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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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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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Upcoming League and Our Hiatus of The Internet

Posted by  on 2 August 2010, 4:07 pm

As you’ve noticed, we’ve been having a break of this internet thing due to holidays, births, lazyness. Updates both here and in fecesbook have been rare. Here’s a little update. After the pro school, we’ve been training at our venue 2-3 times a week. Just yesterday we had a game day with Trivoga. Thanks guys! It was a joy to play in the almost cold 25C (that’s 77F for those people still riding their horses to work their lords demesne). We managed only a couple of games, while field walking took much of our time. Personally I would have prefered more game points, but we got a good read of the field.

Courtesy of Splatweb.net and SPBL.org

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Millennium London Schedule

Posted by  on 2 July 2010, 1:58 pm

Our first game will be against Spartans Athens at 14:30 GMT.

Next 16:30 against 7ene Compagnie Nancy.

Last Prelim will be in Caturday 14:00 against our friends Amsterdam Sabotage 2.

It’s a pity that the Div 1. is only a shadow of it’s former self. Playing against the same teams is a bit boring.Bonus side for this is that you get to know your opponents better: Do they play aggressive or defensive, if they have starplayers, how good their aim is, etc. The other thing to keep in mind is that often the roster of a team can change drastically between tournaments. At least ours has. We have about 12 persons on the active European tournament roster and those are seeded to play tournaments according to free time/money/performance. Good thing about this is that we are more unpredictable. Down side in this is that, because Paintball as a team sport on our level demands that you know the playing styles of your field mates intimately, the optimal mix of styles are not always achieved. I feel that in London we have a great team on site and expect results to confirm this. So you better step up boys!

Hopefully our guys will fill our hungry minds with results and thoughts here or in Facebook

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Millennium Bitburg Layout

Posted by  on 25 April 2010, 12:40 am

First thoughts of the field.

Bricks on “snake” make their way over the pond. 50% of the field is the same as in Malaga. Maybe it’s to make the change small for those Malaga games yet to be played. Or the French guys who have been training on this field for the past two weeks just didn’t bother to move the bunkers too much… Continue reading ‘Millennium Bitburg Layout’ »

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Saturday

Posted by  on 17 April 2010, 1:33 pm

So what’s next, earthquake? Tsunami? Jesus appearing on middle of CPL field? It seems Malaga ain’t getting no lenience from the higher powers. Day started with a thunder storm over Malaga. And it’s set to continue over the weekend. The forecasts seem to be changing by the minute, but I expect nothing good out of this by now.

Games are maybe starting again and our boys are set to play against Empire Venice at some point.  Hopefully Stark will get his report on yesterdays happenings sent to me soon, so that I can pass all the juicy details to you. But one thing is for sure, our boys are in high spirits and having time of their lives.

As we are short on players, we got help from Sugar daddys on our second game. They came and helped us on the pits. Thanks boys, we owe you one! This is a case in point why Millennium is the best place to play ball in Europe. Even though teams play to win, they still help each other out! Ofcourse Scandinavians are always close, but this has happend with other nationalities also. This is what our sport needs, the sense that you want to win, but not with other guys handicapped. We will try to put our effort to enforce this on our own part.

Update. Sam just texted that “Maybe” they are not playing today. This is getting rediculous

Update2. So no games today. 7AM tomorrow the organization will tell us, if any games will be played. huoh.

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Thoughts on Physical Training, Mind Games Continued

Posted by  on 9 March 2010, 9:00 am

In my first post on this site, I pondered about the strains that tournaments put on our body and mind. The solution for body was covered, and is nothing new, but what about the mind? Again most of these ideas are presented in other channels, but I see them important enough for repetition.

The mental side of paintball is often thought to be a totally different animal and it’s training somewhat unquantifiable. I think this only partly right. Physical training, when done well is about getting you to push through those mental limits that we all have. This constant “overdoing it” prepares the mind for the torrential rains of London, the heat of Malaga and the top players of the game. It really is the old platitude: No pain no gain. Continue reading ‘Thoughts on Physical Training, Mind Games Continued’ »

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Thoughts on Physical Training

Posted by  on 5 March 2010, 9:39 am

I’m the first to admit that I hate winter. Especially this one where all warmth has left us Finns to the embrace of record snow falls and at worst -25 degrees Celsius temperatures and gusty winds. This has been a time, when I’ve doubted my sense to go jogging into the bitter cold. Thank the maker for gyms and central heating.

I believe that physical fitness is something Finnish Paintballers aren’t concentrating enough on. Of course we, the competition paintballers, have left behind the time, when our back players were all over 30 BMI. Still, Cyclones target for this year: getting to play all the games in the final day of all the Millennium tournaments, is something I think few of us Finns are equipped to deal with. It really takes endurance both from the body and mind to keep pushing through those snakes point after point and game after game.

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