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Dear Teams,

As you are now aware we are very pleased to announce that the venue for our final Event of the season is to be Antalya in Turkey. Please find information below relating to the Venue and Hotel Deals: Paintball Venue – Turizm Cad No:15 Kemer, Antalya, Turkey

The venue selected is positioned very close to a 5 star beach resort hotel which is a fantastic place in itself with numerous restaurants, bars, water parks, pools and sporting activities. The paintball venue is just a 50m walk from here and is held on a complex of football pitches of a very high standard which are all floodlit.

The location at the beach resort of Antalya, offers unrivalled facilities of anywhere so far on the Millennium tour, with 5 and 4 star accommodations for the players and trade along with incredible football playing surfaces and facilities for playing paintball. Although the hotels are right on the beach front the playing area is just a 50 m walk to the sports complex set back and sheltered from the sea breezes and the weather at this time of year has an incredible record of a blissful 25 C, so we are very confident of finishing the season in the sun and a great party atmosphere.

Hotel Deals

All Hotel information, website links, booking forms and prices can be found at www.millenniumsarsilmazcup.com

Example Prices (all prices plus tax):

Limak Limra Hotel
5*, 50m from Site
Single Room – €70, All Inclusive Basis
Double/Twin Room – €45 pp, All Inclusive Basis
Triple Room – €41pp, All Inclusive Basis

Viking Star
4*, 10 km from Site
Single Room – €57, All Inclusive Basis
Double Room – €38pp, All Inclusive Basis
Triple Room – €34.20pp, All Inclusive Basis

Aura Resort Hotel
3*, 300m from Site
Single Room – €43.50, All Inclusive Basis
Double Room – €28.50pp, All Inclusive Basis
Triple Room – €26.00pp, All Inclusive Basis

Further Hotels and information can be found on the website.

Please note: all hotel bookings must be made using the booking form on our website in order to get the special rates.

We have arranged for airport transfers to the hotel and back at a rate of just 25 euro return so no need for hire cars. Booking forms for these can also be found at www.millenniumsarsilmazcup.com.

If you have any specific questions/queries, please do not hesitate to contact me directly paulamillennium-series.com or contact the local organisers at infomillenniumsarsilmazcup.com

Kind Regards
Paula Nicol

Den Link zum Field Layout des Events ist unter dem London Event der Millennium Serie zu finden.
Zusätzlich besteht dort die Möglichkeit alle Teams einzusehen und Hotels für die Übernachtung zu buchen.

Wir wünschen allen teilnehmenden Teams viel Glück und Erfolg in England.

Millennium Series 5th leg to be held at the beach resort of Antalya, Turkey on the 23rd – 25th October 2009

It is with great pleasure and excitement that The Millennium announces the long awaited venue details for the 5th and final leg of the 2009 Millennium European Series, which will be held in Antalya, Turkey in conjunction with the Turkish Paintball Federation.

The location, at the beach resort of, Antalya, offers unrivalled facilities of anywhere so far on the Millennium Tour, with 5 and 4 star accommodations for the players and trade along with incredible football playing surfaces and facilities for playing paintball.

Although the hotels are right on the beach front, the playing area is just a 50m walk to the sports complex set back and sheltered from the sea breezes and the weather at this time of year has an incredible record of a blissful 25 C. So we are very confident of finishing the season in the sun and with a great party atmosphere.

Millennium CEO Barry Fuggle says ''having visited the venues and met with the Turkish Paintball Federation on a number of occasions, I could not help but be impressed by the quality of the venue not only the incredible grass playing surfaces and flood lights and of course the hotels, but the professionalism of the Turkish federation in its determination to bring the Millennium to Turkey and provide us with without doubt one of the best venues to date for a paint ball event in the world. Providing us with all the infrastructure we require and the back up and support to facilitate a move to turkey.''

The President of the Turkish Paintball Federation, Latif Aral Alis said ''We are very pleased to be a part of the World Paintball Community. The Millennium Series is one of the biggest and the most professional paintball series in the World and to have the 5th and final leg of the 2009 Series in Antalya is a great opportunity for both Turkish Paintball and the Millennium Series. We will work hard to make this the best event of the year. The players will have the opportunity to play paintball on high quality grass football pitches and also will spend a wonderful vacation on our beach resort.''

Full details of the exact location and booking details of flights ,hotels and booking procedure will be posted on the Millennium website on Friday the 10th of July 2009.

