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Die PSP startet heute mit den Pomona Open in die neue Saison. Die ersten Ergebnisse der einzelnen X-Ball™ Divisionen sind bereits online. Die 5 Man Wettkämpfe starten erst am Wochenende.

PSP Pomona Open 2005 – Scores

Die NPPL hat einen neuen, alten Kommentator – Will Arroyo. Er hat zuvor bei NYX Paintball gespielt und aufgrund privater Probleme sich aus der Szene zurückgezogen, nun kehrt er zurück und wird zusammen mit Artie Edmonds bei allen NPPL Events kommentieren.

The NPPL and Pure Promotions are pleased to announce they have signed Will “Rocks” Arroyo back on as a commentator of the Super 7 World Series for the 2005 season. 

When the industry looks back at the inaugural season of the NPPL Super 7 World Series (2003) many amazing things come to mind.  Fresh concepts of catering to the athletes, promoting event sponsors, setting up in professional venues and offering huge cash prizes are just a few.  What else changed?  Ah yes, creating an entertaining environment for the spectators.  And who played a more important role in this “spectator friendly” atmosphere than the one and only, Will Arroyo. 

Arroyo, known for his playing style on the field, outgoing personality off the field and extremely thick Brooklyn accent, began commentating from the Super 7 Center Court tower in 2003.  Coupled with Matty Marshal (Pro athlete on team XSV) the two would take to the microphones and give “colorful” commentating by having fun with the crowd, as well as explaining the game to those new to the sport. 

Bart Walkerdine, Director of Pure Promotions, has always felt that Arroyo is a good match for the Super 7.  “We've really missed him, every one has missed him.  We're very excited to bring in his knowledge of the game, his enthusiasm and his happiness back to the NPPL Super 7 World Series, where he belongs.”

In 2005 Arroyo will be working with the very professional Artie Edmonds.  Edmonds is an experienced professional with thousands of credits to his name.  He now has extensive experience in paintball having worked with the NPPL Super 7 World Series for over a year by tower commentating at events, hosting the 2004 DVDs as well as the 2005 Fox Sports Series of the Super 7 with Rocky Cagnoni.   Walkerdine feels that “Edmonds' quality of work and professionalism along with Arroyo's fun style and expertise in the game will make this duo a great team.”  

Arroyo will be doing some on camera work as well so be sure to check him out on the 2005 DVDs and the 2006 Fox Sports Series.

Todd Martinez von Dynasty schreibt mal wieder im Procorner von ForceOfNature. Den Artikel zum nachlesen gibt es natürlich auch bei uns.

Well I hope that everyone has been having an enjoyable off-season. I know that during this time there are a lot of people who like to take this time to get a break from paintball and relax, while others like Mike Hinman on my squad have missed playing less weekends than Brett Favre. Regardless of what you have been up to this winter, it is a new year and what better time to go out and shoot people again.

At the end of the year it always seems like the season before came and went, and at the beginning of each fresh new year we get so excited to do it all over again. I had so much fun last year playing paintball. I went to many cool places with all of my best friends, and accomplished a lot to be proud of. I know it is only a matter of time before everybody
realizes what a fun, cool, and dynamic sport we play.

I went to the field the other day and this kid came up to me and we bull schnickened for a little bit about paintball before he pulled out his camera and started showing me pictures of him playing. He was like “pretty tight right!” I was like “hell yea man that is great!” He told me how chicks at school dig it. He said “paintball is the new skateboarding.” We all hope so my friend. It just amazes me how many kids you see at the field now.

Our sport really is growing tremendously and it is cool to see such passion for the game and competitiveness from these young kids. We just picked up a killer little backstreet boy who just got done potty training but will run through the X on the break, bunker your center guy, and shoot out the two guys on your left tape. Oops, sorry Legacy. This kid really could be something special and it will be fun to teach him the wise ways of jedi masters.

I really enjoy doing the clinics that our team puts on, as well as the other personal clinics that we do. Every time we have a clinic, everyone always rants and raves about what a good time they had. That is all we can really hope to ask for because that is why we all do this in the first place, right? Like I said before I am very thankful to those pros that came before me and gave me the mojo. Though I was just lucky to have met the people I did. Not many had the opportunity I did. Today we are really trying to make ourselves more accessible to help kids who want to learn as well as try to make paintball a positive influence in their lives.

It is also cool when I get players who really want to learn and really try hard. If you know me at all you know that I am as fierce a competitor as any other professional in any sport. I have played in some of the biggest paintball games in paintball history and I loved every second of it. Those are the moments I live for, because that is when I am at my best. But I will have a big smile on my face if we spend a day learning more about paintball and having fun. It is even better when I get to work with people who are also competitive and dedicated. If you are a fighter, a grinder, and a competitor, come to our clinics and get down with me. I give a lot of credit to the kids who come out to SC every weekend and scrap to get games. These guys are constantly getting better and the desire to work harder will only raise the level of play everywhere.

