Can you call a team with hired guns as “A TEAM” ?

blast from the past - Team WK with their hired gun

Well, that’s my question & I hope you guys can give an opinion or two about it.

We are fortunate to have most of the D1 teams playing in MY-NPL under sponsorship either directly or indirectly by major paintball brands & local Vendors. They are expected to carry their sponsors brand be it during tourney or even during training. Sponsors can be very picky & sponsorship can be terminated in an instance just like that eg. By wearing a jersey/t-shirt of a rival brand or using a rivals marker etc could just cost your team the sponsorship.

But how about employing the services of hired guns to play with your team in a tourney or even for all 5 legs of MY-NPL next year? Will your team be in trouble with the sponsors if the hired gun/s is sponsored by a rival brand? Eg. A team under DYE but the hired gun/s is under P.E/SP/JT/MD etc. It won’t be a problem if in this situation the hired guns uses a DM9 & DYE jersey/pants but what if they too have to carry their sponsors name & colours? You’ll be going to have a mix match of players playing under 2 if not 3 different brand of sponsors.

Can you call that team a DYE sponsored team when you’ve got a few players under a different banner/sponsor and to relate back to my title, can you even call the team as “a team” when you employ hired guns to beef up your line up? The proudest moment for a team is when you’re on the podium in your sponsor’s colours & banner but now out of the 10 guys in your line up, 2-3 will be in a rival’s colours. Will your sponsor be happy with it? Will they take any action? Only time will tell, we’ll just have to wait and see come this Feb 14-15 2009 during the 1st leg of MY-NPL cause I believe most D1 team will be facing this dilemma for the ’09 season.

Dutch Lady SHINE Project - It Starts in ME

Some of you may have came to know about it, through my endless emails and sms, or perhaps you have stumbled upon the advertisement on the tele. Yes, I am one of the finalist and I need your generous help.

SHINE Project -It Starts In Me is a contest where all finalist will share their dreams and aspirations and the top 3 finalist will receive RM15,000 as a stepping stone to make their dreams come true.

Winners will be judged based on 50% voting, and 50% from judges' marks. Therefore, to ensure a safe placing, I need to be at least top 3 with a huge gap with the fourth place.

It has been 3 weeks and all finalist have been giving stiff competition to each other. Votes were added up almost every single minute.

As I am writing this, I am being chased closely by the 4th place and I dont know how long I can sustain...So I am indeed in need of your generous help my dear friends.

Please vote for AFZARINA, a bottle of SHINE yogurt drink will only cost you RM1.99 at Giants, RM1.95 at Jusco, the Yogurt is much cheaper at only Rm1.59 in Giant. Oh, highest voters will win shopping vouchers too.

SO the more you vote, the more you stand a chance to win too.

How do you vote?
Buy any of the SHINE products and peel of the sticker of the cap to reveal the unique code. Use the code to vote for me at http://www.itstartsinme.com/

Where can you get SHINE?
As mentioned earlier, Jusco, Giants, Cold Storage, Tesco and other major supermarkets.

The more you vote, the higher the chances for my team and I to win this.

Voting period ends on 28th Dec 2008, so hurry up guys, there's only 7 more days to go!

I'd like to stress that this money is to support our team to play next year, and help us to go further in the game itself. You may not know me that well to vote for me, but you may know Mas, Azhari or Kerol. Voting for me means voting for them too.

Come on guys, Loloq has won Nescafe Kickstart and let this SHINE contest be another eye opener to the public that Paintball is a sport with a future and a game which WOMEN can play and be good at!

Paintball Gears Stolen - Lookout for these items!

Some of you might already know, paintball gears belonging to NPL Divsion 3 team, "Khalid's Team" have been stolen from their car. This happend at the Crystal Crown's hotel parking lot, and it's just behind MAPAAC. They were on their way from Kuantan to JB for the JPL. It seems that the thieves have targeted them and their goods, and only stole those - nothing else. So, it's a high probablity, the thieves are also paintballers.

