News 1999

Last Updated Feb. 16, 2008

News 1999 (Please note that some links may not work anymore.)

Dec. 27, 1999

Matt Nelson is still the reigning paintball eating champion. Jeff tried to give him a run for the bad taste, but couldn't over come Matt's multiple balls in the mouth technique. We raised around $2,000 worth of toys this year for Santa Anonymous, and they were presented at the Christmas party. The toys display was impressive. We had some fun.

Dec. 26, 1999

Very sad news. Martin Nelson, younger brother of Matt, passed away on Dec. 20. He had struggled with brian cancer for over a year. He was 17. If you ever met Martin, you wouldn't forget him. He was always very enthusiastic about paintball. He loved it. Our thoughts & prayers go out to his family.

Dec. 18, 1999

Canceled OPEN Day for Dec. 19, 1999. It's going to be too cold & too much snow to be removed. Sorry. See you all at the Christmas Party 7 p.m. supper.

Dec. 17, 1999

Looks like we will be playing Sunday Dec. 19 @ 1 p.m. Contact me if you need paint 764-9444.
I'll be busy Saturday snow blowing the field, so please leave a message.
We have alot of toys to present to Santa Anonymous on Sunday. Thanks to everyone for helping raise so many toys. Don't forget your toy on Sunday.
Paintball Sports International - Feb. 2000

the 1999 World Cup

Dec. 10, 1999

Looks like the Paintball Monday Report will be turning into a free email newsletter that is produced weekly. It's going to be called The Paintball Business Buzz. The guys who make Paintball 2-Xtremes mag are behind this.
There is also a new World Paintball Federation Ace Circuit starting next year. Lively Products & Sam Caldwell are pushing this one. It will include:2000 WPF / Zap Tour (Atlanta), Zap International Masters, Skyball, Zap International Open, and a few others. There web site is http://www.wpfonline.com

Dec. 4, 1999

The Paintball Paradise Prince Albert Christmas Party will be Dec. 19 (Sunday). Cocktails @ 6p.m., with supper @ 7p.m. We will have a Gift Exchange (~$10), some games (including our two volunteers for the Paintball eating contest: Matt & Jeff), maybe a video or two. All 1999 members and refs are invited out, R.S.V.P. if you can attend to George 764-9444. I need numbers of attendees for the caterer. Supper is chicken & wedges, etc. Same as last year. Jean Marc mentioned he might bring out some toys.

Dec. 1, 1999

Jim H. has just reduced his asking price on his Autococker. Check out the sale page.
We had a fun day of paintball on Nov. 28. Compressed Air systems are the best in the winter. I'm thinking of ordering some more snow camo from Smartparts. If you are interested in anything let me know. My snow camo pattern is from Smartparts.
Looks like the Christmas Party will be Dec. 19 (Sunday), but final arrangements are in progress right now. Stay tuned.

Nov. 26, 1999

Action Pursuit Games - Jan. 2000

GWS becomes the PanAm Ciruit
Expansion Chambers
How to clean paintballs.
About Paintchecks
T 'n T - Either Hand
How to clean a barrel
How to be aware
10 Tank Safety tips
etc.

Nov. 25, 1999

They have finally fixed the web site, so I can updated all my pages now. Hopefully, you have been disregarding the index page update of Nov. 3, and checking this page out.

Nov. 24, 1999

Open day on Nov. 28 @ noon. If you need lots of paint let me know (1,000+).

Nov. 21, 1999

New issue out:

Paintball Sports International - Jan. 2000

Brazilian Circuit.
1999 Tippmann World Challenge.
Durty Dan
etc.

Nov. 19, 1999

I still can't update this page properly. The index page appears to be frozen.
Looks like the Great Western Series will be changing into a National competition called the PanAm Circiut. This Ciriut will be across North America, with 10 major events. 3 events in each of the following areas: Eastern, Central & Western. Plus a Championship final, with a National Champion. Hopefully, Las Vegas will be in March again.

