San Diego Dynasty have officially left Planet Eclipse. As we reported yesterday, it looked very much like the boys in blue were going to be switching over to Bob Long. Ryan Greenspan made it official today. Unfortunately all good things must come to an end, and our experience with Planet Eclipse was nothing short of great. Eclipse is truly one of the companies in paintball that does it right, and that shows in everything they do.…
Former 187 Crew player Josh Pike has found a new home with Baltimore Revo. Last month Upton 187 Crew announced that they would no longer be competing at the pro level. The closure of the team left many players looking to teams, thus far Matt Darula and Josh Pike are the only players to find new teams. Darula went to Tampa Bay Damage and now Josh Pike will be joining Baltimore Revo. This still leaves players like Max Traylor, Dan Zaleski…
Ever since Eric Crandall bought Bob Long, there’s been speculation that Dynasty would make the switch to Bob Long from Planet Eclipse. Eric Crandall was an original Dynasty member and has worked closely with the team since its inception. Dynasty has been with Planet Eclipse for 5 years a relationship that has worked very well for both parties. Dynasty get the best guns in the world and Planet Eclipse get one of the most marketable teams. Alex…
UPDATE 2/21/17: NPPL Cancel First Tournament The NPPL news keeps rolling in, this time we have some dates, locations and some field/layout updates. The first NPPL event of 2017 will be held April 7th – 9th, just outside of Sacramento at West Coast Adventure Park. If the West Coast names sounds familiar, it’s because they just hosted the Dead Legends big games back in October. The field dimension will be 180ft x 100ft just like we reported two weeks…
Chicago Aftershock’s off season has been rough. The team has lost nearly half their roster to either players retiring or moving to other teams. There are only three players returning from last year: Bryan McKenna, Carl Markowski and Ryan Rodarte whom only played World Cup last year with the team. JJ Williams, Nick Pesz, Mike Kerr, Danny Tiljak and John Parrish are all new. Both Kerr and Pesz played for semi-pro team Distortion last year. There has been some…
Over the past few years, the mag-fed market has taken off. There are many companies making magazine-fed guns, from the Dye DAM to the Spyder MR6. An area of the mag-fed market that was missing was a good budget or entry-level gun; yes Spyder makes the MR6 and RAP4/MCS have various different guns but I said, “good”. The Spyder MR6 has its issues, and the RAP4/MCS guns are all around horrible; can Tippmann make a…
After a short stint with this other former team, Chicago Aftershock Drew Templeton is back with LA Infamous. Drew left Infamous at the end of the 2016 season to rejoin is former team Chicago Aftershock. Templeton along with a Ronnie Dizon and Jon Woodley were all part of the rebuilding of Aftershock. Almost everyone expected Aftershock to perform well in 2016 but the victories never took shape and the team struggled, with their best performance was in Dallas taking…
