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The Slagen Bandits give us a run down for there latest outing:

Hunting for trophies on our own turf with some new friends !

It has been only three weeks since the last event of the Norwegian Paintball League and those weeks has flown by as the Slagen Bandits were getting ready for the third event of the season at our home field. As most of the team were working hard to prepare our site for the event some of us got to take some vacation time at the Campaign Cup in England. And we also managed to represent Planet Eclipse on the Norwegian national team in the Nations Cup using Kristine’s one of a kind Geo 2.

Back home in Norway our event started on Saturday with the Elite division consisting of ten teams.

While rain threatened the event, it stopped early in the morning and the sun was soon shining on the new field design made especially for this event. The event was aired live on our popular webcast, thanks to Roland from pbtv.no!

We decided to enter two teams in the elite division this time as our club is growing steadily. So we moved some players up from our division 1 team to fill out our rooster. Early this spring we went to Portugal to play a tournament and made some great friends. One of those, Hugo Bettencourt from team Ballistik, made the trip from Portugal to live with us for a while so of course we put him on the team to!




Slagen Bandits Gold started the event out great with a 3-0 win against both Trondheim Dominators and Ratpack. Then we faced off against Swedish team Devils from MASH in what we expected would be one of our toughest matches of the day. In the end we lost 3-1 in a hard fought match. Our last match in the prelims was against Drammen Sabotage. So far this season we have taken turns beating each other. This time Sabotage came out on top 2-1 as we had only 14 seconds on the clock to try to tie up the match in the last point. That meant that Bandits Gold was dependent on the score in Sabotages last match but sadly that did not go our way and we didn’t make the semifinals.




That meant it was up to Bandits Bronze if there was going to be one more trophy on the shelf at the end of the day. And the team stepped up and played some great paintball in some really tense matches. 3-0 against Vendetta, 3-1 against Mayhem, 1-3 against Oslo Paintball Kids and 3-2 against Dominators sent the team through to the semifinal against Devils from MASH. A great accomplishment with several new players, and some of them fighting through fever and coughs!
Again the match against Devils was a long, tense affair with players running out of paint but in the end the score was 2-1 for the Devils.

For third place Bandits faced off against a very strong Oslo Paintball kids with some former CPL players on their rooster, but managed to come out on top in a controversial game that went to overtime. Well done!

In the final Sabotage beat Devils, so there has been a new winner in every event so far this season in a very competitive Elite division.

On Sunday morning 20 teams battled it out in Division 2. Slagen Bandits White and Slagen Bandits Yellow both made the quarterfinals but were both knocked out and ended placing 5th and 8th.
Division 1 consisted of 12 teams. Slagen Bandits Silver and Slagen Bandits Green both did really well in the prelims going 6-2 and ended up meeting each other in the semi-finals. Slagen Bandits Silver won that match and faced up with Oslo Paintball in the finals. In the end Slagen Bandits Silver took their second first place finish this season and Slagen Bandits Green took 4th place.

So after the tournament was finished we ended up with two new trophies on our shelf. :)

Thanks to our sponsors: Planet Eclipse, Hybrid Foto, Dark Sports, Game-on, Spine/Gloube Souldiers, Goldhammer, Slagen Paintball, Snøservice.no, KM Straps and Tanked. Thanks for helping us out guys and girls!

And of course a big thanx to the 42 teams who helped make this a great weekend of paintball!

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