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It’s not very often that teams win back to back events. When it’s the PSP it’s even more impressive. Team 187 Crew have won the last two PSP (Div 2) events, Chicago and MOA. So if nothing else they need a big shout out and from everyone at Planet Eclipse… CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! It’s nice to know that Planet Eclipse have done their part. We know too well that we can’t point the markers in the right direction and the players skills have to be up to the task ahead, but it does fill us with pride when the teams that do win tell us this: “I'm not just saying this because you hooked us up....The guns are amazing. We've had two events were weather could have been a factor and the guns worked flawlessly. When we got back from Chicago some guns had mud caked into the reg from the little weep hole and still shot fine. It poured buckets for the last match of MAO and the guns worked amazing. Never any issues - straight and fast.” Well done again, let’s hope the 187 Crew can make it 3 in a r...

Get your band heard! One of the number one comments we have on all our ETV Videos is "what band was that?" Now it could be you! We are always looking for new new music and new bands, so we'll be running a contest to get your band in an ETV video! Just email your best song to: info@planeteclipse.com Here are the requirements... Band must be unsigned, and control your own publishing & master usage rights Submit your song by email in mp3 or similar audio file format, no bigger than 5mb. In your email, provide band name, song name, and album title, (if applicable) a brief description of your music, along with 3 "sounds like" artists that you feel your music is similar to. Example entry. Band: XYZ Song "rippy rippy stab stab" album: none description: We rock your face off with a mix of punk, metal, and ballsout rock. Sounds like: Justin Beiber, Selena Gomez, Slayer* (Ok, we are having fun with the example entry, but please be serious and accurate with ...

FED Cup 2010 The Fed members truly want the Fed Cup to be something special. We want to create a place to where you can bring your team for the best Paintballing and your family for a fun weekend. The Fed members have been working hard at bringing you these enhancements and I can announce some now. 1....ETV Filming at 2010 Fed Cup. The ETV film crew will be attending this years Fed cup and will be capturing the action to create an ETV Episode of the weekend. So be warned and be ready, look the part, strut your stuff and you could be the next star of ETV. 2..... Laysick Gear and JCS Leisure will be sponsoring the FED CUP Human Table Football Competition which will be running over the FED Cup weekend…. (details to be announced) The event is five players on-field (you can have as many subs as you need) and the entry fee is £5 per team with the proceeds going to Help the Heroes Charity. Register your team on the Saturday morning and have a team practice with the start of the division g...

It’s a hard life being a Professional paintball players isn’t it??? This little video makes me SO JEALOUS. ‘I want to run with the bulls’ Ledz

"The Grind is the 4th video in a new online documentary series called Artifact, produced by Planet Eclipse, creators of the EGO and GEO paintball markers, covering the world of tournament paintball. "The Grind" gives you a glimpse to the experience of practice for professional paintball teams, as San Antonio X-Factor head to Omaha, Nebraska to practice Vicious, in preparation for the next stop on the 2010 PSP Paintball Circuit. Their preparation culminates when the two teams draw each other in a crucial prelim round match-up at PSP Chicago Open. This episode features music by [in order of appearance] Moonlit Sailor, Public Radio, Dorena, Burns Out Bright, Goonies Never Say Die, Flanders, & Dorena. Artifact is a collection of 10-minute documentary shorts, which will be released monthly throughout the 2010 professional paintball season. The videos are narrated by acclaimed commentator, writer, and retired professional player Matt Marshall. Produced by Planet Eclipse, i...

On Saturday August 7th Planet Eclipse Sponsored team, LOD, entered the CSP tournament at La Liga Paintball in Argentina. It was held at the KDT Sports complex which is one of the nicest fields in Argentina. The tournament was a 3vs3 event and LOD entered one team for this event. Team LOD had a great event and played hard throughout the entire day competing against another Eclipse Sponsored team, Chacales of Krakus. The LOD finished the event in 3rd place. It was another great event for Planet Eclipse taking him 2nd,3rdand 4th place finishes at this event. We would like to thank all teams that played in event and would like to give a special thanks out to Team LOD and Chacales of Krakus for both finishing in top 4. Keep up the great work and keep an eye out for Team LOD at the PSP World Cup this year as they are training hard to get ready for the event.

Video Camera’s for Sale… Planet Eclipse have a couple of video camera that are up for Sale.. These are the cameras that we have been using this season for the ETV and Artifacts movies. The first auction is for a Canon XH A1S: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120608247626#ht_649wt_1139 The second video camera is a standard Canon XH A1. This has not been put up on eBay yet. If you want to avoid the bidding drop us an e-mail and we can look at a quick sale.. Offers on a postcard to mailorder@planeteclipse.com . So why the sale, well we are moving over to a solid state format of shooting so these Canon’s just have to go.. We use the A1’s because they are a good workhouse video camera that can take the knocks of Paintball. The reserve on eBay is $1900… So happy bidding if you fancy a bargain, check out the link coz it also comes with some nice extra’s.

