Preseason Analysis: Houston Heat, Puzzling

Preseason Analysis: Houston Heat, Puzzling

In case you missed it each team analysis has a predominant theme. For XSV it was a glaring tactical deficiency in making the transition from a 7-man team focus to a Race To focus. For Infamous it was how ability on paper must translate into a cohesive unit in action...
Preseason Analysis: Infamous & Inconsistencies

Preseason Analysis: Infamous & Inconsistencies

In analyzing Infamous we could pick-up where we left off with XSV; at the commonplace struggle of the inserts to balance offense and defense–but we won’t other than to say Infamous tends to answer the insert question by playing the corners very well. This...
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...
Preseason Analysis: XSV, and an Identity Crisis

Preseason Analysis: XSV, and an Identity Crisis

Let’s begin with the positive. (This won’t take long.) The leadership of XSV has been around the block a time or two and demonstrated over the course of the 2013 season they had a handle on what wasn’t working and what needed to be changed. They made...