After a US reunion at Living Legends 6, the barrel cam footage from WAIAKILL & Mr. U’s Ecuador adventure at Navikill has finally been released!

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Pete “Mr. U” Utschig of the Tactical Ironmen reports from his latest tactical adventure in Ecuador -

“The last event of this year for the Tactical Ironmen had the guys split between Wayne’s World Game in Florida where the Ironmen were led by Mike Paxson and Billy Wing, and the event I went too in Guayaquil Ecuador. Although I heard amazing things about the Wayne’s World  Game I am really happy I made the trip to Ecuador.

The Tactical Event I played was called Navikill which in Spanish means the Christmas Kill, very fitting. The event was organized by Ecuador’s  top ranked tactical team Waiakill, and  the team puts on an amazing event . The game pitted three teams of 35 players each in a virtual tug of war. The field was 500 yards long with two rows of two-story cement houses full of alleys, windows and corridors.

It was a tactical paintball player’s dream come true, especially one armed with a DYE DAM. There were kills to be had around every corner. Two teams competed at a time while the third team judged. The team’s mission was to acquire a key from the other team’s safe zone and then unlock a chained up hostage located in a maze in the center of the field. Both teams had the same assignments, which meant the gunfights in the center of the field were intense.

Paint was raining from every window above and below, nowhere was safe. Games were 30 minutes long and re-generation was allowed in the first 15 , which meant the first 15 minutes were full blown slugfest and the last 15 a tactical a chess match. There was no leaving the field to reload or air up. This left me at a huge advantage with a couple of loaded first strike clips in my harness. I was eliminating players at will with my DAM while they were struggling, down to my last rounds.

During lunch, with the help of Luis from DYE Ecuador and Team Evolution, and Gazzu also from DYE Ecuador and Team Zurikatas, we organized a 2 vs. 2 Tactical DAM tournament and Sniper competition. All the players involved were blown away by the DAMs accuracy, versatility, and fire power. I hope that we are able to adopt this set up at some tactical events next year. It was some of the most fun paintball I have ever played. Make sure you check back for more POV video footage coming soon!”

photo cred: Brad Lo

Epic stories from the epic big-game, North v South UK, as told by the newest member of the Dye Tactical family William “The Prince” Clifford -

“On the weekend of May 4th and 5th, I headed over to DTE Swynnerton Military base to play in the North v South UK Big Game Festival. I have played in scenarios all over the UK, but have never made it to the UK’s largest game, I was anxious as what to expect.

Turning up at the event on Saturday afternoon when the event was in full swing was great, I have to say I was really impressed with how it was set up. All the big UK vendors you could think of were there. If you had left anything at home, you could easily pick it up.

I was introduced to all the guys from Nexus and got to meet one of my favorite players of all time: Pete ‘Mr U’ Utschig of the tactical Ironmen who had flown in from the states to be General for the Southern Army. After setting up my gear we headed down to the chronograph area and introduced a number of players to the features that the DAM had to offer, of which everyone was amazed with.

Later that afternoon we headed out into one of the more popular mini games; ‘UK versus the world’. There were easily 400 players out there on the field and running with Tactical Nexus and Mr U was an experience of a lifetime. It was great to be around a group of guys that play together on a regular basis. The communication was really good amongst us all, and we managed to push the opposing team back quickly. After playing this mini game I knew that the Sunday was going to be amazing.

It was an honour to represent DYE at such a huge event. The customer service that they offer is phenomenal; the DYE booth looked great, with all the Tactical gear on display and the techs were helping people set up their equipment until gone 8 o’clock on Saturday evening when all the other vendors had packed away.

The DYECAM really does work well on the field; I’ve found that it enables you to fit into multiple environments. It’s not like some camo that will only work well in specific environments; it fits in as an overall camo so it’s effective whatever the terrain. Running with a team of guys, who were all wearing it head to toe, really gave us that extra stealth advantage out there on the field. We not only looked the part, but we also played the part.

The Sunday was great; we managed to successfully take all of our objectives from pushing the North back to securing and holding an objective. It was only due to some unfortunate timing that we were unable to secure the compound for the final mission, as that would have won the event for the South.