Paintball is going in a lot of positive directions and the type of things that are happening today I would not have even dreamed about when I first got into the sport. Thanks to Greg Hastings and his crew of esteemed individuals, a group of friends and I are in a video game for Xbox. Are you serious! I can only imagine what is going to happen next. Watching paintball on TV has definitely been awesome. Too bad the Oakland vs. Strange game wasn't televised. That was the real brawl. So anyway, TV, video games, magazines, chicks, I'm all in. Kids, stay in school, be nice to your parents, play paintball because it's obviously the cool thing to do. This has been a public service announcement for you and yours brought to you by cash money shorts inc. owned and operated by T. Martinez president and C.E.O. with artistic and creative inspiration by Dir. T. Dave of the offices of Pastore Pastore and Pastore and Biker.

95AllStars relauncht – Alles neu macht der März

Trotz bereits herausgegebener Pressemitteilung und Ankündigungen hat sich bei dem deutschen Traditionsteam abschließend noch einiges geändert!

„So schnell schießen die Preußen nicht!“, sagt Jens Brömmel. „Wir spielen auf einem so hohen Niveau, da entscheiden Details über den Erfolg und Misserfolg! Letztendlich hat uns die Firma MAXS in Friedberg die nötigen Details für unseren Entschluss gegeben!“

Und somit ist es amtlich, die AllStars, die dieses Jahr ihr zehnjähriges Bestehen feiern, spielen in der Saison 2005 unter der Flagge der Friedberger Firma MAXS und MPG in Lahnstein.

Heinz Niedecken, Team Captain der All Stars: „Wir freuen uns, letztendlich doch die richtigen Partner gefunden zu haben! MAXS und MPG stehen für Erfolg, das haben die Jungs von MAXS erst vor kurzem auf den MAXS European Indoor Masters und den MAXS European Masters unter Beweis gestellt! Wir sind sehr stolz, dass uns die Firmen in ihren Sponsorenstall mit einem sehr guten Angebot eingeladen haben!“

2005 spielen die „Stars“ das komplette Sortiment, welches unter www.maxs-sport.com abzurufen ist. So ersetzt die ANGEL SPEED 05 die bisherige Nemesis. Komplett in JT eingekleidet werden die AllStars die DPL in der Bundesliga bestreiten, die Firma MPG unter Leitung von Stefan Maiwald (ehemaliger TC von den ALLStars) steuert seine Trainingsmöglichkeiten und RP Scherer Paintballs ein.

„Mit den AllStars haben wir ein weiteres deutsches Top-Team in den Reihen!“, so Stefan Maiwald, einer der Sponsormanager im Hause MAXS. „Die AllStars stehen für Kontinuität und stetiges Wachsen, kein anderes Team kann ein so langes Bestehen in der deutschen Szene nachweisen!“

Das haben die AllStars gerade erst auf den Catalunia Open bewiesen, wo sie als Erstplatzierter, das zweite Mal in Folge, den Event beendet haben.

„Wir wünschen den AllStars für die Saison 2005 sowie die weitere Zukunft das Beste. Wir sind uns sicher, dass sie nicht nur national sondern auch international für sich und uns alles geben werden!“ so Maiwald zum Abschluss.

Maxs-Sport gibt bekannt:Wir dürfen uns freuen an Consilium Dei, als erstes europäisches Team überhaupt, nunmehr offiziell den Titel „WGP Factory Team Europe“ zu vergeben. Nach langjähriger Treue zum Hause MAXS und WGP Produkten können wir auf eine in allen Sparten erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit zurückblicken. Nicht nur sportliche Erfolge, sondern auch das freundliche und stets professionelle Auftreten des Teams Consilium Dei gepaart mit qualitativ hochwertigen Produkten aus dem Hause MAXS, haben dazu geführt, dass sich nunmehr die WGP Autococker und an erster Stelle ihr Flaggschiff „Karnivor“ zunehmender Beliebtheit erfreut. Daher werden auch in Zukunft weitere Top-Teams wie Syndicate, Instinct und CONXION auf dieses hochwertige Produkt setzen.[img]../newsimages/sonstiges2003/2005-02-16-wgp_spons4_390.jpg[/img]

