SEBURO EDITION DYE NT

I was looking around to see if anyone had annoed or photoshopped green DYE NTs into green and voila! This is the best picture I have come across so far on the net.

I've been bugging Dye to specially make 20 of these in polished green. I even spoke to Dave personally about it lol. I should get in touch with Billy Wing and bug him but these days they are all made in Taiwan.

I guarantee that the other 19 'Green Lanterns' will be sold out in no time. Dye specially made 1 Gloss Red NT for a friend of mine and it gathered enough interest to make a very limited number of 15 of the Gloss Red ones. They wre sold out quickly, people kept asking for the 'Superman' NT that they re made a second batch of the Polished red ones. One of my team mates has 2.

This is close to the lime edition that Dye has but I like the green being this much more intense.



Found this on speedball world, its a custom anno job and it looks great.

EX-HK ARMY GUEST COMING FOR SPS

"Singapore doesn't know Zyzek Barro yet?" Oh yes we do now.

Guess what I found on HK ARMY's website. I didn't know that our friend Zyzek Barro from DYE ASIA played on HK ARMY before. HEH HEH.

HK AMRY SHOOTING FURIOUS BARRELS

Mark Kressin with a black 14" Furious Barrel

If you havent seen this you tube video- its PBFASHIONs video from last weekends NPPL LAS VEGAS of HK ARMY. Matt from Furious met the Kressin Brothers at Paintball Extravaganza and got them to shoot FURIOUS BARRELS. You can see in this video that they are indeed shooting FURIOUS BARRELS.
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Scott in the back shooting the Gold 15" tip FURIOUS BARREL


This is Billy Bernacchia playing on Avalanche- he has a Furious Barrel from playing with VICIOUS and I'm pretty sure that he was using it in Vegas.

MAP to SPS Field

Yesterday I was looking for a map or guide to the SPS Venue which is at Angsana Park at East Coast Parkway. I googled "SPS Angsana Park" and my blog was on top of he search list. So I might as well post a quick guide here.

Angsana Park is next to Carpark E2 on the bottom right of the map. It is just across the ECP highway from Bayshore Park Condominiums. On the map its where the EXIT 7A sign is.



If you're driving its straight down Bedok South Avenue 1 or if you're driving on the East Coast Parkway its EXIT 7A if you are coming from Changi. From the city lookout for EXIT 7B

For those taking public transport- there is only one bus going there which is 401 from Bedok MRT Station. The bus stop B93159 is near to the East Coast Lagoon which is a bit of a walk to the field.

I hope this helps.

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NPPL-USPL PRO RANKINGS going into VEGAS

1 LA Infamous - 51

2 Tampa Bay Damage - 50
3 Edmonton Impact - 49
4 San Diego Dynasty - 49
5 Oakland Blast - 39
6 Louis Avalanche - 32
7 Seattle Naughty Dogs - 31
8 New Port Entourage - 26
9 Chicago Legend - 23
10 Vancouver Vendetta - 22
11 Sacramento XSV - 20
12 Indianapolis Mutiny - 18
13 San Francisco Explicit - 12
14 DC Arsenal - 8

When Nicky Cuba said earlier this week that "we have a championship to close out" he was speaking the truth. The resurgent Infamous leads the pro rankings going into Vegas but by a sinlge point. Its so tight up with the top 4 teams are separated by only 3 points. Infamous, Damage, Dynasty and Impact are in contention with defending Champions Blast 10 points behind. This has been the closest championship fight in years. The top 5 teams are playing for a Championship. It should be a great weekend of Championship paintball.

HK ARMY TRASH TALK - Funny

Furious' team HK ARMY has been bumped up into PRO as there are not enough teams in Semi Pro for Vegas. When they were told about this the trash talk started and pretty funny

“screw Zach Long! he just sits in the back center shooting 33 bps!”

“LJ’s washed up”

“Dynasty has feared this day for years!”


