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1. Well, it seems that the star of the show (at least in player’s eyes) of Paintball Extravaganza was Tiberius Arms’ new finned paintball. Joe Holleran and I shot a few of them this past week, and our reaction was very similar to Mike Phillips from TechPB and Gavin, except that we were giggling A LOT more than they did: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rsVXFL48Sk
2. “Oh dear….that was NASTY!”
3. Registration officially opens for NOCER Productions’ latest installment of their “Holy Grail” series of games: http://thefordreport.com/2009/02/09/registration-for-nocer-productions-holy-grail-open
4. South Beach Pimp Jay Murray has embarked on a draconian workout regimen to get himself in shape for Harry Pottier at LCP in early March, and later for Holy Grail. I’m told that he’s not only exercising regularly, but he’s drinking his Cabo Wabo straight, because the empty calories in the mixer will slow him down. God help the opposition…
5. Doug Flood from Severe dropped in: “Severe Paintball will continue its wildly popular stimulus pricing program as introduced at the recent Paintball Extravaganza show in Atlanta. All orders written before the end of February and shipped before the end of March will qualify for a $5/case discount off our already low skid pricing. Some restrictions may apply. More information contact sales@severepaintball.com or phone 954-233-1680″
6. I have it on good authority that my Ego 9 is on the way. I suspect that Uncle Ray will hear the evil cackle all the way up in NH…
7. KEE Action Sports will be rolling out the Prophecy at PSP Phoenix.
8. Rod “SirRod” Selner becomes the first contributing writer for TFR, but submitting this article: http://thefordreport.com/2009/02/10/paintball-with-charlie-belcher/ Thanks SirRod!
9. Registration is open for those of you who are ‘in’ for PaintClub in May. Registration is already nearly 75% full, so if you’re in and you haven’t signed up yet, you may want to get on the stick.
10. PSP teams signs on with Gary Baum’s PaintballPhotography.Com as their media advisor.
11. PaintballX3 works out strategic partnerships with TechPB, One4One, and Social Paintball for video content. http://www.paintballx3.com/general/paintball-x3s-strategic-video-partnerships.html
12. Expensive places I’ll never go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QXzdtAa-g&feature=channel_page
13. European homies Inspire Paintball now have their DREG Regulators and Olive Series bottles: http://www.inspirepaintball.com/bottleflyer.htm
14. Camille and Co. have some interesting things going on for their Pro/Am: http://thefordreport.com/2009/02/07/us-paintball-league-proam/ I wonder how much it’d cost to rent Frank Connell for a weekend…
15. Bea Youngs told me last year that her and husband Mike were trying to get pregnant, and for some odd reason The Tiny Blonde Goddess rubbed Bea’s belly, and now Bea is 4 months pregnant!
16. No Mike, I didn’t rub anything on Bea. That’s all you boss!
17. The GPL opens registration for their 2009 season: http://www.thegpl.com/ Go and sign up now or Brian and Cyndi will beat me up Frank Connell style.
18. Speaking of Frank, sorry about the heartburn, sir.
19. Paintball X3′s “Best $10 You Ever Spent Deal” is working. They signed up 57 fields and stores in the first 37 days of the magazine’s existence. Check it out: http://www.paintballx3.com/our-advertisers/advertise.html
20. Larry Cossio dropped in: “Rick Fairbanks and NSERA pull out of Paintball Extravaganza as no show. CIA was there supporting the over 250 field and store owners with the best paintball programs available saving fields hundreds of dollars in this tight economy. www.paintballinsurance.com “
21. The NE Hurricanes and Edmonton Impact join NXE for the 2009 season. I think Stein ought to send me a resulting ‘team’ pack since I’m one of his biggest fanboys…
22. NXE is also going international, working with Max’s in Germany to help set up independent distributors in Europe.
23. Pictures from the Southern California Paintball League (SCPL) first event, which took place at Hollywood Sports Park in Bellflower, California, have been posted on www.paintballphotography.com
24. Paintballbids.com Under New Ownership-Sign-up Fee Waived, Lower Listing Fees…get it while it’s hot!
25. Marco Tran dropped in: “Teams looking to save a little cash, but still have a great time should get registered for the upcoming Riot Series event by Sunday February 15th. After Sunday registration fees will be going up, but it’s still not too late to get signed up. Registration will close on Thursday, the 19th of February. Catering to California 7-man and 5-man Pump / Beginner teams for 5 years, this first Riot event isn’t to be missed!!! Visit www.RiotSeries.com for more info.”
26. For the Canadians among us, the BCPPL and MR Paintball Events have released their 2009 schedule. Check out either http://www.mrpaintballevents.com/ or http://www.bcppl.com/ to get spooled up for paintball up North!
27. The PSP is offering up some last minute hotel deals for PSP Phoenix. Http://www.pspevents.com to get your stay on.
28. E-Money is running a killer deal on Turf…limited supplies! Click the E-Money banner to get hooked up.
29. KEE Action Sports gets all casual for 2009.
30. Joseph “Sideshow” Holleran becomes official Planet Eclipse Tech of The Ford Report. Press Release coming soon…
31. Hopefully Frank won’t beat me up too hard for using the picture of him with two phones for the latest story image on my site…I do appreciate the reason why he had two phones crammed in his ears, though.
32. Bill “Firebug” Meister, the French Commander for this year’s Holy Grail game, dropped me this line: “Let everybody know that I am going to put Georgia into retirement with a loss at Grail (I hope) Thanks for all that you do for us and the crazy game that we play.  I thank you very much Dale.
33. The Tiny Blonde Goddess and I have moved into our new compound in Largo, FL. Phatty The Cat is still getting used to the extra space, and I’m trying to figure out creative ways to decorate my office… this weekend is Valentine’s Day, and as such I’ve been instructed by herself that I will NOT be available. TBG has decreed that those who do call or otherwise interfere with ‘us’ time this weekend will have to contend with her and Mr. Kalashnikov.