Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

At its very core, paintball has always been inclusive, accessible and is one of the few leisure activities that is truly open to anyone, and everyone. But at its highest competitive level it has, for the most part, been an exclusive playing environment for athletic males. Until now. Blasted! - © Fava Photography After hosting a showcase event at the 2021 NXL World Cup, the 2022 season added one more division to its list. The WNXL. Consisting of all-female teams the WNXL was created to show the world that paintball is an exciting sport that females can, and should consider participating in. Not only that, but for those who do play and want to push their playing careers as far as possible there's an elite professional level that they can aspire towards and help open more doors for women in competitive paintball. So, we captured some of the great action and the thoughts of those awesome women who are working hard to prove their worth in this sweet video. Thanks to our incredible WNXL ...

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...

Article number 10 in our history of Planet Eclipse focuses on yet another office move. Yawn. Yeah, we know, not as exciting as talking about guns or tournament wins, but as boring as it may seem moving our HQ to something a little more sexy (and bigger) made a huge difference to how we operate day-to-day. When we first moved to Praed Road from our original location in Manchester city centre , we took 2 units and knocked them through to make one bigger unit. As we expanded and started production of our own Marker (the awesome EGO) we took on a 3rd and then 4th unit. Luckily all next to each other (in a U-shape) so we could continue to work, but the bigger we got the more disjointed it became. When we took on the 5th unit which was over the road–not so convenient–we decided to start looking for something else. After some searching we found a new build that was only ½ mile away from Praed Road that would allow us to design and build the Planet Eclipse HQ for our future. The ...