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"Rumors, lies and scandal…" und "NXL on ESPN: The Inside Track", so nennen sich die beiden aktuellsten Artikel bei P8ntballer. Im erstgenannten Artikel geht es um Spielerwechsel, wie zum Beispiel Jon Richardson (wechselte für 20.000$ und Bezahlung pro Spiel von Infamous zu XSV), oder dem Namenwechsel von "Arsenal" in "San Antonio Arsenal", noch mehr Spielerwechseln und noch mehr Spielerwechsel.

Im NXL Artikel geht es um die Fernsehausstrahlung auf ESPN und ihre Einschaltquote. 760.000 Haushalte haben die Ausstrahlung der NXL auf ESPN2 verfolgt und angeblich soll ESPN die nächste NXL Saison ausstrahlen.

Rumors, lies and scandal…

Some's true, some may be true, and some comes direct from Donald Rumsfeld, so don't blame us…

So, as everyone knows, Johnny Paintball Richardson has been tempted away from his spiritual home on Infamous to join Mr Franchise's XSV …a $20k signing on fee and a pay-to-play deal will work wonders nowadays… Dynasty picks up Eric Hunter from the Naughty Dogs and Danny Tiljack from Avalanche …The Philly Americans new facility is attracting top line players over for trials…the promise of $$$$s doesn't hurt none either – first to join in the off-season is Gerald Garcia . What a surprise, Bob Long losing a top Assassin in the off season…the other, equally predictable surprise, is that Bob will mould another killer into his own image and Oakland won't skip a beat… New England Hurricanes are being courted by several major sponsrs, and have bolstered their roster by luring Canes' Tim Maher 's older brother Scott back into tha fold from NYX …All quiet on the Trauma front, except for a whisper that both Brian Stewart and Jason Trosen have practiced with the Assassins . Oh, and Trauma picked up Lucian Blackburn from Miami Effect …Will BJ be joining Little Jon on Legacy ? Arsenal has moved to Cow Country and will henceforth be known as San Antonio Arsenal . The house they are living in has a training facility in its yard, so look for Arsenal to come on strong early in the season… Detroit Strange will also hit the ground running: word is they are training very, hard and very smart, a la Russian Legion , and will likely show up in the semi-pro NPPL bracket along with a whole lot of other big names…names like Bad Company . If Tom Cole picks up tha players he is chasing, look for Company to be stronger than ever in 2005. Finally, DC Devastation and Justice have joined forces to create a killer XBall team…that's all until I get big bad Don on tha phone later today folks.

NXL on ESPN: The Inside Track

OK folks, while this isn't 100% official, yet , our sources here are very good, so hang on tight cos the news is good. And by good, we mean great. And by great, we mean awesome.

The first showing of the NXL on ESPN2 racked up 760,000 viewers, a 0.8 rating…now this is pretty damn good, but what's even better is that within the target group, 13 – 25 year olds, it got a 1.2 rating, which had tha ESPN guys rubbing their hands with glee.

Yep, ESPN are delighted with the ratings – the show has already been translated into French and Portuguese, re-runs are on tha cards, and negotiations have started between the NXL and ESPN for televising next season.

In short, this is about the best news we could have hoped for…stay tuned for more news, and check out a forthcoming issue of PGI for the full story from inside the NXL.

Die Veranstalter der DMA 2005 haben das Registration Sheet für das Anfang Juni stattfindende Millennium Series Turnier veröffentlicht.

Aus diesem kann man auch die diesjährigen Startgebühren für die Serie entnehmen:
– Champions League 1.500 €
– Division 1 1.200 €
– Division 2 1.000 €
– Division 3 900 €

DMA 2005 – Registration Sheet

Seit Samstag den 14.01.2005 ist das neue Ladengeschäft von xXx-Sports im deutschsprachigen Teil von Belgien geöffnet. Auf über 300m² findet man alles was das Paintballherz begehrt. Sicherlich eine Interessante Alternative für Spieler aus Luxemburg und Deutschland welche in Grenznähe wohnen da sich der Shop nur ca. 90km von Aachen und 60km von Bitburg befindet. Die zweisprachige Homepage ist unter www.xxx-sports.be zu erreichen.

