RL Carriers shows off their hauler and two racers at DYE Precision headquarters for the employees. We coordinated with our freight partner, R&L Carriers, to have their customer appreciation event.

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As the sport of paintball evolves and becomes increasingly competitive, The Ironmen have also evolved. San Diego local Ryan Martin has just signed with the Ironmen to take the next step in the evolutionary cycle of the winningest team in paintball history. Ryan’s experience, versatility and tenacious drive to succeed will assist the Ironmen in remaining the top tier team they have been for decades. Ryan will make his Ironmen debut on March 9-11, 2012 at the Galveston Island PSP. Dye Precision and the Ironmen welcome this seasoned athlete to their already stellar roster of well attributed professional paintball athletes.

Team Ironmen

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.

The TonTon team traveled to Malaysia last weekend to represent Europe for the Intercontinental Cup, hosted at the PALS World Cup Asia event. The location in Langkawi was huge! 4 indoor fields in an air conditioned arena, a big Trade Show and the best team from each continent were there to fight for the 1st place.

We spent only 3 days on the island, but because the Intercontinental Cup games were only between 6 and 10 pm, we had a lot of free time to to explore the island. So, we rented some scooters and headed to the beach and did some sight seeing!

We won our 3 prelims games, moving directly to the semi final against STK from Australia.
The points were tight but we advanced, won 4-1 and moved to the final against the LA Ironmen, representing the US.

This final was a tight game too, the Ironmen were leading 2-0 but we found the resources to equalize at 2-2 and finally gain this Cup 4-2. Both teams were shooting with the new DM12, helping the players to improve their skill sets.

Thanks a lot to DYE for the support, this year the Cup belongs to Europe, lets see if we can come back and keep it next year!

Our trip started off with a very long flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur and then finally to Langkawi. Our hosts were gracious enough to set us up with some local sightseeing tours where we got to see some of the mangroves, eagle feeding and their fantastic beaches. We also were able to take cable cars up to the top of the highest peak on Langkawi for some amazing views. We also were able to eat with the King and Princess of Malaysia for a festive dinner.

Our tournament started off with a match against Xfox/Xtioneers the Malaysian representative that ended with a 3-2 victory for us. The next match was against Assassalas from Gabon Africa, and was also a 4-0 win for us. Our final match of the Prelims was against a strong STK from Australia who we also beat 4-0. On sunday we were up against Datis from Iran who had just won the Division one crown, we also beat them 4-0. The final match was against TonTon’s which we lost in a close fought battle 4-2. Congratulations o the Tontons for their first place victory in the ICC division.

The Ironmen would like to thank everyone for the nice event the put on at WCA and we look forward to coming back next year.

SK – Coach of the Ironmen

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