Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

July in Tennessee brings two awful things; heat and humidity.   But this year it also brought one of our favorite paintball formats with the Ultimate Woodsball League.   We enjoy UWL because you get the fast format of speedball, which is, after all, paintball’s original home, and you add it to the woods! Since the Music City Open was held at our home field of Bearclaw Paintball in Fayetteville, TN, we arrived the night before and decided to do a few of our favorite pre-game activities.   We relived old paintball stories, planned the upcoming schedule, and of course ate cobbler.   Pineapple was the flavor for this excursion. This year, we accomplished one of our team goals by winning first place in the 10-man tactical division.   The many hours of practice (with many of our favorite teams) seemed to pay off.   We also fielded two teams in the 5-man tactical division; one of them came in 2 nd place.  Without some of our favorite gear, the wins wouldn’t

The Rebels guys have an active season, so far they've been playing all Millenniums, all SMs (Swedish league) and all NPLs (Norwegian League) and first off this time is the 2 nd leg of SM: SM: The Swedish Masters has a high level of competition and a lot of teams use this as a good test-run for the Millennium. 4 of the 9 teams in CPL are highly ranked in SPL1 and the rest beside Rebels has played some years in CPL already.  This is Rebels first CPL year, they were promoted from D1 last year. The bracket schedule ( a Swedish version of seeding) sends them against Drammen Solid in the first game. The Norwegians play long and hard points against each other, but Rebels are sharper and take the win 4-0. This win sends them to the winners bracket and gives them their next opponent: Stockholm Joy Division.. This is also a long tough game and Rebels are up 3-2 but the famous swedes strikes back and the score is 3-3 with 1.50 left on the clock. Last point