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1. The NPPL Season-ending event happened last weekend in Vegas, and Dynasty won the Pro Division, while Oakland Blast won the series title.

2. Tippmann throws their hat in the electropneumatic ring with the X7 Phenom. For the Mil-Sim/Woodsball player looking for realism and firepower, here’s your answer. http://thefordreport.com/?p=824

3. I have minions enroute to ‘have a little talk’ with Tippmann’s Ron Goldblatt about sending along a Phenom for review in Shooting Hot Magazine…

4. LA Hitmen win the pump division NPPL/USPL Vegas 5 man with only 4 players! 3

   starters and one alternate is all it took. Also won the series title. The

   trophy was huge and heavy. You can visit the LA Hitmen Facebook Fan Page at

   http://www.facebook.com/pages/LA-HITMEN/224772570261?ref=search&sid=502383696.3925203881..1

5. PBCulture releases its PSP World Cup Photos by Jeff Stince http://pbculture.net/gallery/worldcup2009/worldcup09/

6. Bullethead over at Excalibur Paintball will be holding a charity event at the field to benefit Sheila Bell, a businessperson who is currently in a local hospital in critical condition after being victimized in a violent crime. Get the particluars here: http://excaliburpaintball.com

7. Brian Barno at ProCaps Direct drops in with this one: “Procaps Direct would like to welcome Justin Murray to the sales force. Justin comes from and extensive background in sales and will be a great addition to our team.”

8. While everyone else was partying in Vegas over the weekend, The Tiny Blonde Goddess and I were partying with Kristie and Andy Graham of NOCER Productions and enjoying the weather. This year the Vampires won, although it was a fight to the very end. Congrats to Mike Tolnay and Mike Castleman for putting on a beast of a fight! I shot 4 cases of paint myself, which is the most I’ve ever shot at a NOCER game. I suspect that my new Avalanche Ego 9 had something to do with it…

9. Pictures from Bloodlines: The New World can be seen at http://www.thefordreport.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=16 Please note that I have more pictures on the way, since I had a total of 4 photographers shooting this weekend…

10. This weekend the party continues at Low Country Paintball, for my AE Joe “Sideshow” Holleran’s foray into game writing with “Prison Escape”, inspired by the popular TV series that Joe’s managed to get me addicted to watching. http://www.lcpscenariogames.com/prison_escape.htm to get signed up to fight for or against the Convict Code this weekend!

11. Spec Ops has been sold to MOATI of Extreme Soft Goods. Go here for the full story: http://forum.specialopspaintball.com/index.php?showtopic=177269

12. Amador Corona of the Sacramento Suicide Guys won the drawing for a set of Hater Microfibers.

13. SirRod wants ALL of you to just calm down: http://thefordreport.com/?p=822

14. Daryl Trent’s daughter Peyton needs heart surgery. To donate to help defray costs, check this out: http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=3232971

15. Bluesville Express, formerly Blues Train Deluxe had a CD Release party on the 19^th. Craig Miller is a member of this group, and if you want him to sing for you, check out http://www.bluesvilleexpress.com/

16. For those of you heading up to LCP early for this year’s Free Finale, Executive Chef Bill Bain will be making dinner! http://www.pbjunkie.com/forums/2009-free-finale-216/friday-night-dinner-30077.html

17. Next week on Paintball LIVE (www.PbLive.tv): LIVE Tippmann X-7 Phenom tear down, review & audience Q&A with the Tri State Special Ops Command. AND Live video interview with Brian “MOATI” Russell about the end of SpecOps and the beginning of his own business, Extreme StitchWorks.

18. The NPPL is going to be taking a look at their gun rules for 2010. Chuck Hendsch put out the following statement: “I spoke to many team captains and players over the weekend about the severity of Rule 23.07. The penalty fits and needs to be strict for players that have intentionally put cheating modes in their markers. The penalty is too harsh on players and teams that have a mechanical trigger failure or slight trigger bounce base on trigger adjustment. Although we can not reverse the rule that was applied in the 2009 Las Vegas event, we can make changes going forward. This is not the first time we have made adjustments to our rules after an event and I am confident the rules committee along with Dan Perez will come up with a good solution for the 2010 season.” The rules committee is also going to examine and modify the rules regarding overshooting and markers being thrown.”

19. Here locally in Florida, the next SPCS is November 15^th. http://www.thespcs.com/

20. Andee from BuyPBL sent this along: “Just wanted to let you know that there are currently 2 videos of Richmond Italia talking about GI and about their .50 cal products. There will be more videos coming! The videos can be seen at http://buypbl-paintball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128 “

21. In 2010, the TSSOC will be holding a scenario game, Fallout: Wasteland. http://www.tristatespecops.com/ for more info.

22. The South Beach Pimps won Most Valuable Team award at NOCER’s “Bloodlines: The New World” this past weekend.

23. Chris Iaquinta chimes in: “SPLATXD Issue #17 is online and available to you for free!! Our 2009 “Photo Issue” is packed with over 140 pages of amazing tournament, scenario and portrait paintball images and is the perfect way to satisfy your pball photo itch.” http://www.splatxd.com to check it out.

24. If you follow Shooting Hot Magazine on Facebook, you’re aware that this past weekend an incident occurred during the dinner battle where an attractive female player dove into a bunker occupied by me and a couple of other players, and in the process nearly lost her pants, requiring some effort on her part to get them back to where they needed to be on her body. I’ve been asked by a lot of people to give details, but all I’ll say on the matter is that her honor and dignity weren’t at risk, nor was my honor as a married man. What happens at Old River STAYS at Old River!