I'll post the serial numbers when I get them. But this will do for now. Here are list of gears stolen from them:

Markers Eclipse
2 x ego 8 color brown/olive
1 x ego 7 color black
1 x ego etek color black

Tanks
4 x Stako

Loaders
3 x Pulse
2 x Empire B2

Jerseys n Pants
6 x Proto o8 color grey
5 x Eclipse 08 color red

others
- elbowpad eclipse 08
- hand glove nike
- proto pods

This case has been reported to the police. So guys, be aware of these markers at your paintball place. If you know of their whereabouts please contact Afzan Khalid or Sofian Daud. Anybody caught using these stolen items will be prosecuted.

ROADTRIP - JOHOR PAINTBALL LEAGUE 2008 (GRAND FINALE)

JOHOR PAINTBALL LEAGUE 2008 (GRAND FINALE) –JPL08 GF
OCTVILLE GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB, BANDAR SERI ALAM,
PASIR GUDANG JOHOR DT
13th & 14th December 2008

JPL08 GF was going to be Team Nemesis’s final tournament in this fruitful 2008 paintball calendar of ours. 7 of us made the trip there with the 1st car leaving after Friday prayers & the 2nd car with me, soon & jr leaving KL late in the evening. Had dinner at the Pagoh R&R, Soon & myself having Nasi Lemak bungkus & a couple of Pau Daging. Jr had Spaghetti taupaued from home. We reached our hotel in Pasir Gudang at around 10pm,had our bath and did the usual day before tourney routine of changing the loaders and markers batteries etc.

Saturday Dec 13,2008
It’s a 5minute drive from our hotel to the tournament site at OCTVILLE GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB,home of Armour Paintball. 20 teams from Malaysia & also Singapore were there playing in 3 categories. Only 1 field was setup as opposed to 2 fields in the initial pre-tourney info that we got. Maybe the low turnout of teams competing had something to do with it. The field was nicely setup with DXS Millennium bunkers & the grass was great.
For the Open Category there was only 4 teams competing with Nemesis, Raskal, No Mercy & Demonz Red being the 4. Prelims was schedule for 8games & were to be played today. Tourney was schedule to start at 8am but it only started off at around 9am with the rookie division playing 1st. By lunchtime we had only played 3 of our games & the constant stoppage of play by both organiser & Refs really slowed the pace of the scheduling. By end of Day 1, 2 of the Open Division games had to be pushed to Sunday.

We had dinner at a roadside stall near the hotel selling nasi lemak & Sup Gearbox. I had Sup Perut,Urat & Daging plus a plate of Nasi Lemak. The rest of the guys had about the same too. By 11pm we were all in our bed ready for a goodnight sleep.

Sunday Dec 14,2008
We had breakfast at a nearby Mamak before going to the field. Day 2 was suppose to start at 8am but since it was still raining & also a group of MPRB ref were also at the mamak having their breakfast so we weren’t in any rush to eat our roti canai. By 8am we were at the field ready for our remaining 2 prelims game. The game only started after 9am, it was still raining but anymore delay will definitely disrupt the scheduling further. Nemesis qualified 1st in the prelims so we’ll be going against Demonz Red in the Semis. Raskal will be up against No Mercy, who qualified 2nd, showing they are a team to watch out for if they decide to play in Div. 1 next year.

Just as we were about to start playing in our Open Div semis fixtures, game came to a halt once again after a controversial incident by a ref on the field during the match between Raz Legion vs D’Mercy Kid. So another delay while we wait for the MPRB refs to settle their matters between themselves in the middle of the field. There was already talks of two different fractions between them going up against each other. We asked the organiser for an early lunch break so that we won’t be waiting in our full gears till the refs settle their problems and with the agreement from team captains the lunch break was announce from 11am-2pm.

2pm. We were ready for our semis match against Demonz Red. Nemesis won the 1st game while in the 2nd semis, No Mercy won against Raskal. In our 2nd game, it started evenly, with both team losing bodies early on. In the end it was 2vs2 with Mango and Todo both taking out each other while on the other end jr was zooming on to Dennis. Much to our dismay, jr was having a jam trigger and wasn’t able to fire a single shot while trying to bunker Dennis. So it was an easy kill for Dennis & he was able to hang the flag in time. More drama was actually happening on the other end with Todo having a go with the refs for taking him out. Words was said, equipment was thrown so in the end, Demonz Red got the win but with a price where Todo was given a 6 match ban.

