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• Here in South Georgia today, strong storms came through. Here in the Valdosta area it was just rain, but there was a near hit at Low Country Paintball on the east coast of Georgia by a tornado. There’s extensive damage and flooding. Fortunately everyone there is fine, and cleanup will start immediately.
• The Aussies are now part of The Machine… http://www.paintballshop.com/ is handling things as a Master Dealer Down Under!
• I need to get my passport renewed so I can go do a demo in Australia…
• Kingman was in an “Epic Paintball Battle”: http://youtu.be/d_z2CA-o13U
• SoBe Paintball’s John Navarro reports that he has ETEK 4′s in stock now. Http://www.sobepaintball.com
• Over on Markerbids.com, Mike auctioned off a ’92 vintage Autococker loaded up with CCM parts. ’92 was a very good year…
• Early registration for the D-League’s #3 event ended earlier this week. Oops.
• The RPL has released the field layout for their next event.
• Love us or hate us, make sure to ‘like’ us: https://www.facebook.com/#!/SoBePimps
• E-Money has a mint condition HPA compressor that he’s looking to sell…only has 30 hours on it! Hit his banner above to get in touch with the goodness that is E-Money!
• Up in Tennessee, the MiLP is having an event…
• I was contacted by representatives for Paintball-Great this week about various things… WWW.PAINTBALL-GREAT.COM for more info.
• AES South Conference is having an event this weekend as well, at Avid Extreme Sports.
• The new issue of Stars and Stripes is out: http://www.joomag.com/magazine/Stars_and_Stripes_MAY_2012/0484542001338242976
• Rob from Ninja Paintball dropped me a line to let me know that Ninja is no longer selling direct to customers. Ninja Paintball felt it was more important to support local shops, and competing with their own customers wasn’t the way to do it. Good on Ninja Paintball!
• Gino Postorivo informs me that Sly Goggles are back in stock. Dealers need to contact their reps ASAP to get in on the SLY goodness.
• Machine Paintball’s Mike Spurlock informs me that he’s up to his butt in Vapors…he’s been busy putting the next batch together!
• I have a friend who’s doing evil things with radios…he expects to get booted off quite a few scenario fields next year.
• Taylor from 88 Teeth checks in: “Nov 8th I am going to be having a paintball parade float in what is right now ranked as the number one home coming parade in the nation, the gator home coming parade with a crowd of over 150,000 spectators!!! Will be looking for official sponsors for small items arm bands, lanyards, towels anything small to be thrown out to the crowd. This is a completely new market to potentially attract into the market and make huge leaps in getting the sport more widely excepted as a general sport. Feel free to forward to anyone you feel would be interested in knowing more they can get ahold of me Taylor Wright at my e-mail taylor88teeth@aol.com Or they can call me 352-231-1970. Thank you for your time and look forward to making this an epic event! “
• Up in my home state of Indiana, Fort Knox Paintball is celebrating summer by having “Wacky Wednesdays”. Hit ‘em up at http://www.fortknoxpaintball.com for more info.
• DerDer has a new trailer: http://youtu.be/juPcUdqRd6I
• Over in the UK, Tim and YPC are getting ready for Chocolate Factory: http://super6paintball.co.uk/chocolate.html
• RAP4 has really embraced magazine fed paintball, hosting magazine fed only events, and rolling out guns like the Covenant.
• Another quiet weekend at the house this weekend…sort of. Gotta help the leader of The Castleman Exclusion Zone repair Ashley and I’s clothes dryer, chase the Dark Child around the house, and hope that my wife doesn’t put some of her expertise to work in eliminating the Death Kitties…they’ve been overly frisky as of late, destroying things, and I fear that it won’t end well if they continue….