Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

July in Tennessee brings two awful things; heat and humidity.   But this year it also brought one of our favorite paintball formats with the Ultimate Woodsball League.   We enjoy UWL because you get the fast format of speedball, which is, after all, paintball’s original home, and you add it to the woods! Since the Music City Open was held at our home field of Bearclaw Paintball in Fayetteville, TN, we arrived the night before and decided to do a few of our favorite pre-game activities.   We relived old paintball stories, planned the upcoming schedule, and of course ate cobbler.   Pineapple was the flavor for this excursion. This year, we accomplished one of our team goals by winning first place in the 10-man tactical division.   The many hours of practice (with many of our favorite teams) seemed to pay off.   We also fielded two teams in the 5-man tactical division; one of them came in 2 nd place.  Without some of our...

  BLACK KARMA After a short mild winter in the deep south, Black Karma was more than ready to get a jump start on our 2012 paintball season.  While much of the country had snow and frigid temps to begin their season, we were quite comfortable in the mid 60's. MPP Game's Apocalypse 2012 was our first game of the year at Bear Claw Paintball in Fayetteville, Tennessee and this game packed all the suspense and uncertainty as the ending of the Mayan calendar later this year. The Mayan calendar has long been the subject of folk lore.  Does the end of the calendar mark the end of the world as we know it, merely the end of the 13th baktun or did the Mayans just get tired of making a calendar?  More importantly, do we need to buy Christmas presents this year if the world ends before Christmas?  The Apocalypse 2012 game was set after the fall of civilization with the New Earth Order (NEO) planning on enslaving the rest of the Natives to build a future for the r...