MILLENIUM SERIES 2 GERMAN MASTERS SEMIFINAL RESULTS

GROUP A
SK Moscow 5
Chilli Peppers Riga 4

GROUP B
Budapest Bullets 1
San Diego Dynasty 5
This would have been a great match to watch. Ollie vs his old team. But Dynasty have proved the better of the two team - beating out my favourties. Dynasty meets SK Moscow in the final. They would be the super hot favourites to take the championship now.

MILLENIUM SERIES 2 GERMAN MASTERS QUARTER FINAL RESULTS

GROUP A
SK Moscow 5
London Nexus 1
I got this one very wrong. The Russians tore apart the English to make it into the final four. They would have to be favourites to make it all the way to the final.

GROUP B
Marseille Icon 3
Budapest Bullets 5
Icon managed to take 3 points from the Bullets to give the Hungarians a good game. But Ollie, Mr U, Viktor and the guys were too strong for the French team.

GROUP C
Chili Peppers Riga 5
Copenhagen Ducks 4
I got this one wrong too. The fast and exciting Chili Peppers surprisingly edged out early favourites Ducks 5-4.

GROUP D
Toulouse Tontons 4
San Diego Dynasty 5
I said this would be THE match up to watch and I was right. It went to the wire down to sudden death at 4-4. And the Americans managed to squeeze a 5th and winning point to cement their credibility in playing the M7 format.


Semi Final Line ups
GROUP A
SK Moscow
Chilli Peppers Riga

GROUP B
Budapest Bullets
San Diego Dynasty

PRO PLAYER COMING TO SINGAPORE

I just got got a phone call asking if I'd be willing to host a pro player from one of the teams in the USPL (SBen's friends are on this team).

I haven't got the details on when he is coming but he will be coming Singapore and to the Red Dynasty field to hang out.

TO FIND OUT WHO IS COMING - sign up on my Twitter and I will make the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday.

MILLENIUM SERIES 2 GERMAN MASTERS QUARTERFINAL MATCH UPS

GERMAN MASTERS
QUARTER FINAL MATCH UPS

GROUP A
SK Moscow
London Nexus
Nexus should take this over SK Moscow

GROUP B
Marseille Icon
Budapest Bullets
Icon have their work cut out for the them with favourites Bullets standing in their way. Bullets to go through. If Icon beats Bullets- they will be champions.

GROUP C
Chilli Peppers Riga
Copenhagen Ducks
Ducks are hot- they should go through.

GROUP D
Toulouse Tontons
San Diego Dynasty
This would be THE match up to watch. The legendary American team vs the legendary European team. I think Tontons will prevail on European soil.

Millenium Series 2 BitBurg Germany

HEADLINE: NO JOY FOR STOCKHOLM
Joy Division is out of The German Masters.

The Second Millennium series is on this weekend at Bitburg Germany with the MAXS German Masters. With half the first series blown away at Malaga the CPL and SPL teams have to play leg one finals this weekend on top of playing leg two. This will mean that teams who did not make it to the finals in leg 1 will be fresher during leg 2.

And we can see that my statement is evident because a couple of big names have bombed out namely Stockholm Joy and Oslo Menace.

The standings as on Sat night are pretty night with almost all the qualified teams taking 2. Only the Copenhagen Ducks have definitely qualified winning all 3 of their games to get full points.

Top 2 teams for each group make it to the elite eight.

GROUP A
London Nexus
Toulouse TonTons
Offencach Comin At Ya
Stockholm Ignition

The top 3 teams Nexus, Tontons and Offenbach Comin At Ya all scored 2 wins each but Offenbach just lost out on points to the TonTons.

GROUP B
Budapest Bullets
Riga Chilli Peppers
Stockholm Joy
London Shock

Group B is the group of death with so many big names. The Bullets topped it with 2 wins losing their only game to Joy and taking their other 2 games.
JOY did not have a good second leg they beat the Bullets 5:2 but lost to Chili Peppers and Shock and finished 3rd to go out.

GROUP C
Copenhagen Ducks
Marseille Icon
Frankfurt Syndicate
Vision PPC Grenoble

ICON Beat Grenoble 5:2 lost to group leaders Ducks 5:1 and beat Syndicate 5:3 to make it to the last eight

GROUP D
SD Dynsty
SK Moskow
Ramstein Instinct
Oslo Menace

DYNASTY lost their first game to Ramstein Instinct 4:5 but strung back to back wings over Menace and SK Moscow to finsh as top dog.

OVERHEARD

Yesterday on the field during the second game of the BTO....
Benguin gets shot in the 'nads.

