Dyeprecision

As an international paintball player and Dye employee a big part of my year happens inside of airplanes, airports and living out of my Dye Navigator bags. This time my destination was all the way to the East, to Russia. I was very excited about this trip, in 2004 I lived in Moscow for an year playing with Russian Legion and this was the first time in 6 years I was heading back there. I flew from San Diego to London and met Devon Stutz at Heathrow airport. From there we continued our journey to Moscow International Airport Sheremetyevo.

After a painful 30 hours of traveling we finally landed in Moscow and headed to the hotel to sleep as we were scheduled to be at the paintball field early in the morning to play in the Moscow Grand Tour. The event was held at the Russian Legion paintball compound. Devon and I were playing with Dye sponsored team All Russians. This was the first time I saw the new Russian Legion field, it was much nicer than the one we used to practice on years ago. The Russian Legion Field includes one full size indoor dome, where they play during the winter, one smaller indoor dome and full size out door field with AstroTurf. Playing at the event everyone was very chilled and laid back, people were there to have a good time. We won all of our games until the finals, when our victorious route ended as we lost the game… So unfortunately we ended up taking a second place, but I enjoyed playing with the All Russians team and had tons of fun.

After the Moscow Grand Tour event Devon and I visited local paintball stores and fields. Facilities for paintball are pretty impressive in the Moscow area. Not only Russian Legion field, but SK Moscow had an amazing full size indoor dome with a Millennium field set up. We also went to visit some really cool scenario fields a little bit outside of Moscow. I was impressed by the fields they had built there. It’s also good to see that paintball is growing!

We also had some time in the evenings to go out and see the city. It has been changing a lot since 2004 when there was lots of construction going on. Now it looks nice and finished and the historical buildings are pretty impressive.

From Moscow we took a train to St. Petersburg. The train was pretty cool with it’s sleeping cabins. It left from Moscow in the evening and arrived in St. Petersburg the next morning. In St. Petersburg we visited more paintball stores for a day and half and then it was time to jump back in the airplane, headed towards London and from there to San Diego and Devon went back to Taiwan.

Lake Hill Arowana Paintball Challenge 2010
25-36 September 2010

MSL Malaysia Super Lite 2010

Race to 3 format

MAPAAC Padang Astaka
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
9th & 10th October 2010

Click here for full details.

After a cold week in Sao Paulo, Brazil the Brazilian Circuit Paintball 2010 in Mega Play Morumbi got underway. With 24 teams entered and 141 games scheduled, paintball players from around the country met on the 21st and 22nd of August to enjoy another great paintball event. Rocky from Dye was on scene to support any players that needed it. The Jungle Boyz were able to control the Pro Division to add another victory to their belt.

Last weekend saw the third round of Australia’s only national paintball series, Super 7’s. Hostile Intentions (HI) entered the event 2 points clear of their nearest competitor. Having won round 2, every pro team had us in their sights. HI started the event determined to further extend our points lead in the series with a win all but confirming a win in the series.

Day 1, Saturday 21st August. This event included 7 pro teams giving us a total of 6 games plus a by. Round 1 had us matched against Team Raw. HI needed a good start to carry the momentum through the rest of the tournament. This is exactly how it started smashing Raw from the field taking the 5 points required to dispatch Raw in under 7 minutes, out of a possible 10, without dropping a point. This would prove to be one of the few matches won on a max and the only match in less than 7 minutes. Round 2. This round we met Team Menace, one of the most competitive teams at the tournament. Boosted by the addition of Bobby Aviles to their roster, Menace come out strong. HI met the challenge but the round would result in our only timed out draw of the weekend at 2 apiece.

The 3rd round saw us meet our Brisbane training partners, Team Blood Knuckles. BK managed to take 1 point off us in our 3 to 1 win in a timed out match. The 4th and final round of day 1 matched us against Team Explicit. Explicit had been giving the big names a scare in each of their encounters. With this in mind HI hit the field knowing that they would exploit any mistake. After some initial hard fought points, HI took the win 4 to 1 with the final point being completed in the remaining 24 seconds of regulation time.

HI finishes day 1 in equal first place with Team Menace. Knowing we would start tomorrow with our by round, HI headed to the hotel with one thing in mind, kick off day two strong and secure our position as the team to beat. Day 2, Sunday 22nd August. Round 6 and we entered the field with X-Fighters standing at the other end. Knowing this would be a hard fight. With only 3 points completed in the allotted 10 minutes, HI goes down to the X-Fights 1 to 2. After this disappointing loss HI was left to pick up the pieces knowing another loss would cost us a place in the final.

After some game plan modifications and deep soul searching HI hit the field in round 7 against Team SWAT. SWAT has always been strong competitors and we knew that whoever won this encounter would progress to the final, there was allot at stake for both teams. After our loss in round 6 we came out firing taking a one sided win to finish this round 4 to 0. This win confirmed our place in the grand finale to meet Team Menace once more. Having drawn our match in the preliminaries both teams knew this would be a difficult match up.

Grand Finale, HI vs. Menace. Expecting a strong response from Menace HI consolidated our positions and bashed Menace out of their bunkers. Dropping only 1 point in our 5 point smashing, HI confirms its position as Australia’s top paintball team. Now with a 6 point lead all but an act of god could stop HI taking the 2010 Super 7’s series win.

HI would like to thank our principal sponsor Dye Paintball; Dye supplies us with some top gear that has contributed to our success greatly. We would also like to thank Furious Paintball for their excellent batteries and
Skirmish Samford for allowing us to train at their facility and not forgetting our training partners BK and Blade. Last but not least Deholm Smith and the BK boys for all their help in the pits. Without you all HI wouldn’t be the successful team it is today.

Congratulations to the New Jersey Jesters on winning the NYPL American League Championship! It was a tough day battling all the other teams and Mother nature, but you came out on top. Congratulations boys! We look forward to seeing you guys down at World Cup in October for another podium finish!

I see we are getting closer to 1000 fans on the DYE Paintball Espana & Portugal Facebook page. As promised we will be giving away another 2010 Lisbon Benfica Playing Jersey. Printed with Name/Number of your choice………..

So just like before, Please “Suggest to Friends” to the left and select every fan of paintball that you have on your friends list. Then post up on this thread with how many friends you suggested. A winner will then be selected at random and contacted when we hit 1000.

Thanks guys and good luck!

As you may know, last sunday saw London Nexus Facebook competition winner Nicky Honing play with the team at the CPPS!

We wanted to do a video as a thank you for all the support on the team page and the DYE UK Facebook page..
Check out how the day went!

…Video also featuring Craig Barry and Thomas William Shephard. Filmed and edited by Rich Thornton! Enjoy.