The 3rd game was also not without controversy. Demonz went into the field with 5 players but Todo wasn’t in the line up. Maybe it was their understanding that only Todo was ban and they can replace him with somebody else to complete the line up. Refs came to pullout 1 player and in the end it was Patrick who was coming out. So the match started with 5 vs 4 and it was all over in a couple of minute. Gary & Amos was taken out right after breakout and soon it was all over. We were on our way to the finals.

Raskal won both their remaining game to win their semis. So it was going to be a Raskal vs Nemesis final then. It the Novice Div, it was gonna be a final between D’Mercy Kids vs Todak Lockdown.

Finals
1st game was an evenly fought match. We were three up against two from Raskal by in the end we ran out of time. So it was a draw. 2nd game was all Raskal. We lost bodies early in the game and in the end were no match against Raskal. A win for Raskal.

Final game was a do or die for us. Raskal lost 2 guys on the break and soon after lost Aris on the back left temple. With both Pot & Abby being pin on the right side of the field it took a bunkering move by Awe to take out both of them & a win for us with 5 bodies up. Soon after game over , the announcer after getting the go ahead by the UJ, announced that Nemesis is the champion. I had my doubt on this since if we follow NPL or NPPL rules, only a flag hang will determine a win for either team so since both team got 1win each, then it’s still a tie. But with all the amateurish decision done by the MPRB during day1 & day2 of the tourney then anything could happen. Raskal did a protest and for 5minutes Nemesis were the Champion lol. The result was then overruled and the championship will be decided by a 1on1 match. Another boo boo by the MPRB. Aris of Raskal when against Awe of Nemesis and the match was all over in under 1minute. Awe was hit on the face mask with a bounce ball of the bunker and so Raskal is the Champion, this time for real.

Prize giving ceremony was done way after 8pm, graciously of the VIP to still be there since arriving around 5pm. In the end we were a bit disappointed with the end result but also happy with the way we played especially in the final game. The feeling of winning the game with 5 bodies up right after losing the game before was just great.

Overall it was an OK tournament. The field, layout & paint was ok. The organiser should emphasis on a better run tourney, better scheduling & please no more MPRB marshals. The fast pace of the games in Open & Novice Division and with markers on ramping was just too fast for them to input. I guess the vacation trip……………errrr I meant training trip to HB NPPL every year didn’t do any good to them then. The comedies of errors was just hard to swallow by a professional bodies such as the MPRB.

p/s : NO, you don’t need to hang your opponents flag in a Final 1on1 game. Teams are only playing for elimination. No need to pull and hang the flag. I guess NPPL didn’t teach them that at HB. Anyway it was fun seeing Aris running & emptying his marker on his way to hang the flag.

Pros
- Great Prize Money
- Accomodations & Location
- 4k air
- nice field
- Chrono ref(he shoots only 2-3x,won’t ramp your marker).Every pallet counts nowadays :)

Cons
- scheduling delays
- marshalling %$*##@^
- weather (it seems November & December is a bad time of the year to have a tourney. Either you employ a good weather consultant or pray to god it won’t rain during the event.

ELITE - MacDev Paintballs!

So it finally arrived at MAPAAC last week. Last Sunday I had the chance to shoot these "ELITE" paint from MacDev and it was amazing! So brittle that it breaks from a drop test (shoulder high). And the it has a very nice fragrance to it! No more awful smell from other brands. You be going back home smelling nice, this I guarantee you. Come to MAPAAC and have a try. hehehehe..

Late February 2008, Alan (MD Ronin) asked me if I could design a case for MacDev. They wanted to market their own brand of paint, and I thought, why not? Something new to try. We threw some ideas around and decided to use the current Ronin's jersey camo motive as the base design. Then with some simple red theme color and we're all set.

Come March, we have done some rough designs. And I coined the word "ELITE" and we proposed to James of MacDev and he instantly liked it. SO, that would be the name of the Tournament Grade paint for MacDev paint.

After 34 files, 17 stages of design, over 30MB of files - our final design was accepted. James liked it very much. It doesn't end there, MacDev took the design, made some changes and that's how it goes! Didn't go much from the original design. Too see our work on an international product is an extraordinary feeling!

Thanks Alan, James & MacDev for the opportunity.





Here are the final designs. Same basic layout, with different objects. I had design a layout with tanks in the first few layouts, but they didn't want it at that time. Guess they liked it. hehehe...

The signature "Villain" trademark is there in the design of the box. Loved it!

