Green/White Dye NT

Anthony Portier I love your set up. This marker is up for sale on Team Ferox's Facebook.


Team Ferox is a Dye Team from Rotterdam

Hostile Creations - Rogue Marker

I was intrigued by this new "independent" marker dubbed the ROGUE made by Californian based company Hostile Creations.

At first look it is a simple literally 'straight' forward marker. Design wise you can pick out similarities in the body styling that gives and overall look of a clone. The stock barrel looks like a Furious barrel, the trigger looks like an Ego's, the stiff looking bottom frame looks like something form Spyder. Look on the bright side there is a feed neck with quick release and there is an On/off ASA at the bottom. The most unique feature is the short fore grip integrated with a straight trigger guard. The fore grip also does not have an external hose attached to it

Looking at the specs wise - the (less than 2 pounds) marker is milled from a block of aircraft grade aluminum. Tool-less management - the bolt and regulator can be removed without the need of tools. The board is a fully programmable OLED board. Trigger has a 3 point adjustability and you have the option of using spring action return or magnets. In the box it comes with 2 barrel packs - (.693, .689)

Colours Stealth Black, Combat Green, and Shadow Red*

Hostile Creations also make tank regulators and this one looks....familiar?

DYE TEAM SERIES 2 - Team Evolution

Another big Dye team from Equador is Evolution which I featured their custom C10 jerseys in my blog last year. For 2011 they have put up 2 designs for their fans to vote on Facebook. I vote the first one above over the gold trim one below.




The Team Evolution Dye Team Series NT11 is really nice with their signature blue/gold trim.
If the final jersey is the one on top then the trims on the NT11 should be in while or silver.
But judging from the looks of this picture - I think the C11 will be the one with gold trims.

The original design is quite faithfully replicated on the actual NT11 marker with its PGA technology.

DYE TEAM SERIES

In the light of custom jersey makers offering good quality work from the likes of TANKED, S2, RAZA etc. The current fashion is all about custom jerseys and stock jerseys are not good enough. As a result of this companies like DYE who usually dont make a custom jersey unless you are a pro team, have changed their policy and are offering selected DYE teams the chance to customised their own jerseys and Markers.

Here is a draft version of the first non-professional team Dye C11 custom jersey for Team Gorilaz which is a team from Venezuela to appear on the net.

Team Gorilaz are also getting customised NT11s

Cult team L.I.F.T.from Long Island New York signed with Dye recently and this is their customised NT11 which is really sweet. I'm sure we'll see one from the New Jersey Jesters too.

Paintball for the X Games?

Propaintball reported that the NPPL is currently in talks with ESPN to get Professional Paintball back on mainstream TV again. Paintball was last seen on TV on "Beyond The Paint" which was co produced by ESPN and the 'old' NPPL which was previously owned by defunct Pacific Paintball and when Pacific dent bust so did NPPL and thus the TV show also disappeared.

Its no big surprise that the NPPL is talking to ESPN again and this time I am hoping that the results would be more than just a lifestyle program which was what "Beyond The Paint" was. I am hoping that it'll lead to paintball being incorporated into the highly popular X Games. Up till now all x Games sport have been individual sports and paintball would be one of the first sport that has a team element to the X Games.

I have always believed that Paintball has a better chance of getting into the X Games than getting into the Olympics. Furthermore Paintball will grow better and faster and in the right target market in the X Games compared to the more rigid and mainstream Olympics.

So yes I am definitely keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that the meetings with ESPN will somehow lead to Paintball being included in the X Games. My only concern with the NPPL being the one talking to ESPN is that I think the PSP format would be more TV friendly compared to NPPL's & man. But I'll take any format on TV as long as we get to watch Professional Paintball on TV.

PALS CHINA POSTPONED

PALS CHINA has been postponed to a tentative date April 29- May1 because the original date runs the same time as the Boao Forum.

WTF is a the "Boao Forum"? well it is a "a non-government, non-profit international organization, Boao Forum For Asia (BFA) is the most prestigious and premier forum for leaders in government, business and academia in Asia and other continents to share visions on the most pressing issues in this dynamic region and the world at large. "

So with former head of countries (Goh Chok Tong and Ahmadf Badawi) and various VIPs coming to Hainan for the Boao Forum; the Hainan Government has decreed that they will not have anyone running around with a 'firearms' during the week of the forum.

This throws a spanner in the works for those people who have book plane tickets and hotels. The organisers have asked everyone to wait for the new date to be confirmed before rebooking flights and hotels.


