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Meet Team Nexus|Ironmen

If you happen to be at the Campaign Cup at Basildon, England, you can get autographs from the Ironmen. And from Nexus. And to promote they released 2 nearly identical posters. The only difference are the team names and people. Everything else is done exactly the same.

Notice the same font, same positioning, even the same personalities for each person. From left to right: kinda serious, serious, nonchalant, pissed off at the world.

I guess they didn’t want to pay the designer for 2 designs. I’m not sure why they didn’t just put both teams on one flyer, but that might be why I’m not with Dye’s marketing team.

PB2X Acquired By Pacific Paintball

I think. There is supposed to be a big announcement, but clearly I’m “not authorised to view this resource” with the British spelling of authorized and everything. I’m thinking the prematurely posted it and had to quickly take it down. But thankfully, this thread helps out stating that it is Pacific Paintball is who bought PB2X.

I guess I’m out of the loop, again, about who Pacific Paintball is, but it seems that they own the NPPL and XPSL, and the old president of the XPSL is the president of it.

I’m thinking this might cause some conflict of interest here, since a supposedly neutral magazine is now owned by the same company who owns a tournament series. I don’t think I’ll be seeing any “PSP is better than NPPL” posts in the future from them.

Hopefully more information comes out, and I’ll keep you posted.

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Boston Webcast Starts Tomorrow at NPPLLive.com

The NPPL Boston starts tomorrow, which also means their webcast at NPPLLive.com (technically here) also starts tomorrow.

The feed is free to watch, and pretty entertaining at that. It starts at 10 AM Eastern or 9 AM Central or 7 AM Pacific. It’ll be on July 13th through 15th, going up to the award ceremony.

If you have problems viewing the feed from in the browser, you can add this playlist to your media player:
http://anon.pixelworld.speedera.net/anon.pixelworld/asx/npplboston07.asx

If you want to go even further, the actual direct stream is:
http://surfinglv-NPPL07.wm.llnwd.net/surfinglv_NPPL07

If you plan on ripping the entire stream, have fun. It’ll add up to about 1 GB a day.

What To Do At The River City Open

The PSP has posted things to do in Omaha when you’re at the River City Open.

First, you can go to The Old Market. I’m sure of the loads of fun you’ll have there. You can’t spell fun without Old Market. No wait, you can, easily, but tame can’t be.

If markets aren’t your thing, then you can get drunk with Creighton University students at various clubs. Go Bluejays!

Yes, since that’s something to brag about when there will be a lot of young kids there. I’m sure parents are looking forward to Saturday night specials at the Shark Club. $2.50 Cuervo shots and $1 secret ninja shots?!?!? Holy crap, I’m there. Right after someone buys me a plane ticket.

But if going to some market and getting wasted aren’t your alley, then go to one of three casinos located nearby. Just try not to lose all the paint money. But if you do, it gives you an excuse to get wasted with college students.

The PSP looks awesome.

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CEO Of Hybrid Says The F-Word. I’m Telling.

Hybrid Technologies released a press release to clear up some rumors.

First, he states that KEE Action Sports and Hybrid are in negotiations to resolve issues between them. What issue? I actually don’t know. Must have been sleeping when that happened.

Also, they would like to thank, yes thank, the copycat companies. Apparently, having people copy them doesn’t infuriate them like it would to companies like KEE or Smart Parts. That’s kinda cool of them. But I’m sure if I started a company called Hyrbid and started selling near clones of their items, they might have a different stance.

They also are suing a Chinese manufacturer for breach of contract and failure to deliver products. Don’t know the whole story about that either, but evidently it’s enough to make them go back to their roots.

But the most interesting part is the end, where he states:

FUCK THOSE GUYS. We’re still in the game sucka!!

“Those guys” are the people who thought they were going to walk away. There’s no better way to make you presence known than a good, hard fucking.

You stay classy Hybrid.

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