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UK Retail Store Closing Down Sale… This Saturday (tomorrow) the 30th October will be the final day for the UK Retail store because we are moving very soon. As I promised there will be some bargains to be had…. The store is open from 10:30 till 3:30 and then closed forever :-( Here are a FEW of the bargains that you could get ONLY in store on SATURDAY. To start with everyone who comes in will get a FREE Emortal 2 DVD. Sale Items: Eclipse T-shirt from £4.50 Eclipse Playing Jerseys from £9.00 Eclipse Gloves from £3.00 Eclipse Elbow Pads from £15.00 Eclipse Jackets from £9.00 Chilli Sauce £1.50 FREE Bag Lock with any Eclipse Kit Bag. To name just a few items… We also have some non Eclipse items at most go prices. Pulse Loaders @ £19.00 Paintballs (boxes 2000) buy 4 get 1 FREE ! Spyder Pilots come with a FREE Helix Mask We also a couple of very special items…. I have been and ran sacked the design department and stolen a bunch of samples. Stuff got to the sample stage but no further so ...

The Eclipse College Emortal Army keeps growing and we are proud to announce the signing of Central Michigan University. Central Michigan and Planet Eclipse have come to an agreement were the team will wear and use Eclipse guns and gear for the upcoming season. Its looking like to be a great year for Eclipse college teams and keep your eyes open for some great things to come throughout the year. "Central Michigan University is excited to be using Planet Eclipse guns and gear this year” said Patrick Glasson Captain of CMU University Paintball Team “Planet Eclipse has always been known to have unrivalled guns, gear, and support for their teams and customers. We're glad to be part of the Eclipse team and look forward to promote them throughout the NCPA and local fields" We wish the team best of luck this year and look forward to seeing them on the podium. Welcome to the Family...... Follow CMU on Facebook: CLICK HERE.

Planet Eclipse is proud to announce a sponsorship of another collegiate team, Penn State. The Penn State team is sure to be a promising team for the 2010 season. Having placed in the top 5 for the last three years at nationals this year should be a great one. With a returning strong starting line of players such as Mike Wickey and Tyler Neligh, they should be able to perform well in the NCPA. After a poor start during their first tournament due to the lack of veteran players and other issues, they plan on having their full lineup at the next event and will turn their game around. By the second event they will have all of their Eclipse gear which will play a key role in their performance. Captain Alex Lukacs said, “We are currently working to fix the issues we ran into at our first tournament. The teams in our conference should be prepared for a different Penn State at event 2 where we will work our way back to the top.” Planet Eclipse would like to wish the best of luck to one of the p...

The Dail-E Download with Matt Marshall from ETV Planet Eclipse is excited to announce we will be bringing Matt Marshall to the land of Mickey Mouse, airplanes, and Paintball for 2010 World Cup. ETV will be releasing a new show, ETV The Dail-E Download, at World Cup. The 2-3 minute video clips will post at the end of each day. The Dail-E Download will be hosted by Matt Marshall. Marshall is a former world champion paintball player, and the current narrator of the Planet Eclipse documentary series, Artifact. The Dail-E Download will feature Marshall conducting in-game pit interviews, breaking down games, and some game highlights. “If I’m honest, I have no idea exactly what we will get!” says ETV producer/director Dan Napoli with a laugh. “It will be a bit free-form, but it will certainly be awesome. Matt has an intimacy with pro players; There are players who have looked up to him from when they were young, plus guys who’ve played with and against him. That’s pretty much impossible to ...

The XPSL (German Paintball League) has not come to an end and the Champions of the XPSL have been crowned. In Division 2 Team ‘Dirty Annihilation’ Took the top honours and have also been promoted to Division 1 for Next Season. In Division 1 as always was a hard battle all season but Düsseldorf Reckless, improve on their runners up spot of last season to take the top spot and be Crowned German Champions… Well done to both teams… Eclipse teams winning both divisions always makes us smile… EMORTAL ARMY !!! http://www.xpsl.de/

