DYE Paintball - Paintball News from around the World » Europe http://blog.dyepaintball.com Live The Life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:36:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Clint Moore signs a multi year contract with Dye http://blog.dyepaintball.com/2012/02/clint-moore-signs-a-multi-year-contract-with-dye/ http://blog.dyepaintball.com/2012/02/clint-moore-signs-a-multi-year-contract-with-dye/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:34:06 +0000 SK http://blog.dyepaintball.com/?p=4772

]]> http://blog.dyepaintball.com/2012/02/clint-moore-signs-a-multi-year-contract-with-dye/feed/ 0 Poison Ivy’s Report from World Cup Asia http://blog.dyepaintball.com/2011/12/poison-ivys-report-from-world-cup-asia/ http://blog.dyepaintball.com/2011/12/poison-ivys-report-from-world-cup-asia/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:59:20 +0000 SK http://blog.dyepaintball.com/?p=4628 We are back from beautiful Lankawi Island! And what an adventure it was

Poison Ivy was invited to World Cup Asia by Pals and AKR last winter, and we have been looking forward to this event all year! We were invited as the only all girl team to play in division (1).We went down to the event with Silje Eriksen, Benedicte Rønneberg, Pia A. Askevold, Linn A. Askevold and Marie Magnusson.

We flew down on the 8th of november and after a 18 hour flight from Norway, we finally landed at Langkawi airport late on the 9th. We were super excited to see the site and venue that was so close to the airport and hotel. Thursday was spent sight seeing the mangroves and a really cool fish farm. We finished off with an amazing lunch at a beautiful resort right on the beach. When we got back from our little ”adventure”, we hurried down to the site (which was a huge indoor venue, with AC and a lot of space!! ). We were amazed by the size and the level of professionalism, it was nothing like we had ever experienced before. Thursday night we attended the royal banquet with the Princess and Sultan of Kedah, Malaysia.

As far as the teams we were playing we had no idea what to expect of the level of play in Asia….. We had five games in the preliminaries, three games on friday and two on saturday… and only played our five players..

We started our Friday with a game against LostBoyz and lost 3-1, Hustle was next and we lost 4-0. Megapolis Moscow was out first good game and we won 3-1. Saturday we played against Fei-Pi 1923 and Hostile Intensions with the results 4-0 and 2-2. So over all a pretty good preliminary round for Poison Ivy. We had no idea if we made it through to the next round, and late on Saturday we finally knew that we made it to Sunday!

On Sunday played Demonz , Hostile Intensions and Reaper, we lost 3-2, 2-1 and 4-0. So that was the end of the event for us. Overall we were really happy with our playing and our results. We had fun and we gave it our very best. Overall we ended on 12th place with 110 points.

Congratulations to Datis from Iran for taking 1st!

We got to meet a a lot of new players from Asia, and we were amazed by all the attention we were given. We were really happy to see all the girl players over there, almost every team had a girl playing for them! It’s really cool to see that more girls are discovering the awesome sport of paintball all over the world! Hopefully we were a good example for girls that it’s possible to be an all girl team, and still do well in the top divison!

To all the people that helped us out it the pit (especially Adrian, Eric and Kevin ), cheered for us, and helped coaching us from the sidelines; THANK YOU! Your support means the world to us! We really hope to see all of you again next year…

To sum it up….This is probably the best event we have ever experienced, and we have to give a big THANK YOU to WCA for giving us this amazing opportunity! We hope that we are able to come back and play WCA in 2012 !!!

xoxo -P.I
www.poisonivy.blogg.no

 


 

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The Awards event is the only occasion in the calendar where players, event organisers, site owners, retailers, distributors and manufacturers all get to spend time together in a social situation. But it’s not all paintball paintball paintball….. Many of those attending are accompanied by their partners which gives the non-paintball people a chance to put the odd face to a name.

The Dog Soldiers were joined for the evening by DYE’s very own Rich Thornton. Nervousness grew around the table as the presentations approached, with the team having been nominated in three categories for the season. However, as the evening unfolded the nervousness turned to elation as the team claimed all three awards they were up for:
UK Scenario Team of the Year – Dog Soldiers
UK Male Player of the Year – Paul “Spoony” Given
UK Young Player of the Year – Jarreth “Shorty” Holden

It has been a long season in the UK and the team have racked up over 16 big games this year including the Super 6 series, Call to Duty II and III, Agimont big game in Belgium as well as the Oklahoma D-Day game alongside the Tactical Ironmen. The team set out with the aim of building on their 2010 success (where they won Breakthrough Team of the Year) and have exceeded their best expectations for one of the smaller teams on the circuit. It has been a great year with great teammates.

We would like to say a massive thanks to both BZ Paintball and DYE UK for their support and the use of the top class Dyecam tactical gear throughout the year – the camouflage really is some of the best we’ve ever seen. Also a massive thank you to the whole UK community for an amazing 2011 season.

The team are now looking to build on their foundations moving forward into 2012 – with the Super 6 series, Oklahoma D-Day and two more European big games on the calendar, three key General roles secured as well as some exciting kit innovations in the pipeline – it looks like an exciting season ahead once again!

See you on the field very soon………..
Phil. Dog Soldiers. @ D-Day @ Super 6-6 Awards Night Super 6-2

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TonTon’s take 2nd place at the Millennium event Disney World Cup in Paris. They also took 3rd overall in the series.