Nov. 14, 1999

Myself and thousands of other Sympatico Personal Web space users have had trouble for the last week uploading pages. I still can't update my index page (Main). But once in a while this page will load up.
Lance from the Hell Hounds & Tom Lewis (their web space provider, I believe) have made a couple of new Saskatchewan Paintball Forums. The first one is a Sask. Paintball Message Board. The other is a Paintball Gear Auction site. So if you would like to post messages for all of Saskatchewan to see, please go ahead. This might get your gear moving quicker as well. Lance has deleted their old Message Board to use this one. Keep up the good work Lance & Tom.
Pat, Jim (Magboy, but he did use a 'Cocker part of the day) & myself enjoyed the great weather and played a little paintball. Even Pat went through a lot of paint. We ran some nice 2 on 1 drills. From the pictures of the RamRod, this might be the barrel to use in the winter. There are some great pictures of it in the latest Paintball 2-Xtremes Magazine.

Nov. 13, 1999

Paintball 2-Xtremes - Nov. 1999

If you want to see a great picture of the RamRod Barrel. This is the issue for you. It is very cool and very different. I thought the rods would be covered, but they are exposed. Reminds me of the terminator or some thing.
They review the new JT video "Game On!", which I own. It's has great photography, well directed and really promotes JT and the Ironmen. It has player (grandpa & grandson, kids, women, girls, Ironmen, etc.) interviews & a field owner comments. It's quite good.
Millennium Semi: Bob Long's mid-range answer.
Victory by Aggression Tactics
Raven's New Face for Nuvis-1
Etc.

Nov. 11, 1999

Combat Vision Lens Inserts are now available in tints for the Spectra goggle system. I should be receiving some in a couple of weeks.
Looks like there will be a new company competing in the mass merchant & sporting good chains stores. It's called Point Zero. Aldo Perrone (founder of Brass Eagle) sold out to Daisy (now Brass Eagle Company), and doing so, he signed a non competition cause, which has expired. He is teaming up with ZAP Paintballs, to form this new company. The new markers will sell for under $100 (semis). They also plan on selling all categories of paintball equipment too. Hopefully, these new products will start rolling out before the end of the year.
ACI - new product release.

Illustrator TP - new version of the F-4.
The Griffin - msrp ~$120 USD - semi - looks very similar to the F-4, but cheaper.

Nov. 4, 1999

I now have Curly Laces For Sale. The camouflage ones look great. These are the only laces I can use, so I can tie my own shoes.

Nov. 3, 1999

Event - OPEN Day -Nov. 14 Sunday at noon. Please let me know if you will need paint. George
The For Sale section has Matt's Nitro Duck HPA tank for sale 47 c.i. 3,000 psi, check it out. This section is for members to post their used equipment for sale. If you have some, please email me and I will post it there.
Looks like winter is here. Once I get my truck back from the shop, we will start playing snowball. Or I might be able to convince somebody to pick-up & drop off my 2 empty SCUBA Tanks plus I need to get some back-up CO2. Thanks.
I'm hoping the Predators can make a trip to Las Vegas in early 2000. A Great Western Event or NPPL event would be great. If you would like to go please let me know. George.

Oct. 31, 1999

Happy Halloween. Well we have just received a couple of inches of the wet, heavy snow. Hopefully this will melt off and we can have a some more great paintball. If not, winter play will be starting. If you need a high pressure air systems: there are several on the market. Call if you need one.
I just noticed reading through my old news and updates, that I missed a sponsor on my list for the SHARE Tournament. I'm real sorry Steve. Wolverine Paintball Products was a terrific sponsor. Team Extreme Rage (sponsored by Wolverine Paintball Products) are a great bunch of guys and they raised lots of money & donated prizes as well. I'm glad you guys had a good time, and I loved it that you guys played paintball in the moonlight. Too bad for tinted lenses.

Oct. 29, 1999

Congratulations to Trent & Rona Armitage on their addition to the family of a baby boy. Easton Armitage weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 ozs.