Playing with a highly successful tournament team and one of the world’s most renowned scenario players, combined with the most effective camo and the deadly DAM’s really was an amazing combination. I think my personal highlight of the weekend was bunkering 10+ guys behind a building that we were trying to capture along with Shaun and Neil from London Nexus (one of the players on the receiving end was Greg Hastings), and I was lucky enough to catch it all on my camera!

I had the most fun that I’ve ever had out there on the paintball field with almost 2000 players attending, I will definitely be attending North versus South next year.

I would just like to thank DYE for giving me the opportunity to represent them and a huge thanks to all the guys at Nexus and Pete for being really welcoming.

If you’ve enjoyed the video, please feel free to check out my Facebook Page and stay tuned for all my adventures with DYE around the UK this season!”

We sent Pete “Mr. U” Utschig across the pond to attend the largest scenario paintball game in the UK – North v South.  He came back with a bag full of empty clips, a massive kill count, and a new respect for the British paintball scene.

North v South

Defense Training Estate – Birmingham, England

Sunday, May 5th 2013

By Pete “Mr. U” Utschig

“3 days, 2000 players and 7,000 miles later I’m home from another epic adventure. Last weekend I set out to meet with the DYE Europe crew and Team Tactical Nexus. I was invited to be one of the South’s Team Generals in Englands largest scenario game, “North vs South”.

The game centers around Sundays major event which pits players from Northern England against players from the South. The three day event is advertised as a paintball festival, and that’s exactly what it is. Players from all over Europe come to camp, shop, party, and of course play paintball. To start things off, we played a little CQB.  Check out this video of me changing my DAM to Recon Mode:

 

Friday players and vendors set up and were treated to 20 vrs 20 mini games. DYE Europe, myself and a couple of the Nexus players set up a DAM demo allowing all the mini game players to take the DAM out for a run. The feedback was the same as always… “This gun is insane” or “Best gun I have ever shot”.

Saturday the game format broke the competitors in two teams.  One team was made up of only English players,  the other was the rest if the world. I got to play alongside long time friend and Northern team guest general, Greg Hastings.  Lucky for Greg, he was on my team Saturday because on Sunday he felt the sting of my DAM. Unfortunately for Greg, it was all caught on my Replay camera that he gave me.

Sunday was the big battle, along side Team Tactical Nexus we brought the pain train, completing all but one of our missions. As the day fell to a close, we ultimately were short on points and the Northern Team led by Jed Green and Greg Hastings were victorious. It was another welt filled weekend but the games were intense, the people were amazing and the camera footage is epic. I wouldn’t have had it any other way!!! Bloody Knuckles, Ironmen Style.

See you guys at Living Legends with the rest of the Ironmen!!!”

-Mr. U

by Ash Chaplen

“Last season Nexus sucked. It’s not something I particularly enjoy admitting but it’s true. We had a young and fragile team, we didn’t win anything and we finished with our lowest ranking ever in the Millennium Series. There are plenty of things we can blame this on or use to justify this, some quite valid ones too, but at the end of the day London Nexus is about winning and as Captain it is my job to make that happen.

With only myself, George Bruton and Shaun Hasell returning for the 2013 season our off-season was busier than normal. We had to find a winning formula, and for us that was to ‘put the old band back together’. Having played with his friends on Consilium Dei, Neil Campbell was keen to get back to the business end of tournament paintball, and after succeeding in his personal mission to return Marseille Vision to the Pro division, Clint Moore couldn’t resist taking on another challenge – putting Nexus back on the podium. We have also picked up Mike Bath, a local ‘paintball kid’ who showed good promise over several practises last season and is continuing to develop within the squad.

Finally we had to add a spark, a proven talent with the engine and desire to drive us all on. After exploring a few ideas we contacted Ironmen captain Marcello Margott, he was really keen to get onboard and shortly after it was all signed and official. Now, in past years we have avoided taking non-UK based players as we have tried to focus on local talent. However the unfortunate truth is that there are not enough UK players who are consistently out there letting their ability do the talking at the deep end of tournaments right now. There are players out there who are earning their stripes in the divisional ranks though, and we know who they are and we monitor their progress more closely than you might think.

So, with our old-look team re-assembled we headed to the south of France for the first Millennium event of the season. I had a good feeling about the team, but with all the changes in the Pro division over the off-season it was more difficult than ever to predict how things would shake down come Sunday afternoon.