- From Brandon at the Pbnation website.
HK Army will be shacking up at the Hard Rock Hotel- (but of course)

HK's Game Schedule is also up
1 Infamous 7:00
2 Blast 7:28
3 Vendetta 8:03
4 DC ARSENAL 8:31
5 Rockstar 9:13
6 Dynasty 9:34
7 Chicago Legend 10:09
8 SF EXPLICIT 10:44

NPPL LAS VEGAS WILL HAVE WEBCAST!

AT LAST! This will be about the first time this year I have time to sit down and watch a paintball webcast. It looks like Nicky Truter will be back on screen (?) as he will be in Vegas.

For more information and schedules go to www.nppl.com

RED SEVENS TO SHOOT PROPAINT

The RED SEVENS are pleased to announce that PROPAINT will our new paint sponsor.

We are extremely proud to be shooting PROPAINT at all MPOC, PALS and the World Cup Asia. After winning PALS Pattaya/Thailand Open shooting PROPAINT we decided that PROPAINT is a very good grade of paintball. What we wanted was fresh, good quality fill and most important consistent quality from box to box.

With PROPAINT we can be rest assured that we will be consistently shooting high quality paint during our tournaments. PROPAINT are also sponsors of Div 1 teams Demonz from KL and Team Infernal of Thailand.

"Thank you Red 7's, Pro Paintball is proud to have you on as a sponsored team. Wish you guys all the best in upcoming events." - Patrick Tan of PROPAINT.

We would like to thank Patrick Tan of PROPAINT and PROPAINTBALL for your support to the RED SEVENS.

See you all at MPOC 5 and WCA with PROPAINT.

www.propaintball-shop.com


PROPAINT will be available at MPOC, PALS and the World Cup Asia
- Ask for it when you're picking up your paint.

RED SEVENS MPOC 5 FIELD MAP

This is the Official RED SEVENS MPOC 5 field map thanks to PROPAINT

Good luck to all teams playing this weekend in Subang in the last leg of the 2010 MPOC League.
Div 2 has already been won by Eastsiders. Div 1 is still up for grabs with XFOX gunning to finish no less than top 2 to secure the 2010 Series Championship for the second year in a row.

HAHAHAHAHA

MARK NG FROM MELBOURNE MAYHEM DROPS BY RED DYNASTY

Mark Ng is in the green Melbourne Mayhem jersey

We get visitors from all over the World who come and play and hang out with us at Red Dynasty. We've had some pretty good snake players who have dropped by and played with is and showed us some tips. Daniel Ong and Xkay Ong from XFox and recently Mark Ng who is a Singaporean studying in Melbourne and playing in the MXL Melbourne Xball League and PAVS - Paintball Association of Victoria. In Melbourne they play race to 7 points in 15 mins. Mark recently hooked up with Melbourne team House of Cards.

When I get asked "Why do I play paintball?" my answer would be "because I get to meet and make friends with other paintballers". Mark Ng is one of those really nice easy going paintballer that my team mates and I are most fortunate to make friends with. He is a snake player who plays in D1 in Melbourne Australia and I dare say very skilled and dedicated to the sport.


Mark told me he runs at night after midnight when its really cold during winter to acclimatise his body to playing in cold conditions. Over there it gets really cold playing in the mud in the snake and his legs and body can cramp up while being in the snake for too long. He runs 5km and 10km on alternate nights because in Melbourne Div1 play a race to 7 in 30 mins! Thats dedication.

Thank you Mark for dropping by and showing our Mark a few tips on getting into and playing the snake.

Tips and Tricks for SPS

I came up with an idea of each of us RED SEVENS presenting a paintball tip on video for those who are new to paintball who are going to play in SPS or in general. It's also to help generate some publicity for SPS.

The videos are here on SPS's Facebook.

My tip is to clean your barrels before every game and to carry a swab into the game so you can clean and clear ball breaks or dirt from the barrel when the shots start to stray.

Ivan's tip is the 3 point crawl in the snake- he shows how to do the 3 point crawl in the snake to get up as fast and low as possible

Ben show's how to break out with a mechanical marker with a gravity hopper - how its important to keep the marker level rather than bringing the market up from below the waistline.

