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Paintball News and Rumors: X-Factor, Avalanche Pro teams

January 25, 2012 in Avalanche, New England Hurricanes, Rumor Reports, X-Factor

San Antonio X-Factor and New England Avalanche are rumored to be making moves. Read on for the latest Pro Paintball news and rumors.

X-Factor puts the beat down on Impact

San Antonio X-Factor is playing both the NPPL and PSP paintball leagues this year. According to ProPaintball insiders, the team has signed with Valken for new paintball gear and will be wearing SLY Equipment (including sly profits, pads and other soft goods). X-Factor will be hosting tryouts this weekend and Billy Bernacchia of New England Avalanche is said to be mixing it up. Is he trying out, playing with friends for the weekend, or both?

Pro player Billy Bernacchia

Pro player Billy Bernacchia

For those of you scratching your heads about this New England Avalanche bit, here goes. Jeff Stein retired the New England Hurricanes and shortly after it was announced that St. Louis Avalanche and the Hurricanes were merged together. The combined team will be called New England Avalanche, and has relocated to the North East. If rumors hold true, Bernacchia, a long time Hurricane and Avalanche player, will be a big loss for the pro squad.

New paintball team by Vanguard?

New paintball team by Vanguard?

New England Avalanche is in the midst of building a pro and divisional franchise program. According to ProPaintball insiders, Avalanche’s gun sponsor Vanguard is stepping it up for 2012 and merging in their teams. The Vanguard Division 2 team is said to be joining NPPL division 1, while the Vanguard D3 team will be joining NPPL Division 2. According to sources, no home field has been established for Avalanche as of yet. ProPaintball insiders note the team is setting up to maintain both a West and East Coast programs in order to create better brand recognition and increase the talent pool.

 

What are your thoughts on a cross country professional paintball program? Will it succeed, or encounter difficulty? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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San Diego Dynasty wins NPPL 2011 Chicago Open

May 22, 2011 in Avalanche, Dynasty, Impact, NPPL, Portland Uprising

ProPaintball team: San Diego Dynasty

San Diego Dynasty, an Empire Paintball team, has won the NPPL 2011 Chicago Open paintball tournament. This is the 4th event in a row that Dynasty has won since the start of the 2011 paintball season. Paintball players and fans across the world have been discussing the return of Dynasty and the possibilities of a 4th Triple Crown Championship. During the 2010 off season, Dynasty manager Eric Crandall and Coach Mike Hinman augmented one of the top rosters in paintball with Dalton Vanderbyl, Alex Goldman, and Oliver Lang. The result has been a seemingly unstoppable team and a Triple Crown Championship appears to be a distinct possibility.

The Chicago Open pro division’s final four was notable in that it was the first time we have seen St. Louis Avalanche and Portland Uprising on the podium. St. Louis Avalanche started the year off on a somber note, finishing 11th place. Between HB and Chicago, the team saw AJ Trillet leave to Chicago Legend and Justin Schwarz joined Avalanche from Arsenal. The new kids on the block, Portland Uprising, finished the event in 3rd place. Uprising started the season at NPPL 2011 Surf City Open and finished in dead last. During the break between events Uprising brushed off the paint and decided to step up their game. The team picked up Cole Scott from Vancouver Vendetta and practiced like mad men to improve their lackluster performance at Event 1. In forth place was Edmonton Impact. Impact has a championship roster and many paintball fans expected to watch the team unseat Dynasty in the finals. No strangers to the podium, Impact posted a 3rd place finish at Event 1 and ProPaintball expects the team will be bringing the heat in the events to come.

The top results for each division are as follows:

Pro Paintball

  1. San Diego Dynasty
  2. St. Louis Avalanche
  3. Portland Uprising
  4. Edmonton Impact

Division 1 Paintball

  1. Dynasty 2
  2. Texas Storm
  3. Impact Echo
  4. Critical Wrecking Crew

Division 2 Paintball

  1. 3CT
  2. LSD Savage
  3. Marine Team One
  4. Top Gun Evolution

Division 3 Paintball

  1. DBS Kidz 2
  2. TKO Blackout
  3. Boom II
  4. Raiders

Division 4 Paintball

  1. Cetermass Hawaii
  2. Asylum Ballerz
  3. Toxic
  4. University of Michigan

Pump Paintball Division

  1. Total Grief
  2. Zero
  3. Milwaukee Throwback
  4. CPX Pro Stars

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by Brad Johnson

Paintball Tips with Billy Bernacchia – Snake Crawling

October 6, 2010 in Avalanche, Dynasty

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PRO Paintball player Billy Bernacchia of Dynasty and Avalanche is back to show us how to play paintball, again. This time Billy is back with some tip on moving around in the snake.