BBen: "you're out!!"

Benguin: "erughhhh" * with face in the dirt*

Ben: "Ben you're out"

Benguin: "aarggghh my balls"

Me from the other end of the field: "you're out!!!"

Benguin: " ..........." *still face in the dirt clutching his nuts*

Me: "hand on your head and get out!" *I'm laughing*

Benguin: "ergh"

(After the game) Me: "got shot in the ovaries huh?"

REAL PINOYS ON AUGUST APG COVER

Kiko's D2 championship team at the WCA, The Real Pinoys made the cover of APG in the August Issue. I wish it was a pic of Kiko but neverless its a picture of the Real Pinoys and we're just as excited for Kiko and the guys on Real Pinoys.

In the August Issue Dave Dave "Landshark" Norman reviews Furious' 9 Volt Battery and Dave also reviews the Furious Lotus Barrel in the July Issue. I'll post that when I get a copy.

Conrad is Selling his XSV GEO

My buddy Conrad is selling his XSV Edition GEO. Im helping him to try and get a good deal for this. Please dont low ball him as I'm pretty sure he needs the money so I hope you can support your fav pro by getting his personal GEO.

You can get in touch with him on PbNation- just send a message to: conradical or get in touch with me if you dont have a PbN account.

SMART PART RELEASES THE ALL NEW 2009 IMPULSE TODAY

Smart Parts have brought back the Impulse in 2 colours Red/black and Blue/black. It looks like a cross breed between *ahem* and a *ahem* with an ALL AMERICAN tube sticking out on the other end. But it looks pretty decent. More tonight when I dig up more 411 on this baby.

THIS IS FOR RYAN STOLL

GET YOUR AMG MO ASS ON THIS

Aftershock are holding tryouts in at your home field and Jeremy is handling recruits.

If you make the team I'll send you a Furious tube in blue.

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From Propaintball.com
Aftershock Tryouts
May 27, 2009 by Justin

Chicago Aftershock will be holding tryouts for their Semi-Professional squad June 6th at Badlandz Paintball field. The teams first event will be the Chicago Open June 24th-28th at Bolingbrook Recreation Center.

Tryouts will be $60.00 per player and will include a case of paint and entry to the field. Feel free to contact Yaya from Aftershock @ yaya_124@hotmail.com or Jeremy Salm @ diesel99@hotmail.com for further details.

THE UNINTENDED PAINTBALL GADGET

I am always on the look out for things that are not made specifically for paintball but is somehow works great for paintball. I saw these tonight at the shop near my place and they are 'Cup Brushes' by Goodscour from Taiwan.


Before you laugh at the cute colours- these brushes are PERFECT for cleaning pods. It even fits nicely inside a pod for easy storage and portablity. There is another version with a longer handle but this one fits nicely inside a pod.

Anyway- I'm going to give 10 of these away to anyone who wants one. Send your address to seburo55@yahoo.com and I'll send one to you FREE to anywhere in the world as a token of my appreciation for being a regular reader.

This is limited only to people who live outside of Singapore, Malaysia and obviously Taiwan.

Goodscour's Website.

The Evolution of Brandon Short's Mask

Every snake player has this 'thing' - he wants the opposition to know who they're dealing with. XSV's got the multi coloured mowhawk snake player and the Ironmen- well they got this guy name Short and you can tell that its him because of the distinctive yellow on his goggle


For most of 2008, the Ironmen were still using the i3pro. Brandon used a cyrstal yellow i3 frame from 2007 for the whole season until the World Cup. Check out how old that tank cover is and how big the DM8 seems to look in this pic.


At the 2008 World Cup, Dye releases the i4 but only in black. Brandon has to improvise and sticks two strips of yellow tape so the guys shooting at him would know who they're shooting at. It works- the Ironmen repeat- as what it says on his headband.
Same worn out Dye tank cover.


At the first 2009 PSP event at MAO - Dye 'custom' makes a yellow frame specially for Brandon's i4. It's a production yellow frame for Joy Division edition prior to have its spots painted on. The grill has yellow on it too which is clearly the Joy mask.
Still its really cool and distinctive.

BILLY WING DM9s

These are the Billy Wing DM9s as sent to me by Arthur in Taiwan via the nation.


I really love this one - its my type of gun. Its just a black Ironmen edition with red accents- simple an. When they say its "Limited Edition" - it is really limited editon. Only 2 of this one were made and 5 of the one below, and that makes these guns that more desirable. This one comes with a Tadao LED board and the new 'BWing Soft Tip Bolt Kit'.


