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Last weekend National Paintball Fields Birmingham England hosted the European A-ball Championships, and we're pleased to announce that one of our faithful amateur teams "The Lucky 15s" managed to bring home first place! The Lucky 15s conscripted Ulf Mueller of NXE and his friend Joern Windler to form the suitably named Anglo/German team " The Uber 15s". Ainsley Baddeley, Dan Campbell and Luke Paxton from the 15s, along with their newly purchased GEO2s battled alongside their German allies to take the trophy. The event was quite a show on NPF's fantastic Astro Turf field, with cheerleaders between games, and even Matt Green offering his comic twist on commentary throughout the day! The A-ball field is available for training most weekends and NPF host a monthly A-ball walk-on for teams and individuals alike to come and hone their skills without the mess! Check out www.thelucky15s.co.uk for more details! Congratulations guys! Final Placings: 1st..... The Ube

2010 VICIOUS RaceTo Series – A Series In Review The first event of the VICIOUS RaceTo Series kicked off May 1st and 2nd at Mad Cow Paintball in Louisville, Nebraska and saw 36 teams compete in the RaceTo-2 and RaceTo-4 divisions. At the end of Saturday, with RaceTo-2 play completed, AAF from Maple Plains, Minnesota took home 1st place, with Reagan’s Army (Lawrence, KS) taking 2nd, DVS (Louisville, NE) taking 3rd, and New Jack Ghetto (Des Moines, IA) rounding out the top 4. The RaceTo-4 division saw 16 teams from 8 states competing for 1st place with play stretching out over 2 days. At the end of the weekend, Aimless Factory from Sioux Falls, South Dakota took 1st place. Rounding out the top 4 were the Po’ Boys (Columbia, MO) getting 2nd, Dirtlife2 (St, Louis, MO) taking 3rd place, and HuSTLe (also from St. Louis, MO) taking 4th place. The 2nd stop of the VICIOUS RaceTo Series took place June 5th and 6th at Metro Paintball Games in Council Bluffs, Iowa. This event saw some new faces in

Planet Eclipse Poster Boy, Pro Player and all round good guy Billy Bernacchia has been released from Vicious roster and has signed to play for San Diego Dynasty at the up and coming PSP Mid Atlantic Open. With the Hurricanes dropping down several divisions at the end of 2009 Billy has been looking for a new home to carry on his X-Ball career. Vicious didn’t work out for Billy and he missed his first PSP events in years not attending the 2010 Chicago PSP. Billy is still playing for the Avalanche in the NPPL 7-Man events but will Dynasty be the new home for Billy? Billy Said “I am very happy and looking forward to being a part of Dynasty. I hope everything works out. I have always respected Dynasty as a team and have been looking up to their players for years” Eric Crandall (Dynasty’s Manager) Said “Billy is a proven player who gives us another solid attack on the snake side of the field. Dynasty has to be one of THE teams to play for.. Dynasty are what Pro paintball is all about. We wis

While writing this I can only imagine the sheer volume of dreams and hearts that I will be breaking. While on vacation in Mexico the other week I arranged a trip to an ancient Mayan Temple in Coba (the tallest temple that you can still climb) after a 3km trek through the jungle we reached the bottom of the temple. At which point the gods (namely Chac the Mayan God of Rain) decided to open the heavens and drench us with very heavy rain. Not being deterred Eilidh and I started the steep climb to the top of the temple. Once at the top we tried to find shelter to take some pictures of the amazing view over the forest and to the other temples in the distance. I took Eilidh down the side of the Temple to see what was behind the room at the top and then took to one knee and asked Eilidh to marry me….. a soaked to the skin Eilidh said YES and made me very happy!! (I think I have now created a monster.. Wedding plans are full steam ahead, I guess that what you get for asking the Planet Eclipse

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Another Super Star graces the amazing CPX field in Chicago. This time around it’s Internationally known world-famous pro snowboarder Todd Richard. Todd recently visited CPX Sports to film an episode of MTV's Rock N Jock which he hosts. Todd was sporting Planet Eclipse gear and shooting the 2007 Eclipse Ego! I believe the episode should air on MTV2 on August 21st in the evening. http://www.cpxsports.com/

Planet Eclipse would like to congratulate one of our new sponsored teams, WV Relentless for finishing 4th in their second event this year. The team is getting stronger by each event they play in and hopefully before the end of the year they will bring home a first place trophy. Congratulations guys and keep up the good work....... Michael Gabeletto has written this report....... The MAPL Event #2 Recap By: Michael Gabeletto WV Relentless After a disappointing 9th place finish in the first MAPL event, largely due to my own poor performance, the players of WV Relentless were in high spirits going into the 2nd MAPL event. We had made changes in our tactics, maintained a positive attitude, and put the last event behind us. Our main outlook on the situation was that we were a much better team than what the 9th place score showed and we were using the 2nd event to prove our opinion of ourselves. The first team that we faced in the 2nd event was a team called G3. Though our tactics and ab

Price: 100 euro (included: walk-on and preschool Friday-Sunday, plus BBQ Friday and lunch Sat-Sun) Program: Time to get into gear and live out your inner Boobcamp dream - this time we invite both guys and girls, everyone´s welcome ! :-) Price: 100 EURO,- This includes: Walkon Friday, Saturday, Sunday Lunch Saturday, Sunday (+ light snack on Friday) FLC bbq on Friday night + more stuff and surprises to come ! Schedule: FRIDAY we start at 15.00 sharp (you should arrive in time to get ready for play at 15) and will keep drilling and playing till 19.00 - after that we will have our FLC BBQ on site ! SATURDAY we meet at 10.00 and keep going till 18.00 (including 1 hour lunch break), in the evening we will have something fun and festive planned hehe! SUNDAY we will start at 9.00 and keep going till 12.00 where we will do a lunch break. After that we will run a small xball tourney for the participants, where we of course will be coaching you. Start looking into flights people or rent a car if