Jane shows how to keep you marker up by resting it on the bunker while reloading.

Bengiun from Contract Killers tip is for the back corner player to wrap out and shoot at their center back.

PRINCE's SHOUT OUT TO SPS

I was chatting with Prince last week and thought of asking him to do a shoutout to the Paintballers in Singapore and wish them Good Luck for SPS. He said alright "I do it right now" and he went off and did a short video shoutout and sent it to me within 10 mins of my asking.

Thus video has 108 views to date and about 5-6 other guys I know have reposted it on their Facebook walls.

Thanks Prince for doing this the guys really appreciate it.

Stay tuned for more shoutouts.

EVIDENT PROBLEM

My friend from Iran Nimaa sent me these pictures a while ago and I misplace them until now. He had an interesting observation- that the Feedneck on the MacDev Clones were less than secure.
Here are a few incriminating photos to support the case.


Exhibit A - feedneck fails while on the run


Exhibit B - feedneck fails and its still attached to the Rotor


Exhibit C - Aleksadr Berdnikov after diving into the snake


Exhibit D


Exhibit E - Justin Rabackoff in the same spot and situation as Aleksadr


Exhibit F - doesn't only happen to Rotors in this case a Vlocity too

Many thanks to Nimaa for this post.

MPOC5 Field

The field for MPOC5 is up on their Facebook - a whole month early this time.
Thank yous to the organisers at the MPOC. Looks like a nice long snake and a stretch on Doritos for our snake and D guy to run down.

Most importantly to note is that MPOC5 will be held at the MPSJ Mini Stadium which is here on Google Maps - thanks to Daniel.

ANGEL FLY MASK

A lot of people have been asking me for the Angel Fly Mask (I dont know why)
We'll be bringing a few back directly from Paintball Extravaganza in October - so If you really want to be one of the first in Asia to rock one - let me know now.

Just be wary that it's going to look like this on your noggin.

PATHETIC FOOD AT YOUTH OLYMPICS

Youth Olympics packed lunch - rice with bits of corn 6 long beans and a deep fried piece of "chicken"

I read with much bemusement in the Straits Times today about the pathetic pack lunch they gave to volunteers at the Youth Olympics. This reminded me of how good our lunches were at the World Games last year in Kaohsiung Taiwan. Everyday including Friday practice and Captains Briefing, we were asked for our food preference and given a packed lunch which was not only generous but actually really delicious.


World Games packed lunch at Kaohsiung last November was so good I had to take a picture

We'd get Japanese rice, a big piece of breaded pork chop AND a piece of braised chicken chop which were well cooked and not cheaply deep fried. The accompanied rice noodles and 2 types of vegetables or tofu were also delicious and not just something thrown in. There is also a sweet bun in the packed meal.And after lunch they gave everyone a Taiwanese version of Yakult to help with digestion.

I must say that this was also the same food we got when we made our first trip to Taiwan to play in the Taiwan International Paintball Tournament a year earlier.

I'm saying that they really take good care of you when you go up to Taiwan to play paintball. Shame on you Singapore Food industries for providing a pathetic packed lunch for a "World Crass" event such as the YOG.

PALS Singapore?

Imagine playing at night with the city lights in the background. The media will gobble it up.

With the growth of the PALS league and talk about bringing the show to Singapore. I'd like to throw my thoughts into it. I've always had this vision of playing a Paintball tournament on the "The Float" which at Marina bay which is the world's largest floating pontoon at 120m long and 83m wide. The size of the pitch will be more than enough to accommodate two paintball fields and the stands can sit up to 30,000 people.


The view from the platform with no less than 5 world class hotels in the background.
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The Float or otherwise know as the Marina Bay Floating Platform was designed to serve as a venue for Singapore's National Day parades and it has hosted concerts, football matches and the Singapore Formula 1 Grand Prix runs through it - in and out under the stands.

And with the football pitch is artificial turf....YES TURF- there is turf on the field.