Im Rahmen der Paintball Expo hatte Bea Youngs für Pb2X die Chance Graham Easton ein paar Fragen zu neuen Ion zu stellen. Graham Easton arbeitet seit neun Jahren für Smart Parts und offenbart unter andrem das man bei Smart Parts bereits seit zwei Jahren an der Ion tüftelt. Das ganze Interview:Bea's Sting On Smart Parts' Ion – An Interview with Graham Easton2-16-05: Smart Parts has been an exhibitor at the Paintball Expo since its inception and at the 4th Annual Paintball Expo, Smart Parts revealed its entry-level marker, the Ion, to more than 6,000 attendees, most of which were new to the sport. On top of that, 59 other exhibitors, some in competition with Smart Parts, were there to witness the jaw-dropping faces of those seeing the Ion for the first time face-to-face.Graham Easton, Smart Parts Senior Sales Executive, took the time to sit down with us at the Expo to share a little bit about the Ion. Graham has been a big supporter of the Expo, and says, „The Expo is professionally run; it brings paintball into the public light in a professional setting.“ Thus the reason why revealing the Ion at such an event like the Expo since no other event in the industry of paintball provides such a platform for paintball companies. He continues, „I believe that major companies should take advantage of an event lie this, bring the public into awareness of their product. For us, it's been a great place to showcase the Ion.“Having played for 11 years, Graham obviously has a wealth of paintball experience not just as a player, but as an industry representative. He met Billy and Adam Gardner during his time when he was running a store in England and had come over for the Nashville Masters to play in a 5-man competition that they won. Easton was a guest player for the All Americans II team at the time and received a phone call from Billy at 6 in the morning and asked if he would come and work for Smart Parts. Nine years later, Graham is still working for Smart Parts and remains good friends with the Gardner family.Smart Parts has been known to be one of the biggest and best paintball manufacturing companies worldwide, sponsoring such teams like NXL Champions Philadelphia Americans, NXL team Detroit Strange, and Super 7 Triple Crown Champions, Dynasty. Famous rap artist, Cypress Hill's B-Real, and his team, Stoned Assassins (Division II team) are also supported by Smart Parts – All of which were also at the recent Paintball Expo and were situated around the new reveal of the Ion.Graham shares, „It makes an ideal rental gun, and we have plans to make a 'rental-only' Ion, which will just have one mode – the semi-automatic,“ (The Ion has three different modes, which will be explained below), he goes on to say, „It can still be used at the tournament level, especially as a back-up.“The Ion has been undercover for close to two years. „It's probably been our best kept secret ever. The whispers on the internet only really broke out about two weeks ago,“ Graham cheerfully says.Bea: Who is responsible for heading such a project?Graham: Billy Gardner, Daniel, and Hans. Hans was overall supervisor for the past year over the gun.Bea: What kind of material is it made out of? Will the plastic molding warp?Graham: Exoskeleton – It won't warp. It's plastic polymer, reinforced with a rubber outer layer. The concept is kind of like changing the cover on your cell phone, or even lately, the I-Pod.Bea: So, it's not entirely an all plastic gun.Graham: It's not. The only part that is made out of plastic is the Exoskeleton. The rest of the gun is made out of aluminum.[img]../newsimages/produktnews2003/2005-02-16-ion01.jpg[/img]Bea: Tell me about the Internals.Graham: It only has one moving part – the bolt.Bea: What makes this unique to other entry-level paintball markers on the market right now?Graham: You got a whole lot of gun for a lot less buck; It's got all the Smart Parts patented technology, three different fire modes, three-shot bursts, including a full-automatic mode, which is capped at 10 balls per second. It's a low maintenance gun, easy to fix (that's if it goes down for whatever reason). There are very few o-rings, and like I mentioned before, the only moving part is the bolt.Bea: It can go into full-auto right out of the box?Graham: Yes.Bea: Describe the three modes.Graham: The first mode is a three-shot burst capped at 10 shots per second. The second mode is full-automatic that's also capped at 10 shots per second. The final mode is like a ramping mode, which shoots at 17 balls per second.Bea: Is this something that a tournament level player can use during competition?Graham: Yes. As a matter of fact, a couple of the Miami Effect kids are using them, even in the NXL competitions. Other teams like Punishers Paintball X-Ball team, as well.Bea: It resembles the Shocker.Graham: Yes, the shape does, but it runs on the three-way whereas the shocker runs on a 4-way. Low-pressure technology applies. It runs at 180 PSI. Any tournament player will benefit by having this in his bag as a backup.Bea: What makes it so affordable ($299 retail, USD)?Graham: We're using a solenoid that costs less to make. The gun is almost 100% American made except for the Exoskeleton. All the engineering, the barrel, etc., are all made in Pennsylvania.[img]../newsimages/produktnews2003/2005-02-16-pbx218.jpg[/img]Bea: How much does the Exoskeleton cost?Graham: Kits are going to be around $40 MSRP, to be released in about 2 months. Currently, the color choices are red, blue, black, and yellow. In the kit, it includes, the upper-body cover, and the front regulator foregrip cover, all interchangeable colors, even reversed (stripes will be colored, for ie). We'll also have two or three scenario versions of the Ion, as well.Bea: What kind of programming does it entail?Graham: The only programming you really have to do to the circuit board is interchange between the three modes and turn it on and off.Bea: The Eye?Graham: It is a break-beam anti-chop eye and has rubber ball detents.Bea: The Exoskeleton helps keep those ball detents in?Graham: Right.Bea: How do you adjust the velocity?Graham: To adjust the velocity, it has it's own wrench that you use to turn the inline reg.Already, Smart Parts has sold over 5,000 units since its release on February 11th. Graham concludes, „I've got an order for a 1000 from one company. And it's only been two days…“Interview conducted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 at Paintball Expo, West.