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https://www.facebook.com/uwlmexico/ Well I am off on another Paintball adventure. I landed in Brownsville, Texas and prepared to make the border crossing with a friend. After about an hour I arrived in Matamorros, Mexico nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande and just 45km from the Gulf of Mexico. Matamorros is now one of Mexico's chief ports of entry for tourists as well as import and export of goods. It is also the commercial center of an extensive cotton and sugarcane growing area. It has tanneries, cotton mills and distilleries.   After about an hour ride we arrived at Area Recon2 Paintball Field. I met with field owner Eder Cabrera and he gave me a tour of the site. Area Recon has 1 Speedball and 3 Scenario fields each with their own concept. Field #1 Medevil Castle is littered with bridges and towers for all the action you can handle. Field #2 is The Alamo which consists of a fortress surrounded by trees and bushes. The objective is to capture and co...

It’s never a good day when we hear about a Paintballer has tragically lost his life and today is one of those days. Mason Calhoun or ‘Jester’ to his team mates (Bottom right of the picture) died last Friday in a motorcycle accident. Mason was a Lieutenant junior grade in the United States Navy and played Paintball for team ‘Seek and Destroy’ with his trusted Hurricanes SL74 playing out of Fox Paintball in Virginia Beach. Mason’s funeral is on Wednesday the 27 th June on Little Creek Naval Base. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mason friends and family. Rest in Peace Mason, until you hear that 10 second buzzer at the start game in heaven!

What a fantastic result! The French Championships are a very well respected series of events with some great teams competing for the prestigious honours. And the latest event was dominated by Eclipse teams... which is nice. Paris Camp Carnage managed to take 1st place spot in D1 (beating the Ton Tons yet again). Martigny Lions took top honours in D2, meaning they now qualify for D1 in 2019. And the RNPPC under 16s team, who all played with Etha2s took first place in their division. What can we say? Other than résultat fantastique! For more information about the championships check out the official website > HERE <

We arrived on site and set up our tech booth on Thursday 24th to be ready to go the next day for the International Women’s Paintball Tournament featuring female teams and players from The United States, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia. Starting at  8:00 a.m. on Friday, teams where gathered all around the field getting ready for the first match at 9:00 a.m. Inside the netting Planet Eclipse field wraps were prominently displayed setting the stage. Team USA which featured players from team Destiny was sponsored by Planet Eclipse and was assisted by Luis Rodriguez, the onsite tech support representative in the pits helping out as needed. They had 6 CS2 in their camp and won first place in the tournament. Friday afternoon was a practice day for 507 tournament teams, and we stayed on site offering help with servicing and repairing any markers. The next morning games started with D4 and D3 matches.   We were ready to go at 7:00 a.m. At noon the day got ...

The third leg of the Spanish championship, EXPL, had to be played with a clean mindset, without thinking about our last performance.   https://www.facebook.com/EXPLPaintball/ Planet Eclipse managed to get us our CS2’s out just in time for the event. Without any bedding in time we had to trust they were as good as we had heard! The first match of prelims was played against the Old kids. The day could not have started more identical to that of the 2nd event. We started losing 0-3 with about 7 min of game time to be played. After a change of attitude, we pushed hard and took the win 4-3. The second match with King Paintball team was much better executed on our part. 5-1 final result. There are no easy games, as proved in the previous leg. Despite that we were confident on making a good result versus Chiclana Vulkan Green. 4-0 in 7 minutes. We took advantage of this game to test some moves on the field. The last game of the prelims with the Imperial Army was...