World Cup Asia 2011, officially recognized by the royal patron, her highness the Princess of Kedah, was launched with plenty of pomp and ceremony at the opening dinner held at the One Hotel on Langkawi Island, Malaysia. For the first time many of the paintball foreign journalists and photographers laid eyes on the royal family and enjoyed the speeches, dinner and entertainment provided by richly adorned youth who performed dances in traditional Malaysian style. Continue reading »
It only makes sense to begin the first of our three part series on the site seeing I did during the recent Catshack mission to beautiful Langkawi Island in Malaysia. Catshack cameras were rolling as we touched down at the local airport and moved out to begin to take in some rather breath taking countryside. Langkawi is an island with stunning scenery and world class beaches, the heat and humidity seal the island as a tropical gem. The first full day on the island was spent relaxing from the long journey that brought us to the white sandy shores of Langkawi. The Catshack immediately set to work interacting with locals and teams coming in from around the world to participate in one of the top speedball tournaments of the year that is the WCA 2011. Continue reading »
The Catshack Reports Paintball News launched another epic journey to complete yet another memorable milestone in our quest to attend some of the best paintball games on the planet. The drive to this year’s Tippmann World Challenge 2011 was perhaps the best ever! A simple 4 hour tour from Catshack HQ was near flawless, clear highways had us at the border to Michigan in record time and preparing for the much anticipated million questions that always accompany a border crossing. This time however was something of a real pleasant surprise as the Customs official had something of a real interest in paintball and instead had us get out of the vehicle to show off our Tippmann Phenom’s and talk paintball for a few minutes before waving us onwards. Continue reading »
After probably one of the hardest decisions I have ever had to make in my entire life, I have chosen to rejoin my childhood friends on Dynasty.
Ever since I was 14 years old my dream was to play professional paintball. I wanted to compete with the best, be the best and be compensated the best. I dreamed of our sport being equal to football, basketball and baseball. Although we have not reached that level yet, I still have faith that one day we will-maybe not in my time-but with the proper people involved and support of everyone, we can make this a reality. Continue reading »
Welcome Ms Meagan Young to the Catshack Reports Paintball News. Meagan, daughter of well known paintball personality Patti Young of the TDotBallers forum has a good solid start in the game and more than a few seasons of competition paintball under her belt. As always we here at the Catshack Reports Paintball News love to talk to the girls in the game to repetitively show paintball as a game at which females can truly excel! Continue reading »
Somewhere over the past several years, our sport has lost something. Not entirely though as every once in a while we see a glimmer of it on Saturday afternoons during a struggle to make it to Sunday. There are sparks of it usually seen in the D2/D1 levels, shown with teams who have had to overcome financial burdens, school/work/family/relationship obstacles – all to keep their team together. Continue reading »
