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About Us

The team was created by Scott Olsen who wanted to start a team for Northern Nevada. He made a post on PbNation.com hoping to pull a team together. Soon Dan Timbreza, a long-time competeive player, posted on the thread. Later, more and more players started to reply to the post and eventually the team came together for a meeting at Starbucks and everyone got along great. Dan is the Coach, Scott is the Captain, and Dillon Langton is the Co-Captain. The team is still forming but we have enough players to field a 5-man game. Check the Roster page to see everyone.

Team Pictures and Videos

Plans for 2014 Tournaments 

All of the following are under discussion but are the priority tournaments we're looking at. 

 

Our Completed Tournaments 

 CEPL 

  • Event #1 (Spring Jam): 5-Man Race-To-2 -- April 13th, 2014.

 What is Tournament Paintball?

Just a video to get you a little taste of what goes on in tournament paintball.

 Written out:

Paintball is a sport in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye and gelatin shell outside (referred to as paintballs) propelled from a device called a paintball marker (commonly referred to as a paintball gun). Paintballs are composed of a non-toxic, biodegradable, water soluble polymer. The game is regularly played at a sporting level with organized competition involving major tournaments, professional teams, and players.

The nature and timing of paintball events are specified by the league running the tournament, with the league also defining match rules – such as number of players per team (anywhere from 3-7 players per team), or acceptable equipment for use. The number of matches in a tournament is largely defined by the number of available teams playing.

A match in a tournament is refereed by a judge, whose authority and decisions are final. Tournament rules can vary as specified by the league, but may include for example – not allowing players to use devices to communicate with other persons during a game, or not allowing players to unduly alter the layout of terrain on the field. In contrast to a casual game designed for fun, a tournament is much stricter and violations of rules may result in penalties for the players or entire teams.

Though tournament paintball was originally played in the woods, speedball became the standard competitive format in the 1990s. The smaller fields made use of artificial terrain such as bunkers, allowing symmetrical fields that eliminate terrain advantages for either team; woodsball fields having no such guarantee. Most recently, fields using inflatable bunkers, tethered to the ground with stakes, have become standard for most tournament formats; the soft, yielding bunkers reduce the occurrence of injuries, the bunkers deflate to store in a compact space and anchor to the ground with tent stakes, allowing for temporary fields to be set up and torn down with less impact on the ground underneath, and the arrangement of bunkers can be easily re-configured to maintain novelty of play or to simulate a predetermined field layout for an upcoming event.

Speedball is played in an open field filled with inflatable fabric "bunkers" which can be used for protection and or concealment. The ability for these objects to be inflatable and deflated quickly allows them to be easily moved from venue to venue during competitions. Speedball games were originally started as a way to make the game safer for players who might trip on uneven woodland terrain. Speedball is generally a fast-paced game where many more balls are used than in woodsball style games.

The original speedball playing area was a field made of manmade bunkers. To make the game faster, field owners began using black drainage pipes anchored into the ground to create a new fast-paced game called hyperball. The next major leap for paintball was the invention of airball. Players were getting bored of the same field over and over again and so they invented flexible high-strength PVC fabric bunkers filled with air. These were easily moved, so that now a field can be made into infinite variations. Over the years a standard in airball was established of a snake side and a dorito side, referring to the type of bunker used on those sides of the field. The field became identical or mirrored on both sides so as to not give one team an advantage. Also a giant center bunker began to be utilized in many fields. The newest advance in paintball is the use of artificial turf on fields. This allows less maintenance of fields, faster play and a much more even match between those two teams, as it is as close to identical on both sides as possible.

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