Congratulations to all of the Planet Eclipse teams at this years Millennium series. Last year’s reigning champions SK Moscow won the last event of the year in Paris and also bumped them up to 2nd Place overall in the championship race. Dynasty Impact took 3rd Place in Paris which was enough for them to stay at the top of the CPL Leader board and to take the Title of CPL Champions 2010. Keep your eye's open for at ETV coming soon... That’s two year’s in the row now for Planet Eclipse Teams...Congratz guys..... The Emortal Army Takes Europe !!!!!!!

http://www.lupaintball.com/ Liberty University Takes First Place in NCPA SEC Class A after first event The NCPA Class A South East Conference (SEC) met for their first event for the 2010-2011 season on the campus of Planet Eclipse sponsored Liberty University. This conference is made up of some of the best teams in the NCPA. University of Tennessee (3rd place in 2009-2010), Liberty University (4th Place in 2009-2010), Virginia Tech, and new comer Kennesaw State University. With the help and support of Planet Eclipse, the Liberty Flames beat Kennesaw State 12-3, beat Tennessee 6-4, and lost a nail-biter in overtime to Virginia Tech, 5-6. With many LU players now shooting Geo 2s, the Flames didn't have to worry about gun issues and knew their shots were going to be on the mark each and every time. After this first event of the season, the Liberty University Flames are in first place of the SEC based on their 2-1 record and point margin. The Flames are also currently ranked #1 in ...

At this year’s PSP World Cup we will have a few ‘Special EGO11’s’…. 13 x White / Sandstone 11 x Gold / Purple There are no current plans to release these two colours as production colours so the chances are they will be very rare (unless we run them at a later date, you never know).. So if you’re lucky enough be travelling down to this year's PSP World Cup in Florida then pop into the Planet Eclipse Booth and snag something a little special. Prices the same as other colours. Planet Eclipse booth will be open for business from 12:00 midday on Wednesday the 20th October. See you there..

At the PSP World Cup in Orlando, Planet Eclipse will have two new features in the booth. The first is an Eclipse E-Portal Station that will allow players to experience Eclipse E-Portal for themselves, hands-on. You’ll be able to upgrade firmware, adjust parameters and even download a new splash screen onto any compatible marker, FREE OF CHARGE. As always, our Techs will be on hand to help customers get out onto the field and shoot some fools. Unfortunately they don’t always have the time to sit and chat about the best way to set up a marker for individual tastes and so the idea for our second new feature was born - the One2One. For the first time ever we will be giving customers a chance to have a One2One with a Planet Eclipse Pro Tech. The idea of this One2One is that you will be able to book a time slot during which you can sit down and talk face-to-face with a Pro Tech and ask him anything you like about Eclipse Markers. If you want to know how to set your trigger, fine-tune your de...

The University of Pittsburgh Panthers opened their college paintball season on Sunday against the Penn State Nittany Lions, Ohio University Bobcats, and the West Virginia Mountaineers. The Panthers spent the summer practicing to integrate a strong group of new players with existing group of returning players. With two players from last season lost to graduation, and four more making their first appearance in a Pitt uniform, there were a number of adjustments made to the Pitt team, but the summer workouts had everyone looking forward to the NCPA event as the first test of this new Panthers team. Adding to this excitement was the new gear supplied by Eclipse, who had signed the Panthers to an exclusive sponsorship deal for the season. The new equipment and offseason practice helped turn the tide for Pitt. Every team in the conference had made big improvements, and the level of play was markedly higher than in past years. The Panthers players showed up early to scout the Penn State v. WVU...

Team DoW were proud to represent Planet Eclipse at the latest Big Game held by Topgun Paintball in Saxtorp. Attending the Big Game where no less than 315 paying customers. So what were we doing there you ask?? Well let me enlighten you. Team DoW had a small presentation at the beginning of the day of who we are and what Planet Eclipse is. We showed of our Dow Design Ego10 as a little sneak peak. After that the players were welcome to borrow a marker from the selection of six Ego10s, one Geo2 and two Etek3s, free of charge for one game. The feedback was great and the guns hardly had time to land on our table before someone else wanted to feel the power behind the light sabres we call Ego, Geo and Etek. At the end of the day when we all were worn out and ready for some R&R we still had one last surprise. The people who had borrowed a marker from us got to attend a lottery in which they could win a product from Planet Eclipse. Six happy campers went home with either a player’s jersey,...

