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SPBL Ikaalinen 2011 – a tough start for the season

Posted by  on 17 June 2011, 10:42 am

Photo courtesy of Jani Andersson

It’s already been a month after the first leg of the SPBL Finnish Championship League, sorry about that – we had a bit of a landscaping project after the tournament, and a sudden outbreak of summer weather made dating a laptop the last in line for things to do..  Still a day left before the second tournament though!

Coming into the season 2011 after winning the championship last year, we knew there was no easy ride to victory as we would be the ones to beat this season. We did a punishing (but voluntary) physical fitness program over the winter months – many of the guys lost quite a bit of weight and gained endurance. After some time off from the markers we begun the weekly trips to Sparta Reball, some 160Km from Helsinki to blast tons of reps and drive back home again. As the spring progressed, we begun outdoor practises at our own field, grinding at the sandpit up to three times a week for a month before the first tournament – only to have our asses handed to us in the two first games.

Talk about a rude awakening – three more prelim games to go. Continue reading ‘SPBL Ikaalinen 2011 – a tough start for the season’ »

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Live League: 2011 #1 Ikaalinen

Posted by  on 13 May 2011, 10:00 am

We Won the League! Next stop Div 1 on Sunday.

Thank you HD for taking care of scores for Saturday. For Sunday We will have Jarkko updating scores.

Thanks to our readers, next time bigger and better.

We’re back with the one and only point to point Score Service in the whole wide of Finland. Like last year, which by all metrics was a success, we will cover League point by point and Div 1 game by game. We will probably throw in the final games from all divisions also, so stay tuned.  In future rounds we will try live blogging Cyclone games, but we are yet able to do this.

So, first league round will be played in Ikaalinen a town some 250 klicks from downtown Helsinki. Games are played on Bitburg layout with the schedule divided to Div 3 and League for Saturday.  On Sunday Div 1 and 2 are fighting for gold. Continue reading ‘Live League: 2011 #1 Ikaalinen’ »

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PBX3 Goes Social, SocialPaintball Goes Ballistic

Posted by  on 8 March 2011, 8:22 pm

A few hours ago Paintball X3 Magazine announced that they will enter the sexy realm of Social Media as “the first paintball social website that ties a paintball magazine, portal, branded social media and Facebook all together in one simple to use, easy to sign up, package”. Check out the complete announcement here and you’ll notice the whole hooplah to become a bit deflated, as one has grown to expect the social dimension to be quite the norm for media in general. A lot of noise for a site update, basically. The more established social venture, SocialPaintball posted a (semi-serious) rant on the subject of the claims on their blog. One part of the post did scratch on a valid point – why not work together? Well, money naturally, but out of greed or the need to survive?

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The Perfect Team Dinner @ Farang

Posted by  on 5 March 2011, 11:13 pm

Every now and then we get together and organize a team dinner at someones house or in a restaurant. This time the event took place in one of the best asian restaurants in Finland called Farang. Farang is a modern asian gourmet restaurant which serves flavors from southeast asian kitchen. The restaurant is partially owned by Tomi Björck who is one of the finnish Master Chef judges and one of the “rockstars of finnish cookery”… and one of the chefs that ladies seem to like very much ;)

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Lane Wright Makes a Statement for the Case

Posted by  on 29 December 2010, 11:08 pm

Lane Wright of PSP events has written a long statement about what lead to his decisions to adjust the format for 2011 and what was the prime rationale behind each of the changes. Read the full release here.  I do understand where he and the business he represents come from, and that something needed to be done. As I stated in an earlier post, I think the PSP was, and is going the wrong way around the issue. Instead of the lengthy post that will now definately be seen as damage control, how do you think the community would have reacted if Lane would have communicated the current situation and need for change with a much similar post a few weeks prior to announcing the changes?

Trying to run a business where you have a tight-knit community as a customer is tricky and the time of decision making behind closed doors has gone. It’s always the naysayers that are the most vocal, no matter what is changed. Mitigating the effect of this is best done by open communication.

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State of the Disunion

Posted by  on 17 December 2010, 2:07 am

A lot of discussion has been going on all over the internet with the rule changes PSP announced recently. While the initial reactions were strongly against all the changes, positive opinions of the changes have also started to come up across the internet. Mikko Huttunen posted some well-formulated thoughts on the positive side, and those are difficult to refute. I personally do love the current (MS) version of the format, so I am leaning a bit against the changes still… But then again, we will need to wait and see what (if anything) comes over the pond to the MS. And this is what leads me to the actual point of this post: How will the changes actually carry over and to what extent?

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Back to work!

Posted by  on 8 December 2010, 6:53 pm

After a bit of a pause after the last Finnish League and Millennium Series Paris… No, wait, who am I kidding? After way too long of a break – over a month longer than last year – it’s again time to gather our sports gear and hit the gym. The demand for this has been steadily developing as the spouses become more and more annoyed with the expanding blob taking up space on the sofa. And just when I got to resting a pint handily on the belly..

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2010 – The season in numbers

Posted by  on 23 September 2010, 7:16 pm

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

Posted by  on 18 September 2010, 5:23 pm

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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Greg Hastings’s got a brand new bag, out in stores soon

Posted by  on 5 August 2010, 12:44 pm

via Gamesradar

So Greg’s new game is comming out 29th September. No word for Euro release. The game looks ok by itself (I’ll come back to it shortly), but more interesting is the quote about Activi$ion. It allways makes a good news story, when mega-corps attack private entrepeneurs and that one quote got the attention of gameblogging sites like Kotaku. We see the situation from Hastings’s point of view only, and while it might be a as well a marketing trick , it’s allways nice to see the under dog win. Greg’s enthusiasm on the conference is alltogether a nice change to marketing-machine made presentations we are used to.

The game itself looks like a reiteration of the original. Screenshots show forest and concept and supair-ball with 7 to 10 man teams. In one shot you can see a huge x-bunker – might that mean that we’ll get to play 5-man xball’ish also? Graphics are as bad as expected with human meatpupets playing the parts of players. Woodsland gamings hasn’t interested me since we moved out of the woods to savannah in the early 00′s and the game engine doesn’t seem to support true sup-air game with un formable bunkers.

One thing that I’d like to see, as a good service the paintball community, would be to introduce the next PSP-NPPL-Millennium fields live through Console’s downloadable content for a few €. I for one, would like to play and walk the fields before hand from the comfort of home with a beer or two in the cooler. For that feature alone, I might even buy the game, even if it is bad. And could we have NHL like comentating done by Mr Marshall: “And the Game is on”.

As a gamer and paintballer it’s good to see both industries mix. Personally I will wait for the reviews before picking this one up.

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