Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

OK, maybe it’s not the best thing for Paintball Athletes but its CAKE and we love a bit of cake here at Planet HQ. Especially when they look like this, featuring an Infamous CS2. Happy 30th Birthday Andy Turner (Team Raiders) and thanks for sharing the picture of the cake. (Next time we want the cake not just pictures ;-) Eeeeerrrmmmm  CAKE !!!!!

July 6th 2019 was the date for the second annual Yarra Classic to be held at the Action Paintball Games Yarramundi paintball park in Sydneys, north west! The event is run using the tried and tested old school cool 10 man centre flag format from Tim Montressor of mechanical markers and electronic markers capped at 6bps semi auto (yes we know it is supposed to be 5.5bps, but a couple of the players had old Angels that would not turn down to lower than 6bps so in the interest of old is cool we upped the BPS by half a ball per second) and again, as was the case last year, the event was booked out 8 weeks in advance. Teams were made up of players from Queensland and all over New South Wales. Teams would play a selection of games on the newly rebuilt Trenches and Australia’s only Proper Hyperball battlefields with the finals to be played out on the Hyperball field only. This would be the second time that the old fossil team SWAT Recon, made up by old Sydney SWA

On Saturday 7th July the Lionesses arrived pumped for CPPS R3.  Due to holidays and injuries we were a couple of players short and so drafted in Matt Howel and Harrison Coley to join us. We really appreciated this as it gave the four girls we did have the opportunity to still field a team on Saturday. We took two early wins followed by two close losses, in the past, losing consecutively like that may have gone to our heads, however we stepped up our game, reassessed our plays and were able to take the next 8 wins on the bounce. This left us with 10 wins to 2 losses all day.  We believed that we had come in 2nd place to One41 due to a mix up in some of the other teams scores, so it was a pleasant surprise to end up at the top of the podium at the end of the day!  We had three of the Ladies GB squad playing on Saturday and we are so excited with how this squad is developing together. A huge thank you to our sponsors GI Sports, Anthrax, Mutant Customs, NPF