August 13, 2010 ---Liberty University Paintball Team, One of College’s premier professional paintball teams, today announced a sponsorship agreement with Planet Eclipse www.planeteclipse.com. Beginning with the 2010 NCPA Tournament Series and continuing for the remainder of the 2011 season, Through the new relationship, Planet Eclipse becomes the official Marker and gear sponsor of the Liberty University Paintball Team. Players and Fans can follow dynamic coverage of the NCPA season by going to www.college-paintball.com and www.planeteclipse.com "We are thrilled to add Planet Eclipse to our list of sponsors" said Todd Hoglund, Liberty University Paintball Coach. “ We are excited to be working with the best company in paintball and by joining efforts with Planet Eclipse,a global leader in the paintball industry, we can promote and market college paintball and show the world what a great sport we have." Liberty University is the largest and fastest growing Christian Evange...

The West Coast Paintball Series was excited to host our fourth event of the 2010 season as the first tournament ever held at the new Tualatin, Oregon field, Impact Action. Nineteen teams between the Open, Rookie and Beginner divisions arrived bright and early and were ready to play some paintball! For the Open Division, Oregon's Team USA took home first place, Washington team Seattle Swagger took second, and Oregon team Awesome came in third. All teams exhibited some great competition on the field for the top places! Washington teams swept the Rookie Division with team Code Blue taking home first place for the second event in a row. Team PLAYA H8RZ earned second place and NW Devastation took third place. Four new teams and three second event teams competed for the top places in the new Beginner Division. Oregon team, Crossfire fought hard and earned first place, Washington team, H8R Kidz took second place and Oregon team, Green took home third place. Thank you to all of our sp...

This years Planet Eclipse SL Ego called the SLS flew off the shelves. We were pretty much sold out the minute we launched the product. We kept the last 12 out of the total production of 350 back to create something a little special. We commissioned an artist to create this special Dynasty SLS Graphic for this very limited SL marker. The Dynasty 'Dragon' SLS comes with all of the same features as the other SLS’s but with the beautiful Dynasty artwork. The run is only 12 Dynasty SLS’s and these will be spread around the world. There will be a total of 3 on the Planet Eclipse web site here: CLICK HERE NOW If you want to grab a pretty rare ‘dragon’ then be quick. Unique SLS Features: • Bespoke SL SLS Body • Bespoke SL Cure3+ Bolt with Insert Kit – Three Different Bolt Inserts • Bespoke SL Circuit Board With USB Interface – Cable and Software Included • Bespoke SL SL3 Inline Regulator • Bespoke SL Dual Triggers - “S” and “Classic” Style Triggers Included • Bespoke ...

It’s not very often that we get intel from the Argentina, so it’s always nice to hear from our teams of how they are doing and what’s going on… Below is a quick report sent in to us from Claudio Cardaci…. In the early morning of Saturday before the tournament Claudio always holds a Clinic for all new and upcoming players. If you are at the next event please stop by on Saturday and take advantage of the clinic…. The tournament took place in La Liga Paintball on Saturday 7th of August. It was held in one of the best courts in Argentina, in the sports complex KDT directly in the capital. This is where you play 5 ° date of the CSP Tournament Series. CHACALES OF KRAKUS sits in 3rd place overall for the series. On this occasion the tournament was 3 vs 3, where we participated with two open teams in the same category, limited Paint and semi auto. Chacales of Krakus played great throughout the entire event and ended up taking 2nd place while their Junior Team, Chacales of Krakus Junior, finish...

Is this where it all began???? While in Mexico checking out the ancient ruins at Chitzen Itza I spotted this…. Scare - E !!!!!!

The Federation would like to announce the details of the 2010 Fed Cup (18th and 19th September 2010). The purpose of the Fed Cup is to create a fantastic end of season event bringing the best talent from the North and South of the UK together to find out who are the UKs Champions. This year the event will be held at the new Balls Out Promotions venue (home of the CPPS) in Rodbaston College. Rodbaston, Penkridge, Stafford ST19 5PH This year the main events will be the X-Ball 'Race to 4' format (12 teams Max) and a 5 Man 'Race to 2' format. Saturday 18th September will be qualifying day; teams will be fighting both 5 Man 'Race to Two' and X Ball 'Race to 4' to qualify for the Sunday club finals on Sunday the 19th September. The teams that do not qualify will be able to register to play the FREE Fed Plate 5-Man (no race to) event on the Sunday… Yes!!!! FREE of charge. Everyone at the Federation wants players to have value for money and also to get as much P...

Since the official launch of the GEO2 in June 2010 there has been an unprecedented demand for the Marker. At Planet Eclipse HQ in England the production department have been running at full speed and yet we continue to be unable to satisfy the demand. The truth of the matter is that Planet Eclipse has a limited production capacity; we are not ‘mass producing’ Eclipse High end markers in a 3rd party Chinese factory. Each GEO2 marker is hand built and testing by skilled craftsmen in the UK. This takes time, effort and care. Rapidly increasing production to meet demand at this time could be detrimental to the quality of our product and we are not willing to go down that road. We would like to apologise to our customers and dealers alike for our inability to supply the demand that we are receiving, but we ask you all, Players, Retailers, Dealers, Distributors and Wholesalers alike to please bare with us. We are continually striving to produce the best Paintball products in the World and h...