Maximus von Joy Division hat auf der Homepage von WDP einen Jahresrückblick verfasst und zwei Collagen aus Bildern dieses Jahres zusammengestellt. Die Collagen könnt ihr auf der Newsseite von WDP betrachten, den Rückblick haben wir hier:A Look Back at the Year that was 2004Hello Fellow Angel lovers!!!! It’s been a fantastic year.The quality of my life increased 100% 2004. When I talk about my life it’s the same as talking about paintball because that’s just what’s my life is all about, paintball and my love for the game (ok there is some time for women and food too, no sleep though). The pace was set in the beginning of the year by the release of the Joy and fly Angel. Oh man! Now we dominate everybody in gun power. And with the new screw in AIR you don’t need a lot of muscle anymore to play around with your gat. The AIR makes the set up nice and feather light. 2004 has really made me believe in that good things come to good people. The crew of NPPL have kept their focus on doing what is best for ballers instead of bad mouthing other leagues and the things they do wrong. And now the league is better then ever and it is only getting better. WDP had a lot of a-holes trying to go after them with lawsuits. What’s the answer for all this? I would say envy and greed. The two things that our world really could do better without. So what happens to greedy disgusting people??? They loose big time in life!!!Huntington beach was bigger and better then any tournament ever held. 200000 people watch it thru out the weekend!!! Can’t wait for this years first NPPL. Make sure you bring your boards cause the surfing is awesome.This year some friends and me did paintball schools in Mexico city, Monterrey, Detroit(Atomix), Palma Spain and Sao Paolo Brazil. It was awesome to visit these places, teaching what you love to do and hang out with the coolest people. Big thanks to all my students. You rock!!!People kept asking me thru out the year what team I’m on? Joy 4 life is the answer. Joy division played NPPL and Millennium last year but that wasn’t enough paintball for me. This year I have been a guest player for a lot of teams. Team Evil, Smooth’s little helpers, Arsenal, Russian Legion. And team Regime. It went pretty well with a couple of winnings. Skyball, Pittsburgh Div.1 xball and San Diego NPPL div.1. It was super cool to hang out with these teams, get to experience and pick up all the good things they do. Big thanks to all of you.My team Joy had a great year. We had a couple of tournaments where I wish we would have done better but believe me you learn a lot from them to and what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. We got some good results 2004: Nordic series champs, 2nd over all in EXL, 3rd in Madrid, 2nd in Malaga and best European team in the NPPL.We took a spot in the super pro league for 2005 and we have decided to make something really good with our spot, trust me on this one. We are training hard core to make sure our fans and sponsors always are happy with us. Thanks to our sponsors WDP, Reball and Stockholm Reball center (Simone, Johan and Goj’s bootcamp) we can now practice four days a week. ( i practiced 11 of the last 14 days with no cost ) www.reball.se, you got to check them out! Watch out for us this year and please come up and to talk to us if there is anything we can help you with.Like I said before 2004 changed my whole life. I look at things in a whole new way. Joy, Magued, WDP and all the people who gave me a chance to get to know and experience what I did. The biggest THANK YOU ever!!!!!!!!!!Also in our awesome world of paintball there are not a lot of bad things that happened. In Asia as you know they got struck harder then anyone this year. Take a moment to think about what happened there and let that help you focus on the positive things in your life. Make your problems as small and all the good things as big as possible.Big, big, big thanks to all of you for your time and looking forward to see you this year.Maximus

A Look Back at the Year that was 2004Hello Fellow Angel lovers!!!! It’s been a fantastic year.The quality of my life increased 100% 2004. When I talk about my life it’s the same as talking about paintball because that’s just what’s my life is all about, paintball and my love for the game (ok there is some time for women and food too, no sleep though). The pace was set in the beginning of the year by the release of the Joy and fly Angel. Oh man! Now we dominate everybody in gun power. And with the new screw in AIR you don’t need a lot of muscle anymore to play around with your gat. The AIR makes the set up nice and feather light. 2004 has really made me believe in that good things come to good people. The crew of NPPL have kept their focus on doing what is best for ballers instead of bad mouthing other leagues and the things they do wrong. And now the league is better then ever and it is only getting better. WDP had a lot of a-holes trying to go after them with lawsuits. What’s the answer for all this? I would say envy and greed. The two things that our world really could do better without. So what happens to greedy disgusting people??? They loose big time in life!!!Huntington beach was bigger and better then any tournament ever held. 200000 people watch it thru out the weekend!!! Can’t wait for this years first NPPL. Make sure you bring your boards cause the surfing is awesome.This year some friends and me did paintball schools in Mexico city, Monterrey, Detroit(Atomix), Palma Spain and Sao Paolo Brazil. It was awesome to visit these places, teaching what you love to do and hang out with the coolest people. Big thanks to all my students. You rock!!!People kept asking me thru out the year what team I’m on? Joy 4 life is the answer. Joy division played NPPL and Millennium last year but that wasn’t enough paintball for me. This year I have been a guest player for a lot of teams. Team Evil, Smooth’s little helpers, Arsenal, Russian Legion. And team Regime. It went pretty well with a couple of winnings. Skyball, Pittsburgh Div.1 xball and San Diego NPPL div.1. It was super cool to hang out with these teams, get to experience and pick up all the good things they do. Big thanks to all of you.My team Joy had a great year. We had a couple of tournaments where I wish we would have done better but believe me you learn a lot from them to and what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. We got some good results 2004: Nordic series champs, 2nd over all in EXL, 3rd in Madrid, 2nd in Malaga and best European team in the NPPL.We took a spot in the super pro league for 2005 and we have decided to make something really good with our spot, trust me on this one. We are training hard core to make sure our fans and sponsors always are happy with us. Thanks to our sponsors WDP, Reball and Stockholm Reball center (Simone, Johan and Goj’s bootcamp) we can now practice four days a week. ( i practiced 11 of the last 14 days with no cost ) www.reball.se, you got to check them out! Watch out for us this year and please come up and to talk to us if there is anything we can help you with.Like I said before 2004 changed my whole life. I look at things in a whole new way. Joy, Magued, WDP and all the people who gave me a chance to get to know and experience what I did. The biggest THANK YOU ever!!!!!!!!!!Also in our awesome world of paintball there are not a lot of bad things that happened. In Asia as you know they got struck harder then anyone this year. Take a moment to think about what happened there and let that help you focus on the positive things in your life. Make your problems as small and all the good things as big as possible.Big, big, big thanks to all of you for your time and looking forward to see you this year.Maximus

Ein etwas abgedrehtes Werbevideo von WDP für ihre Angel Speed 05 könnt ihr hier runterladen.