Future Focus - Paintball Asia 2011
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Future Focus - Paintball Asia 2011
PaintballNews.Asia has gathered some of the most influential paintball power brokers in Asia, as well as some esteemed and much respected international guests to answer some questions and give us their insights into what to expect in 2011 - Paul Lam (Malaysian Official Paintball Circuit aka MPOC, PALS & World Cup Asia), Michael Whybrew (Australian Super 7's), Sofian Daud (Malaysian National Paintball League aka MY-NPL), Ulrich Stahr (Millennium Series) and Paul Richards (Coach of U.S. pro team Tampa Bay Damage). Here's what they have to say...
The Rising Son
Ryosuke Banno - Asia's frequent flyer!
Ryosuke Banno is Captain and team owner of team KU from Japan. Over the past decade he has helped develop paintball in Japan, from opening his own field back in 2003 to moulding a group of enthusiastic Japanese paintballers into one of the most competitive teams in the region. Team KU's playing stats date back as far as 2002, in 2005 they were bold enough to make the trip to the US to play at the PSP World Cup and today they continue to compete at both local and international tournaments. In 2010 he divides his time between running a paintball field/business and playing for team KU in Japan and at international events and playing for the Delta Rovers in Malaysia. His field is also the home field to up-and-coming teams from Japan like Nitamago (World Cup Asia D3, 4th place) and Ryu. We managed to catch up with Ryosuke Banno in between international flights and tournaments to ask him a few quick questions about his paintball life so far:
Q. What position to you generally play?
Everywhere but especially Snake front
Q. Current Sponsors
Dye precision Inc. Rockstar energy drink, KCHL and Samurai Paintball
Q. International Teams you have player for?
Team Delta Rovers from Malaysia at MY-NPL, ISSC and MSL and Team S.W.A.T from Australia at the Super 7's
Q. When did you start playing paintball?
In 2001.
Australian Super 7's Leg 3 Results
Last minute changes to the formats for each division of the Super 7's saw teams from the Amateur divisions moving into a Race to format to increase the number of games they played over the 2 day event. Other divisions also had increases in the number of games in their Race to formats. Maybe the Australian economy is simply that good or maybe the Aussie paintballers simply love playing paintball but the addition of extra games saw absolute solidarity in online support after the announcement with request to even bump the Div 1 to a Race to 7 format.
Professional - Div 1 - 10 Minute games - race to 5
Semi Pro - Div 2 - 8 Minute games - race to 3 (same as the old Pro format)
Amateur - Div 3 - 5 Minute games - race to 2 (same as the old Semi Pro format)
Final results for Super 7's Leg 3
Hostile Intentions secured the #1 ranking on the series ladder with a win in the Pro Division while Uprising A took the Semi-Pro title over SWAT Kidz.
DIV 1 - PRO
1. Hostile Intentions
2. Menace
3. Sydney SWAT
4. X-Fighter$
5. Explicit
6. Blood Knuckles
7. Raw
DIV 2 - SEMI-PRO
1. Uprising A
2. SWAT Kidz
3. Carnivores
4. Shenanigans
5. Rage City
6. The Business
7. Hustle
8. N.B.K
9. Outkasts
10. T.A.G: Legion
1. Vicious Circle
2. Red Dragons
3. Stand Alone
4. A.C.T Notorious
5. Sydney Spartans
6. ANV Nemisis
7. Uprising B
8. Atomic
9. Korrupt
PALS Leg 2 UPPIC Results
International tournament paintball returned to the Philippines over the weekend with teams from Japan, Australia, USA, Singapore, Borneo and Malaysia competing against local teams for podium spots at the PALS Leg 2 UPPIC held at the old Clarke Airbase. From all reports, the weather was beautiful, the field was in great condition and the competitors were all treated to VIP treatment from the moment they stepped off the plane.Competing in their first Asian paintball tournament were the staff of PB Rack, a paintball 'lifestyle' clothing manufacturer based out of Washington State in the US. It seems their trip half way across the world was a very fruitful one, not only making a lot of new business contacts but also taking out the UPPIC Division One champions title over STK from Australia. In Division 2, Malaysian team Xtioneers 2 managed to hold off locals Global Pinoy to take the Division 2 UPPIC Championship title.
Division 1
1st - PbRack Team USA
2nd - STK Australia
3rd - Datis Iran
4th - Xtioneers Malaysia
Division 2
1st - Xtioneers 2 Malaysia
2nd - Global Pinoy Philippines
3rd - Splat Masters Gold Philippines
4th - Sarawak Waxers Malaysia
Division 3
1st - Splatmasters Philippines
2nd - Global Pinoy 2 Philippines
3rd - BMT Philippines
4th - Splatmasters Platinum Philippines
Stay tuned for more updates.
Image courtesy of PALS
BT BIG GAME - The Global Paintball Game
Welcome to the largest paintball battle on Earth, the 2010 BT Big Game. This event is the single biggest multi-national paintball game in the World! On one day, 21/08/10, players around the world will take part in a global paintball battle.Though the game will be taking place in different locations around the world, participants will be globally united in one game as players are separated into the... Red and Blue teams. So, players in France will be rooting for their teammates in Mexico as the game progresses across the globe. At BTpaintball.com, players will be able to watch live scoring for each location, track missions and view images from battlefields from all over the world. Some of this year’s participating countries include: the United States, France, United Kingdom, Estonia, Portugal, South Africa, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Poland, Aruba, Malaysia, Australia and Bulgaria
The BT Big Game storyline and missions are with our Generals and Field Officials. The event pits the Blue Battalion against the Red Rangers for world domination. So far the BT site lists 5461 registered players so the battle will be epic.
Prizes:
(1) The overall winning army (according to world scoring) 500 pellets per player that can be used at anytime from 21/08/10 with 3 months validity.
(2) The wining Army of the day in Malaysia will each be awarded a Commemorative BT Campaign Medal.
Malaysian venues are listed as Xtion and Mudtrekker Paintball Park but we think Mudtrekker has been chosen as the sole Malaysian venue.
Enquiries:
Terry: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 016-2622869
Roslan: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 016-3326104
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