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The South Beach Pimps dropped a quick update this week on what they have been up too and what they thought of there 'South Beach Pimp Edition GEO 2.1'..............Read On ! The Pimps have recently received our South Beach Pimp Edition GEO 2.1s. This is my first spool valve marker. I have been using EGOs and ETEKs since they were introduced in 2005, and  I really wasn't sure what to expect. I knew it would be well designed and a quality marker. Planet markers always are. I was not prepared to be blown away by the marker. Out of the box, it just flat out performed. I put three cases through it with no issues at The Human vs. Zombie event. The speed was exactly what it should be, super fast. But what really blew me away was the way it felt in my hands. Super light and low.  Really nice tight feel that enhances your snap shot.  Needles to say, the finish was awesome and exactly the way Planet promised. The real test came this weekend at the Toys for Tots charity event

Planet Eclipse will be attending the season finale of the Viper TC Series in Venezuela from December 1st-4th. Planet Eclipse will be hosting a dealer tech class (run by Certified Planet Eclipse Tech PJ), player service class and a Pro Clinic during the event. Marc Lancia, Sales Manager Planet Eclipse, and Mike Canto, South American Sales Rep, will be attending the event to have meet and greets with all dealers that will be out there. Viper TC will also have the brand new Etha on display at the event so if you are attending the event or in the area please make sure you come by to be one of the first to see it in person!! Professional Player Nick Slowiak, Team Aftershock, will also be attending the event to host a Pro Clinic. Please stop by the Planet Eclipse Booth to find out more information and to meet Nick Slowiak in person. We look forward to seeing everyone out there!!

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...... stay out of the netting !!! Becoming series Champions for the first time is often hard enough, reclaiming that same title the next year seems to be even harder. Besides having to prove themselves in the highest leagues of the Millennium and the DPL, Amsterdam HEAT had to battle its way through the best teams Holland had to offer in the NPL. As small as The Netherlands might be, the country seems to produce an interesting amount of passionate teams. It’s amazing to see how fast new players and teams develop themselves in this modern day. That’s why the almost flawless Championship in 2010 would have to make place for a four weekend long grind. Teams like, Bad Boys, Relics, Ferox and even the Belgium SPL team Overdrive were all ready to rip the fabric off the freshly printed HEAT jerseys. Luckily none of them could withstand the heat the team managed to generate. With not a single match lost the combined forces of Amsterdam HEAT and HEAT II could once again step onto th

Here at Planet Eclipse we try very hard to give the players that purchase our equipment the best possible customer service we can. We spend a huge amount of time and money travelling to events around the world teching customer’s markers. Some of the places we travel too are quite far away and sometimes remote. We never simply want to arrive, help and then leave with the players praying we will come back soon. We always try and train as many Dealers as we can while we are there so that they can service the player’s needs while we are away at other events. But even this sometimes isn’t enough. We realise that there are different types of players around the world. Some just want to air up there marker and go and play, some players want more than the knowledge you can get from a manual (even if the Eclipse manuals are brilliant) isn’t as good as hands on training. Some people simply don’t have the luxury of having a dealer nearby. At the recent World Cup Asia Pals events in Langka

Figured it had been a little while since our last team update.  Here is what's going on with Iowa State Paintball, as well as an overview from our last Tournament. On November 12, the ISU Cyclones traveled to The Missouri Open, at RiverSplat Paintball in Moscow Mills, MO, just outside St. Louis to compete in our second MICT event.  We brought two teams to this tournament, which made up 40% of the 5 team total at the event.  Both ISU Gold and ISU Red started out the day strong, with Gold going 3-1 in the prelims and knocking out Kansas University and  Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST) in two games a piece in the Race-2 format.  MST was the team that beat Iowa State out at Event 1 for 3rd place.  ISU Gold dropped one series to Arkansas University, Who also went 3-1 in the prelims.  Coincidentally, Arkansas only dropped point was to ISU's Red line. Leading into semi-finals, Arkansas beat out ISU Gold by 1 point, giving them a bye straight to finals.  ISU G

If you happen to be going to the Super 7 Masters this weekend in Australia and own a Planet Eclipse marker you have the chance to jump on a tech class with the one and only Nicky T.. Be quick places are limited !! Contact: john@actionpaintball.com

At the end of the season some teams just go to sleep for a few months. Some teams are already starting to prepare for 2012. Ranger Warsaw sent me this video with a message… I pretty powerful message… What a great way to thank your sponsors !! Ranger Warsaw is the oldest, and currently the best Polish paintball team. We are a group of players, who dream to prove their professionalism by advancing Ranger Warsaw to Millennium CPL in a few seasons. With our dedication and sponsors, such as Planet Eclipse, DarkSports, and Skill Paintball store, the CPL dream is within our reach. We have our goals and each year brings us a step closer to making them a reality. We have proven our team's endurance and longevity by attending all three major European leagues simultaneously: the Millennium Series, the Grand Tour and the Polish Paintball League! We have proven our strength by winning this, and last year's Polish champion title. And finally, our greatest achievement is 4th place in SPL 2

