Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

Eclipse Factory, Team Stoke Quest, are a young and progressive team run by the experienced Andy Gill, who knows his stuff; he's been running Stoke Quest teams for many years. His latest Quest team have been smashing their way through the Divisions and really found their form in D2 last year. Their performance in D2 and their subsequent title gave them the belief that they really could make a move for that Elite spot in 2021. Their jump up to D1 for the 2020 season has been an odd one, due to the Covid-19 situation, but it's worked out well for them. The shorter season (3 events) means they can train hard, attack each event hard and ready themselves for a potential Elite Debut in 2021. So what's it like being a paintball team working your way through the CPPS divisional ranks with your hearts set on the Elite Division? We asked them to document their 2020 season, starting at the beginning. Event 1. So here's #1 of our Making Moves blog series - featuring Stoke Quest. Rou...

Leadfarmer (one of the Planet Eclipse Emortals) gave us a bit of a lowdown about the first 'Gulag' event. Commando action Centre my homefield, allowed me to host a new type of event. We call it SpeedMag. Bringing the magfed class out of the woods and on to the speedball field.  14 teams attended Leadfarmer's Gulag. It was great to see magfed players practice layouts, snake side, D side...learning about tournament paintball in advance of this event. Leadfarmer's Gulag, will become an annual event at Commando Action Centre, and other fields in Canada has shown interest in doing the same. The EMF100 proved to be the weapon of choice for many of the participants. Reliable, great performance and light weight...it is now a Speedmag tournament marker :-) First Place went to SAS Ottawa (Murdoch, Hammer and Bender)... Congratz. Keep an eye open for the next installment of the Gulag next year... Looks like being a 4 vs 4!! Was the Gulag experiment a success???  We Think So :-)