Worldwide Demand Causes Delay for HydroTec® Paintball Launch
Hodgkins, IL, February 1, 2011— HydroTec® has officially announced that they have delayed the early scheduled 2011 U.S. launch of their revolutionary, new paintballs. This is due to the high demand and positive response HydroTec® has received from within the paintball industry. HydroTec® will now launch in the spring of 2011.
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DLX Offers Impulse Trade In
DLX Technology Group offers $500 trade-in value to players who move up from a 2009 Smart Parts Impulse to the ultimate luxury paintball marker.
For Immediate Release – For a limited time, owners of a complete (working or not) recent model year Smart Parts Impulse can trade their marker in to DLX Technology Group for a value of $500 dollars off the factory-direct purchase of a DLX Luxe.
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Save hundreds or more if your team pays for all four of the 2011 PSP events up front! Pay all entry fees in full before February 11, 2011 and the PSP will extend 2010 pricing to your team!
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If you’re anything like the rest of us, you’re anxiously awaiting the release and availability of Hydrotec’s new and radically different paintballs. After all, if what the company is saying about these paintballs is true, how paintball fields do business and what players can expect from their paintballs could change noticeably. Evidently Hydrotec knows we’re all waiting as well, and have begun releasing videos showing their paintballs in action. Click READ MORE to see the first of these!
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We are very pleased to confirm that our 2011 opening event will be held in Paris at the world famous Longchamp Racecourse (Hippodrome de Longchamp).
Based in the west of central Paris, Longchamp racecourse is set in 57 hectares of beautiful Paris land between the Seine and the Bois de Bolougne. Home to such classics as the “Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe”, It is the most famous racecourse in France and one of the most famous in the world. This is truly a Premiere venue that will attract massive media interest showcasing our sport to a vast audience. At a time when the sport and industry are experiencing the realities of the economy, this should be a much needed boost for us all. Please click READ MORE for the rest of the release from the Millennium Series!
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PRESS RELEASE
Empire Paintball Sponsors Team VICIOUS in 2011
Sewell, NJ, January 27th, 2011, Empire Paintball. Empire Paintball announced today that they are continuing their sponsorship of Team Vicious.
“We are super stoked to be sponsoring Vicious again this year,” said Jason A. Taitano, VP of Marketing. “They have so much passion for the game and with their rookie year behind them, we all have great expectations for them. With a combination of their talent, coaching, and solid support system, they are poised to set new standards for 2011.” Click READ MORE for the full release from Emipre!
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Stiffi, the longtime manufacturer of high-quality, lightweight carbon fiber barrels that have powered such teams as Miami Rage to NPPL victories and Greg Hastings when he hits the field, announced today the expansion of their entire line of barrels with more bore sizes. Already manufacturing numerous lengths, sizes and colors of carbon fiber barrels including the metal-free MF barrel, Stiffi barrels are now available in bore sizes from .679 all the way to .695, allowing players the ability to shoot practically any paintball, from any manufacturer, in any condition. See the Stiffi ad in the latest digital issue of PaintballX3 and Click READ MORE for the official press release from Stiffi!
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The Valken Summer Cup is coming to Chile and it’s right around the corner! Well, Chile isn’t. Unless you’re already in South America. But the DATE for the Valken Summer Cup to be held in San Vicente, Chile, is right around the corner, on February 26, 2011 to be exact! A five-man format allowing seven players on the roster and a PSP 13bps shooting mode, the Valken Summer Cup looks to be a great South American competitive paintball event! Click READ MORE for the official graphic, a link to the field layout and more!
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Following on the heels of their release announcing the sponsorship of popular longtime pro team San Antonio X-Factor, GI Sportz has released more information on their 2011 season, the sponsorship of the CFOA Tournament Series. Once one of the largest tournament series in the world hosting over 100 five-man teams per event, the league has undergone a rebuilding and restructuring over the last few seasons under new leadership. Adding GI Sportz to the list of paintball sponsors is certainly a step in the right direction! Click READ MORE for the full release from GI Sportz!
