Pro Team Sacramento XSV Launch New Website

To stay connected and find out all the latest news on Team Sacramento XSV, simply go to www.xsvpaintball.com. To follow Team XSV on Twitter, click HERE! Team XSV are the official referees for the Regional Paintball League!

Planet Eclipse TV – Artifact Episode 2

“Ghosts On The Boardwalk” is the 2nd video in a new online paintball video series produced by Planet Eclipse, called Artifact.

“Ghosts On The Boardwalk” follows San Diego Dynasty as they compete on the first stops of the PSP & NPPL Professional Paintball circuits, including a return to the Surf City Open in Huntington Beach, California, an event Dynasty once dominated but have not won in five years.

Produced by Planet Eclipse, in association with Deep Elm Records and Disconnected Media.

To contact the reporter on this story: Gilbert in Halifax, NS at gilbert@propaintball.com.

WCPPL Event 2 Paintball Photo Gallery, Part 1 of 4

We are proud to present our WCPPL Event 2 Paintball Photo gallery. These photos were shot by PROPaintball photographer Robert “Robbo” Abitia of KeepItSquare. This gallery is part 1 of a 3 part series to be released through the end of the week. For those of you who missed out on the event, be sure to check out our WCPPL Wrap Up by Tim Cerruti and the WCPPL Video by PbFashion.

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To contact the reporter on this story: Justin in Los Angeles at justin@propaintball.com.

Dye Travel Blog: South Africa, 2010

Exclusive: DLX Technology to relaunch LUXE

Yesterday we featured a rumor that indicated DLX would be returning to the market. As promised, Darryl Trent from DLX and his press team sent over the latest news from the DLX Technology Group. Read on for the official release, exclusive to PROpaintball.com.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 25, 2010 – Following recent announcements by Smart Parts, Inc.,
DLX Technology Group, manufacturer of the LUXE premium tournament
paintball marker is locating new component manufacturers to continue
its product line.

Each potential new component manufacturer is being evaluated to ensure
that it conforms with DLX’s strict quality management standards and
can maintain full documentation of quality checks as each part moves
from raw materials to finished component.

“Quality is critical,” said DLX director Darryl Trent. “Players
quickly adopted the LUXE not only because of its first-ever features
like voice-menu electronics and self-venting valve system that can be
stripped in under 10 seconds, but also because of the quality
craftsmanship that gives it uncompromising consistency and reliability
on the field.”

The process is moving quickly, with product deliveries scheduled for
fall 2010.

Developed as a focused high-end design and manufacturing group, DLX
Technology is dedicated to melding cutting edge technology with solid
tournament performance to build the ultimate luxury paintball marker.
To learn more, visit LuxePaintball.com.

DLX Technology
Email: dtrent@luxepaintball.com

Rumor of the day: DLX to make a big return

Rumors have been circulating around the paintball industry that DLX Technology would be ramping up production and making a full return to the paintball industry in 2010. In the last week the rumor mill went into over time with reports and evidence that confirmed the gossip.

We had the opportunity to speak with Darryl Trent of DLX Technology Group this afternoon. Not only did Darryl confirm that the DLX Luxe was returning to store shelves, he indicated that a big news update would be on its way and we would have the news first.

PROPaintball.com will feature the DLX paintball news update at 7am, PST. Stay tuned!

Angel Fly Tactical Stock Installation Video

Angel Fly Tactical Stock Installation Video

Millennium Bitburg Finals Results

CPL – Quarter Finals:
San Diego Dynasty Impact 5-0 Oslo Menace
SK Moscow 5-1 Toulouse Tontons
Frankfurt Syndicate 5-1 London Nexus
Chilli Peppers Riga 5-0 Ramstein Instinct

Semi Finals:
SK Moscow 5-0 Chilli Peppers Riga
San Diego Dynasty Impact 5-3 Frankfurt Syndicate

3rd and 4th place Match:
Frankfurt Syndicate 5-4 Chilli Peppers Riga

Final Match:
San Diego Dynasty Impact 5-3 SK Moscow

Millennium Bitburg Prelim Scores

This weekend across the pond in Bitburg, Germany the Millennium’s MAXS European Masters (Event #2) is taking place. ProPaintball’s very own Nima Razavi was able to keep a close eye on all of the scores as they came across. Click on to see all of the game scores from each Group.

Group A:
Lisbon Benfica 5-3 Chilli Peppers Riga
Oslo Menace 5-1 Copenhagen Ducks
Chilli Peppers Riga 5-1 Oslo Menace
Lisbon Benifa 5-2 Copenhagen Ducks
Chilli Peppers Riga 5-3 Copenhagen Ducks
Oslo Menace 5-1 Lisbon Benfica

Chilli Peppers Riga and Oslo Menace made it to Sunday.

Group B:
Frankfurt Syndicate 4-3 SK Moscow
Joy Division 5-4 Offenbach Comin At Ya
SK Moscow 5-1 Offenbach Comin At Ya
Frankfurt Syndicate 5-4 Joy Stockholm
SK Moscow 5-0 Joy Stockholm
Frankfurt Syndicate 5-2 Offenbach Comin At Ya

Frankfurt Syndicate and SK Moscow made it to Sunday.

