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Archive of entries posted on September 2010

Vegan Paintballing: No Cows Were Injured Making This Post

Lovingly stolen from Paintball.fi

Finally something “totally” new at Paintball Extravaganza!

Hydrotech introduces to the industry a new way to make Paintballs. Corn starch based capsule with 98 % water fill sounds like an orgy for us meatly challenged persons. We all have heard these marketing presentations, but this atleast sounds something which might totally change the game of Paintball. Please check the youtube clips at Paintball.fi.

I have few issues that weren’t  covered in presentation. What will cleaning barrel breakes be like? What will cleaning of clothing be between games; is it staining? What will the flight characteristics be? What will Cleaning bunkers be, at least the third clip showed that the dried film is quite hard. Also interesting to see how the gelatine-based industry will adapt to this new product. Ramp up to global market will propably be slow, so time table to our small island here in the Arctic will be in far future?

Posted by Hilu the Lakto-Ovo-Bacon-Kebab-Vegetarian Paintballer

DYE Travel Blog – Finland

DYE just posted a nice vid of the trip to Finland this summer. Mikko, Pete and Devon spent a bit of time in Kuopio and Helsinki, enjoying fishing and (not surprisingly) – Paintball. They played with Takeover in Kuopio and hosted a DYE Pro Day with us in Helsinki. Check out the video from below:

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2010 – The season in numbers

While writing the previous article on the SPBL Mikkeli Leg, I went through our team bulletin board to do a quick summary of the trainings we had prior to the last event, and I got a bit curious. Last year we also did an internal summary of statistics at our season-ender party, and I figured what the heck, I could count the practises and other general things as a blog post as well. Turns out it wasn’t such a quick little thing to do after all..

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SPBL Mikkeli – the final round revisited

After finishing third at the Kirkkonummi event, we knew we had to step it up a notch before the last leg – less than a month away. Luckily we were not the only ones having difficulties at the event, as our finals opponent from the previous rounds Urho Musta also struggled and finished out of the final four. That left us with a few points worth of margin in the series with Urho Musta, Dream Team Turku and Helsinki Trivoga also in the run for the big cup.

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SPBL Champions 2010!

Finally, after five years, Helsinki Cyclone takes the trophy back home!

 

…Stories and photos will follow soon…

SPBL final standings sponsored by The White Russian

division 3:
1st Los Bastardos
2nd NokkaPokka
3rd feeninx

division 2:
1st Adrenalin
2nd FieldFighter
3rd Takeover Silver

div 1:
1st Urho Keltainen
2nd GameOver
3rd cyclone VDO

league:
1st CYCLONE!!!!!!!!
2nd Urho Musta
3rd Dream Team
4th Trivoga
5th TrivogaSilver
6th TakeOver
7th RumaQ
8th NVP

2010 League Mikkeli – LiveLeague, provided to you by Malt and Hop

Here we go again. Hopefully it won’t rain Saturday, because we are going to use normal laptops.

DIV1:

Div 1 Prelim:

Game#Team1.P2.P3.P4.P5.P6.P7.PFinal Score
1Räyhäxx2
Hornaxxx3
2Game Overxxx3
Coitus0
3Cyclone VDOxx2
PPW Crocxxx3
4Urho Keltainenxxx3
PPW Madx1
5Game Overxxx3
Cyclone VDO0
6PPW Crocxx-2
Coitusxx-2
7Hornaxx2
PPW Madxx2
8Urho Keltainenxxx3
Räyhäxx2
9Cyclone VDOxxx3
Coitusx1
10Game Overxxx3
PPW Croc0
11Urho Keltainenx1
Hornaxxx3
12Räyhäxxx3
PPW Mad0

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Next: Last League

So our games in Kirkkonummi weren’t that perfect. In Championship league we ended at 3rd place with Trivoga taking both top positions. In the Semi match Trivoga Silver showed great skill in changing their play againsta us. In Div1 again we were slow to start, with a lot of mistakes in the prelims. Still we got through to semis and finals, but GameOver was too tough an opponent, like all season.

After Kirkkonummi we had our end-season break week, when everyone got to heal their wounds and do those “family-oriented” activities. After that we’ve been playing a lot of game trainings and have rebuilt the field twice. We have to say we like the Paris layout better that the Austrian. The Austrian field felt like something developed outside Ring three whilst drunk. But enough of Bit*hing.

The last League round in Mikkeli will be this caturday. First Div is going to play the morning and League the afternoon. We feel strongly that the we have the teams to take the first in both divisions. In league we have calculated that we need fifth place to win the whole Series. Something that has been bad this year, is that official standings haven’t been published publicly. In div one I guess overall we have a chance for second or third place.  After the games we will celebrate our great Finnish season and party. It’s also nice that many of the wives/girlfriends/boyfriends/KitchenAid’s are comming along to see what this thing is all about.

LiveLeague will continue, with running scores for both League and Div 0ne. Div two and three are out of the question,  because of time management issues. This time we will have a dedicated person, who will run the scores and will run on cheap Finnish lager. This way our players (that being me) can concentrate on the games. If we will get somekind of sponsorship for this thing next year, we might do all the divisions.

After this week our training goes to a lower gear. Some of our domestic tournament players will probably slow their training schedule to one or two trainings per week. Of course we will have Millennium Paris to go, and Cyclone family will support our Mill players as much as possible, with team-game trainings still mandatory for all.

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