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1. The magazine itself has been gone for awhile, but now it’s official: Paintball Sports has filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. http://thefordreport.com/2010/07/paintball-sports-files-for-bankruptcy/ for the details and links to the documents associated with the case thus far.
2. Barno staggered into my office and laid this tidbit on me: “PCD has hired BW Dunn for sales and customer service support in the North West. “I am excited to have BW back on the Procaps team. He is a great asset to us.” State Brian Barno, General Manager of Procaps Direct. BW has been in the paintball industry for over 11 years. “It is really great to be back at Procaps Direct! I look forward to seeing all my friends up here and once again providing the best customer service possible. I am all about making our valued customers more money in the future! “States BW. For more information about Procaps and their ECOFILL™ line of environmentally friendly paintballs you can visit them online at www.dxspaintball.com or contact their customer service center at 877-722-5590 “
3. The NPPL has discounts available for teams and individuals playing in the DC Challenge. http://wstsports.com/tournaments_details.php?event_id=2060 to book your team, and there’s another link for an individuals.
4. While they were at it, the homies over at the NPPL released the field layouts for the DC Challenge.
5. Some colleagues of mine in the paintball media and I are a little on edge because it’s too quiet out there…
6. Here in the Tampa Bay area, two police officers were gunned down by a career criminal last week. It turns out one of the Corporals was an avid paintball player: http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_tampa/tpd-officer-jeffrey-kocab
7. Blue, Duece and Andy Potter kicked my door in (again!) to pass this along: “BLUE and BLUE’S CREW will be heading to PAINTBALL SPORTS, NY this weekend for BARNEY’S 26 Hour Scenario Game so come run and gun with us. DEUCE and POTTER will be heading to LOW COUNTRY in Georgia for the REDNECK LUAU. Too many events, too little time, so we are splitting forces on occasion. Hope everybody had a great 4th and see you soon.”
8. Tim from Shoreline Paintball is flabbergasted: “Just sold 142 tickets in 31 minutes for a little event I’m putting on. Volume of traffic crashed the main uk forum and also my online shop. Possibly a record – game sells out in half an hour? http://www.ukscenario.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15316 “
9. The RPL has announced their host hotel for their Reno event, the Grand Sierra Resort. Get all the info over at http://www.therpl.com
10. E-Money has a killer deal going on “501 Tips, Tricks, and Tactics” by Dave “Landshark” Norman. Check it out at http://501paintballtips.com/special.html
11. Special Ops Forum will be going offline in the next 7 days at some point to do a major overhaul and update.
12. Speaking of websites, Sanchez Machine has finally gotten a website: http://www.sanchezmachineshop.webs.com/
13. For those of you living in the DC Metro area, Pev’s is having a killer deal to practice the NPPL DC Challenge layout for $20.
14. Nordic Beast Shawn “Soulcar” Collins from the Midwest IYAOYAS crew passed this on: “The Midwest IYAOYAS will once again be going back to one of their favorite fields, Fort Knox Paintball (in Winamac, In.), this weekend for a one day game called Spaceballz (yes after and inspired by the Mel Brooks movie). We are looking forward to playing along side of friends (team Brutal Anguish) and against more friends (Team WOW). Let the stand-up balling begin.”
15. NPPL Affiliate League Bonus Balls Series is this weekend at Warped Paintball Park in Castaic, California.
16. If that doesn’t trip your trigger, head over to Giant Paintball Park’s Bellflower location to play in the next installment of “Mission Impossible” series of games. http://www.giantpaintball.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=215:mission-impossible-event-2&catid=54:bellflower-specials&Itemid=231 to get signed up and get your discount coupons.
17. The TSSOC has brought on some new members, and they’re in the midst of their 2010 season. Check ‘em out at http://www.tristatespecops.com/
18. I’ll be up at LCP this weekend for the Redneck Luau. I heard that it was basically a ‘lite’ version of the infamous PC21 event, but who knows…those guys are as messed up as I am…and it’ll give me an exuse to break in my new (to me) car. http://www.lcpscenariogames.com to get signed up!
19. My friend Kurt is back at Moffitt Cancer Center after having suffered a setback, due to infection. Prayers and Thoughts are most appreciated.