Oct. 27, 1999

The Spyder Cup will be May 27-28, 2000. The Grand Prize is 5 Ford Mustangs. Of course only Amateur teams shooting Spyder series markers can play. It's in Pittsburgh at Three Rivers Paintball. Team Effort Events are the host, the same people who put on the Zap Amateur Open. What a great prize!! Great promotion, I can't think of a better way to promote Spyders.
The Hell Hounds have a new url http://www.hellhounds.saskhost.com/
Matt has suggested the addition of and open forum (bulletin board) where "I could call Mike a blind, blundering moose incapable of finding a single T-shirt at the night game." What do you guys think? E-mail me : George

Oct. 25, 1999

What a great night for the Last Blast Night Game. Very little wind, temp. was nice and a Full Moon. 30 players or so. We got started around 8 pm, and ended the last match 3am. We played 4x 1 hour matches. The Blue team won the night with 4 missions completed, even though the Red team scored double the elimination's of the Blue Team. It actually was quite bright out.
Magboy started as the Captain of the Blue Team, but made an early departure. Martin S. replaced him, but the team really shined when Matt N. took over. The Red Team had Mike W. at the helm most of the night, and only the last round had Jay C. leading the Red.
The Oreo cookies for sale at $100 each were really popular. Even Mike was giving his players money to purchase them.
Night games are always fun. Mike stole $1,000 right from under Jim's nose. Jim then misplaces Mike Automag for a while. Jeff collected almost $3,000 worth of Oreos, too bad that the Blue team could have had another clue with that...such is paintball. Ask Martin S. about "filling his drawers" from the special effects. The fog machine calved, but I think players had a good time anyway.
Thanks to my refs: Wayne, Dave, Jay & Dave. Support staff: Kathie. And Pat for helping get the field ready.

Oct. 22, 1999

Tonight all the lights have been checked, by Pat & myself. The Full Moon makes the field very bright. Could make the game quite interesting. The Fog Machine seems to work OK, hopefully the wind will be down. It doesn't work continuously, but in spurts. Looks like a good turn-out for the Night Game.
The new issues are out.

Action Pursuit Games - Dec. 1999

Inside the Spyder TL
Tippmann's Flatline
ZAP 1999 Amateur
How to get ready for Tournaments
Protective Eyewear Certification Council
Basic Tactics for Robbie Newbie
Mr. Ultimate Referee
Value
and many more...

Oct. 17, 1999

New issues are out:

Paintball Sports International - Dec. 1999

Boston NPPL Coverage
Wasaga Beach
1999 Zap Amateur Coverage
Russian Big Game

Paintball 2-Xtremes - Oct. 1999

1999 Zap Amateur Open
World's coolest markers
Beauty & the Beast winners
Galactitic Systems Z-body - an adjustable backspin for the Automag converter that uses Cocker barrels.
Cover, What Cover?
Tech tips

the Unireg
Retrovalve problems
Rupture disc is leaking
Marker is flaking
Leak in my air system

Great Debate - Ban Full autos & multi-round bursts
Tapelines
More on the Tippmann Flatline at the Zap Amateur

Oct. 11, 1999

Looks like Nitro Duck has come up with a new High Pressure Air Tank called the LT. It's a 90 c.i. tank that is just a little longer than a 68, and only 1/2" wider. That means it's 2" shorter than a 110. Looks very good.
Thanks to Jim (Magboy) and Pat. We cleaned up the big field and have created some new dead fall bunkers. Check out Gamma & Epsilon. We now have lots of wood for the Winter games. We'll be playing all winter again for those diehards. With these new 90 c.i. HPA tanks, there might be some older and smaller or larger tanks up for sale. ACI & Airgun Designs both have new HPA systems on the market.
Once the crop is off, I will be needing some help to move some old cars and trucks (4-5), spools, etc. onto the Water Field. So if you can help let me know. I might want to build a foot bridge across the water as well. Thanks.

Oct. 10, 1999

Crossfire has a new barrel called the "Ramrod". This barrel has straight rails down the barrel, so the ball has little contact with the barrel itself. The big benefit is that the barrel is self cleaning. The grooves next to the rails allows the paint to enter, and shoot itself clean, with in 1-3 shots. The Ramrod performs much better under rapid fire conditions, and has very consistent groupings. you can contact Crossfire in Kalamazoo MI 616-344-7600.
Looks like there could be up to 5 different air assisted feeders on the market. 2 within a month or so. This could increase the Rate of Fire (R.O.F.) considerably (2-3 times the R.O.F.). This has goggles manufacturers concerned.
Tippmann is offering a Certified Service Technician course. This is a great idea. It also requires the purchase of $500 worth of parts, to properly repair guns.

Oct. 3, 1999

Check out a contest at Warpig.com. You can win a Spyder TL. Just fill in the form once.

