Paintball Journal

PSP World Cup 2007 ended Sunday. It’s a great way to end the PSP season, and there is plenty to be said to wrap things up.

First of all, congrats to all the teams that placed this year. Here’s to showing them a little love…
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The day of reckoning is here! PSP World Cup, arguably the best event of the year, started today and will run through this Sunday. Drawing over 35,000 spectators and players, this is the largest and most important event to a blogger like me. Things like gun releases, next year’s clothes, and the largest paintball trade show in the world all happen annually at PSP World Cup.

But that’s not all!

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Bloggers get ahead by making connections. I’m now to the point where I’m a connection all by myself, which I think is a fairly big accomplishment. Anyway, you might be interested in reading an interview conducted by a fellow blogger of mine over at Paintball Guns.tv. I found it pretty interesting, and I even found some stuff out about Dana that I never knew before.

I’m even referred to as the Godfather. And it wasn’t even on accident.

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Coming up with revolutionary ideas for new styles of paintball is difficult. Mr. Raetz recently emailed me with an idea that would be interesting if implemented correctly. I just need your help picking out the good from the bad. That and I like knowing you’re out there.

The main idea is a sort of contract killer paintball themed game.

Here are his ideas summed up by me (Note that I think there is much discussion needed over the following):

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In a part of the season dominated by new guns, there isn’t a whole lot of focus on the guns of yesterday. That’s unfortunate, because very few guns are standing out to me this season compared to last. Indeed, many, if not most, of the guns released as 07 models can compete or outperform their 08 counterparts by standard upgrades alone.

The Marq is no exception. Although there will be no 08 Marq, there will be several other Bob Long Technologies guns released, including both the Protege and Vice. The Marq is its own style of gun, though, and so I’m happy to see that it’s not being forgotten entirely.

(Click on the picture for a larger image.)

The Marq Edge Body!

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In case you hadn’t noticed, the Ego8 was launched to relatively little fanfare about a week ago on the 11th at Millenium’s Paris event. I applaud Planet Eclipse’s decision to release their latest Ego in Europe rather than in the USA with every other gun at PSP World Cup in Florida. European pride! They are the last remaining decent company in the UK. Lucky is no longer decent and barely mentionable.

Mmph, so the important part! Ego8’s ship this Friday, the 19th, in the US. So get your Ego preordered now! Only $1250. *cough… cough*

Click on the picture for a better view.

Next up, we’ve got the good, the bad, and the ugly about the Ego8.

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If you carry pods on the field, which I’ll bet you do, you may be in danger of contracting a severely debilitating disease. Let me break it down for you.

Disease Profile -

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You knew it was coming. You just didn’t know that I’d only be showing you half of what you’ll end up getting.

After that titillating picture, I’ll be you want to know what the text says. Well that’s too bad…

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Everyone who paintballs knows that there is a ridiculous amount of information and stuff to do floating around the internet that is paintball related. I, as a blogger, have to be all over this stuff, so here’s what I’ve been up to recently.

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Coming this World Cup, to a paintball retailer near you.

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Are you fired up? Because I am.

Little bit of my life sneaking in here, I promise it’s relevant.

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All of the recent posts bring me to where I am today:

If you haven’t caught them, I encourage you to catch up and reminisce with me about your firsts…

1)Reflections: The Beginning
2)Reflections: A Gun and A Field
3)Reflections: A Transition

So, anyway, today I am…

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The change was inevitable, I suppose.

Competitive paintball is played in tournament style. The most aggressive styles of play, fastest games, and highest level of athleticism are all wrapped up in tournament paintball over rec-ball or woodsball. Don’t count out the glamor factor either. It wasn’t too long ago that I really didn’t know the difference between an DM and a Shocker, and thought I would never be able to own as good a gun as an Ion.

Things change. I changed.

We headed up on a cold February day for “try-outs” with a team. That day was one of the toughest days of paintball I’ve ever played. We got rocked, but had an entirely new view of the world of paintball and what it would take to get better.

The realization that our guns were holding us back took root. It was true in our minds, without a doubt, that firepower was most definitely a part of paintball. Suddenly, my Ariakon Overlord Pistol and JT Excellerator seemed rather ill-equipped to deal with my changing needs…

Uh… no matter how much I liked them at the time.

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