Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

ONCE MORE INTO THE BREECH… Our second foray into the realm of competitive woodsball within the Ultimate Woodsball League started off in the normal Tennessee early spring way – a clear practice day, a rainy and cold game day, followed by a warm game day.   We never can figure out what mother-nature has in store for us, so we prepare for the worst. Practice day let us work off some of the winter atrophy and learn how to work with a few new players for our team.   Not only did we enjoy working a few points against each other in the “Western Town” at Bearclaw Paintball (Fayetteville, TN), but we also said hello and talked with what we hope to be a regular face at our home field – UWL’s very own Tom Cole.   Tom has one thing that we like a lot – a great following of like minded fellow paintballers that love to go 110% at game time, but also have the mind to play with sportsmanship on and off the field.   This event drew teams from as far away as Wisco...

  We recently found ourselves at the first UWL event at our home field of Bearclaw Paintball in Fayetteville, TN.   This would be the first woodsball tournament that any of us had played.   Although many of the team enjoys playing different formats of paintball (some even with speedball experience), scenario is our comfort zone.   We were going to be outside of our element, but were determined to branch out and give the combination of our woods experience, along with a faster paced game, a valiant effort.   We entered the Tactical Division, along with two other sister teams from our field. On Game Day One, each of us did our best to prepare for what was to come.   Some of us joked around, listened to music, socialized, or even took a nap.   As time drew near for the first game of the day, we all huddled around the net near the midpoint of the field and watched the experienced UWL ...