Group C:
London Nexus 5-1 Toulouse Dagnir Dae
Toulouse Tontons 5-4 Marseille Icon
Toulouse Tontons 4-3 Toulouse Dagnir Dae
London Nexus 5-3 Marseille Icon
Toulouse Tontons 5-1 London Nexus
Marseille Icon 5-3 Toulouse Dagnir Dae

Toulouse Tontons and London Nexus made it to Sunday.

Group D:
Dynasty Impact 5-4 Budapest Bullets
Ramstein Instinct 5-3 London Shock
London Shock 5-3 Budapest Bullets
Dynasty Impact 5-3 Ramstein Instinct
Ramstein Instinct 5-3 Budapest Bullets
San Diego Dynasty Impact 5-1 London Shock

San Diego Dynasty Impact and Ramstein Instinct made it to Sunday.Sunday Quarter Finals:

Game 1: Chilli Peppers Riga vs. Ramstein Instinct
Game 2: Frankfurt Syndicate vs. London Nexus
Game 3: Toulouse Tontons vs. SK Moscow
Game 4: San Diego Dynasty Impact vs. Oslo Menace

Semi Finals:
Team A- Winner of of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 3
Team B- Winner of of Game 2 vs. Winner of Game 4

The Los Angeles Ironmen’s Brandon Short is playing for the Toulouse Tonton’s and Zack Wake (LA Infamous) is playing with London Shock in this tournament.

To contact the reporter on this story: Brandon Mason in Los Angeles at Brandon@ProPaintball.com.

Girls of Paintball - Jennifer Ulich, TCU Horned Frogs, NCPA

PSP Phoenix Open 2010 Paintball Video Mix Tape

Sacramento XSV Launches New Website

Sacramento XSV over the past few month has made a huge push online to help their teams popularity grown and to give some more publicity to their sponsors. Along with the big push on Facebook and Twitter they just launched their new website this morning, so head over to XSVPaintball.com and read about the team history, look at photos, and hopefully soon buy some XSV gear.

XSVPaintball.com

To contact the reporter on this story: brad in at brad@propaintball.com.

Pro*File: Colt Roberts

This week, Baca Loco over at View From The Deadbox brings us his Pro*file of pro paintball player Colt Robers of San Antonio X-Factor.

Name: Colt Roberts
Age: 28
Hometown: San Antonio, TX
Occupation: HVAC Lead Installer
Family: Don and Deborah Roberts (parents), Desiree Mauldin (my love), Foxy (Pomeranian), JC (Bengal Cat), and Moses (Flame Point Siamese).
General interests other than paintball: Big time gamer nerd, any sport you name it, ancient civilizations.

1. What was your first paintball experience and who introduced you to the game?

Originally I decided to start playing because of a group of my High School friends. They all had this great idea to buy guns and start playing. This really got my attention because I had always wanted to try it and was finally at a point financially that I could. So I go to the local paintball store and buy all my stuff. I was bad with my Spyder 2000 for sure. Turns out I would be the only one to actually get the equipment so after a month of it collecting dust I went back to the store and asked the manager where a good place to play was. He told me about the field that he was playing out of called Lonestar. So I went Sunday morning ready to play and soon found out that it was team practice on Sunday mornings. So I decided to jump in and next thing I knew I was on a team that day playing a tournament the following weekend. After that I was hooked and have been playing tournament paintball ever since.

2. What team do you play for now?

San Antonio X-Factor

3. What teams have you played for in the past?

TBA, Fuel, TX Storm, Avalanche, Arsenal, Naughty Dogs, X-Factor.

4. What role do you play on your current team?

Corner or snake insert. Unless needed somewhere else. I’ll play anywhere.

5. Who are your favorite paintball players?

Dave Bains, Bobby Aviles, Frankenstein from old Russian Legion.

6. What’s your best paintball experience or memory?

Winning Huntington Beach Pro (X-Factor) and the Smart Parts World Championship (Naughty Dogs)

7. What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve done in order to play paintball?

We drove from San Antonio, TX to Atlantic City, NJ and camped just to play Novice 5 man. We ended up taking second so it wasn’t a total waste of time.

8. What is the single most important lesson the up and comer needs to learn?

Play people better than you every chance you get. That’s the only way to get better. If you don’t believe me just go out to your local tournament and look for the teams that have been playing rookie 3 man for 22 years. Learn that and learn respect. Don’t run in thinking you’re some hot shot that deserves a full ride when you’ve only played rookie 5 man.

9. What keeps you playing paintball?

I still love to play. Not to mention I’m competing at the pinnacle of the sport. I just can’t walk away.

10. Do you (or any of your teammates) have any superstitions related to playing paintball?

Grayson Goff has to stay up all night playing wizard games before a match.

Thanks, Colt. Way to throw Grayson under the bus. Things have been kinda slow, rumor-wise, lately so maybe you can blow this up into an ongoing feud. For the kids. Just a suggestion. While we’re at it–Let’s hear it Grayson. We need to know more about your wizard games.