Oct. 2, 1999

Two Open days are scheduled.

Oct. 9, Saturday at 2 pm - along will the TV Station (10-12 renters).
Oct. 23, Saturday Night Game at 7pm - D.Z. & crew are in with 14 renters.

Sept. 27, 1999

Sounds like the Mega Game in Asquith was a hit with 150 players.
The P.A. Predators tied the Naughty Spawn for 1st Place in the Saskatchewan Championship Circuit for 1999. Way to go Predators.
Airgun Designs wants your input into their new electronic paintball gun. They have a survey posted on their web site, to ask what you would like in a new electronic marker. Try it out.

Sept. 24, 1999

The new issues are out.

Action Pursuit Games - Nov. 1999

the Wish List
Control the Chaos
6 simple Scenarios
How to Find a Game (Just call me)
17 Nighttime Rules (before the big day)
Take Cover
and more

Paintball Sports International - Nov. 1999

1999 Seven Man World Cup
Copa Brazil de Paintball
Tunguska Scenario
Durty Dan's Rec- Ball - Routines
and more

Paintball 2-Xtremes - Sept. 1999

Piranha EXT
Paintball 2-Xtremes vs Goliath Why we will fight Brass Eagle
Tippmann's Flatline Barrels
Preparation & Organization for new players
Planning Paintball Birthday Parties
and more

Sept. 17, 1999

What a surprise in the provincial election. NDP 29, Sask Party 26, Liberals 3. A NDP Minority Gov't. The Sask. Party had more votes than the NDP.
More important. The 7th Annual FIVE-HOUR Mega-Game "Shield Quest", at Paintball Action Games, in Asquith is Sept. 26. Registration starts at 9 am. Game begin at 11am. Cost $10 per player. Rental is $15. Bring your own paint or buy field paint at $0.06 per pellet by the case or $0.07 per pellet by the 100. Last year had over 150 players. Contact Doug at (306)329-4290 or email to paga@sk.sympatico.ca

Sept. 14, 1999

Open game on Sept. 19 at 1pm. Looks like we could hit 50 players again. Most rentals have been spoken for. Please call if you can make it out. I'll need a few refs.
Nova 700 RECALL. This affects serial numbers 991 1500 thru to 991 1787. these models could over pressurize. Please call the AirStar 949-855-3278.
Airgun Designs has entered the High Pressure Air Tank market.
Also you might want to check out the new Hell Hound from Tippmann. I mentioned it last year, and I guess they are selling them. It's a dune buggie with gattling paintball gun.

Sept. 8, 1999

The new Action Pursuit Games Oct. 1999 issue is now on sale. Articles include:

Inside the Bushmaster 2000
1999 ZAP International Masters
Inside the PMI Piranha
The Great Western Circuit
The Music City Open 1999
How to Paintcheck
More Distance
Hiding in Plain Sight
and more

Sept. 4, 1999

Lee Gauthier & Crossfire Paintballs are hosting their 1st Annual 3 man Amateur Outdoor. Saturday Sept. 25, 1999 near Winnipeg, MB The format is Center Flag. There are prizes for 1st thru 5th place. 1st Place are 3 Automags. I'm hoping to get a Predator team to go. For more info contact Jamie at 204-667-7534 or Lee at 204-885-0358. These guys placed second at the SHARE event. Entry Fee is $150 per team. There is a discount on paint if you advance order it (1/2 cent per ball).

August 30, 1999
- August 29, 1999
- August 27, 1999
- August 26, 1999
- August 23, 1999
- August 21, 1999
- August 19, 1999
- August 10, 1999
- August 8, 1999
- August 1, 1999
- July 27, 1999
- July 26, 1999
- July 17, 1999
- July 5, 1999
- July 1, 1999
June 28, 1999

3 more early registrations: 4 Neat Guys (Saskatoon), The Generals (Prince Albert) & Screaming Eagles (Prince Albert).
Looks like the Jackals will not be able to attend. Thanks for trying guys.

