Speedball on airball fields-paintball state-of-the-art competition! Photo by Skirmish.com
Thousands of teams stepped up to tournaments this year. Your team is welcome to compete-check with local fields and stores to find tournaments near you.
CCPL, Captain Carl's Paintball League, set its 2006 schedule in April, with events in May, July, August, October, and November. The formats include 3player Young Guns and Rookie division, and 5player Young Guns, Rookie, and Open divisions. New this season is artificial turf, CCPL custom I.D. cards, and more. RASPN will film all events. Captain Carls, store@captncarls.com, www.captn carls.com
NPL. Norway's largest, the Norwegian Paintball League (NPL), opened April 29-30, 2006. Reporter Johnny Bakke of Flekkefjord, Norway, invites all players to visit the NPL site, www.npl.no.
VPL. Vengeance Paintball Distributors' South Eastern NPPL Feeder Circuit series is hosted with XO Industries and its network associates Ground Zero Paintball, Paintball Depot, Vengeance Tampa, Sobe Paintball, Guerrilla Air, Pro Paintball Supply, and the NPPL. Series manager is Steve Davidson, an NPPL founder and former NPPL league secretary. In a press release, Davidson stated, "In 1992, I contacted the game's greatest professional teams and together we created the world's first professional paintball league. From 1992 until 1996 I and many others worked with and for NPPL, trying to build and foster a competition league that would be for the teams and the players. Now that NPPL is once again a player's league under the leadership of Chuck Hendsch, its general manager Shawn Walker and the Pure Promotions crowd, I am very excited and pleased to once again be working with and for such a great organization." The VPL is BYOP, divisional play. For more information call 386.437.7220 or visit www.vengeancepaint balldistributors.com/vpl.
AMBUSH Alpha Squad has announced the team sponsors for 2006: Ambush Alpha, Allen Paintball Products, BT Paintball, CAGG (Combat Action Gaming Group), COPS 911, EMR Paintball Park, Evil, Fire Fox Technologies, Hoffman Paintball, HOO-AHHS Field Towels, Hype Energy Drink, Identity Factory, Major Paintball, MSS Imagewear, Q-Loader, and Ricochet, plus Pyro Paintball, Lehigh Valley Paintball Field, and Celldweller. For more info, check out www.teamambush.net.
NOCER Productions is sponsoring two teams, Anger Management and Ghost Core, that have demonstrated their honesty, sportsmanship, and deep love for the sport of scenario paintball. Ghost Core, www.ghostcore.com; Anger Management, www.angermanagementpb.com. of-the-art competition! Photo by Skirmish.com BOXES
Avalanche 2006 Avalanche has reached into Chicago Farside to pull players onto the Avalanche pro roster. Brandon Mayo, captain, leads a talented team: returning is Jason Barrett, joined by former Farside players Kyle Pickrone, Erik Westerberg, Ben Chewning, Tommy O'Donnell, and Andy Horvack, and by Brock Jolliff, formerly with Diesel and the Brass Eagle All Stars. Team owner is Ed Poorman; coaches are Greg Pauley (formerly with Diesel) and Chris Hass (former Chicago Farside captain).
Avalanche will shoot Planet Eclipse-Warped Sportz' Dark Ego markers, and will wear NXe (harnesses) and V-Force (goggles) as they use Crossfire (air systems), Lucky 15 (barrels), Hater Paintball (Halo boards and Ego circuit boards), and Function (hard parts). Action Village continues sponsoring the team, and Avalanche apparel is available at actionvillage.com and paintball gear.com. Avalanche info: www.warped sportz.com
Luxfer Cylinder Alert! PMI (Pursuit Marketing Inc.) has been informed by Luxfer Gas Cylinders (Luxfer) that a small number of their composite cylinders that PMI uses in some of the Pure Energy Air Systems may not have been fully tested by Luxfer's certified third-party inspector. The Luxfer cylinders in question would have been sold by PMI or others from June through September 2005. Not all Pure Energy Air Systems utilize the Luxfer cylinder. For more information, or clarification of this notice, contact Michael Lukas at PMI, 800.334.0502, ex. 547, mlukas@pminet work.com.
Luxfer's announcement of 2/21/06 states that a small group of Luxfer composite cylinders must be recovered and tested. To determine whether a cylinder needs to be tested, compare the serial numbers of Luxfer cylinders that have hydrostatic test dates from May through September 2005 with serial numbers listed on the Luxfer Web site at www.luxfercylinders.com/ctest. Once you
