the preliminary rounds, the Marines were treated to free lunch compliments of The Paintball Park at Camp Pendleton. When the day was done, Team Aggression from the 9th Command took home bragging rights as the best Marine paintball team on the West Coast.
Bright and early Saturday morning the RPL teams rolled onto the Camp Pendleton Marine Base for their shot to take home part of the $15,000 prize package. Teams in the five-player and three-player divisions took to the RPL, Eclipse and JT fields for their preliminary round games.
The Tournament Paintball Park at Camp Pendleton features a built in team paddocks area just feet from each field's entrance. The entry tent at each field offers its own compressed air fill station. With the close proximity of the staging area and fill stations, games ran ahead of schedule all weekend.
During lunch on Saturday, professional paintball players Travis Lemanski, Rusty Glaze, Todd Martinez, Yosh Rau & Rich Telford signed autographs for their fans at the RPL Command Center.
Before the finals on Sunday, the Tippmann TPX Pistol Challenge took place. Paintball celebrities including many of the professional players on site took part in a single elimination tournament. The new TPX Pistol shots .68 caliber rounds in a quick release magazine system. Future RPL events will offer a special “Tippmann TPX Pistol” division for all players.
Vendors onsite all weekend included Karnage Paintball, DGX Paintball, Planet Eclipse, Ramp'd Photography, Hundredth Monkey, Khrome Paintball, Golden State Paintball and Pit Row Barbeque.
The next RPL West Coast event will take place September 19 & 20 at US Paintball Nation in San Jose, Calif. More details will be available soon at www.therpl.com.
Next weekend The Tournament Paintball Park at Camp Pendleton will have its Grand Opening to the general public. For more details and pictures of Southern California's newest and best tournament paintball park, check out www.thepaintballpark.com or call (951) 323-9883.
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