Edit: Apparently to it is too brittle for some others out there. I personally had one ball break the first time I shot it (with Droid) and that's about it. After 'air' it for a while, it shoots fine! Don't leave it under the hot sun still in their bags for 30 minutes! You'll get out of shape paint for sure.

Open the bags, pour everything in the case.. let it rest for 10-15 minutes. It should shoot just fine.

Oh and, wash immediately after you get hit. My stains still there, and might disappear after a few more washes. *sigh*

Edit again: It seems there are some paintballs that are slightly different bore size than the .68 calibre. Sometimes its up to .693 and causes ball breaks! Keep on eye on this folks. When they're perfectly round shape, they shoot awesome. When they're not.. aiyooo..

Are we ready for Super7 format?

Beginning this MY-NPL ’09 season, D1 teams will be playing in 7man format. It’s an ideal time for MY-NPL being on it’s 4th Cycle to move on from the 5man format to streamline with the NPPL format which is the 7man format of play. Most D1 teams have had a taste of the 7man format with 2 MY-NPL Super7 tournaments in 2006 & 2007(actual event was in January ’08) & the recent Malaysian Super 7 Tournament.

But are we actually ready for it?

I would like to share my thoughts on a few factors that I feel could make or break this format for this ’09 MY-NPL season.

a) Players

Every team will have to expand their player roster for their ’09 season. Almost every D1 team currently have a roster of 7-8 players in their line up but needs to add another 2-3 more to complete the team line up for Super7.Say there’s 8 competitive D1 team playing Super7 next year and with no D1 team disbanding to pick off their players then where are these 16-21 guys/gals gonna come from?

I can see 3 scenarios where bigger or better off teams will cheery pick players from smaller & weaker teams & in doing so spells the doom for the smaller teams. I also see most teams picking up Free Agents players from MPOC league to strengthen their line up. Most team will have hired guns to try to give the top teams a run for their money in the new format.

Most team are still doing their behind the scene recruiting, with good players being approach left,right,center & back for their signature but so far there haven’t been any news of player movement from any D1 team…………..or maybe there have been?

b) Cost

Can a team sustain the cost of playing 7man, not only for 1 leg but for all 5 legs? Teams that feel they just break even playing Super5 will need to have a full roster of 10 players to break even in the Super7 format. Playing with a roster of 7-8 players will certainly set back each player an extra RM200-RM300 min for each leg and here’s when we see teams dropping out from playing a certain leg to concentrate on others. In this years D1 Super5 format, a total of 12 teams played in at least 1 leg of MY-NPL and but only 6 teams played in all 5 legs. Makes you wonder how many team will play in all 5 leg of the Super7 ’09 season.

c) Prize Money

The good new is the cash price has gone up by RM1000 making it RM5000 + 10 boxes of pallet for the champ. Still the league with the highest prize money, thank you.

The bad news, hmmmmm how about that unless you have a roster of 10 players in your team then like I wrote before you will be having a cost increase of say about RM200-RM300/player.There will definitely be an increase in paint consumption, at least an extra 3-5 boxes min.

Let take an example of a 3rd placing team. They will play a min of 14 game and a max of 17 game till finish. They will use up say maybe around min 22 boxes of paint. Cost will be RM4400 for paint + RM900 registration. Total being RM5300. 3rd placing winner gets RM5k(paint included) so that’s a lost of RM300.Good new you won’t be paying next leg entry fees but I still believe that top3 finisher should always break even & not play at a lost.

Here’s when it get interesting, say there’s only 9 team playing for any certain leg then that’s a deduction of 30% from the total cash price money. Your 3rd placing RM3000 is now RM2100.From my calculation even the 2nd place finisher will be playing at a lost.

So, are we ready for Super7 format?

p/s : please post your comments & feedbacks so that any positive & negative inputs can be channel to the relevant people effectively.

MY-NPL'09 Event Dates Released!

MY-NPL HQ & Malaysian Paintball Academy (MAPAAC) are pleased to officially release the tentative venues & dates and divisions & fees for the MY-NPL'09 season.