Sunday 27th November sees this year's conclusion of the awesome Diamond Wars series held at National Paintball Fields Birmingham, England. This has to be one of the finest monthly events held on our shores,  and you will often see my Mercs and I doing battle for the highest bidder to line our deep pockets with blood dollars! Last month I took a small squad down to play alongside the HMC, a controversial switch of sides to our normal USDE allegiance. The USDE were foolish to under estimate my Merc forces no matter how small… The Fools…..However, this month I extend an olive branch to the USDE in the hope that next season they may wish to fight alongside my Mercs once more (for the right price of course)..... Commander Baddeley of the USDE has today passed me top secret co-ordinates to allow an airdrop of our latest in high tech weaponry  at 09.30hrs, to their HQ location deep in the Corimbe.  The ETHAs will be available to use throughout the day's play, so speak to C

Fulda Gap 2012 by Jason "foolybear" Lineberger Big Game - a paintball format usually involving a set number of flag stations worth a specified amount of points.  While the term "big game" denotes a large number of players, what qualifies as "large" is subjective.  At some fields 100 players would be a crowd, while at others 100 players could fan across the field without meeting each other.  Mega Game - a specific annual event held at Command Decisions Wargames Center in NorthCarolina .  The Fulda Gap Mega Game began in 2006 with approximately 300 players and has grown since then to break the 1000 player cap, putting it, in terms of size, in line with some of the biggest paintball games in the world.  Fulda Gap transcends big-gameness.  The armor, the charges, the field, the teams, the camping - Fulda Gap Mega Game has matured from an intriguing scenario to one of those handful of must-play paintball games.   Fulda Gap's premi

Last weekend was one of the biggest on the calendar with the Pals Asia World Cup happening in Langkawi, Malaysia and the final leg of the NPPL also happening in Vegas, USA. Not to mention the IWC – International Woodsball Championships in Malaysia! If you have been stuck under a rock for a week and don’t know the result let me fill you in... Let’s start with the NPPL. Obviously, teams were competing for the Vegas Title but also for the NPPL Series titles. Planet Eclipse teams came flying out of the gates at this one and scooped the top three podium places in the Pro’s: Boooom !!! Great result for Aftershock. Dynasty taking 2nd place also gave them the series title to go alongside their PSP series title for 2011, making this a VERY impressive year for Dynasty. But just one division lower Dynasty 2 were taking home the 1st place gold medal for the event, with Impact Echo matching their Pro teams result taking 3rd Place which also gave Impact Echo the Div 1 NPPL Series Championship. N

Check out the latest FREE on-line PaintballX3 Magazine OUT NOW !! Possibly the first full ETHA review i think is included !! http://www.magwise.com/Magazines/View/Paintball_X3/12/ http://paintballx3.com/latest/november-issus-of-paintballx3-digital-is-live-a-free.html

Imagine our delight when Hardie and Elaine from The Paintball Shop, our South African Distributors, called up our Manchester office one rainy afternoon and asked if we would go out to Johannesburg to attend the Africa Cup event with them, meet some of their customers and generally see the work that they are doing to spread knowledge of Eclipse and our products throughout their continent. Flying such a long way and only being able to stay for a long weekend, it was imperative that we made the most of our time in South Africa, so having been met at the airport when we landed on Friday morning by Hardie, Jason (owner of The Paintball Shop in Port Elizabeth) and Llewelyn (SA photographer and illustrator extraordinaire) it was straight off to the field where the Africa Cup was to be played only a short 15 minute ride from the airport.  Still slightly groggy from the overnight flight and full equipped with our hoodies and jeans it was time to break out the shorts, t-shirts, flip-flop

It has been a long break from college paintball since the National finals and Liberty University has been training hard all off season at their home field on Campus. Despite a great season we were upset with how the nationals ended. We were looking forward to taking home the first place trophy. The beginning of the college paintball season has already started and on Saturday November 12th, the Liberty University Paintball Team played their first event of the Class A paintball season.  Liberty played games against Kennesaw State University and the defending National Champions, University of Tennessee.  Liberty Univ beat Kennesaw State 7-2 and 8-2 and then made a huge statement by beating Tennessee 11-4 and 11-2.  Beating the National champs at home is a tremendous boost to the program and going 4-0 on the season puts Liberty in first place of the South East Conference. We would like to thank the University and our all sponsors especially Planet Eclipse for providing us great

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 2011 is almost over, and PUB CRAWLING has crawled from Tennessee, to South Carolina, to Pennsylvania, to Virginia, back to Pennsylvania, one more game in Pennsylvania, then to New Hampshire to tour the Harpoon Brewery (surprised?) out to Ohio, and now we’re headed back to South Carolina. In that time we’ve picked up 5 Most Valuable team awards, 1 Sportsmanship award, 1 Most Formidable Opponent Award, 1 Most Valuable Player Award, and 1 Young Gun Award (for MJ’s son Bradzilla, and Grubermann’s son Spawn). We were also part of the UNHOLY ALLIANCE, leading the defenders at EMR Paintball Park’s Spring Castle Conquest…in a one-time only 6 to 1 against attack and defend game that drew almost 1000 players!!!  This coming weekend we will be at the MPP scenario paintball game held at Paintball Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. We can’t think of a better way to wrap up our hugely successful 2011 season than attending a quality scenario game produced by Ben Torricelli and his w

In anticipation of the 2011 PALS World Cup, Planet Eclipse gives you a glimpse of a recent trip to Malaysia and look at four sponsored teams from the region, Raskal, Raz Legion, Warriors, and Legionares. Featuring the song "Growing Pains" by Grieves, courtesy of RhymeSayers Entertainment. www.rhymesayers.com