PALS Philippines 2011

We had a great time last year at the PALS event in the Philippines, so we were really excited to be back. The event is excellent, and even better this time round with a few extras like getting flower necklaces and being rushed through customs/immigration as VIP's upon our arrival by the Philippines minister of tourism.

We went with just 5 players as money and time off work was a problem with the event pretty soon after Thailand.

Everything kind of went our way... the weather cooled off so we could play point after point without dying in the heat. And the event organiser helped us at every opportunity, even lending us pit crew...!

We finished 2nd in the preliminaries with 4 wins and 2 draws.

This sent us into the semifinals against Persian Legend. We were able to get 3 - 0 on them. The next point they got 2 g's on the break, so the remaining 3 of us played to burn the clock, leaving only 1 minute on game time as the score went to 3 - 1. They didn't have enough time to come back so we proceeded on to play the finals for 1st and 2nd against our friends Datis.

After two fairly long points the game sat at 1 - 1. We played a third drawn out point. It whittled down to a 3 on 2 in our favour. The game clock went to 30 seconds remaining, I creeped up the doritos and shot their dorito player, Luke then ran across the field and bunkered their corner guy and Stiffla sprinted in to the buzzer with 5 seconds left on the clock. And that was it, we won.

Our Dye gear was on point! And we'd like to thank Mary Ann for all her help. And all the teams and friends that helped us in the pits and sidelines, especially our friends on team Epic!

(pictures by Donald Baum)

TK Round 3 2011

Oh man. We played terrible. Came 3rd. We don't take it seriously after we've just come back from a big tournament like PALS and then get owned. Oops.

PALS Thailand 2011

We wanted to avoid coming 10th like last year so this time we didn't get sucked into Thailand and party for 3 days straight before the tournament. It worked better for us with us finishing in the top 4 this time lol.

This week has been really great, I've had a lot of fun with the team and Bangkok is a strange but cool place. We have eaten great food and squeezed a lot into the non-paintball time we've had.

The tournament itself was superb. Well run and a great turnout of teams.

We played this leg with only 6 of us -- no Griffin or Luke as they were stuck working. It was a little hard on us at times in the heat. Thankfully our Ronin and Datis friends, and other teams helped us a lot in the pits. And Sandie, our super coach.

We finished the prelims with 4 wins, 1 draw and a loss. This sent us into the quarter finals against Persian Legend. They are a strong team and it was a hard game but everyone played well and we were able to come out on top, putting us in the top 4.

It was a long and hard game, and there was only a 10 minute break between this game and our semi-final match against Infernal. Infernal was playing extremely well, and not really having time to recover from the previous match made it harder too. They beat us and that left us to play SWAT for 3rd and 4th.

SWAT had our number and beat us convincingly leaving us with 4th.

We're pretty much just happy it's not 10th again... Thailand isn't our achilles heel lol.

Our Dye gear was amazing and Steve at the Dye booth is a champ.

 

TK Round 2 2011

On Sunday we played the second round of the TK series. We had cut our roster down to just the 6 of us that are going to Thailand. It made a huge difference for a local 5-man tournament not having to rotate 8 guys. We were able to get into the STK groove easily and took 1st place.

 Our NT11's are shooting so sweet now that they have had a chance to break in.

TK Round 1 2011

Yesterday was the start of the 3rd season of the TK series. There were 19 teams at this round, which is a good turnout for a local WA tournament.
 


We finished 2nd to Perth City Trauma. I can't really remember the first and second games of the finals, only that we lost the first and won the second. The third game, we lost two players off the break and Trauma made it out with all of them alive. We had good positions on the field, we drew the game out as long as we could. I felt like we just needed to make one G to swing the game, but it never came and Trauma earned 1st place.

STK & Dye 2011

WASP Open

On Sunday we played the WASP Open. It was a standalone tournament WASP ran independently. It was a relaxed day, finishing just before 12pm! The day was based on points with no finals. We came 2nd. We even had time to stay after the tournament and train as we usually would on a Sunday lol.

It was the final tournament we'd play not in Dye gear!