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Paintball Tips with Billy Bernacchia – Edging

September 14, 2010 in Avalanche, Dynasty

PRO Paintball player Billy Bernacchia of San Diego Dynasty is featured in the new Planet Eclipse video teaching paintball players how to properly edge from your bunkers and get into the snake.

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St. Louis Avalanche 2010 Pro Paintball Jersey

April 10, 2010 in Avalanche

We spotted world renown pro paintball player Billy Bernacchia roaming around the Surf City Open today. Billy, an Eclipse E-Mortal, is playing with St. Louis Avalanche for the 7-man pro series and VICIOUS for X-ball. Billy was kind enough to provide pro paintball readers an exclusive first look at the new St. Louis Avalanche 2010 pro paintball jersey. Check it out!

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NPPL Surf City Open 2010 Pro Paintball Predictions

April 7, 2010 in Avalanche, Chicago Legend, Dynasty, Featured, Impact, Indianapolis Mutiny, Infamous, Naughty Dogs, Newport Entourage, Oakland Blast, San Francisco Explicit, Tampa Bay Damage, XSV

Pro Paintball teams from across the nation will be battling it out this weekend in Huntington Beach, CA. As this is the season opener, nearly anything can happen. Last year we witnessed several shockers including series leader DC Arsenal losing out to Oakland BLAST in the overall championship and relative new comers San Francisco Explicit winning matches against former Triple Crown Champions San Diego Dynasty.

This year, Vancouver Vendetta and Newport Entourage will be making their pro paintball debut. Throughout the off season, teams like Edmonton Impact, Tampa Bay Damage, San Diego Dynasty, St. Louis Avalanche and Los Angeles Infamous have been stacking their rosters with national champions from years prior. As we go into the first event, everyone here at Pro Paintball is very excited and we are all placing bets as to which teams will be leading the pack.

With all of this in mind, we are proud to open this story for your NPPL HB team predictions. If you are lucky enough to predict the top 4 teams in the pro division we will award you with a prize. Our prizes include T-Shirts from Sly Equipment, San Francisco Explicit and Pro Paintball.com, barrel wraps from Paintball Photography and DLX Technologies, and headbands from PBheadbands.com. 

For extra credit, feel free to share your predictions for divisional paintball teams.

Read on for the official pro paintball team list and be sure to place your top 4 picks in the comments below. Read the full article →

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Avalanche 2010 Pro Paintball Roster

March 26, 2010 in Avalanche

This year, pro paintball team St. Louis Avalanche has several returning players. They will be rocking Planet Eclipse markers with prophecy paintball loaders, empire goggles and jerseys, guerilla air tanks, NXE Paintball harness and NXE elevation series paintball pants, GXG Pods, and Violent triggers. They will be playing in the NPPL pro paintball 7 man series, check out their roster:

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by Bill G.

Friday PRO paintball rumor report

March 5, 2010 in Aftermath, Aftershock, Avalanche, Industry News, Infamous, New England Hurricanes, Rumor Reports, Tampa Bay Damage

The pro paintball season opener is just around the corner and xball teams across the country are gearing up. Read on for the latest roster updates and paintball rumors from Chicago Aftershock, Tampa Bay Damage, Los Angeles Infamous and a bit of industry gossip. Read the full article →

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First look at the St. Louis Avalanche EGOX

February 26, 2010 in Avalanche

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Grind Magazine: Volume #1

October 21, 2009 in Aftershock, Avalanche, Featured, Media

drew-templetonHot off the press just this morning, Pro Paintball player and photographer Drew Templeton of Aftersock (PSP) and Avalanche (USPL) put together a free online magazine esque section to his website for everyone to view his vision and thoughts on paintball today. A little background information on Drew includes playing for team Voltage in the PSP with many of the current players on his current teams. He previously worked for the Pb2Extremes magazine during their last leg of their existance, aside from owning/opperating his current personal website Drewbietron.com

The following is the first of hopefully many issues to come from Drew!

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In this premiering issue, Drew introduces to us what The Grind means in his eyes, he gives the readers a more in-depth look into the Aftershock program and their practice styles in preparation for the road to World Cup, and finally the event itself. Read the full article →

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