Great to see Malaysia back with council support.

The City Council of Penang Island Mayors Cup or Piala Datuk Bandar Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang 2024 was held on 22^nd – 23^rd June at the city centre’s Polo Grounds field. This would be the largest paintball tournament in Malaysia to date and hosted by the The City Council of Penang Island in cooperation with Raskal Sports Sdn Bhd and Kelab Paintball Mambong. With a total of over 75 teams and running on 3 fields over 2 days and with participations of teams and players from Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore and Australia.

The opening Ceremony of this tournament was officiated by the The City Council of Penang Island Mayor, the Right Honorable Dato’ Ir.  Rajendran a/l P Anthony who graced us with his presence and brought us glorious welcoming weather and good fortunes to all team. With Mr. Khairol Izwan bin Salamat and Mr. Hashim bin Johan representing the The City Council of Penang Island department and also a keen paintball player for The City Council of Penang Island Paintball Team. Thank you to you both, who worked closely with us and giving the support and coordination to make sure this event ran smoothly. Isky from Raskal Sports Sdn Bhd presented a memento for the event to the City Council Mayor.

The glorious Pearl of the Orient Penang Island with its rich British colonial history, cultural and heritage meets Unesco World Heritage and is the melting pot of all religions, races and food. The City Council of Penang Island generously provided fantastic support for the tournament with facilities and hospitalities such as venue, equipment, utilities, lunch and beverages for all players and spectators alike throughout the weekend. Penang Island aka Pulau Pinang in its local name, is a well-known and much loved local favorite vacation island for its lively variety of local food be it Indian, Chinese, Malay or Western, and its anytime anywhere happening party island of Malaysia on its beautiful beaches and very lively entertainment spots.

The participating teams at The City Council of Penang Island Mayor Cup 2024, battled it out over the 2 days to reach the next round in the Open, Premier, Classic Mech and Rookies division. The Open division saw the regions heavyweight teams played their hearts out to reach the final stages and ultimately Team Atwa Stolen Nemesis Legion reigned supreme and followed closely by a new team called Team Savages. Last year’s Champions Team Inception from Thailand taking the 3^rd placing with team KPM Raskal following in 4^th placing. With Waxers Legion in 5^th place in the Open Division saw a clean sweep of Planet Eclipse sponsored factory teams taking all the podium places apart from 2^nd place team Savages, which is also Raskal Sports Sdn Bhd Eclipse Dealer’s team who incidentally was also using the now legendary CS3 paintball markers. So it can be said that it’s an Eclipse 1^st to 5^th clean sweep. This is also the first time we have Live Stream Broadcast of our tournament for both days.

 

The Premier Division saw teams from Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar and local Malaysian teams challenging each other to be the Champions. This top spot was taken by team Dracone from East Malaysia, with team Dusted the junior Eclipse team of Raskal in 2^nd placing and team Ohayo Dragons of Myanmar in 3^rd placing. A worthy mention is a young and new Eclipse team from Taiwan, team Dynamics with their limited experience and with a vision to challenge a whole new style of play and to gain experience, played well. They shall be back better and stronger next year.

The Rookies and the The City Council of Penang Island Sports Club close division saw a sell out with our limited slots. As this division is for completely new players, all players were provided with the awesome Planet Eclipse Emek mechanical markers to use during this tournament. The Emeks worked well without any problems or stoppages and was lightweight for players to use all day. Players liked how this marker shot and the accuracy as compared to others.

Just a mention that we very proud and extremely honored to have a 62 year old gentleman in the Open Division with Team KPM Raskal, the most senior player of the tournament, Tuan Morsidi Abdullah, President of Kelab Paintball Mambong – KPM from Kuching East Malaysia. His passion and dedication to the paintball industry and sports is a lesson for all of us, age is just a number and he is a regular paintball tournament player. And he shoots Eclipse. Thank you Tuan.

 

Lastly, we would like to show our huge appreciation and thank you to the The City Council of Penang Island and its Staffs for hosting and cooperating with us and making this The City Council of Penang Island Mayors Cup 2024 tournament a huge success. We shall be back better, bigger and stronger in 2025.

Not forgetting our tournaments sponsors, Planet Eclipse, Virtue, Sup’Air and Super Fake paintballs together with our affiliated event partners namely Tuan Azrol of Atwa Stolen, Acha Aisawan of Nawasia Bangkok and Amy Cheng of TOP Kaohsiung Taiwan.

We would also like to say a huge thank you to all the teams and players participating in this event, the Referees Organisation – MPRO for a great job well done, for officiating the games and to all our Staffs and Crew for their hard work and dedications and to all the players and teams that participated. Thank you also to AXMedia and Big Screen together with Fibm.Tv for the media coverage. See you all next year and thank you again.