Venues & Dates for the Malaysian National Paintball League 2009 & its’ official feeder events

MY-NPL '09 (Event 1)
Venue: MAPAAC, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Date: 14th-15th February 2009

MY-NPL '09 (Event 2)
Venue: Johor Bahru, Johor.
Date: 28th -29th March 2009

2009 INTERNATIONAL SUPER SEVEN CHAMPIONSHIP (ISSC’09)
Venue: Dataran Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Date: 1st - 2nd - 3rd May 2009

MY-NPL '09 (Event 3)
Venue: Kuantan, Pahang.
Date: 20th -21st June 2009

MY-NPL '09 (Event 4)
Venue: Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall, Malacca.
Date: 1st-2nd August 2009

MY-NPL '09 (Season Grand Finale)
Venue: MAPAAC, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Date: 7th -8th November 2009

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The MY-NPL Divisions in 2009

In 2009, Division 1 will be playing in Super7 format! While Division 2, 3 & 4 will maintains as 5men format.

For Division 1 only. Each team will consists of ten (10)active players on their roster and shall field a maximum of seven (7) players in every game.

Division 1 (Amateur)
Open to all D1 teams in Asian region.
Electronic markers with semi auto/NPPL mode allowed.

For all Division 2, 3 & 4. Each team will consists of seven (7) active players on their roster and shall field a maximum of five (5) players in every game.

Division 2 (Novice)
Open to all D2 teams in Asian region.
Maximum of two (2) D1 players are allowed in D2 roster.
Electronic markers with semi auto/NPPL mode allowed.

Division 3 (Rookie)
Open to South East Asia countries D3 Teams only.
Electronic markers with semi auto/NPPL mode allowed.

Division 4 (Young Gun) -(Prelims 6 games)
Open to all Malaysian new players & teams with NO tournament records
House Mechanical markers are provided/allowed.

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Registration Fees for MY-NPL 2009 Season

Division 1 (Amateur)
Registration fees: RM900.00
ID Tag: RM35.00 / season / player

Division 2 (Novice)
Registration fees: RM500.00
ID Tag: RM35.00 / season / player

Division 3 (Rookie)
Registration fees: RM400.00
ID Tag: RM35.00 / season / player

Division 4 (Young Guns)
Registration fees: RM300.00
Inclusive of: 1000 rounds PB (Prelims 6 games)
ID Tag: RM35.00 / season / player

Pit Crew season ID Tag: RM60.00 / season

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MY-NPL HQ & Tactical Action are pleased to announce the prize package for the MY-NPL'09 (Cycle4).

Division 1 (Amateur) -Super7
Champion : 10 Medals + RM5,000.00 cash + 10 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM7,000.00)
2nd Place : 10 Medals + RM4,000.00 cash + 10 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM6,000.00)
3rd Place : 10 Medals + RM3,000.00 cash + 10 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM5,000.00)
4th Place : 10 Medals only

All 4 winning teams will also get 1 free registration for next immediate MY-NPL'09 event.

D1 Overall Champion: RM7,500.00 cash + 40 cases PB (Total value @ RM15,000.00)

Division 2 (Novice) -Super5
Champion : 7 Medals + RM3,400.00 cash + 8 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM5,000.00)
2nd Place : 7 Medals + RM2,400.00 cash + 8 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM4,000.00)
3rd Place : 7 Medals + RM1,400.00 cash + 8 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM3,000.00)
4th Place : 7 Medals only

All 4 winning teams will also get 1 free registration for next immediate MY-NPL'09 event.

D2 Overall Champion: RM6,000.00 cash + 30 cases PB (Total value @ RM12,000.00)

Division 3 (Rookie) -Super5
Champion : 7 Medals + RM2,800.00 cash + 6 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM4,000.00)
2nd Place : 7 Medals + RM1,800.00 cash + 6 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM3,000.00)
3rd Place : 7 Medals + RM800.00 cash + 6 cases PB /each event (Total value @ RM2,000.00)
4th Place : 7 Medals only

All 4 winning teams will also get 1 free registration for next immediate MY-NPL'09 event.

D3 Overall Champion: RM4,500.00 cash + 20 cases PB (Total value @ RM9,000.00)

Division 4 (Young Guns)
Champion : R1,000.00 prizes /each event
1st Runner : RM750.00 prizes /each event
2nd Runner : RM500.00 prizes /each event

Prizes from division less than 10 teams will be deduct 30%.

As for tentative venues & dates and divisions & fees for the MY-NPL'09 (Cycle4), please refer to previous posting on top.

