Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

This weekend, Team Brute Force attended the Cold War Scenario at Xtreme Paintball in Connecticut. For us, this was a long awaited and anticipated event. Why? Because for one, this event is the kick-off of the 2011 season. Also, because it was our first run with the new guys we picked up over the winter. The team arrived in the Constitution State on Friday, after a long and treacherous journey that went over the river, and through the woods, all in the dead of night. Finding our hotel proved to be a bit of a challenge, because of a GPS data entry error by a member that shouldn’t be named, to save her embarrassment. Ironically, we stumbled upon Xtreme Paintball itself in our search for the elusive hotel. We stole a glance at the field in its after-hours, and knew right away that in the day that followed, we would have our hands full. Hands full of shovels, that is. After a slumberous night with bellies full of Jake’s Wayback Burger’s delicious cuisine, we arrived at the field just after ...

Team Brute Force General Red Team at Modern Warfare at P&L Paintball As we pulled out of our meeting spot with cloudy grey skies and the weather report on the radio we were all worried of what the day may bring. This was the first time in the history of the team was Brute Force ever honoured with a general position in an event; There was no chance that rain was going to keep us from winning. Over the last four years as a team, Brute Force has attended 14 major regional big games and scenarios and up until October of 2009 we held an undefeated record, we were hungry and excited to bring another win home with us. We arrived at P&L Paintball at 6:30am, the majority of the crowd wasn't even awake yet but from the time we entered the front gates we were already running our game plans. It took us 20 minutes to set up our four blue Planet Eclipse canopies and tables when disaster hit. It felt as if the heavens opened up and there was an ocean falling on us. Rain fell hard as it th...