Firm Strength in Depth….???? UK Based team ‘The Firm’ have a good solid paintball ethic which involves training on a regular basis, attending local UK events and also having a second and third team. Manchester Firm’s second team (that sometimes play under the name Corrupted) have been training hard. At the recent CPPS they didn’t have it all their own way, but that is what every team needs to focus them for the big stage….. Playing under the name Manchester Firm 2 at Campaign Cup last weekend in the M5’s the lads turned their game up to the next level and brought home the spoils of victory in the M5’s. A fantastic result for the guys and thoroughly deserved.. Well Done.. Karl Dewhurst-Lister, Ben Hanson, Ricky Taylor (Whitey), Steve Terry, Robert Hamilton & (Guest Lain O'Sullivan) Manchester Firm 2 would like to thank there sponsors: Planet Eclipse, Kee Action Sports, RPS, Corrupted, Balls Out Promotions (CPPS)… To follow the Firm on Facebook CLICK HERE.

....... You might not know about me. The votes have been counted and the winners crowned, well not so much crowned more like, OK, tell me some funny, weird, embarrassing or secret stuff about yourself that people might not know. The Poll winner was Bryan Bortol from team Vicious. So here is Bryan’s ‘10 Things you might not know about me !!!’ The Poll is now up for the European Pro Players so please cast your votes: CLICK HERE. ………………………………………………………………………………………………… Name: Bryan Bortol Nickname: "B" Age: 19 Teams: Deviators, DSS, VICIOUS Job: College Student, DSS 1......... I still to this day have all of my Pokémon cards. Blastoise was my favorite and he was B.A. First one of my friends to find a gold holographic Charizard. Loved it when Burger King had the toys. Watched the cartoon all the time. How could you not love those cartoon voice overs? 2....... Watch The Video: 3........ I

Intel from the front line has been very sparse over the last few months. Fighting has been intense and messages have either been lost in the fogs of war or too blood soaked to make any real sense. One solid piece of intel has now managed to reach the hands of Major General Ledz at the Mercs training camp deep in the jungle at a secret location.. The Intel reads like this… The battle is in balance but will Major General Ledz and his band of highly trained Mercs be able to shift the balance of power in favour of the USDE or will the HoffMann Minex step forward to secure the services of Major General Ledz and his Mercs? Nobody knows for sure. All that could be confirmed is that a sizeable force has been seen packing up from the secret training camp and making tracks in the direction of the front line. ETA 25th July 2010. Is it time for you to draw YOUR line in the sand????? For more information contact: http://www.nationalpaintballfields.com/ click the 'More' button next to the D

PAINTUGAL - Portuguese Association of Recreational Paintball, It's a national association with no profit objectives. Promotes and spreads the practice of Paintball according to the national laws and internal regulations approved by general assembly. PAINTUGAL stands for promoting recreational outdoor Paintball games without any entrance fees or obligation to buy any material in games or events, supports nature protection and environmental education, promotes sports Fairplay, Companionship and Friendship between players. http://www.paintugal.com/ We are making one of the largest big games in Europe, where 1000 players are expected, to celebrate our 6th anniversary with the theme: Pacific, after the 2009 success of Band of Brothers, with 607 players, making it the largest big game in the Iberian Peninsula ever. With a Paintball game of 4 hours, pistol tournaments, airball clinic, CQB Courses, airball 3 vs 3 small tournaments, and several other activities; Paintball shopping area; Pla

Well....... It's actually green and it's not carpet it's astro turf. Kristine from the Slagan Bandits sat me down over the weekend of Campaing Cup and inbetween beer and tequila she told me a little about what has been happening in Norway, and the Norwegian Paintball League ..... We are getting more and more spoiled in paintball. I can still remember stumbling around tubes and carrying large and long scuba-tanks deep deep into the woods. Nowadays almost every field has its own compressor, the tubes are long gone and now we even have turf! A couple of weeks ago, the first leg of the Norwegian League were held at Slagen Paintball. All the Bandits have sacrificed blood, sweat and tears to have the field ready for the weekend. Only a month ago there was worn out grass and muddy spots on the field, this is how it looks like now: It has been a struggle, and the workload have been massive, for instance; we had to carry out the rubber mats by hand. 8 persons carried a mat on the si

Team DoW (Desperados of Warberg) have been members of the Emortal Army for years now. DoW have gone through a lot of changes over the years and this last couple of seaons have been what could be described as 're-build' years. They dropped out of the Millennium series SPL Division and have decided to work and EARN there way back up the divisions. DoW are now in Div 2 at the Millennium Series and have placed 3rd in Spain, 5th in Germany and now they have there just rewards, taking a well deserved 1st Place at Campaign Cup in the UK... DoW are also climbing up the podium places on home turf with wins coming from lots of different divisions like at the recent swedish paintball championship "Paintball SM" in Falköping. Check out the DoW EGO10 !! Well Done DoW... To find out more about DoW check out there web site here: http://www.desperados.se/

.......the England football team were pretty rubbish at the 2010 Fifa World Cup.... I just had to share this picture with you all. I would have settled for penalties rather than the kicking the Germans gave us. Even if the GOAL that Lampard scored was disallowed for not crossing the line (see picture) LEDZ

We would like to give our Congratulations to a new team to join Planet Eclipse, UpTon 187 Crew! They took 1st Place in Division 2 at the PSP Chicago Open! Well done guys & welcome to the Emortal Army!