More information regarding MY-NPL coming event, please visit http://www.my-npl.org or email: info@my-npl.org

MY-NPL in Facebook too, join us @ http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=10772751334

More information regarding MY-NPL coming event, please visit http://www.my-npl.org or email: info@my-npl.org

or contact: -
Mr. Sofian Daud (MY-NPL Tournament Director)
H/P: 016-332 3777, E-mail: piandaud@my-npl.org
Tel: 03-6277 7779, Fax: 03-6277 7711 / 7960 4724

Mr. YP ‘Maverick’ Wong
H/P: 016-332 3370, E-mail: ypwong@my-npl.org

MacDev Ronin at MacDev Website!

Great to see our local boys up there in the their official website. Here's the writeup by Bourke Grundy of MacDev.

"All of us here at MacDev are immensely proud of MacDev Ronin and their many achievements over the years, and it was a real pleasure to see them make Malaysian paintball history over the weekend. Congratulations to all the guys on the team, your hard work has paid off for you. We look forward to supporting Ronin in every way possible."

Bourke Grundy
MacDev

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And big thank you to Desmond the residentevilchef for providing those excellent photos!

From www.macdev.net

MacDev Rules!

Against all odds. We made it to the Finals. Came without any high expectations, but just to soak on the experience and most of all, to be with Dianne & Bourke of MacDev with their new Cyborg RX!.

Couldn't believe we went all the way. Infernal of Thailand deserves the win, cause they had been playing awesome both days. Hats of to you guys!. As of Macdev Ronin, we picked our games on the second day after a slow first day, and we steam-rolled over Datis (PALS Series Champion 2007), SWAT (AUS), Raskal (UK), Demonz Red (MPOC Overall Champ) and others to make it to the finals.



Thanks to all that came to support, pit and guidance. You know who you are. Thanks to MacDev for their guns that performed magnificently thru the mud and rain.

And to MY-NPL & MAPAAC, Tactical Action & Delta Rovers, without you guys, we would not get this far.

And playing PSP ramp in this field & format, at least for me as a first-timer, I do consider myself a newbie. Some of us even shooting at semi-auto mode! Tehehehe...

What a weekend, and whata conclusion to the year. Back to back finals is really something ya?

Will post photos if I get any. Dez, we're waiting... ;)

Oh, and here's the Official results for the recent concluded WCA 2008.

Division 1
1st - Infernal (THA)
2nd - Macdev Ronin (MAS)
3rd - Xtioneer (MAS)
4th - SWAT (AUS)

Division 2
1st - Real Pinoy (PHI)
2nd - WASP Black (AUS)
3rd - KL Killer Beez(MAS)
4th - Iron Sea (MAS)

Division 3
1st - Johor Pirates (MAS)
2nd - Romeoz (MAS)
3rd - Undeath(MAS)
4th - D'Mercy Kids

Great stuffs are coming! WCA Photos from Desmong@Residentevilchef... no idea why he wants to be known as evil when he is actually a very nice fella. Woahahaha..

Gallery Day 1

World Cup Asia - 13th-16th November 2008

WORLD CUP ASIA SCHEDULE - 13th/14th/15th/16th of November at Xtion Paintball Park,National Extreme Park,National Sports Complex,Bukit Jalil,Kuala Lumpur.

LAUNCHES & TECH CLASS

13th of November 2008

12.30 pm - 2.30pm : KEE / BT Launch & Tech Class at the Peacock 1 Conference Hall,Pearl International(Field Owners & Teams)
: VERVED Energy DrinkTeam Sponsorship Scheme will be presented as well by their rep. Martin Waldinger.

(Guest & Players may walk in to this session.Open to all.)

