PALS Thailand - Bangkok 28 - 29 May 2011

3 Singapore based teams participated in the PALS Thailand event held in Bangkok from 28 - 29 May 2011. A "mini" World Cup Asia as described by many, PALS Thailand has always been a special event in the PALS calendar. As "Amazing" as it can be, Thailand is a city good for "shoppingholics", good food, good hospitality and best of all a good exchange rate where everything is cheap, cheap, cheap...

Participating in their first PALS event, Team A.C.E.S and a few players from Ballistics venture into the land of smiles with a little more to smile about as they battled through the Division 3 category against several household D3 teams from Malaysia such as Rock and Rolla, KSK Flash, CMX Hamoon and the ever strong UPP team from the Philippines. It was Team Saensuk from Thailand who eventually walked away with the biggest prize from the D3 category. An experience not to be missed, A.C.E.S had a slow start in the tournament but was quick to round up the remaining 2 games. Though pleased with their first PALS experience, deep inside every player's heart, they knew that they can do better to qualify into the next round.

Division 2 saw the likes of Red Sevens and ZOO with a taste of a United Nation tournament with teams coming from Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Russia and France. Red Sevens which took the D2 Champion title in the last PALS Thailand event was to defend their title again and again recruited the help of Keshi Iwata from Team KU, Japan who was part of the winning team last year. The Red Sevens qualified as the first qualifier by topping the qualifying round only to bow out to Lakehill Cat from Thailand which qualified as the 8th overall team in the Quarter Finals. ZOO had the assistance of Nick Lim from McDev Ronin, Matt Boynes from Tension, Perth and a few others from the Shootin In Rage, Johor. ZOO missed the qualifying mark as the 9th overall placed team in Division 2. In Division 1, Team Infernal from Thailand continues to trample the Asia paintball scene by winning 2nd placed team, Datis from Iran who clinched the Asia World Cup Champion in 2010.

Asia Ref Singapore!

Previously, we interviewed Ivan Rickard Liow about his experience in officiating in World Cup Asia 2009. This round, we would like to highlight the rest of the Asia Refs from Singapore who attended the Asia Ref Certification clinic. The Asia Ref Certification clinic was conducted by Asia Ref Ultimate Ref, Mr. Junaidi.K who is a prominent marshaling figure in Asia.

Several Red Dynasty Paintball Park staff attended the clinic to pick up fundamental refeering skills for competitive paintball which consist of 3 lessons: Basic Refereeing and Advanced Refereeing which is theory based and Field Refereeing which is a practical session conducted in the paintball field. As Mr. Junaidi quoted: "Refereeing is similar to playing paintball, the more you referee, the better you will be."

The following individuals attended the Asia Ref Certification clinic:

Jane Koh, Ben Seow, Damian Li, Fadzri Fuzz, Ivan Rickard Liow, Yuan, Vince, Grant, Abdullah and Brian.

ITS CONFIRMED!

Its confirmed. Red Sevens will be participating in Division 2 of the Paintball Asia League Series (PALS) in Pattaya, Thailand this March 2010. Joining us in this tournament will be Keishi from Team KU, Japan. Keishi plays in the mid position so it will be good to have him in the team to beef up our mid section. It is always good to travel around and play some paintball with the team. This year, Red Sevens will be travelling a lot more... Philippines in August and Taiwan in October. We are also planning a trip down under to play in Super Sevens... it all depends. Paintball can be very expensive at times...

*We will be coming up with a PALS edition Red Sevens T shirt designed by none other than Seburo. If you would like to support the team and buying one for yourself, do email us...