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GI Sportz is continuing their apparent bid to take over the professional paintball world, as they announced today their sponsorship of yet another influential professional team, San Antonio X-Factor. Always a strong team, X-Factor is rebuilding their core and look to come out in 2011 swinging for the fences. Using the paint that propelled the Red Legion to a World Cup title in 2010 certainly won’t hurt. Click READ MORE to see the official release from GI Sportz and San Antonio X-Factor!
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In a move that will certainly position GI Sportz in a powerful position as a paint manufacturer heading into 2011′s professional season, the company announced today they had signed top pro team Tampa Bay Damage! After an extremely successful 2010 World Cup that saw GI Sportz pick up the mighty Red Legion, the company has now signed the winners of the 2010 PSP series and of numerous NPPL events in 2010. Click READ MORE for the official release from GI Sportz!
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Just a quick note to let you know we’re moving PaintballX3 to a faster, more efficient server. We may have some down time in the next 48 hours. Please bear with us. Thanks!
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Headbangers Scenario team have announced several new sponsors as they head into the 2011 season. First came word that the team would wear tactical and loadbearing gear from TheVestGuy.com. This was followed quickly by an announcement that the team would shoot Pinokio Hoppers, after the team reached an agreement with Jennifer Chapman, Director of Sales and Marketing at Pinokio. Finally, the team announced they will also be representing ANS Gear as they hit the field in 2011. Click READ MORE for the full story!
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KEE Action Sports, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has announced a recall of the BT SA-17 pistol. The recall is due to a chance that, while inserting a CO2 cartridge into the pistol, the cartridge may fly out and potentially cause injury to the user or others nearby. No such injuries have been reported. KEE recommends that owners of BT SA-17 pistols should immediately stop using them and contact the company for either a repair or repair parts and instructions. Please click READ MORE to see the complete press release from KEE and the CPSC.
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G.I. Sportz will be at each event with the World Cup Winning 4-STAR Imperial Paintballs supplied to the players from the G.I. Sportz climate controlled paint trailer!
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The CPPL & KEE Action Sports recently announced the continuation of their sponsorship agreement. Click READ MORE to read the press release.
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Check out the latest digital Paintball X3 Magazine issue live and free, by clicking HERE. In this issue we’ve got a full Dye NT11 Review, Our Favorite Pics Feature, The Shoebox Compressor Review, Titans Clash in Palmetto City Scenario, Deadlywind Null Barrel Review, and an exclusive interview with Pete “Robbo” Robinson. Check it out!!
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The PSP recently announced some changes to the league beginning with the 2011 season, including plans to “adjust position of bunkers to better suit a wider variety of players.”
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The 2011 Paintball season is about to begin. This year the NPPL will be celebrating its 18th year hosting tournaments, and 2011 is shaping up to be one of the best years yet. The NPPL Board of Directors recently held its annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada where they appointed a President and created a new internal team of professionals who will operate the League with the intention of running the most successful tournament series in the world.
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Talonmark Introduces Conqueror Paintball Clothing
TALONMARK was founded in late 2009. Our aim is to design and manufacture better products through constant research, development, and fine-tuning. Our definition of better product is: better quality, better functionality, more user friendly and fashionable styling that adopts innovative technologies and materials.
“We are not just doing it, we are doing it better.”
We would like to kick off the new year by presenting our latest designs of jerseys and pants for paintball sports, the CONQUEROR Series. We will be introducing additional products throughout the year.
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7v7. random people against each other. the other team had a 17 ear pro. my team had me
Craig Miller of Ultimate Air Ball has announced that new Ultimate Air update kits are available to allow fields to match 2011 NPPL and PSP field layouts and bunker designs. Ultimate Air Ball bunkers have a reputation as some of the most durable and reliable in the world! Now fieldowners who already have field kits can simply update to 2011 specs and keep their teams practicing on accurate field bunkers. Click READ MORE for contact information from Ultimate Airball!