To contact the reporter on this story: Gilbert in Halifax, NS at gilbert@propaintball.com.

WCPPL #2 Paintball Video by PBFashion

To contact the reporter on this story: Justin in Los Angeles at justin@propaintball.com.

New England Hurricanes Sign With Dye Precision

Dye Announced today the New England Hurricanes signed a multi-year contract to use Dye gear for the 2010 season and at least 2011. This will put the Hurricanes in C10 pants and jerseys as well as using the new Dye NT paintball gun. This year has been a major rebuilding year for the Hurricanes, they have picked up many news players this year, and are looking to gain experience and chemistry this year. Dye is sponsoring a lot of teams this year from all over the world. With teams like the Ironmen, and Damage picking up the Hurricanes only adds to Dye impressive line up of teams.

Team Owners, Jeff Stein:
“The Hurricanes are rolling the dice this year, taking a lot of big risks by picking up young and untested players while watching the bulk of our professional roster move on. We are starting fresh and there is no guarantee of success. What makes all of this even more gratifying is that DYE, who is at the pinnacle of both the sport and the industry, believes in us and is willing to bet on our future success and us. We are very excited to represent DYE, their products and their principles and hope we live up to their reputation for excellence.”

To contact the reporter on this story: brad in at brad@propaintball.com.

New England Hurricanes Video Competition

The New England Hurricanes have decided to put together a video competition for their latest episode. The selected winner will be given exclusive footage of the Hurricanes and be allowed to produce an official episode of Birth of a Storm. Read on for the entries. You can vote for your favorite here.

Videos #1 & #2


The first video comes from Nick Irvin of team RONHIC and the second from his father, Tim Irvin, one of the living legends of New England paintball
Video #3

From Erik Yoo
Video #4

From Patrick O’Brien
Video #5

From Ryan Bogar
Video #6

Video #7

From Gno
Video #8

Video #10

Video #11

To contact the reporter on this story: Gilbert in Halifax, NS at gilbert@propaintball.com.

WCPPL event # 2 Wrap up by Tim Cerruiti

S.C. Village, one of the oldest and most well-known paintball facilities in the world just hosted the 2nd event in the West Coast Paintball Players League. The atmosphere was thick with competition and everyone there had zero interest in being sent home early and striving to be unbeatable and bring home some metal, trophies, and thousands of dollars in cash prizes.

The games were hard fought throughout the weekend as players and teams sought to earn the highly sought after cash and prize packages in their respected divisions. All of the divisions featured very close match-ups. The major difference between the WCPPL and other regional leagues is the level of intensity at which the games are played. Even Early Saturday morning all of the games that I watched were epic battles which made each and every game interesting to watch. The action would develop as the games would progress. There were huge upsets, comebacks, and flawless victories over the weekend. Through an interesting twist of events, WCPPL event #1 winner Nu-skool University and Fuzion who were favored to finish on top in D2 were knocked out early by hungrier teams like Island Breed, Hitmen, and Davis Ambush. These teams all looked and played their hearts out, eager to prove that they deserved more respect than they had gotten in the previous event in Oceanside. A clear solid performance all weekend by San Diego MOB who came out swinging in every match they played only for Hitmen to fight back with their back against the wall a for a great finish to become the champions of the event at S.C. Village. The whole event was run extremely well thanks to Mike Hinman and the Aftermath paintball program for running, managing, and reffing throughout the long weekend. The whole paintball community owes these people a great debt for the time, money, and energy that they put in to help further and promote the sport. Thank you.

DIVISION 2 “Premier”

1. LA Hitmen
2. San Diego Mob
3. Davis Ambush
4. Island Breed

DIVISION 3 “Intermediate”

1. Notorious
2. Fuzion (209)
3. SCP Edge Black
4. LB Effects

DIVISION 4 “Rookie”

1. Vanquish Mob
2. Fuzion (707)
3. SLC Tombstone
4. Sinister Faction

PUMP “Open Division”

1. Check it Factory – NV-1
2. Xandata
3. LA Hitmen
4. Order of 7

YOUNG GUNS

1. By The Balls
2. Soggy Waffles
3. Korrupt Kids
4. LA Suicide Kids – Blue

For more information on the WCPPL please see the leagues official site at WCPPL.com.

This article was written by Tim Cerruiti. Tim competes in the premier division of the WCPPL with team Fuzion from Northern California.

To contact the reporter on this story: Justin in Los Angeles at justin@propaintball.com.

PAINTBALL, Entrevista Consilium Dei

Planet Eclipse GEO2 Paintball Marker Trailer

Todd Martinez / RAZA

GRIND Magazine Vol. 3: Phoenix, HB and Malaga

With the first events to the major series, all successfully completed. Pro Paintball player and photographer, Drew Templeton has published a new volume to his online magazine. This volume has a ton of photos, covers Drew’s experience at all the major events and has some useful articles.

Don’t forget, GRIND is a completely FREE online magazine by the players, for the players!

Stay tuned to Pro Paintball dot com for the issues to come throughout the rest of the season!

To contact the reporter on this story: Gilbert in Halifax, NS at gilbert@propaintball.com.