Planet Eclipse HQ Blog

CPX Sports have a couple of the latest Eclipse Markers there for demo to customers. They have an EGO11 & GEO2. Paul Dagnino the manager of CPX Sports told us “ I've gotten them into countless players hands and the reviews have been nothing short of great.” Paul got together with a few of their regular customers and created a commercial for the Ego11 featuring video compiled last Sunday at CPX Sports from a First Person point of view !! As well as showing the markers kicking ass the video shows what an amazing venue that CPX Sports is... Check it out ! To play down at CPX SPorts click this link..... CLICK ME !!

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Booking Information: Richard Greenaway Phone (413)537-8802 Email: pballer4autism@yahoo.com Or: D&D Indoor Paintball (860) 282-2255 http://dndpaintball.com/ November 22nd 2010 – Paintballers 4 Autism and Planet Eclipse Ltd are happy to announce that Planet Eclipse will be a proud supporter and sponsor of Paintballers 4 Autism. Planet Eclipse will be providing some great prizes for the inaugural Paintballers 4 Autism Winter Indoor 3-Man Event to be held on January 30th 2011 at D&D Paintball in East Hartford, CT. Richard Greenaway Co-Founder of Paintballers 4 Autism says "This is a history making day for Paintballers 4 Autism. To have the backing of Planet Eclipse as a company and the personal support of Jack Wood their Head Designer is something this young non-profit needed. This is a shot in the arm to allow us to spread the word about Autism." Richard continues "PB4A is growing and we will be able to make alot of our dreams a reality with the backing of Eclipse....

Sunday 28th November 2010 and The Diamond Wars Series 3 Finale is here!! The epic struggle reaches its climax..... The HMC have snatched back the lead......can the USDE pull out all the stops to gain victory for the third year? DO NOT miss this end to the season. FASTRACK & BOOK NOW 0121 327 3961 sales@nationalpaintballfields.com http://www.nationalpaintballfields.com/ Venue Address National Paintball Fields Trickley Coppice London Road Bassetts Pole Nr Sutton Coldfield B75 5SA

Capital Edge Paintball Park in Sacramento, California has a pretty famous co owner. David Bains from Pro Team Impact. Nice to see him getting his face in front of the general public on a local TV Show. Check out the Capital Edge Paintball Park web site here: CLICK HERE !!! Capital Edge Paintball Park from Derder Productions on Vimeo .

There are some things that should be left to the experts. I don’t try and fly airplanes; I leave that to the pilots. I don’t try and re-wire a house; I leave that to the electricians. Nicky T should have taken a leaf out of my book. On a recent trip to California Nicky T and the Planet crew went out dinner. Nicky T spotted the OMG Burger and thought he was up to the challenge…. An eye witness to what can only be classed as an ‘Epic Fail’ said “He didn’t even make a dint in it. Nicky just picked at the salad for a few minutes and started to make up excuses about not really liking the taste.” I at least thank Nicky T for bringing this into my life… Even the name, ‘the OMG Burger’ is amazing! LEDZ

As some people might know that Planet Eclipse HQ in England is currently moving. Basically the Old place is being turned upside down, boxes are being packed and all wonders of amazing things are coming out of the woodwork. Apart from some random products that the Stoney in the Mailorder department is putting up on-line at www.planeteclipse.com and spiders under Tomo’s desk there are also a bunch of things that have come out of Design that are simply too good to throw away. One Off’s, samples that never made final production, etc, all manner of things. So over the next week or so. We will stick the items up on EBay for people to bid on if they so desire. Starting prices £0.99 The first items are a few fashion Jewellery items that we didn’t ever produce after the initial samples… Check them out below. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190469970088&ssPageName=STRK:MESCX:IT http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190469972201&ssPageName=STRK:...

Planet Eclipse returns with another new ETV tricks & tips #3. Here's an in-depth and insightful guide to structuring a practice and how to get the most out of it, from Yosh Rau, a multi-time world champion with San Diego Dynasty Subscribe to the Planet Eclipse YouTube Channel Here: CLICK ME !!!!