The Vipers Tournament Series is a five- leg Venezuelan Tournament Series. The first event was in Puerto La Cruz City on May 1-2. Twenty teams entered the tournament and they fought hard giving it all they had to try to get to the first place standing .This event was near the Paradise Beaches and malls, giving the players a chance to relax and have some fun off the field as well as on. US Pro players, Nick Slowiak from Aftershock and Brandon Short from LA Ironmen, came down to Venezuela to participate in the tournament and host some paintball clinics, which was great. The team loved playing with them and they put on a great clinic for all the players. The second event was in Caracas City (San Antonio) on June 4-6. Twenty-eight team’s came to shoot, run and slide on the fields for the three day event. This tournament was held in memory of "JC Henao", a popular Colombian Player, who gave his all to South American paintball. The principal ref was Tony Von Ronne from the USA, who ...

Planet Eclipse and ETV present a G-rated version of Prelim, Elite 8, Semi, and Finals round highlights from the NPPL 2010 Chicago Open, held Memorial Day weekend at Challenge Park Extreme. in Joliet, IL. See Eclipse teams Impact, Avalanche, Dynasty, Explicit, Vendetta, and Warped Army as they battle the best teams in the world, and mother nature's torrential down poor. Featured music in this video (in order of appearance) Set Your Goals-"The Fallen" (epitaph records) Over It "Hey! Liberty" (negative progession records) Also-special feature-don't miss the trailer for the new Derder paintball film, Dementia, after the video! There was and is another version of this ETV up which had 10 seconds of ‘flesh’ at the start but YouTube pulled it down so you have to log in to view this version now…… Oh Well… Hope you enjoy this version just as much :-) Subscribe to the ETV Youtube channel here: SUBSCRIBE

MONOSALVAJE’s trip to CSP CHILE Monosalvaje an Eclipse sponsored team from Guayaquil, Ecuador that was founded on the year 2000. We have been competing in South American events since 2003 and this year we decided to play in the South American Paintball Circuit (CSP). Our first stop would be Santiago for the CSP Chile event on July 16-18. It was -2 degrees and everybody from the team had 5 layers of clothes to withstand the cold. 5 layers that didn’t feel like enough since we live in a tropical city and therefore we are not used to the cold weather. There were 7 of us who took the trip from Guayaquil: Edmundo Jordan, Andres Dassum, Juan Jose Moreno, Ruben Moreno, Juan Sebastian Bejarano, Andrew Baker and Alejandro Amador. We knew that there would be some tough competition at the event specially considering that some teams were taking pro players to reinforce them. The pro players that played in Chile were: Team Country Pro-Player Mercenarios Brazil Ryan Greenspa...

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Here at Planet Eclipse HQ we utterly respect the opinions of our customers and this $20 wristband, no matter how innocently we intended it to be, has caused unrest. We do not want to fool, con, lie to or mislead anyone with any product we produce. The Power Balance wrist bands may or may not do anything. Nobody here at Planet Eclipse is a Scientist and it could very well be the case that we have been taken in by the hype, though we did actually perform the tests ourselves. Perhaps it was a bad error of judgement to have this product made... So my decision is that I’m not going to sell this item. We have taken this product off-line and we will be contacting the few dealers that have already purchased them in order to give them a full refund. If you have purchased one of the Planet Eclipse Power Balance wristbands and would like a refund please contact the dealer you purchased it from. As a lot of the critics have said these wristbands could be and possibly are a ‘Placebo Effect’ item, w...

In another shock mid season move, Planet Eclipse Sponsored Pro Team Edmonton Impact have picked up none other than Tyler Harmon from XSV. Bart Yachimec has this to say: ‘We are very excited to make arrangements with Rich Telford’s Team, XSV, at this time of the year in order to sign a player like Tyler Harmon. I remember him being one of the youngest players to ever make Pro thru Bob Long and to bring his Calibre of play to Edmonton Impact could make the last half of the season the best yet. Edmonton Impact and all its Fans welcome Tyler Harmon.’ Tyler Harmon said: ‘I have decided to make the move from Sacrament XSV to Edmonton Impact because I'm ready to be a part of a world-class-championship team. I want to become the best paintball player I can possibly be, and I feel like the possibilities are endless on Impact.’ God bless, Tyler Harmon Spread your wings, follow your dreams, and everything will be so supreme. .......................................................................

Here at Planet Eclipse HQ we love it when a team makes an effort to put there victories and stories into words but it's even better when they make a video !! Black Out sent us this youtube video of them picking up the MPL #2 Intermediate Championship... Well Done Black Out, great to see a member of the Emortal Army picking up the top honours.