Marcello flew in a day early so he could join us for a Wednesday practise with Vision and TonTon, it gave us the chance to try some rotations with him and other players in different spots. By the end of the afternoon it felt like Marcello had played with the team for ages, our styles fitted well and the mutual understanding between players was getting better with every point. Taking a lot of positives from the day we headed to the event to get down to business.

We started our prelim games well. Welcoming Marseille Vision back to the pro ranks with a dominant 5-1 win, then following that up with an even more commanding 5-0 victory over Rammstein Instinct. Our final prelim game was against Outrage Valence, where again we took no prisoners and posted a solid 5-0 win. I’ve never seen another team look genuinely shell-shocked after a defeat before, but the Outrage guys admitted that they had no answer for our attacking play and were just blown away. Finishing up the prelims we were top of our group and had the highest points difference of all the CPL teams.

Sunday is a whole new tournament. It’s a total cliche but its true. You have to forget the other games and find that extra something, and then find even more if you make finals. We had drawn a tough game against Polar Bears Tarko Sale, a strong Russian team just promoted from the semi pro division but loaded with talent. We knew it would be a good test for us and one we would have to overcome if we wanted to progress. Polar Bears took an early 2-0 lead, punishing us for penalties and some lazy play. It was a wake up call, this wasn’t going to be an easy cruise to 5 points. We regrouped and dug a point back, then traded points back and forth until the score was 4-2 Polar Bears. A long 3on3 followed in the next point which we were able to grind out to win, then we took advantage of a penalty on Polar Bears to tie up the match at 4-4. Everyone had dug deep and we had put ourselves right back in this match. We had the momentum and started the next point solidly, only to get a penalty and lose our whole dorito side. Although there was little time left on the clock, Polar Bears put our remaining players to the sword and closed the game out.

We were out. Penalties will hurt you at any level in paintball but against a top level team they are almost impossible to recover from. Our dominance in the prelims counted for nothing, we’d be watching finals with everyone else.

I don’t think I’ve ever been congratulated so much after losing. Its quite surreal, I hate losing so much and unless you can stand on the podium and shove that trophy in the air and thank your sponsors it doesn’t feel like a good weekend. Yet people tell me “you guys played great, very strong, like the old Nexus” but obviously we have some kinks to iron out still. What I am really excited about is that the chemistry in the team is awesome, and we will only grow stronger on and off the field. So this is no flash in the pan, we are going to be right there in the mix all season.

Congratulations to our fellow DYE team, Toulouse TonTon, for taking first place on home turf. As they showed, the DM13s and CG paint are unparalleled in their fields.

For us we go back and work even harder in preparation for the next round of the Millennium Series, in Bitburg Germany. You’ll also be able to catch us at the next round of the CPPS in May, as well as the NvS UK Big Game where we will be playing along side Pete Mr U Utschig for the southern team.”

Ash Chaplen

London Nexus – Facebook.com/LondonNexus

Photo Cred: Mike DEEP

Sunday, April 21 2013

If you want to turn heads in the college paintball scene, take a lesson from the 2013 Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles.  Making their Class A debut, the boys from the Bay made it look easy, taking out the always stacked Cal State University Long Beach 49ers (the 2012 Champs) in the finals.

FGCU, rocking the full line of Dye Products, DM13 Markers, Dye Ultralite playing gear, and shooting a fresh batch of Dye CG Paintballs took down last year’s champs 12-4.  If you couldn’t see it live, or if you missed FGCU rolling teams all event long via the webcast on PaintballAccess.com, check out the TV broadcast coming in crystal clear HD via the CBS Network to over 6 million homes May 18th, 2013.

It’s safe to say the Dye CG Paint was on point this event, bringing both FGCU and Cal State to the finals, as well as the University of Wisconsin – Platteville Pioneers straight to the top of the CLass AA 5-man division!

Congrats to all of the teams that won using Dye CG Paintballs at the 2013 NCPA College Paintball National Championships.

For more information on college paintball, visit www.NCPAPaintball.com

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More pics from the event – www.MikeDeep.com

Results from the 2013 NCPA College Paintball Championships:

CLASS A:

1st Place – Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles

2nd Place – Cal State University Long Beach 49ers

CLASS AA:

1st Place – U. of Wisconsin Platteville Pioneers

SPECIAL THANKS 

*Akron University Zips

*Liberty University Flames

*Fresno State Roadrunners

*Embry Riddle Eagles

*Ohio University Bobcats