This is with a special hawkwing artwork done on it - only 5 made.

Billy is in Taiwan this week. He's been spending a lot of time in Taiwan..... probably working on the DM10 or DMX as I would prefer to call it. The DM10 prototype is in Taiwan and they have been testing it in the shooting range in the roof. It's not even the middle of the year and Dye has already gotten the DM10 prototype up and shooting. Needless to say Dye will most probably have the DMX ready by the time the 'real' World Cup comes up in Orlando.

Thanks Arthur

EXPLICIT JERSEYS

Explicit started off as a father and son team that practiced with XSV. They became very good and also very good friends with XSV. Their jerseys look similar to XSV's 2008 jersey because they were designed Richard Wagner. In 2009 they picked up Rockstar Energy Drink as a major sponsor which puts them along side teams like Dynasty, Team Rockstar and Fraction.


You can support the team buy ordering an official team jersey. Blanks are USD$75 and with your name and number USD100.
Contact Rob Montiero at robsgroup@team-explicit.com

EXPLICIT CLINIC
Sunday May 31st, SF Explicit will be holding a Pro Clinc their "home field" "Extreme Paintball Field in Modesto CA". (Rich Telford's field) Fee is $125 by Paypal to explicit@team-explicit.com . This fee includes 1 case Paint, entry to field, Pro Clinic Training "The Explicit Way".They will be giving away an Planet Eclipse Ego Marker to one lucky winner if there are 15 people registered for the clinic. Email explicit@team-explicit.com

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIEL

WOW it's been a year since I posted this. This time last year we were a week from going to play leg 3 in Penang.

Anyway HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY my great friend.

WE HAVE A WINNER - BShort Trick

Fuzz gets the Dye Cap for sending me this last night. Thanks to Chee "Ollie" Yong for his sideways video skills.

NICKY CUBA EDITION DM9

This is what I have been waiting for - Nicky Cuba's Signature DM9 dubbed the "Soul Stealer". Its is based on the Ironmen edition- Billy Wing bolt etc and has Nicky's signature pin stripe, "blood red" splash with the red barrel tip polished silver barrel back and "night night sucka" on the right side. I noticed the trigger is the stock DM9 and not the special Ironmen Editon trigger. Have a look.

The Ironmen signature guns are all based on the Ironmen Edition DM9 with the Metal Ironmen Badge on the side and the signature polished silver UL barrel back. If you buy a player's edition the USD1700 (including shipping) goes direct to the player and not to Dye.

With Nicky, Mikko and Brandon's signature guns out. What remains to be seen is Ollies and Billys(?) and I am officially wondering on my blog if they will make one for Jon Richardson?

I kinda still prefer the Contract Killer DM9 Nicky shot at the World Cup. But thats just a stock DM9 this is based on the Ironmen DM9.

PHILLY LUXES

To be fair to those who don't shoot Egos and DMs - these are Philly American edition LUXEs.
Jason 'Fat Kid' Edwards is selling these two for USD2k each. He's got a red and blue Luxe and swapped the parts around.

Inglorious Basterds

I'll bet we will get team names with this title of this movie once it comes out in August. I have been thinking about which is the paintballer's ultimate movie and this little gem seems to fit the bill for Speedballers and Recballers.

"We're going to be doing one thing and one thing only, killing nazis"

Its basically a Tarantino flim which guarantees lots of shooting, bashing, stabbing and killing. This time its about a bunch of American Jews who's mission is to go around nazi occupied Europe killing as many nazis they come across.

I wish I was at Cannes this weekend to catch it.

BTW click on this for the best synopsis I've come across.

www.inglouriousbasterds-movie.com

Nominations for the Paintballers Favourite movie in the comments box please.

MHDM9 Update

There are only 2 MHDM9 left - all have been sold or spoken for. One of it is going to one lucky guy on Team Ku in Japan. I was offered the Brandon Short one for the same price of USD$1700 including shipping but I turned it down.

I just want a straight up DM9 with no frills unless Billy wants to sell his personal one which has the new TADAO OLED board. There is ONE and only ONE in Taiwan at the moment.

Its quite cool that we have a Ollie Lang DM8 and a Black/Red Ironmen Edition DM9 on our team.


Mikko seen here wearing a Finnish flag strap- thanks Erno for sending this.

And for you guys in Finland- I have been told by Erno that Mikko, Billy Wing, Xalo and Mr U will be going there for clinics in the coming month. Lucky Finns. Good luck with the tournament this weekend in Finland!