June 25, 1999

The first two teams confirmed today (PAID), for the Santa Anonymous. RBTT (Saskatoon) and Snipe Elite (Saskatoon). Other teams include (but not paid early registration): 4 Neat Guys (Saskatoon), The Generals (P.A.), Hell Hounds (Regina), Huns - Naughty Spawn (Saskatoon), JR. Predators (P.A.), Wolfpack (Saskatoon) and a few other local teams (Names to be made up yet). The Jackals (Regina) have expressed interest too. Looks like we could hit 16 teams, but for sure 11.
The Top Gun course will be 10 shots at 10 Coke bottles. This years distance will be shortened, as to you run straight back from just past bin #7 to Bin #1 (spectators will be able to watch the entire course from one vantage point). Participants will kick over a pillion to start and one at the end to stop the timer. 20 sec. penalty for each miss. Thanks to Pat for getting this great course in shape. In 1999 Pat wants to get 1st Place, not second like 1998.
July 17, 1999 is being designated "International Paintball Safety Day". This will hopefully bring players out to safe commercial sites. The first big push for awareness of safe, responsible paintball, that is being promoted by the Paintball Safety Council.

June 20, 1999

The Bale Field is now ready to play on. It's a diamond shape, with 22 round bales. The size is 165' long by 150' wide. Thanks to Martin S., Pat B. and Jim H. for all their hard work.
Pat has been working hard on the Top Gun Course for the Santa Anonymous Tournament on July 4. Don't forget to get your tickets on the Model 98 Tippmann Pneumatics donated.
I received more information on the Paintball Safety Council. Hopefully, everything will be up and running in July or August.
The P.A. Predators are holding a Paintball Shooting Booth at Founder's Day on the North Saskatchewan River bank. Sometimes the crowd can reach over 15,000 people. This should be a great day to highlight Paintball.

June 15, 1999

The Moosehorn Center Flag 4-man was held on the weekend. The 4 Neat Guys (Saskatoon - James Jackson) won 1st place. The P.A. Predators took 2nd place (George Lewko, Jim Russell, Mike Wyatt and David Hildebrandt). We did have some bad luck, ask Jim R. about face planting himself on a tire, etc. The field was in the Open area only, which I thought was better. The fields played very fair, but seemed to be still a bit too long. Dave has really developed well, making a nice move to eliminate the Generals. Jean-Marc's Generals had a good time as well. The tent worked great.

June 7, 1999

There is a new information page on the web from the makers of Paintball 2xtremes magazine. www.paintball2xtremes.com
Two well renown ophthalmologists [eye doctors] (Dr. Paul Vinger and Dr. Jack Jeffers) have made a stand against fully automatic paintball guns. These two doctors are very involved in eye protection in all sports. They believe that with automatics two eyes could be damaged instead of one eye. They did note when the proper goggles worn NO injuries have been reported. However, many players have removed their goggles and have been injured. These doctors have no problem with semi-automatics (one shot per tigger pull), even with high end players that can shoot over 10 ball per second, because these players are trained. A newbie with a fully automatic can serious injure someone, even with proper goggles. You can see the full article at the Paintball 2xtremes site.
The small field has even better lighting now with most lights perched up in trees or on poles to the side of the field. It's fabulous. Thanks to Pat & Stacey. The main field has had a few modifications as well. The bale field needs a little work and it will be ready for action.

June 3, 1999

New page: For Sale area, for members to sell items. These are the same items that are found on the For Sale Wall in the HQ.
The lights are now up on the Small Field. Thanks to Pat & Jim H.

June 1, 1999

The 114 HPA tanks are in. They will be great, giving more shots per psi than the smaller ones.
The round bale Speedball course has arrived. We'll plant some grass and trees. It's location is near the water field. The course will be in a diamond shape. The teams start from the points, with the field getting wide near the center. There are 29 round bales.

May 29, 1999

Several new bunkers were added to the main field. A tire bunker now protects the north ridge. The old water tank stand behind Beta has been stood up, along with a couple of wooden bunkers to it's south. Plus one large black L shaped bunker was added to the south of the granary.
The P.A. Predators Tent has arrived. It's an EZup, 10' x 10' that goes up in less than a minute. One wall is solid camouflage and the other 2 are panoramic (tops are clear plastic). It's great!

May 24, 1999

If you missed it, you missed it. 50 players on Sunday. Beautiful sunny and just a little wind. It was a wild time.
Looks like Aldo Perrone (Ontario), will be manufacturing mass market markers and accessories. (Aldo sold out to Brass Eagle, and had a non compete agreement which just expired). He has a nearly indestructible, plastic, semi-automatic marker which will retail for below $75 US. his new company is called Point Zero.
ZAP INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR OPEN SHARES RULES OF CONDUCT. (Press Release) These are appropriate for any team, any player and any event.