Official Announcement on the PALS China Website with a statement from Michael Whybrew
www.boaoforum.org

ARCHERY SINGAPORE

I always find it ironic that you can carry these things around Singapore and keep it at home, but you cannot do the same with a paintball marker.

This is a cantilever bow which people use to hunt large game and it can kill a person. Where as paintball markers cannot kill anyone. But one is considered a 'firearm' and the other is not. Where as both do not have any gunpowder or any explosive propellant of any kind.

I am biased when I say that this cantilever bow with a pointy arrow looks a lot more menacing than a paintball marker. We see guns on the TV all the time and kids with toy guns that to us it would be less menacing that one of this cantilever bow.

I guess its because all paintball markers "look" like guns and one cannot tell what is a speedball marker and those scenario markers and what is a real gun/rifle.

If and when they do leagalise private ownership of paintball markers - the other can of worms to be opened will be all the realistic looking scenario markers.

PALS THAILAND - Early Bird Discount

Spot Ivan in the poster

PB SWISS TOOLS

L-R Seburo Edition, Gold for Ivan, Titanium series and Rainbow Series
[click pic to see it larger]

I was looking at some tools to add to my kit. These guys from Switzerland make awesome looking hex tools BUT unfortunately all the good looking ones are in metric and Dye uses inch :(

Those who shoot Egos guys could use these though.

They have a series in Rainbow and they can do kits in "Personal Colour" Green, Blue, Red, Yellow etc- so you know which ones are yours. There is 24k gold kit and a set in super lightweight Titanium.

www.pbswisstools.com



I use this 3/32 Screw Driver from Bondhus to access the grip on my DM9 and to change the top plate/hopper lid for the Rotor. This is the most useful tool in my kit. If you have a Dye/Proto marker and want one - email me. Cost is about SGD10/USD7.8 each.

I'm also ordering a 3/16 screwdriver for adjusting the Chrono on Dye Hyper 3 Regs. To take off the whole Hyper 3 reg for servicing and cleaning you'd need a 5/16 hex key which is not available as a screwdriver.

SHANE HOWEs BOB LONG SEBURO COLOUR SCHEME

HAHAHA! Even Shane Howe got into the Seburo edition colour scheme black/green with his new Bob Long

MPOC1 2011

Our first MPOC1 tournament of the year was last weekend we bought along a newly formed Div 3 team with us in RED SEVENS 2. Our fresh crop of young players Carl, Tom, Mark, Lester, Jeremy, Jason and Sofie in our new Div3 team who played in their first MPOC and did very well to make it all the way to the finals on their very first MPOC.

We're extremely proud that the new guys have done so well to finish in second place on their first MPOC. Some of the guys on the team played at the World Cup Asia last November so MPOC1 was their second tournament together.

As for the D2 team- we did well to win all 6 of our preliminary games. With the increased number of teams in Div 2 this year we had to play 6 matches 4 of Sat and 2 on Sunday. Followed by Quarter finals and then Semi Finals and Finals. We had Azlan back in the team after a year out and Kiko came along to boost the forward line. I captained the Red Sevens again and went to the weekend hoping for the best and we did well to finish with a Third Placing losing only one match which was in the Semi finals to eventual winners CMX Republic.


VENUE
The venue was at Putra University which was way out of KL but the MPOC got us cheap rooms at the Palace of the Golden Horses same hotel for WCA in 09.

FIELD
The field was rather good the MPOC gave us two table and a lot of chairs. So that I have to thank and say that it was really appreciated. Comfort level was high as the tents were under trees and despite raining on Sat night the field and pit areas were not muddy.

I do have to say that I have been noticing the cuts and holes in the air arenas which thus lead to a couple of delays then the arenas collapsed and needed to be refilled. This was why the Millenium Series stopped using the arenas and went back to the old styled pole and nets. I must say that I do prefer the poles and nets as the this arena frames make it hard for coaches and spotters to see. Furthermore the noise from paint hitting the sides also doesnt help the coaches to get their instructions into the field. So I'm not a big fan of the air arenas for playing xball/M7 format.

The weekend went by smoothly without major dramas. It felt like a short and sweet weekend rather than sitting around waiting for the 10 prelims and finals in hot Pattaya. Again the extra tables, chairs and tents made everyone feel comfortable and not having to squeeze with other teams. The weather was good paintball weather with the sun behind the clouds but no rain. I hope we get the same number of tables and chairs and one team per tent at the next MPOC.

MPOC1 Federal Territory Cup
Red Sevens - Third Place Division 2
Red sevens 2- Second Place Division 3

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.
[click on the pic for the video]


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.

www.singaporepaintballseries.com

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.