Dear teams and players,

I want to remind you about the event in Warsaw (Poland). The registration still continues (till 8th of May).
So, if you want to spend the time in a friendly company by playing paintball, please don`t hesitate to register your team on the web: www.paintballgrandtour.com

The stadium address is: WAT Stadium, Warsaw, Kartezjusza str.
You can find the map in the Location/maps department (Central Conference / Poland).

We will use Millennium Series Bitburg field layout. The layout will be available soon. As soon as we have it we will put it on the web-site.

Accommodation.
There is large WAT hotel just near the Stadium, 5 minutes walking (just to cross the road). And for those who like better conditions we have WALD hotel not so far from the site.
You can see that on the map also in the Accommodation department (Central Conference / Poland).

The organizers still keep the information about players’ party in secret. But as for me it means that they prepare something very interesting for us. So be prepared!

Information for the registered teams.
I want to kindly ask the teams captains to “brush” the rosters before Warsaw event.
Pay attention that you have saved rosters from 2008, so for this year you need to delete inactive players and to add the new ones.
If you have any questions or problems please contact me.

Also please upload pictures of your players to the web so I can print the ID cards for them.
Or in case if you can`t upload the picture for any reasons please send it to me by e-mail ([email protected]) with indicating your ID number.
Picture requirements: 3×4 sm, 300 dpi, JPEG format.

I`m looking forward to see you in Warsaw!

Sincerely yours ….
Vika

Statement from the Millennium Series Re the Fuengirola Beach Cup

By now I am sure all are aware that the first event of the 2009 Series was hit by the worst weather experienced in the area for the last 15 years on the second day of the event. With gusts of wind recorded near by at 100 km/h it is no surprise that play had to be suspended on safety grounds at 1.00pm on Saturday afternoon and no further play was possible that day.

When it was confirmed that 5 fields could be put back in to play on the Sunday the decision to suspend play for division 1, SPL and then inlay CPL was taken as all teams had completed two matches each, so this was the fairest point to stop and we will play all rescheduled games in Div 1, SPL & CPL in a way which has the least impact on the affected teams. Also the priority was given to complete division 3 and division 2 matches as these teams would predominately not be in Germany . Further details of exactly how this will take place will follow after careful consideration and consultation is given to all aspects.

I would just like to add my heart felt thanks on behalf of the Millennium for the incredible support and understanding from the vast majority of the teams and trade who where there and could tell that there was nothing to be done but sit it out. I would also thank the local council of Fuengirola who really helped to ensure we could continue on Sunday and of to the incredible effort of the millennium crew and refs as well as those who rolled up there sleeves at 4.30am and had 5 fully functional fields up and running by 8.30am .

At this point I would take the opportunity to squash rumours that the major reason for play being stopped was because the new field system was not good enough for the job. The exact opposite is the case. The 3 inflatable fields continued to play for 30 minutes longer than the standard pole system of fields 4 and 5 as play was suspended on these due to poles being snapped clean in half by the wind. Play was stopped on safety grounds as there was the real danger of injury to players from flying debris from tents, tables etc. The inflatable fields were deflated in 2 minutes and sustained no damage. It is a fact that if the Millennium had been using the traditional netting system there would have been no chance of any play at all on Sunday as there would have been no fields left. The only delay to rebuilding the inflatable fields was the fact that the turf had actually been lifted by the wind and needed to be reset. After this the netting system, which was completely undamaged, took 5 minutes to re-inflate.

The continued filming by Eurosport was a great success and we look forward to some great footage from them, I think the weather will make for some very interesting programming, and let us not forget the magnificent success of the first live web cast by Spirit of Paint who had more than double the anticipated viewing figures which was fantastic.

It is of great testament to our staff, refs, the cooperation and understanding of the players and the now proven success of the new netting system that all division 3 and division 2 matches were completed in total.

It is a great shame that nature should conspire against us all in such a way, but much larger events such as Formula 1, tennis and golf suffer in just the same way as we have just done. The show always goes on. This will not prevent us from returning to such a fantastic venue with such a great party atmosphere. Despite the weather this atmosphere very much continued with the teams who knew they would not be taking any further part taking advantage of the many bars which saw some serious partying.

As I say further news and confirmation of how the missing matches of the league teams will be played will be issued shortly.

See you all in Germany and if any of you have a direct line to mother nature please have a word.

Kind Regards
Barry Fuggle
CEO Millennium Series