American Paintball League (APL) SoCal Open, Sunday Recap

American Paintball League (APL) SoCal Open, Sunday Recap

When the dust from the prelims settled Sunday morning, the professional division found themselves with only 6 teams left in the mix. CP Raiders, Black Sunday, San Diego Dynasty, and Philly Energy were first up to battle it out in the quarter finals, while Houston Heat...
Skills School with Pete Robinson: Teamwork, Communication

Skills School with Pete Robinson: Teamwork, Communication

As some of you guys may know, I was the US editor of the UK based publication, PGi [Paintball Games International] unfortunately the recession pillaged our industry of all its magazines which ended up nudging paintball commentary and coverage toward the internet. I’ve...
KEE Closing Florida Plant, Cutting 109 Jobs

KEE Closing Florida Plant, Cutting 109 Jobs

The Tampa Bay Times has recently authored an article detailing the closing of a KEE Paintball encapsulating plant in the Bay area. Below is the referred article: KEE Action Sports, the biggest maker of paintballs in the world, has closed its Clearwater manufacturing...
In Memoriam: Matt Dawson of MattD Photography

In Memoriam: Matt Dawson of MattD Photography

Social Paintball would like to take a few moments and reflect on the incredible work, and life of Matt Dawson, of the famed MattDPhoto. Dawson was a pioneer in the paintball media who shot for nearly every paintball magazine, and company in exsitence, went on to...
Tippmann, GI, and 50 cal

Tippmann, GI, and 50 cal

In a series of recent interviews with John Amodea of PaintballX3, a few high powered people in paintball mentioned “50 cal”, or 50 caliber paintballs – opposed to the traditional .68caliber rounds currently used. Normally, we would find the comments...