Another season has come to its end and people are starting to creep into their local Reball lairs. So what is new? Well, after what started as a "just for fun" project, DoW BDX took the overall series title in the Millenium Div2. We came out strong with a third place in Malaga, took a nose dive in Germany taking a fifth place, getting back on track in London with an incredible first place and ending the season with a painfully bitter sweet second place in Paris. But the overall ranking was nothing but sweet. First place and a bump up into Div1 next year. So what can I say about the past season? I’ve never had this much fun with paintball is one thing that’s for sure. The team has bonded in a way that I didn’t think we have done since I started playing with DoW BDX. The guns from Planet Eclipse worked fantastic. When you think" Hell, they just can’t make these guns any better than this", PE deliver a gun that just blows you away (and the poor players on the other sid...

Grayson from X-Factor dropped me an e-mail just before the final leg of the Millennium series in Paris to see if there was any chance he could get an EGO11 to shoot. I pulled a few strings here and there and managed to hook Grayson up with an EGO11. I wasn’t really expecting him to shoot it at the event more of a, get used to it so he can rock it at the up and coming PSP World Cup in Orlando… The text below is copied from Grayson’s Blog and the Video is a little compilation of shots of Grayson shooting the EGO11 in Paris…. Enjoy. .............................................................................................. Paris was coming around the corner and I knew the guy at Eclipse had something left up there sleeve for the end of the year. They’ve been posting teaser pics of the Ego11 so I got in touch with Ledz and requested one for Paris. Like the great guys they are, I got an email immediately back (it was something like 9 at night for him, he must work around the clock) sayin...

The fog of war descended on the impressive National Paintball Field (NPF) site on Saturday the 30th October 2010 for the Ultimate Woodsball League World Championship (UWL). Teams had arrived early from as far afield as Iceland to compete for the coveted UWL World Championship title. Last year’s runners up, ‘Operation Sandbag’ were looking to go one better but teams like the ‘Lucky 15’s’ weren’t going to let them have it all their own way. Simon Cole even put together what would have been a super team in the past: ‘Amalgamation’ but not have a full squad was never going to help. After a long day of battles the Lucky 15’s were sitting pretty in first place and only had to score well in their last match to take the title. Operation Sandbaggers had not lost a match all day either but a low scoring win in their first match against Amalgamation meant that the Lucky 15’s could take the UWL Championship without even meeting the Sandbaggers on the battlefield. But fate is a cruel mistress and e...

Planet Eclipse sends the ETV crew to Las Vegas, Nevada to catch the action from the final NPPL event of the 2010 season. Checkout highlight footage from the Elite 8 and Semi-Final rounds featuring Edmonton Impact, St. Louis Avalanche, and San Francisco Explicit. Music, in order of appearance: "She's Got A Knife" by This Drama (Deep Elm Records) and "Frictionless" by Over It. (Negative Progression Records) Subscribe to the Planet Eclipse ETV Channel Here : CLICK ME !!

Badlands Inc, the Exclusive Distributor for Planet Eclipse products in Canada, has expanded their retail division, adding a new high-end boutique location in Pickering, ON, minutes from Toronto's thriving east end. Badlands is now the largest chain of dedicated paintball stores in the World, and have opened 2 new Boutique-style stores in the past 2.5 years, both serving the City of Toronto, one of the worlds 10 official 'mega-cities'. These 'boutiques' have been designed by Badlands President, Trevor Moss, to push the boundaries of what a paintball store can be, offering state-of-the-art facilities, original custom artwork displays, and an enormous selection of product, all set in a luxurious modern environment. Badlands Sales Manager, Owen Ronayne, commented: 'Badlands boutique paintball stores take the traditional paintball store and transform it into a location that would grace any high-end mall. The latest Pickering store is among the first in Canada to stoc...

Not the most radical change in colour, but one worth knowing if you’re going into a store to buy a Combat GEO2. As of now, the Forest Combat GEO2 is rolling out of Planet Eclipse HQ production. The Green is a more Forest Green rather than the Olive of the original Combat colour. Planet Eclipse have completely sold out of the original Combat colour so if you after the original you need to scour the internet to see if anyone has one left, while you at it see if you can get a bag of rocking horse doo doo :-) Even with the increase in production, the demand for GEO2's is still out stripping our production every week, so get you name down on a back order list at your local store as soon as you can for your chosen Eclipse marker.. Supply is low and demand is HIGH !!!

