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1. There is only one word that can describe PaintClub last weekend: Epic.
2. The Tiny Blonde Goddess and I celebrated our 6^th Wedding Anniversary this week.
3. Also, stop asking me for pictures from ‘inside the tent’ (if you were there, you’d understand)…I won’t be distributing those, or even considering it until I’m driving a ‘vette and my AE has a Harley.
4. However, the pictures I’m allowed to distribute can be seen here: http://www.thefordreport.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=11
5. Chris Iaquinta took time from hanging out with fitness models to drop this bombshell: “SPLAT Magazine is helping bring Castle Conquest to the west coast for the first time!” Check out http://thefordreport.com/2009/05/19/jt-sports-and-splat-xd-bring-castle-conquest-to-the-west-coast/ to get all the info you need on playing Castle out west.
6. Pre-Registration for Living Legends II at CPX in Joliet, IL ended this week.
7. The rumors are true! Evan Money will be making his Pro Football debut in Georgia this July. Here is a 4min documentary about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ite1So2zw5I
8. Greg Hastings is on his way to Germany for a big game…and he’s concerned that it might be the last time: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4246809,00.html
9. European Minions will be at this game as well, taking pictures, and intimidating those who aren’t worthy. Http://www.eurobiggame.de
10. PBFreedom.Com has folded.
11. SC Village is going to be holding a first-ever night game at their field in Corona, CA this weekend called Operation: Mekong Delta. If you’re out that way and want to bust out the NVG’s, that’s the place to go!
12. “Them” have responded to “They” regarding the status of Paintball News: “Rene Boucher… is indeed alive and well. I spoke with him today. He and Juvy are pursuing their other endeavors in good health. After almost 21 years, they have indeed closed “Paintball News”, one of the longest lasting publications in the sport’s history. Their son has also closed his field in favor of another excellent opportunity.”
13. PSP presents the Chicago Open set to go off June 24th-28^th.
14. They also announce some good hotel deals for staying while you play in Chi-Town.
15. IGN’s Gear Guide chooses St!ff! As the barrel of choice. As they should…SITE Mfg. Has the always wonderful Naomi Tirado working for them!
16. TechPB has raised $1500 to send Danijel Jagodic (aka Borg from www.youtube.com/paintballborg) from Croatia to Chicago for the Living Legends Paintball Game. Since Borg can’t bring his Tippmann into the US, Tippmann is going to build him a custom X7 for him to use! TechPB raised this money in less than 36 hours. TechPB got everything the US Embassy in Croatia required for his travel visa to be approved in short notice. The croatian sensation will be here on Tuesday!
17. Resistance is Futile.
18. Weekend Warrior Sportz is offering free sample safety sign and free barrel
    condom just for asking to show their awesome products. Vinyl sign and
    cordura barrel condoms are almost indestructible! CPX, Dday, Pev’s love
    them! http://www.weekendwarriorsportz.com/store/index.php?cPath=175_176
19. The USPL will be having their West Coast event at SC Village July 24th-26^th, and their website should have the latest updates for you, including a Pump Division.
20. LAPCO’s Mark Weiss checks in to let me know that LAPCO has released their Posi-Feed Soft Paddles for the Tippmann A-5.
21. Speaking of Tippmans, the long-awaited TPX is now shipping. One of my dealer minions got a phone call today letting him know the good news.
22. Apparently Shawn Walker has something big going on, but he didn’t drop me a line. Maybe he’s mad at me. Again.
23. Damn-It Man!
24. Speaking of Angry, I’ve had to employ Enhanced Interrogation Techniques in questioning The Romanian Terminator (You know how tough it is to interrogate a Terminator?) in order to get some information regarding rollers and other things going on behind the scenes.
25. Josh Davey drops in with this: “I just finished the second installment of the “Roamin” series. This webisode takes the boys over to Malaga Spain for the first Millennium event of the season. It’s a video series that takes you behind the scenes of professional paintball. Webpage www.videoexperiment.net Youtube channel www.youtube.com/roaminvideo“
26. KEE Action Sports and Spyder sign a distribution agreement bringing Spyder markers to KEE to widen and strengthen the network for Spyders.
27. Chris Iaquinta drops by again with this one: “I got IGN.com (the site I staff write for), to post up a big paintball buyers guide (written by me) and it’ll be up as a main feature on the Gear channel for the rest of the week. It’s expected to get more reads than any single issue of any pball magazine. We are trying to get people to write positive comments on the article page because IGN is using this as a test to see if there’s a place for more paintball articles in the future. This is by far the largest website that has posted a full buyers guide like this.http://gear.ign.com/articles/983/983255p1.html
28. The SPO Versa Shell has been released, and I’ve laid my hands on one to review.
29. Janek, the big man behind Sterling Paintballs’ rapid expansion in Europe
    emailed me to say that he’s going to be available for meetings during the
    upcoming Bitburg Millennium European Masters event. To become a dealer and
    benefit from the awesome quality & price, contact him at
    janek@powerball.co.uk or call at +48607144786 or +44 020 323 90 230.
30. As part of the celebration of our wedding anniversary and in an effort to further recover from PaintClub last weekend, the Tiny Blonde Goddess and I are heading down to Miami after work tomorrow to spend Memorial Day Weekend at the Navarro Compound with John, Elsie and their guard puppies Doom and Karma.