The 3rd leg of the MPL took place in Monteray Mexico, one of the biggest and most beautiful cities in Mexico. The event was held in a Soccer stadium with grand stand and lovely fluffy grass.. Great Venue!! 50 Teams battled over the weekend for the various titles which also brought out the sponsors. Planet Eclipse, Dye, Kee, Draxuss, Gi MilSim, Kingman, Trinity as well as a couple of none paintball sponsors Vitamin Water and Coca Cola. We would like to thank all our sponsors for attending the event and supporting the league. The tournament was a really fun and exciting place to be at during the weekend. The games were super intense and enjoyable for the players as well as the fans. The games in the open bracket were bar far the most exciting with every game being contested extremely hard from game one until the finals… Planet Eclipse teams had a fantastic showing at this events taking the 1st place trophy in both the Open Division (Over Head) and Also in the Intermediate Division (Black...

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Planet Eclipse would like to congratulate upTon 187 cRew on a great showing at the NEXL. That makes it 3 events played this season and 3 events won this season for upTon. We’d like to wish them luck as they prepare for the upcoming PSP – The World Cup. Lets make it 4 for 4 1st place finishes!!! Having not participated in the NEXL up till now, upTon 187 cRew decided to enter the 5th and final NEXL event of the season. Better known as the B.O.N.E. – Best Of New England. They had one goal in mind for the day – to stake their claim to 1st place and be called the Best Of New England. The day started off fast as upTon 187 cRew took to the field against RONHIC. Tim Irvin and his crew fought hard but in the end the accuracy of the EGO was too much for them to overcome and the match ended 5 to 0 in upTon’s favor. The second match of the day was what everyone had been waiting for – upTon 187 cRew vs The New England Hurricanes. As you walked around the Maynard Paintball Club you could hea...

Planet Eclipse is proud to announce the sponsorship of another great NCPA College Paintball Team, Ohio University!! Ohio University was ranked #3 for top college Paintball teams in the Nation. It’s great to have another well represented team under the Emortal Army Banner. It should be a great year for Ohio University. They have a lot of talented players on the team and we look forward to supporting the team for the upcoming season and future to come. "Ohio University is ecstatic about signing with Eclipse for the '10/'11 season” said Dave Blaushild captain of Ohio University “Using Eclipse guns & gear is going to play a huge role in us bringing home a 1st place NCPA National Championship this year. Many of us have been big fans of PE for years, and we are all very proud to be supported by such a fantastic company." Planet Eclipse would like to wish Ohio University Good Luck this year during the NCPA season. We look forward to see you guys on the podium!! Welcome...

The Old Planet Eclipse Store on Deansgate about 15 years ago! In the near future Planet Eclipse will be moving its Head Office in the UK just down the road to a brand new purpose built facility in Manchester, England. Once the move is complete we will be in a much better position to be able to drive Planet Eclipse forward in all departments. Over the last few years the emphasis has shifted away from the retail store to a manufacturing, research and development lab, service centre and distribution hub for the Planet Eclipse range. We have also over this period established connections with several UK based retail stores that now stock the Planet Eclipse range of products. So we now feel that the time is right for us to close the doors on the store and let the other retailers around the UK do what they do best and service the face to face customers on a daily basis. We have not taken this step lightly at all and we have the upmost confidence that the stores in our UK network are much bett...

Planet Eclipse instructional trick-tip series is back for 2010! In trick-tip #2, pro player Billy Bernacchia (Avalanche, Dynasty) explains the tactics of moving / crawling up the snake. If you missed Tip # 1 Check that out as well..... Remember to subscribe .... H E R E !!!

Thanks to everyone that attended and supported this year’s FED Cup. Congratulations to all the teams that attended the 2-day event and a Massive well done to the winners.... There are also 2000 Pictures on the Fed web site kindly donated by Gambo47 (AKA James Sanderson). Thanks for these pics.... Click here for the FED web site and Pictures....... H E R E !!!