January 29th, 2009 | The Ford Report

January 29th, 2009

February 2nd, 2009 at 8:27 pm -

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There was a rumor floating around on www.propaintball.com that said that the USPL was going to be surcharging each case of paint a team used…according to Mrs. Lemanski of the USPL, it’s false. Frank Da Tank commented in there as well. Personally, I think Frank needs to reconsider his nickname…”light fighting vehicle” is more appropriate for him these days…
The RPL on the other hand, is giving paint away to qualified teams. Www.therpl.com
Staying on the tourney thing, the PSP is offering hotel deals for teams attending that event. Check it out at www.pspevents.com
John Amodea of PaintballX3.com has released the 5^th and final installment of his “What have we done to our game” series on his blog. Check it out at http://john-amodea.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-have-we-done-to-our-game-part-five.html
Paintballbids.com is for sale…Raul is a firefighter now, and doesn’t have the time anymore. Email him at admin@paintballbids.com to make an offer.
GAP is closing down. I guess they’re waiting for a Bailout from Obama. http://www.paintballx3.com/general/great-american-paintballs-shutting-down.html
What the hell is Billy-Ball? http://www.paintballx3.com/general/billy-ball-its-coming.html
I interviewed fellow media type Lawrence “TB” Wright. Check it out at http://thefordreport.com/2009/01/29/lawrence-tb-wright-interviewed/
While you’re at my site, check out the picture for the January 22^nd Ford Report…that’s Ben “Snake-Eyes” Rushing of team IYAOYAS. It was rough sharing a staging area with him…women were just flocking to him and distracting me while loading pods. Some guys…
Smart Parts is offering a 10BPS flash upgrade for their shocker & LUXE boards for the PSP season. Currently, the minimum rate of fire on a stock shocker is 12.19 (dwell @ 12ms, recharge @ 70ms), and for the LUXE it’s 11bps
Paintballphotography has uploaded photos from two recent events:

Road Warriors Viper Scenario- Giant Paintball, Alpine, California, USA

Photography by Gary Baum

Malaysian Official Paintball Circuit 1st leg – Xtion Paintball Park,

Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Photos by Desmond Foo

Paintballphotography.com is the oldest and largest source of paintball photography on the web. With more that then 30 photographers world wide they are also the only site to cover almost every major paintball event in the world. Paintballphotography.com is supported solely by banner advertisements and magazine submissions and as a result of this are able to offer their photos downloads for free for private noncommercial use.
Turns out that a South Beach Pimp associate runs a private investigation/personal security business. Mr. Yepes runs www.amazonsprotectiveservices.com/ where you can hire an Amazon to keep you safe in today’s dangerous world. I wonder if he’d hook a brother up with a discount…
AXBL will never rest…they have secured Dicks Sporting Goods as a sponsor for the 2009 season. www.dickssportinggoods.com for all your sports needs!!!
A new field near Cocoa, FL is up and running and putting on a scenario game in April. Get the info here: http://www.myspace.com/paintball_farm
Camp Miles Paintball near Punta Gorda, FL has gone to unlimited BYOP paint all weekend for new Camp Miles Games including five way teams, now this is really cool to play.
Todd’s agent is still working overtime booking appearances for him after Camp Miles’ appearance on “Wreckreation Nation”.
The USPL has fleshed out their 2009 Schedule a bit: http://thefordreport.com/2009/01/28/us-paintball-league%E2%80%99s-2009-schedule/
Southern California’s #1 Regional Paintball Tournament Series is back and better than ever! The famous Bears Cup has returned for its 7^th season, bringing more great tournament and prizes for So. Cals premiere upcoming paintballers.
I ran that because Iaquinta said he’d beat me up Frank Connell style if I didn’t…
In honor of the Superbowl being this weekend, Amodea and Co. are running a contest. Sign up for PaintballX3.Com’s contest and win yourself a free subscription! http://www.paintballx3.com/nfl-superbowl-predictions/
There’s a new paintball video community, called Social Paintball. Think Youtube for paintball. This way you can find the cool paintball stuff you’re looking for without having to wade through the really bad WoW videos on YouTube… http://socialpaintball.com/
Scenario Team Doom Troopers have made some promotions within their organization, with Brandon Tippett was promoted to Lieutenant, Sue Grindle was promoted to Corporal,”Georgia” Joe Hamilton was promoted to Sergeant, and Toga was promoted to Sergeant at Arms (equipment and comms manager).
Team Desert Edge has some news too, but they’ve sworn me to secrecy until the 1^st.
Blue from EMR says: “The Defender’s Guaranteed Slots are Full for EMR’s CASTLE CONQUEST being held on April 25th. Anyone that wants a chance to defend should get their pre-regs in right away to get on the waiting list. For every 50 players that attend over 750 players, another 10 defenders will be added to the defense to keep the ratio of 4 attackers to every defender. EMR has had over 1200 players at each of the last four spring CASTLE CONQUESTS so there is still room. Check the details out at www.EMRPAINTBALL.com to play PURE PAINTBALL INSANITY.”
http://www.paintballpoles.com/ has hit the scene making these really neat pole systems for putting up or taking down your field’s netting stupid fast. They’re also doing target systems.
AXBL and CXBL will start the daily release of their official league jerseys on their site www.xball.com starting Monday February 2nd!!
Local Series the DXS 3 man series is now awarding prizes to 4^th place.
Money Paintball is now doing custom jerseys! Check ‘em out at www.moneypaintball.org
www.sbpgear.com ‘s John Navarro is a bad, bad man. He sent me a picture of the latest from Planet Eclipse…the White/Cyan Ego 9 and the Black/Gold Etek 2. My toes are still curled from seeing the White/Cyan Ego 9…
Hey Uncle Ray…wink wink nudge nudge say no more say no more….
The PSP has made the announcement that only manufacturers or companies they designate to represent them can set up at the event trade show. Www.pspevents.com for the full info.
How about that new look at www.pbjunkie.com ?
Speaking of sites, did you know that advertising on TheFordReport.Com includes a banner on the site itself and in the official Ford Report emails that go out? Maximize your bang-for-the-buck and drop me a line at dale@thefordreport.com !
CASH IS BACK!!! The Riot Tournament Series will be bringing back cash prizes for the 2009 season. First place Intermediate will receive 1,800$; first place Rookie will receive 1,200$; Pump will receive 800$ + 5 cases of paint; and Beginner will receive 5 ION XEs. With low entry fees, cash/gun prizes, and the promise of a great time for all there’s no reason West Coast teams shouldn’t attend. To register head on over to www.RiotSeries.com and any questions can be sent directly to RiotSeries@gmail.com .
I spent the day up at Old River Paintball this past Saturday, and had a great time corrupting members of Team IYAOYAS. Gwaltinator in particular is camouflaged evil now. Check out the pics I took after I ran out of paint here: http://www.thefordreport.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4

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