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The January, 2011 issue of PaintballX3 Magazine is coming soon and it’s going to be a great one! From gear reviews on exciting and groundbreaking new equipment like Dye’s flagship NT11 marker and the Shoebox Compressor to event coverage, interviews and news, the January, 2011 issue is the way to start your 2011 paintball reading!
Stay tuned to PaintballX3.com for all your daily paintball news and information fixes, and to be among the first to see the January, 2011 issue of PaintballX3 Magazine when it goes live!
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DXS, one of the best known paintball manufacturers in the industry, has announced they will return to the NPPL professional tournament series for 2011 with their paintballs. This announcement significantly increases the amount of choices NPPL players will have for their event paintballs in the coming season. Click READ MORE to see the official announcement from Procaps/DXS.
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PSP Events and the Galveston Island Convention and Visitors Bureau are pleased to invite you to the 2011 PSP season opener, which will be held during spring break March 11 – 13 in Galveston Island, Texas!
Galveston Island is a popular weekend resort town 40 miles south of Houston, Texas with a beautiful 32-mile stretch of beaches and seawall along the Gulf of Mexico. A tourist’s dream, there’s surfing, restaurants, shops, attractions, bars, music, fishing, water parks, golfing and resorts for all ages. March is a beautiful time to spend on the island – with its warm weather in the low 70’s and limited rainfall – it’s been a draw to spring breakers for years! Very excited about having the PSP event held during the same time as Spring Break, the Galveston Island Convention and Visitors Bureau is giving each attendee a “Smart Card’ for discounts to stores, bars, shops and restaurants! Hotels, airlines and rental car agencies are also offering discounts to make sure this trip is not only enjoyable, but affordable as well! CLICK READ MORE to see the full release from the PSP!
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The first Tactical Paintball game of the year is kicking off this Sunday at 10am at Prozone. With 30 acres of game zones, missions planned, trip wires, boob-ytraps and lots more, it’s going to be a great day. Sundays weather is looking dry and a little warmer than it has been so far!
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Valken is starting off the new year in a great-looking new location, 1 Hawk Court in Swedesboro, New Jersey 08085. If you’re looking to place an order or are already a customer, they want you to know. Contact them at (866)-97valken.
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While Splatbrothers Paintball, the long-running Virginia paintball field operated by Ronn Stern and Don Hager, hosts plenty of scenario games every season, they always pull the stops out for bigger games in Spring and Fall. Splatbrothers’ Fall 2010 game, Domination, showcased everything that is right about a great field that cares about its customers and loves promoting scenario events. With solid attendance, an excellent playing field that offers players of all skill levels and style preferences exactly what they love about paintball and outstanding infrastructure, Domination 2010 at Splatbrothers Paintball was another great scenario game in a season of great scenario games from coast to coast this season!
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San Diego, California (December 29, 2010) – DYE Paintball is proud to launch a new contest that has never been done before. DYE is always working very hard to introduce cutting edge designs and products for the paintball world. Now you will have a chance to join in our design team.
After our successful introduction of DYE’s revolutionary PGA™ custom graphic anodizing at PSP World Cup 2009, we have been able to transfer the most mind-blowing graphics right on to our paintball guns. Now you can be the designer of a brand new DYE NT PGA™ gun.
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If you missed it, Lane Wright, COO of the PSP, released a 2200-plus word statement earlier today. Since the release of the statement at around 1PM today, I have spoken to a handful of players and industry representatives to get a feel for how it was received. The comment almost every one of those I spoke to was, “I couldn’t get through it, it was just too long.” With that in mind I thought I’d try to simplify the message.
