by Jeremy Klynsmith

“This past weekend saw the 1st event of the mepaintball.com 3 Man series sponsored by Dye and hosted by Sharjah Paintball Park.

Paintball in the UAE has struggled in recent years, largely due to a lack of support from the local fields to organize events. The guys

at mepaintball.com decided to take matters into their own hands and organize a 3 man series this year that is for the players and run

by the players. The idea is to run simple and well organized events to give the UAE teams something to play for, Dye decided to get

behind this great initiative and have helped sponsor the series.

There was a real buzz around the field, all the players were pumped for the event and games started to run smoothly and on time,

Ali Omran from mepaintball.com did an awesome job of organizing everything and keeping the games rolling. We saw some really good

games throughout the day, the Dye CG paint shot perfectly and it seemed like everyone had a great day of paintball.

Well done to Ali and his crew for running a great event, I know that all of the UAE players appreciated it and are looking forward to the next one.

1st Place: Closure

2nd Place: Expats

3rd Place: Cold Paint

PALS Thailand 2013… by Daniel Thong

“Our first PALS Thailand 2013, was an amazing experience, remembered it as fun, nerve-racking and an adrenaline pumping voyage. We appreciated each other’s efforts for making the trip a successful one.

Bangkok on the first day was like a bunch of walking zombies taking the earliest Air Asia flight out and it was our excitement that overrides our heavy-eyes and this magnified in greater altitude when the plane touched the soil of Thailand. We quickly hopped on a taxi and head on the Palazzo Hotel.

The next morning, all paint ballers were arranged with busses to the PALS battle ground and the journey was only 8 to 10mins, depending on the traffic. We were quite impressed with the fields set up as they were huge, spacious and well organized.

The pre-lims were a marathon race for us. We were all exhausted under the scorching sun but managed to ranked 7^th place, pushing our way into the Top 12.

Moving from Top 12 securing 2 winnings and lost 1 during round robin enabled us to Top 8 battling against team Japan (Nippon United) winning score of 2-0 stepping nearer to our goal. In the semi-finals, we played against team Australia (Rogue Assassins) and it was a close fight with the last man standing, winning critical points of 1-0 entering the final.

The final was scheduled pretty much later on the same day and the weather was unpredictable. It was sunny and hot in the morning then cloudy in the afternoon and much later, pouring rain. Still, the game moved on and we had Team Iran (Griffin) battling for the champion. There’s only one word to describe the final, “WOW!”

The moment we had been waiting for finally came through. We took a deep breath counting the last 10 seconds with our eyes fixed on our next intended position; our fingers on the trigger, ready to shoot; our tired legs gripped firmly on ground, ready to pound and run; our body, soul and mind were fixated all at once in this few minutes against Team Iran. Suddenly, marshals’ shouted game on and there we were, shooting our opponents with all our might.

Unfortunately, favor for the champion was not on our side but to Team Iran instead. In the end we were the 1^st runner up. Despite the lost for the champion title, we had a good quality game and gained priceless experience. We felt great that we had gone this far in this first PALS and felt joy knowing that we had great supporters who helped us through the finals.

The day ended with heavy rain in the arena as if the sky knew we needed a bath desperately. Last bus arrived just in time to fetch us back to the hotel as we had another event to attend that evening – The player’s night…..

Yup, celebration was on, at the SLIM in RCA, one of the best chill’ax places in Bangkok. It could not be more appropriate to celebrate PALS in SLIM, together with players all over the globe. We had fun enjoying ourselves with the live band and the F&B there.

Time was clicking away nearly entering Monday and we had MC on stage preparing for the price giving. Claps and cheers lasted almost 30mins for winning teams to the podium and we heard Team Duckside being called next… we sincerely thank to DYE Paintball for their high quality equipments, 89 Arena paintball and KCHL Paintball.

So for PALS Thailand 2013 the final result as such:

1st- Griffin (Iran)
2nd- Duckside (Malaysia)
3rd- Rogue Assasins (Australia)
4th- Blueblood (Thailand)”

March 30-31, 2013

West Coast Paintball Players League (WCPPL) Event #1, hosted by Camp Pendleton Paintball Park, was a major success on all fronts. Mike Hinman is perfecting the art of hosting a local paintball tournament, and with over 40 teams coming in from all over the West Coast, it’s safe to say all the teams that came out got exactly what they were hoping for.

Dye would like to congratulate ALL of the teams that won stacks of cash at the event using Dye CG Paintballs!

OPEN CLASS

-1st Place: Fast Five

-2nd Place: LA Collision

D3 X-Ball

-1st Place: Fuzion 707

-2nd Place: IE Unseen

-3rd Place: SoCal Grind

D4 X-Ball

-2nd Place: Gnarkill

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Taiwan hosted the recent 2013 National Paintball Tournament, and Dye’s Team KU from Japan made the podium.

“After one year of not playing an event with the team, it was a great feeling to get back onto the field with everyone. Our first event was in Taitung Taiwan. We were considered to be the favorites to win the tournament along side defending champions Team Storm from Taiwan.

Equipped with dye gear head to toe and shooting the new DM13s and Dye CG Paintballs, we finished the prelims in first place heading to the final round with confidence. Unfortunately we could not take that form into the final rounds and ended up 2nd overall behind Storm who defended their crown. Shortage on players and injury might have been a big factor, but no excuses, Team Storm were the stronger team and deserved to win.

We would like to thank team SplatZ from Malaysia for helping us in the pits and coaching us. Steven and Weili from Dye. All the participating teams for their generosity and sportsmanship, and of course the marshals! And last but not least our sponsors Dye Paintball for the continuous support.”

-Takeshi Tamura – Team KU

The Malaysia National Paintball League has officially begun, and DYE starts off on top with a 1st place victory by Team Duckside!

MY-NPL 2013 Event #1 at Paintball Academy (MAPAAC), Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Team DuckSide, headed by Team Captain Eric Tai #717, Team Manager Daniel Thong #11, Loo CheeChen #90, Danny Chiar #9, Yeong Sai Foong (Dunhill) #4, Derric Tan #72 and guest player Tim Ng and Andy Ong, started off this season with a big WIN at MY-NPL Event #1.

Team DuckSide started the event off with a good round of Prelims, made it into the Quarter Finals, and squeaked into the finals by beating Team Shooting Range 1-0.

FINALS: Team DuckSide meets previous MY-NPL 2012 1st Runner-up, Team Feva Division in the finals, but comes out victorious with a 3-0 win!

4th Place : UNKNOWN (Selangor)

Team DuckSide exclusively use Dye CG Paintballs in the MY-NPL.   Check them out on Facebook HERE