Paintball guns must be in a case, duffel bag or similar covering ant time they may be viewed by the public. This means covering guns in hotels, in the airport, on the streets, in parking lots, in cars, etc. Under no circumstances should any hotel guest ever see a paintball gun in the hotel.
Paintball guns are not to be discharged anywhere except at the chronograph, on the game fields or similar games areas. They are not to be discharged (dry or loaded) in any area where goggles are not required. They are not to be discharged, even dry, at the hotels!
Barrels must be blocked with plugs when not in use or in any area where goggles are not required. Squeegies are not barrel plugs.
Shooting or otherwise marking public or private property, unprotected players or animals with paintballs, including structures at the tournament site such as porta-johns, signs, buildings, etc. is prohibited. Respect this community that so graciously invites us back each year!
Arguing, fighting or similar non sportsmanlike behavior will not be tolerated. Remember, it is not what you say, it is how you say it! You can disagree without being disagreeable.
Extreme courtesy should be exhibited at all campgrounds and hotels. Care should be also be given not to contaminate rugs and furniture with paint from the playing field or mud from boots. do not ruin good hotel towels wiping paint or mud from equipment. Ask at the front desk for old towels and they will be pleased to give you some. The same care you would give at your mother's home should be extended to the hotels in this community.

Airstar introduced a new SuperNova. The Nova line of marker work on extremely low pressure CO2. The markers will hardly freeze up. The one I saw in Pittsburgh, we froze the tank and it was covered in ice, and it still worked.

May 22, 1999

Sounds like a large turn-out for May 23. I believe we could reach up to 40 players, if the weather is good.
Just in: Reserve your copy now!

Action Pursuit Games (July 1999)

How to build a winning team
Keep the teams even
How to recruit new players
Inside the Nova 700 marker
Hopperball
What makes a good team captain?
and more.

Paintball Sports (July 1999)

The forces behind JT
Scenario games reports

May 16, 1999

The P.A. Predators won the Saskatchewan Speedball Championships in Asquith today. It was cold and windy, but it never rained. With all 5 of us on HPA (high pressure air) our markers performed extremely well. The poor weather sure made us glad that HPA was available. We had a spare player for every game, which we never needed. That worked very good. Magboy was sure moving up the center and won quite a few games, but ask him about face planting in that first bunker, alittle short as well. Congratulations to: Jim R., Jim H., Wayne G., Mike W. & George L.

May 14, 1999

Just in: Reserve your copy now!

Action Pursuit Games (June 1999)

10 tips for a Paintball sniper
20 Ways to Stay in the Game
How to Recruit New Players?
Inside the Black Widow
Wasaga Beach PB, Ontario

paintball 2-Xtremes (May 1999)

Pro/Carbine Review
Setting an Ambush: Part 1
The Art of Backdoors
Paintball Safety Council
GT 2000: Review
ZAP Amateur coming up

May 8, 1999

The improved Small Field plays extremely well. It plays quite fast and lose.
Brass Eagle announced record profits in this first quarter of this year. Net sales of $19,004,00 in 1999, compared to $15,658,00 in 1998's first quarter. Net income was $2,230,000 in 1999, compared to $1,285,000 in 1998. The purchase of C.M. Support (Viewloader) in Jan. 1999 helped push their numbers up.
'Bioprogress', from England, X-Gel Film System is a new animal free soft capsule technology. This new system uses no gelatin (all current paintballs use gelatin for a shell), which is a protein derived from animal renderings. There seems to be a scare in Britain that Mad Cow disease could be transmitted though gelatin (which is very unlikely, but that seems to be where this product is developed from). This product would cost effectively produce animal free soft capsules. Because of its unique properties and consumers concerns, they hope that their patented process will bring the company into the global market. Since only their company could produce this product.

May 5, 1999

Reconstructed the Small Field. Pat, Jim and myself have improved, heightened and added more wood bunkers to the field. Almost all the old bunkers have been moved and rebuilt higher. This should make the field faster and according to Pat, "...easier on the old guys."
The Water Field is next on the list to improve. We're going to add more spools, an old swather, some barrels and most likely improve a few areas with sand bags.

