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Capping off a busy 2016 scenario paintball season, Team Capital Offense met up for their annual year-end event.   It’s one that thousands of players from around the world have attended for over a decade – the Fulda Gap Mega Game . For those of you as yet uninitiated to this one, here’s the quick scoop. It’s a large-scale game simulating a Cold War era military scenario of a WARSAW land invasion of Europe. Don’t want to dive into the history? Think approximately 1500 players, bases and forts all over a giant paintball field, tanks galore, anti-tank rocket launchers, a mess of snipers rocking First Strikes, big name vendors, and some of the best teams in scenario paintball.   Now stretch that over two days with many of the teams choosing to stay on site to camp (some come as early as Thursday), and you’ve got yourself a year-ending paintball bash! Once again this year we had our friend from across the sea, Jack Wood, running and gunning with the TCO crew. He was joined by Anth

NM-Norwegian Masters NM is always an exiting tournament. The field is always secret so no one gets to practice on it before the tournament. This is also always an area for discussion, but that’s also part of the NM-warmup. This year’s field-layout was made by Nick Brockdorff. And to the oldies out there – no, it was nothing like the Amsterdam layout :-) Rebels started a bit rough, when you’re used to playing the fields before you use them at tournaments the first game will often hit you like a cold shower. They started out against Blast who clearly have walked the field with a better precision, 4:0 to Blast. But after a shower you will always come out fresher. The first proof of that was the next game against Oslo Embers – 4:1 with energy to spare. Then they met Rampage, a young team with a lot of fight in them, but this time they couldn’t match Rebels at all 4:0 win. Last prelim game was NTNUI black, a up and coming d1 team from Trondheim who have

The ETHA has been a huge success for Planet Eclipse markers and a huge success for our customers, but as you know we don’t stand still for too long and we're always developing our technologies to bring you the very best paintball equipment that we can. The ETHA has been locked away in our labs for some time and has received a serious overhaul. In fact, it’s been completely redesigned to be the best ETHA possible. The ETHALUTION has already begun, but the official launch will be around February 2017. Contact your local Eclipse dealer for more information and put your name down for a pre-order to be one of the first in line to join the ETHALUTION In the meantime…tune in to our social media channels and keep your eye on the blog for more information and images of the ETHA2. You can also sign up to our newsletter for news before it reaches the masses. Want more? Then keeps tabs on our Facebook page this weekend; you may see our very own

On the 23 rd of September, we arrived at Valencia airport. We were on our way to Gandía (65 km south of Valencia, Spain) to dispute the final stage of the EXPL (Spanish x-ball paintball league). We got to spend some good times, hanging out with the team, chilling at the beach on Friday, and on Saturday some of the players got a chance to play some relaxed   3 on 3 paintball, which we won :-) Our goal for the weekend, was obviously to secure the first place in the tournament and ensuring the first position in the overall ranking. Before Sunday, we were on leading, followed by Blue falcon with only one point difference. This made it clear for us, that there was no room for error. Even though we were conscious about the situation, what we had to do and what we couldn’t let happen, Sunday did not go well for us. We started off the day playing Arca Gandía at 10:15 (which was comfortably awesome), and this was our first and only loss in the prelims, with a score of