The Marina Bay Ares with the Esplande theatres - rounded blobs on the back

This would certainly rival the cool factor of playing on the beach at Huntington or Malaga. The cool factor of playing on water on the bay would definitely be sky nigh - the views would also be spectacular. There are stadium lights in place which will be awesome if games were played at night with views of the city sky line in the background.

Hotels shopping centers and food outlets surround the Marina Bay Area - the Sands Casino Resort is just across the bay. Busses and Train run centrally to this area.

It would be the perfect and "The Coolest Paintball Tournament on Earth"

Why Singapore? Because its easy to get there- flights form every major city in Asia. Easy public transportation. Take a cab or the train or even walk from your hotel to the field.

Most importantly the media is centered in Singapore. ESPN STAR is based in Singapore. If we had an even like this they will surely come out and cover this.


The Marina Sands Resort & Casino on the left of the Float

Anyway its just my dream and mine alone. I thought I'd just stir the pot a bit and put it our before anyone else claims that my claim was copied.

Paul Lam I know you read my blog - what do you think? Like the venue?

PAINTBALL GOES TO CHINA WITH PALS

The breaking news from yesterday was a huge one for Paintball and Paintball in Asia.
This is the press release on PbNation announcing that there will be a PALS - Paintball League Asia Series leg in China next March.

This is huge for Paintball because as everyone knows- China is a huge potential market of 1.3 billion people. If and when the Chinese do pick up paintball, the sport will grow tremendously and paintball manufacturers will go 'ka-ching-ching'.

It is also a great thing for Paintball in Asia with the PALS - Paintball Asia League Series being the first Paintball league to organise a tournament in China. The prestige of the PALS league will be higher than ever and will thus surely now be the attention of the other major Paintball leagues in the world.

PALS China was in the making since the beginning of the year. Australian Michael Whybrew spoke about it to us at the Sultan of Kedah Cup in May and finally it is a reality. My congratulations to the two Micheals Whybrew and Tan for making PALS China a reality.

The China Cup is set for the 24th - 27th March 2011.
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NOOB WARS FIELD

At Noob Wars yesterday - I noticed a lot of teams filling up the back 3 bunkers (YELLOW). I would have pushed for the Dorito - Carwash - Right Brick and Snake Bunkers (Red). If we dont go into the snake straight we'd stop at the Back Right or the Right Brick.

I wouldn't bother with the Back Left Can- its too far back to be efffective. If there was someone in there he should look cross into the snake. Tape side is a waste of time. Normally teams would have a snake corner to cover the snake but again a lot of them were either crossing in or simply not helping their snakes enough- its far back to be effective. Much easier to shoot somebody in the snake from the Carwash.

Carwash is an easy fill straight from the break- just run low and slide into it. He should play right and look to lock their snake out. Put a lane in front of snake 1 and should have the advantage to stand up and shoot down into the snake. Car wash also protects his snake guy from any bunkering move.

Snake - should go straight into snake 2 as soon as possible - shoot out their car wash and doritos and bricks. The snake can stand up on the cans and look to wrap out to shoot the bricks and push their back left to the outside.

Right Brick is to help keep their right back from shooting on the inside and to protect his snake guy.

I would put somebody into the Dorito every game looking to wrap on the outside - first to kill their Dorito and wrap out on their brick and cake and Back right. He should try to push into the 50 Can and should be relatively well protected from their Left back.

Teams that got to the 50s first tend to have better advantage. The more guys you have in the 50s meant more firepower nearer to them and better chances of shooting them out.

Teams that shot out the opposite snake also stood a better chance to move into the 50 zone. There were a few gun fights in the snake - which I felt was a waste because in the snake your job is to move up and shoot across the field- not hunt for the other snake guy. We had one snake player going the highway twice to bunker his opposite snake but he got shot by the back left in the process.

I didn't see the need to fill both bricks- if you can get up there- might as well fill the car wash. If the Dorito guy can hold off or shoot out his opposite dorito- the D side will be locked down. If you had a guy in the car wash you'd pretty much stop them from moving up until they get you out of there.

I felt that teams should have worked on the break outs running forward gunning the snake side for the snake rather than take the corners.