May 4, 1999

Looks like Canadian Tire will be selling Brass Eagle Paintball gear, just like Wal-mart. Be very careful of any paintballs from Brass Eagle. Check the cases from broken balls, or leakers. If you see any paint leaking or broken, I would not purchase it.
Jean Marc from The Generals Quarters has his web site started. Check it out for monthly specials.

May 2, 1999

Some more sponsors for the SHARE Tournament: WDP (Camouflage or uniforms), Air America, & CMI International.

Paintball Paradise Prince Albert Inc. will be holding Player Safety & Strategy Courses, in about a month or so. The classes are from the Paintball Safety Council Inc. Players that pass the course (cost ~$15), will receive a book, certificate, Player Pak & a 3 month subscription to Paintball 2-Xtremes Magazine. The book is 160+ pages called "Paintball: The Complete Player's Guide to Playing Safer and Better".

April 24, 1999

World News:

Another encapsulator has begun production, SOFT GEL CAPS WEST. The paintballs will be called the Great American Paintballs. This brings the total number of paintball manufacturers to 12, in the US and Canadian markets.
Both the Canadian Paintball League (American Paintball League) and Xtreme Sports Group (Paintball 2-Xtremes Magazine) will be offering Player Safety Classes and a nation wide safety program. This might be a joint offering or separate programs.
It looks like Brass Eagle might be loosing their dominate position at Wal-mart. Wal-mart is considering other paintball products to carry as well.
Looks like paintball is in for another strong season. There are dramatic increase in sales of almost every category of paintball products. Other sporting good lines are having sales drops. Archery and skateboard stores are now starting to sell paintball products to overcome their sales losses.
There could be some product shortages this year again. Plus there are estimates that have over 600 new paintball products introduced this year. With less than 100 surviving. So be careful of new products out there.
Diablo paintballs are really marketing their product.

April 23, 1999

Scott USA has come on board as a sponsor of the SHARE Tournament.

April 19, 1999

SHARE Tournament has a new sponsor: Armson from South Africa.

April 14, 1999

It looks like Accucaps (the makers of ZAP Paintballs), are set to open a huge Paintball Factory in Canada. The facility is about 11,000 square feet, and would be dedicated to paintballs. A plant this size could produce billions of paintball each year.
There seems to be a bit of a Paintball media war going on. It would appear that there are too many Paintball publications for the advertising revenue available. The fight can be seen in the news group rec.sport.paintball. There are so many postings, that I have stopped checking out the war. I've met or talked to many of the parties involved. Some are quite open, and others are very closed about their involvement. We'll see who gets the readership and manufacturers advertising.

April 11, 1999

The seasons off to a very busy start (bookings are going well). I now have bookings into June. Phone early to book your time. Check the events page for the current calendar.
Looks like we'll be having a booth or display at Founders Day. 10,000-15,000 people will be on the river bank that day. Should be excellent publicity.
Three more confirmed sponsors for the SHARE Tournament. Worr Games Products (3x1999 Autocockers), Paintball Mania (3x47cu in AL 3,000 HPA Tanks?) and Leads Metal Products (A.K.A. Performance- Specialty Accessories).

April 4, 1999

The Sask. Speedball at Asquith has been moved to May 16. It will have 100% pay back of registration fees to the First Place team.
I received an email from Lance (Hound of the Hell Hounds or Iceman [ask him about his nick names sometime]) regarding the WHY2K Scenario Game in Regina (Paintball Paradise). It looks quite good and is set for Aug. 15, 1999.

March 29, 1999

The First booking of the spring was out today. A ringette wind-up party. The girls really improved, and gave it to the Dads'. Weird weather: sunny, snow, black clouds, snow, cold, warm, sunny.
ZAP is now confirmed as sponsors to the SHARE Tourney. Steve Moore (ZAP Paintballs) plans to attend the event. Steve's a great guy, and just love paintball. He travels the world promoting paintball. He seems quite impressed with Trent and his SHARE Tourney. I interviewed Steve a couple of years ago, and his views on the sport have been confirmed since that time. Steve even remembered me at the 1998 ZAP Amateur Open in Pittsburgh (which Jim R. and I attended).