Planet Eclipse would like to congratulate Team Shortbus for a great year they had. 2 x 1st place finishes and 2 x 2nd place finishes with one more event to go. Thanks for all the support this year and we wish you the best of luck at your final event...... This year Team Shortbus competed in the SEPS (South Eastern Paintball Series). The year started off slow with getting the team to function as a unit. The first 2 events we made the finals but could not make the top 3. We stepped back reviewed the first 2 events, made some changes to the positions of our players and started to progress. Event #3 was at Paintball Asylum in Louisville, KY we finished 2nd overall. It was a great to see our hard work and dedication pay off. Event #4 was at Atlantis Xtreme Paintball Owensboro, KY. Here we got our first 1st place finish. Events 5 & 6 we were unable to play the events due to not all team members being able to attend. We came back strong for Event #7 and were able to get a lot of practice...

It was great to meet Team LOD at the PSP World Cup” says Marc Lancia with Planet Eclipse You don’t really get the chance to meet the teams and players, that you talk to all the time, that are from different countries. They have showed their support and loyalty to Planet Eclipse for the entire year and its great to see them putting the effort to travel all the way from Argentina to play against all other teams in the US. We look forward to seeing them at more events in the future and hopefully one of these days I will make a trip to Argentina to see them all play there (hint hint Boss). Thanks for all the support and we look forward to seeing the team play in the 2011 season” Team LOD, from Argentina, attended the PSP World Cup in October to compete in D3 5man. We are very happy to travel more than 10,000 kilometres to play in the best tournament ever. The organization was awesome, 10 fields, excellent referees, so many shops, all the pro players and everything together was a dream for...

Yet another Collage team making the headlines, this time on TV... Click Here to see the full VT... Way to go LU... All news is good news, this news is great !

It’s not every day that you get an opportunity to head out to a far off land for a long weekend, under the guise of work, so when I was asked if I would like to go to Sao Paulo in Brazil to represent Eclipse at one of the country’s biggest paintball events of the year – I literally jumped at the chance! Having experienced (and survived) a couple of South American tours of duty to the likes of Columbia and Venezuela, I’m keen to add the proverbial Brazil flag to my list of countries to visit, and Mega Play Paintball have kindly provided the opportunity to do exactly that on the weekend of the 4th/5th December. For those of you who don’t already know it, Mega Play are the latest edition to our network of Eclipse Service Centres throughout the world and the opportunity to visit their store, check out the Brazilian paintball scene as well as combining that with a trip to my favorite continent was just too good to pass up! Prior to heading to Sao Paulo I will be filling my bag on the latest...

Planet Eclipse gear and makers are used by all sorts of different types of Paintball player around the world. The Tournament ballers get most of the lime light and coverage so it’s nice to hear from one of the Emortal Army’s Scenario teams…. Redmer Prins from Team FUBAR let us know a little about the Team !! Team FUBAR is a Scenario / Woods team from the Netherlands. Our players come from all over the western part of Holland, with our home field in Hillegom, near Amsterdam. In 2004 team FUBAR was formed out of a Group of students from Utrecht that wanted to play more as a team and in this way accomplish more than playing as individual players. As a team we wanted to play wood tournaments, wood competitions, walk-on-days and big games. Soon it proved we had a strong combination of players will and skills with which we quickly made a name in Woods playing paintball. To have a strong team for the Go Scenario Competition this season and beyond we decided to merge with team Raptor (winner o...

Always nice to see our teams making the news headlines !! Outside of the Industry is even better ! Click here to read the full article...... CLICK ME !!!

Eclipse E-Portal is an application that provides a way to communicate with a compatible* Eclipse marker using a PC. With E-Portal it is possible to: Update the Firmware................ From time to time Eclipse may release new versions of the firmware that controls the way that your marker operates, adding new features, improving existing features, fixing bugs or accommodating changes to major league rules that affect the way that markers operate. E-Portal automatically downloads firmware from the Eclipse website as soon as it becomes available, keeping you up to date and future-proofing your marker. Modify the Start-up Screen................... Images can be created in E-Portal, or any application that can create a 2-colour PNG or BMP file, and transferred to your marker in order to personalize the start-up screen. These images can be saved for future use and shared with friends and team-mates. Sample images are provided with the E-Portal software and new images, including the logos o...