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On Friday, 16th September, Georgie Hunter and Chris Birch from team Reaper, departed for Namibia to do a paintball clinic. Namibia is in Southern Africa and has a growing paintball scene of young, passionate players. Without an organized tournament series in Namibia, the local teams have resorted to traveling to neighboring South Africa to play the GPPL series and learn from more experienced teams. Those players who can’t afford to travel unfortunately lose out of this experience so team Reaper decided to partner with Action Paintball in Namibia and take their paintball clinic to the players. Chris Birch gave us a report from the weekend.

 

We arrived in Namibia and Werner Wormsbaecher, the owner of Action Paintball who coordinated the whole trip, greeted us and Friday night we had an amazing dinner with some of the players who would be attending the clinic.

 

Saturday, 17th September we got to the field bright and early and helped out with setting up the field and equipment for a great day of paintball as the players started arriving, all very eager to begin. Once all the players arrived we started the Reaper clinic as scheduled, Georgie lead everyone through some fitness and stretching for paintball. It was a beautiful day for paintball but the African heat meant that we needed a lot of water breaks and made sure the players stayed well hydrated throughout the day. We kept to our schedule for the clinic from warm up and one on one’s to intense drills. We ended the day with a muscle warm down for all the players who trained hard in the heat! Everyone seemed to have a great time and learnt a lot from the training.Sunday, 18th September we had a one on one tournament planned. It was another beautiful sunny day in Namibia, we gathered the players and organized the tournament. The fun one on one games gave players a chance to practice the guns skills they had learned the day before and gave us a chance to watch the players and give them individual coaching after each point. Werner Wormsbaecher ended up taking first place in the finals against Edward Jordan. As the day came to an end we got some great feedback from the weekend of paintball and everyone really enjoyed the experience of the Reaper clinic. Looking forward to another trip to Namibia soon!

 

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French DYE Team Toulouse TonTon have taken 2nd place the Grand Tour event in Vienna! It was a tough Pro division featuring Art Chaos Moscow, Frankfurt Syndicate and RMG – with several Budapest Bullets players and Nicky Cuba on board.

Despite this, TonTon won three out of four pre-lims and made it into the final, playing Art Chaos for first place. TonTon took an early 3-1 lead, but unfortunately couldn’t close out the game and ArtChaos came back to win.

Thanks to the Grand Tour organizers for a great event, with a great paintball site.

Next stop is Paris….

 

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GPPL Event 4 2011 started early on Sunday morning. Losing our first game against our fellow DYE team Reaper, the game was very intense and aggressive. The loss made the team realize we needed to pick up our game. Getting the feel of the field, everything started to fall into place with another exciting game against Awsim beating them 3-2, getting 2 points in 45 seconds with the help of our DYE NT11 markers powered by Rotor and the great support from our supporters.

We met Explicit in the finals, beating them 2-0.
A final result with Team Dynamix winning the Event in style wearing the best gear by DYE ,and giving us the greatest tech support throughout the whole day, leaving us with less stress and more time to focus on our game. Not that we needed the tech support as the NT11′s ran with no problems.

It was great to see DYE taking over the South African Pro Division helping teams and new players promote the sport.
Thanks to Blades & Triggers for great paint and support. Without you, we could have not achieved our 1st place in this event.

Team Dynamix
Craig Marley, Team Captain

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This was our first training as a team on the Paris field, we flew out to Marseille to train against TonTons. After an early flight out we arrived at the field at about 11am. We started to do some break-out drills, but Neil was kicking off because the paint wasn’t good and he couldn’t shoot anything. The TonTons gave us some better paint and Neil was happy again.

It was a good day training with TonTons, doing break-outs, points going back and forth, and both teams learning more about the field every point.

Every one was sweating buckets by the time we got to 2pm, it was hot out there! The turf at the TonTons field is very hard, I was trying really hard not to get astro burn – that s**t hurts.

After practice on Saturday, we headed over to Tav’s house for a huge BBQ dinner which was great. Since everyone had been up since about 4am we all went to bed early. I didn’t really get that much sleep on Saturday night because Shaun wouldn’t shut up about Creamfields, the music festival he went to last week.

And then because of Shaun we were late to breakfast as well. I did the smart thing and took two croissants for the day because on Saturday I was starving and I think everyone else was as well.

We got picked up and we went to the field at 10am, we played points non-stop all day till 4:00pm with Vision and TonTons. The guys made me some side burns and a goatee with permanent marker. I looked mint! Swear down! It was a good day and we had learnt a lot from Saturday. It was a funny day too, watching Neil get caught in a fishing net, Shaun running like a horse and Jay running like he has a pole up his arse.

After we finished we got a hotel room so we could go back and shower before heading home. I did the smart thing and went last so no one could mess with me. Once we were all washed up, we went to a restaurant in the town centre, the food was mint!

We got to the airport and found out that our flight has been delayed by an hour and a half. Jay and Jason bummed off together to go watch ‘hobo with a shotgun’, while I threw M&Ms at them across the airport. When they finally let us through security, Jay got his bag searched. It turns out he still had his multi-tool in his backpack. So then we walked up to the waiting area where Neil was on the look out for girls. I don’t no why, as no one would look twice at him…init.

We finally got on the plane after a long wait, as soon as I got on there I was a goner. I went to sleep. We made it back to London about 2am.

Thanks to TonTons for a good weekends practice and for being good hosts. Next stop is the CPPS where we need to win and move closer to winning the whole series.

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