March 24, 1999

Trent has informed me that the SHARE Tournament has Airgun Designs confirmed as sponsors. Brass Eagle is also contributing to SHARE (what it is right now is unknown, maybe paintball markers).

March 23, 1999

Combat Vision has donated 20 No-fog Insert coupons redeemable at the Santa Anonymous tourney. I now have the coupons from last years tourney. Just email me if you won Inserts in 1998, and I'll redeem the coupons for you.

March 22, 1999

What a great day of playing paintball. It must have been +12oC out. We had 7 players. I shot Chevy multiple times. It was fun! Most of the paths are clear, and the snow is less than a foot deep in most places.
Santa Anonymous Top Gun Contest. I'm thinking of shorting the course to a straight run. There will still be only one shot per target (10 total), but I think we'll add some obstacles. These obstacles could be a tire field, stair case, raised ramp, weaving though cones, etc. If anybody has suggestions please let me know.
Sounds like Paintball Mania has developed a Tuff Skin Coating for New Fibre Wrapped High Pressure Air Systems, just after we ordered our tanks. They are discontinuing the 114's and will produce only these fibre wraps in 68's and 110's. The coating adds only 1 oz in weights.

March 20, 1999

Page 9-11 in Paintball News, has an article on the Saskatchewan 1998 Paintball Promoter of the Year, Trent Armitage and his SHARE Tournament. (Self promotion --It was written by myself)

March 19, 1999

It's looking like 3 Automag RT's might be the prize for the team that raises the most money for SHARE. but not for sure yet.
Tippmann is introducing the "Pro/Carbine", which features a Pro-Lite forearm, build on the body of a Carbine 45 frame. They are keeping the more consistent and efficient CVX Valve (which can use both CO2 and compressed air).
There also seems to be a movement to having trigger guards required on all markers, by 2000.
The ZAP series and the NPPL might be getting their rules to be more consistent against each other.

March 14, 1999

The SHARE Tournament will be August 28, 1999 (Saturday). We already have 3 Spyders to give away. Trent will be in charge of Sponsorship, George will run the tournament. Location TBA.
What a beautiful day to play paintball. +5oC out and my Mag worked well on CO2. You guys missed a great day, must have played 10 games. Magboy shot Snowcap in the cap on the last game. Mike blew his gun apart, but it's a Tippmann and had it working in 2 minutes. How's your neck Mike? or the snow banks?

March 13, 1999

Our order of Nitrogen tanks will be delayed until next week. Somehow they went to Dartmount, Nova Scotia. Before that they were lost in the wonderful world of UPS.
Sounds like good weather for the game on Sunday.
This weekend will have some serious meetings on the Santa Anonymous and SHARE Tourneys. Things are shaping up very good.
I'm thinking about raffling off the Tippmann Model 98 (donated by Tippmann Pneumatics) w/ 9 oz. tank (retail value ~$400.00). The team or person selling the most tickets would win a case of ZAP Paintballs. This could raise another $1,000 to purchase toys with, at the Santa Anonymous Tourney. What do you think?
Looks like the entire Saskatchewan Championship Circuit for 1999 will be raising funds for charity. July Santa Anonymous, July Children's Crisis Center, June - TBA, and August SHARE.

March 11, 1999

Some new sponsors for Santa Anonymous Tourney. Tippmann Pneumatics (Model 98 w/ 9 oz tank) and 20 Combat Vision Lens inserts. The 16 inserts from last year are on their way now.
The SHARE Tourney has Kingman International as sponsors (3 Spyders).
Universal Surrender Rule. When you are eliminated, you put in your modified barrel plug and wave it the air. when leaving the field you keep your paintgun raised high. The modified barrel plug has 2 x 30 cm long orange flags (2-3 cm wide) attached to it. The flags could be flagging tape, but it's better to use webbing or binding material. I just purchased 50 m of orange webbing. It should reduce being hit while walking (eliminated) off the field. We'll try it this weekend.
JT is now selling paintballs (J-Balls).
Dennis Tippmann, Sr. is having a contest to name a new paintball gattling gun. It's mounted on a gokart which travels 45 mph. The gun shoots 3,000 rounds per minute (that's 50 balls per second). It's hopper holds 6,000 paintballs.

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