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PaintballX3 has learned that Blue’s Crew, the best-known team in scenario paintball, has reached an agreement with Dye and Proto for 2011. This agreement will see Blue’s Crew playing everywhere from their home at EMR Paintball at Castle Conquest to Living Legends, Fulda Gap and the Grand Finale using Rotor loaders and wearing Dye packs. As Dye entered the scenario world at the end of last season with a complete line of camouflage tactical products, the decision to form a marketing partnership with Blue’s Crew makes perfect sense. READ MORE for official information from Dye about Blue’s Crew!
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Check out this very cool “create your own custom paintball video” link from Guerrilla Air. Also check out
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Paintball Festival and Business Conference – Pittsburgh
August 5,6,7th, 2011
Pittsburgh, PA. – After a 4 year hiatus, Debra Dion Krischke will be returning to the paintball industry, doing what she does best- creating a gathering where field and store owners can learn and grow – while networking with the industry professionals.
“I’ve been consumed for the past few years producing special events for women’s initiatives such as domestic violence and human trafficking, says Dion Krischke, “ but our daughter has now stepped up as the Operations Manager at Three Rivers Paintball after college and I can see through her eyes, how important it is to meet and exchange ideas and information with other field owners. What works in Milwaukee may resonate in Tampa, or a new idea in Sacramento may work well in Europe! “
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So here’s the scenario: You’re relatively new to the sport of paintball. You and your friends are about to take the field at your local park and what do you see? More walk-on ‘ballers like yourself? Droves of camo-clad weekend warriors? Well, depending on the parks you’re attending, you may notice less and less of the street clothes-wearing walk-on players and thrift store camo cohorts that you’re used to seeing, replaced by semi-official looking, similarly-clad members of newly-spawned teams.
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During this 2010 holiday season, The NPPL thoughts turn gratefully to those who have made our league a great success. We are wishing you a Happy Holiday and a Safe and Happy New Year!
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The NPPL, promoting seven-man professional and divisional paintball, as well as pump paintball at events around the US, has released their 2011 dates.
During this 2010 holiday season, The NPPL thoughts turn gratefully to those who have made our league a great success. We are wishing you a Happy Holiday and a Safe and Happy New Year!
Our gift to you is the 2011 calendar dates for the NPPL Super 7 World Series. This is your official invitation to play and participate in the greatest paintball events on earth.
Event 1 Surf City USA Open Huntington Beach, CA. April 1st – 3rd.
Event 2 Chicago, IL May 20th-22nd
Event 3 Washington D.C. September 16th – 18th
Event 4 Las Vegas, NV November 11th- 13th
Will your team be the next NPPL Series Champion?
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When I got into the car to drive six hours to visit family for the holidays on December 21, 2010, I had no idea what I’d be getting into when I checked my email when I arrived. I discovered, while I was in the car for six hours, that NXe and Tippmann had issued a press release announcing that Tippmann, one of the best-known and most respected names in paintball, had purchased the long-standing, widely-respected pack and soft goods manufacturer! After reading the press release and being floored by it, I was privileged to be able to spend some time with NXe’s John Bosch and his son Ryan to learn what led to the purchase, what motivated them to sell their paintball brand and where the people behind NXe will go from here.
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Protecting a high pressure compressed air regulator from the intrusion of dirt, grime and paint seems like an important thing in a game filled with people diving, sliding and crawling in dirt, mud and all sorts of other horrible conditions.
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For anyone who’s been around paintball more than a few years, the name Trracer is immediately recognizable as that of an affordable, high-quality pump paintball gun that introduced countless hundreds to the game. After years absent from the game that saw rates of fire drastically increase, peak, then come back down and paintball return to the woods, the Trracer has returned!
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Nobody likes getting shot in the hands and fingers. Not only does it mean you’re eliminated and you have to go sit in “time out” for a while, but even the big men will tell you that hand and finger shots sting, especially from close range!
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Valken may offer plenty of products for tournament, recreational and scenario paintball, but it was their paintballs that truly put the company on the map. Affordable yet offering very high performance, the top of the Valken paintball line is Redemption.
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