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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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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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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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Summing up the Cyclone DYE Pro Training Day

Posted by  on 16 July 2010, 10:59 am

Wow, a week has already flown since we had the privilege of having Mikko, Pete and Devon with us for a great day of pro player tips, tricks and drills – sorry about the delay. If you missed the event, you really missed out on a lot of good stuff and there is no excuse for you. Except maybe for Hilu, who called us early in the morning quite upset complaining that “for NINE MONTHS she has been swelling up slowly and steadily, going past the due date just to give birth TODAY! TODAY OF ALL DAYS!” There’s little you can add to that..

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Playing with the Big Boys

Posted by  on 7 May 2010, 10:17 am

It’s again time to start packing the good old Explorer and prepare for a tournament weekend, as we have done so many times before. Most of us have seen countless tournaments on various levels of competition in Finland, Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe. A handful of us have even made the trip across the great water to play the official PSP Race-to format. Still, when the opportunity to participate in the Paintball Swedish Masters in Uppsala, we took it in a heartbeat. The Open division offers a team list that is something like playing a round of golf with Tiger Woods..

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The Sweet Life – Dye Travel Blog

Posted by  on 27 April 2010, 10:40 am

Dye has made a short but sweet video blog entry on their youtube channel. Dye had three of their guys – Mikko Huttunen, Rocky Cagnoni and Billy Wing - offering a three-hour mini clinic and the now famous “NT Experience” in Guadalajara, Mexico for the participants of the Mexican Paintball League.

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