Battle of January - MPOC vs MY-NPL

Referring to this post and this post, both parties have already waged 'wars' on each others. Both promoters are now aggressively attracting teams to their first event of 2011 with MPOC throwing free entries to WCA 2010 participated teams while Asia Cup & MY-NPL promised to deliver a better yet well organized international standard tournament for everyone! How that can even top up the recent World Cup Asia 2010, only time will tell.

With competition getting fierce on who has the most share of 'the pie', this could turn out to be good for the players. More choices and options to start their year. Let the fight begin.

In The News - First female paintball referees

SARAWAKIANS Angie Ng and Kamalia Kamarudin were recognised as trailblazers when they were selected to be officials at paintball’s World Cup Asia 2010 this Friday (26-28 Nov 2010).

Held annually in Kuala Lumpur, the event is one of three internationally-organised World Cup tournaments in the world of paintball. The other two are the World Cup – Orlando (USA) and World Cup – Paris (Europe).

World Cup Asia has attracted teams not only from the Asian region but from Europe and the Pacific as wel.

Ng and Kamalia will be among the first few women to referee paintball sports leagues. Both from Kuching, they will take Sarawak down in the annals of sports history for being the first female officials.

Proud officials: Kamalia (right) and Ng posing with the male marshalls selected for the World Cup Asia 2010 to be held in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.

When dealing with the behaviour of players, which could range from abusive language to the obligatory pat on the back after a favourable call, Ng and Kamalia are no shrinking violets.

“Confrontation is part of being a referee,” they said.

“If the players cross a line they’re not supposed to, then they’ll receive a technical foul – like any player would.

“The biggest challenge will not only be officiating the games, but earning the respect of the players, coaches and fans.

“Rookies, so to speak, have to earn their respect, and that’s what we are going to have to do. We’re up to the challenge.”

For them, it’s just all part of the game.

Ng added: “Playing paintball requires so much mental focus that we don’t think a lot of the players realise a woman is on the field.

“They don’t pay attention to who’s making the calls. They’re only concentrating on whether they get the call right. And that’s how it should be. It should only be about working hard to do the job properly.”

Source: The Star

MacDev Ronin finishes 4th at World Cup Asia 2010 and named “WCA Best Malaysian Team 2010”!

Team MacDev Ronin finished the year on a high note by coming out 4th Place at the recent World Cup Asia @ Padang Merbok, Kuala Lumpur (MALAYSIA)! In a total of 16 teams from Australia, Iran, Thailand, France, Germany, South Africa, United Kingdom and Malaysia, we managed to survive the onslaught of many of these top teams in the Asian region and some parts of the world. On top of that we were also awarded the “WCA BEST NATION TEAM”, which was sweeter than when we won “BEST PAINTBALL CLUB” in 2008 which we also finished 2nd Place in the WCA!

We would like to thank all who helped us during this tournament ~ Ash, Adrian, Andi (Sabah), Team Rock & Rolla, Luke & Griffin (Team STK) ~ we would not have made it if it was not for you guys, you guys were awesome! I would like to specially like to thank Julian and Hafez (Sabah) for helping out with the MD Tech Booth giving support to all of our MacDev Militia members!!!

Special thanks to the organizers of the WCA, ref, technical crews, etc. We also would like to thank our sponsors who believed in us after all these years ~ MacDev Australia (Dianne, Bourke & James), Paintball TAG (Bernard), Napshot (Paul, Nicholas & Kevin), Sabah Paintball Association (Eddy & Hafez), and lastly our new sponsor from Empire who will be gearing us up for 2011!

My warmest heart felt thanks to a team who has gone through thick and thin as a Ronin family through out the year to give such awesome results by appearing in 4 finals in the MPOC league, MPOC (2nd Leg) (1st Place), Sabah Youth Cup (1st Place), Kuching CM Cup (4th Place) & World Cup Asia (4th Place). You guys rock ~ Julian, Oden, Shamsher, Romanoff, Bernard, Greg, Ash, Andi, Izrol, Adrian Joitol (Sabah), Eddy (Sabah), Andi (Sabah) and to our extended Ronin family Luke Martin & Griffin Lumbers (STK) and Lars, Andreas, Joel & Hendrick (Stockholm Ignition).

Thank you to all of our friends who supported us during all of our tournaments this year, SEE YOU ALL IN 2011! Come and play in the best national league in Malaysia the MALAYSIAN PAINTBALL OFFICIAL LEAGUE (MPOC) 2011!!!

Alan “Ace” Lian #31

World Cup Asia 2010 - Results

Here's what I can confirm so far for division 1. I will update more as soon as official results are in. (I've added other division scores)

Division 1
1st - Datis (Iran)
2nd - Bad Elements (France)
3rd - STK (Australia)
4th - Macdev Ronin (Malaysia)

Division 2
1st - Xplicit (South Africa)
2nd - Tubchang (Thailand)
3rd - Alien 11 (Thailand)
4th - West Coast Triads (Australia)

Division 3
1st - Hammer Zero (Malaysia)
2nd - Joubin (Iran)
3rd - Demonz Lucifer X (Malaysia)
4th - Votolocos (Malaysia)

Division 4
1st - Kejahatan (Malaysia)
2nd - Prolintas Legion X (Malaysia)
3rd - Rocknrolla (Malaysia)
4th - Rampage Onslaught (Singapore)



Datis also took home 2010 PALS Overall Champion and Best From Nation Award (Iran). Bad Elements, STK and Macdev Ronin also took "Best From Nation Award" each for being the best from their country. More results to come.



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Full results of PALS 2010. COngratulations to all. See you all again next year.

World Cup Asia 2010 this week!

The event we all have been waiting for has arrived. 105 teams from 4 divisions will battle it out at the final leg of the 2010 PALS event, right here in Kuala Lumpur this weekend. The final list of participating teams can be found here at Xtionpaintball forum.

Meanwhile tomorrow, the World Cup Asia 2011 will be launched by Royal Patron YTM Dato' Seri Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz KDYMM Tuanku Sultan Haji Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah at the Palace of the Golden Horses Hotel, The MINES Resort City, Seri Kembangan. The event will be held in Langkawi, Kedah, and will be the first time that this prestigious event has ever been held outside of Kuala Lumpur.