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Here we go again! 2017 season is starting, and Beira-Mar paintball team is here once again to dispute the Portuguese national championship and the RLA (Adrenalicia Lisbon Regional) tournament. During the off season, there weren’t too many changes to our roster, with the exception of an additional Dorito side player: Tiago Teixeira. This last weekend, on Sunday (19th February), we kick started the year playing the Lisbon Regional Tournament of Adrenalicia RLA, at the Parque da Vila field, in Samora Correia. A really awesome, and organized field just outside the Portuguese capital. For the prelims, we played four matches, against Amarelos, Blue Falcon, Parque da Vila and C4=RTU B. Because this was the first stage of the year, we did notice that our game was a bit slower than usual. However, we did make some solid points and ultimately obtained the win against Amarelos (2-0), Parque da Vila (2-1) and C4=RTU B (2-0). Unfortunately, the game with Blue Falcon, was the ma

And finally, we finish with the team that every other team wants to emulate or take down. Taking the 2016 NXL Pro Series title, the 2016 Millennium Series Pro title AND both the NXL and Millennium Series World Cups it's easy to see why other teams look at them with awe and jealousy. Edmonton Impact are a vision of what a professional paintball team should be. Loaded with talent, brimming with confidence and unified through hard work and determination, Impact have always done their absolute best to achieve their goals. So it shouldn't be any surprise when they actually achieve them. Impact are busy boys, especially with the start of the season creeping up and all the titles to defend, but they still managed some time for a 5 from 5. FYI: JC (Justin Cornell) / KB (Keith Brown) PE: 2016. WOW! So…what can be done better in 2017? Seems pretty hard to improve on the double right? That aside, how good does it feel to finally be NXL World Cup Winners and what are your goals fo

San Antonio XFactor already kick-started their 2017 season with a victory at the NXL Winter Classic, which puts them in a very sweet place going in to the first 'proper' event of the 2017 NXL season. After a solid and progressive 2016 season, XFactor had managed to put an impressive level of calm, organisation and unity into their play, but maintained their trademark aggression and unpredictable approach to every point. As paintball fans, and as a sponsor, X-Factor excite us. So we took 5 with them. FYI: CR: (Colt Roberts) / BB: (Billy Bernacchia) GG: (Grayson Goff) PE: 2016 was a really strong year for you guys. Yes, we know you wanna be winning but you kept your fans super happy and genuinely looked like you were enjoying your paintball. What can we expect from XFactor in 2017? CR: We hope that 2017 brings us up to the next level. We have been consistently finishing in the top 4 but we are looking to win a series championship. We feel that our two newest pick ups w

It's been a while. When the opportunity to re-sign the Infamous crew to our family of teams arose we we did everything in our power to make this happen. The talent, the personalities and the potential with these guys is insane and we absolutely wanted to be a part of that. And when we spoke to them about the up-and-coming 2017 NXL season they fired back with gold. Lots and lots of gold. From each player. Are you sitting comfortably? Good. So, kick back, relax and take it all in. FYI:  TT (Thomas Taylor) / KR (Kevin 'Kali' Rudulph) / CM (Cody Mickowski) / TL (Travis Lemanski) / PS (Phil Shredder) / DR (Damian Ryan) PE: We’re super excited to have you back with the Eclipse family, but how do YOU feel to be back with us? TT: Coming back to eclipse is like coming home to my family after a long trip, you're excited, filled with joy and content knowing you're in good hands. Eclipse to me is more than a paintball company. They were there for me when my career re

When we talk about a 'busy off-season' few can come close to what Aftershock had to go through at the end of 2016. With pretty much their whole roster deciding to move on to other pastures–with the exception of Carl, Todd and Mikey– Shock had a teeny problem. They needed a squad. So the rebuild began and we now have a Chicago Aftershock team that is full of fight and ready to go toe-to-toe with the rest of the best. We thought these guys needed to give us some more insight with a 5 from 5. PE: So. One or two roster changes for 2017…as in almost everyone! How has that affected the mindset of the team? Negative? Panic? Or a new found fire in your belly? AS:  Obviously no team looks forward to losing all but one of their (on field) players but that is the position we found ourselves in. Retirement for some, the grass is greener for others, a few we didn't want back. Mike Bruno has rebuilt us with a strong emphasis on heart, youth, and desire to succeed. All these guys h

The NXL season is so close we can almost hear the buzzer. And with so many changes in the off-season we thought we'd get re-acquainted with our 5 NXL Pro teams to ask them all 5 simple questions to give us a rough idea of where they're at right now, as they prepare to go full bore on the field. The first team in our Eclipse 5 from 5 series of interviews is the widely underrated Trade My Gun Outlaws. Here's what they had to say. PE: The Outlaws have been around for a while but not many people know too much about you. Can you give us history on the team? Who/how it started? O:  Well, Outlaws is really still a new team in comparison to other pros. We only played 2 years of divisional paintball winning World Cup in those 2 years and in 2nd year winning 7 man Pro world title NPPL. After those 2 years we were then asked to join the NXL in Pro bracket.  It's been tough, but anything you want should be. The Outlaws will be on that winning form very soon! PE: You guys

Boss Paintball , not far from Charlotte, NC, is developing a reputation for fun, competitive one-day scenario paintball games. Players have come to expect simple rules, engaging missions, and balanced teams.   And that’s exactly what they got at Real American Heroes – a GI Joe themed paintball scenario.    The event was easy to understand, full of great paintball action, and it came down to a narrow point margin for the finish.   Great all around!   Instead of a blow-by-blow of the game, here’s my Top Four list of what made this an event to remember. 4.   Balanced teams. Although GI Joe ran ahead on the first mission and controlled both flag stations, the producer swapped a willing swing team, Shadow Dragon Initiative, and balanced the game for a much more competitive second half. Both sides fought hard for every inch of ground! Cobra came back and put the win within their evil grasp by game’s end. 3.   Simple missions.   In the morning period, the sides had two fl