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Reaper Clinic in Nambia

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

 

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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Dye booth at the Millennium in Paris

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Dye booth at the Millennium in Paris

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TonTons take 2nd in Vienna

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

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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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Team Dynamix wins the 4th event of the GPPL in South Africa

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

The 4th event of the South African GPPL series took place at Paintball City in Johannesburg over the weekend. Paintball is registered as an official sport in South Africa and the winning team of the GPPL series will be chosen as the South African national team and have the opportunity to represent their country in international events next year, an honor that every paintball player dreams of. With such a huge prize on the line, the PRO division has been closely fought all year long and this event was no exception! However it would be the Dye sponsored Team Dynamix that would emerge as the winners. Dynamix captain, Craig Marley gave us a run down of the event:

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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Nexus’s Marseille Practice

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

George Bruton recalls Nexus’ trip to Marseille

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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