2.30 pm - 5.00pm : Planet Eclipse Launch at Xtion Paintball,Bukit Jalil(Dealer fr 2.30pm till 3.30 pm,Teams fr 3.30pm - 5.00pm)

5.00 pm - 6.00pm : Macdev Relaunch & Tech Class at the Peacock 1 Conference Hall,Pearl International(Open)

6.30 pm - 8.30 pm : Dye Launch & Tech Class at the Peacock 2 Conference Hall,Pearl International(Dealers Only)

8.30 pm - 9.30pm : Captains' Meeting at the WCA 2008 Sport's Bar(D'Bar@One - 1st floor of the Pearl International Hotel)

9.30 pm: Get to Know Each Other Drink Session at the WCA 2008 Sport's Bar(D'Bar@One - 1st floor of the Pearl Int. Hotel)

*Walk the Field : All day long on the 13th at Xtion Paintball,Bukit Jalil(Tournament Village)


TOURNAMENT & PAINTBALL EXPO

Friday 14th of Nov

8.00am - 6.45pm - (Dye Field) - Div 3 Prelim
8.00am - 5.00pm - (Draxxus and Luxe Fields) - Div 2 Prelim

Opening Ceremony :5.00pm - 5.45pm - OPENING CEREMONY OF THE WCA 2008 BY THE MINISTER OF YOUTH & SPORTS AT SITE.


Saturday 15th of Nov

8.00am - 6.30pm - (Dye Field) - Div 3 Prelim
9.00am - 4.30pm - (Draxxus and Luxe Fields) - Div 1 Prelim


Sunday 16th of Nov

8.00am - 11.00am - 2nd Round for all divisions
11.20am -1.00pm - Quarterfinals for all divisions
2.00pm - 3.00pm - Semifinals for all divisions
3.15pm - 5.00pm - Finals for all divisions
(Playing Fields :Div 1 - Luxe Field, Div 2 - Draxxus Field & Div 3 - Dye Field)

8.00pm : Closing Ceremony & Prizegiving at the Official Playazz Party Venue!!










Field Layouts!







p/s: Yahoo! we're going to the worllldddd cuppp!

MY-NPL 2008 Round 5 - The Grand Finale - Results & Conclusions

Here are the official result for the 2008 MY-NPL Event 5 (Season Grand Finale) - MAPAAC, P. Jaya. With the total participation of 83 teams.

Division 1: (10 teams)
1st = NEMESIS (Kuala Lumpur)
2nd = MACDEV RONIN (KUALA LUMPUR)
3rd = ZEALOUS (Selangor)
4th = WOLVERINEZ SINAR fm (Selangor)

Division 2: (8 teams)
1st = BALLBUSTERS (Kuala Lumpur)
2nd = NO MERCY (Johor)
3rd = PMB (Kuala Lumpur)
4th = RAINFOREST 7 TIGERS (Pahang)

Division 3: (18 teams)
1st = WARRIOR (Selangor)
2nd = CMX (Kuala Lumpur)
3rd = RONIN LUNACY (Kuala Lumpur)
4th = SUNSHIRO (Pahang)

Division 4: (37 teams)
1st = LEGIO-X HASTATI
2nd = WOLF PACK
3rd = ROMEOZ
4th = UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS

Special Division: Kumpulan Karangkraf (10teams) -Media Patner
1st = RAZZMATAZ
2nd = DABEL
3rd = ARSO
4th = TEAM X

OVERALL CHAMPION DIVISION 1 - NEMESIS LEGION
OVERALL CHAMPION DIVISION 2 - BALLBUSTERS
OVERALL CHAMPION DIVISION 3 - SUNSHIRO
SPECIAL AWARD 2008 (INDIVIDUAL) - AFZARINA ABDUL AZIZ
SPECIAL AWARD 2008 (TEAM) - NOMERCY
BEST CLUB 2008 - MACDEV RONIN

Final ranking points for season 2008, after 5 rounds.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Special thanks to DYE for all the goodies prizes (DYE & PROTO Jerseys, Goggles, Caps etc), ASSASSIN Paintball for the Barrels & Harnesses, PRO-Paintball Resources for the JT Stuff!!

Seeya all nextt Season (cycle4)!!
Wait for the full announcement in December!!

For full results & any development news in Malaysian Paintball, continue to stay tune to http://www.my-npl.org.

"Towards Creating the Excellence in Sports PaintBall"

Photos - Prize Giving Ceremony
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More photos here at my gallery -> http://www.villainpaintball.com/gallery/MY-NPL_08_R5/day_2/

*thanks to Apai Raiders, for some of these shots! I'll try to post more when I get some. Unfortunately, I didn't shoot at all this time around, since I've to play all the way to the finals. Hope you guys understand. But I got some candid photos off the field tho. hehehe.. will upload it as soon as I can. Thank you for supporting Villain.