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This Means War Editorial on Social Paintball
Posted on 06 February 2012.
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Susan G. Komen Foundation, 68Caliber & Planned Parenthood
Posted on 03 February 2012.
For several years now, 68Caliber has supported the Susan G. Komen ‘Drive for the Cure’ charity for breast cancer by helping to promote events that fund raise for the charity. This has included numerous types of events, paintball among them. Recently, the foundation has removed all funding from Planned Parenthood – funding that provided free [...]
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Maryland Blind Paintballers Case NOT Based on “Blind Shooting” Statement
Posted on 19 December 2011.
The original report found in the Washington Examiner on this story erroneously attributed the lawsuit to language in the paintball park’s rules regarding “blind shooting”. This is not the case: BISM is bringing suit on an alleged instance of the park’s refusal to allow blind players access to the facilities. You can view the court [...]
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BS Discrimination Lawsuit Goes After Paintball Field
Posted on 18 December 2011.
According to the Washington Examiner website, Tom Maliszewski’s paintball field – Route 40 Paintball – is being sued in Federal District Court for discrimination against the handicapped – specifically the blind. A non-profit organization named Blind Industries and Services of Maryland (founded by the Maryland General Assembly in 1908) is suing the field over language [...]
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Help Save Cousin’s Paintball
Posted on 26 October 2011.
UPDATE: (Read below for more on this subject): Thanks to the wonders of Youtube, here is some of the local news channel’s on-air coverage of the impending eviction of Cousins Paintball (the stuff that was behind a paywall is now FREE!!!) Cousins Paintball has long been a fixture of the industry scene. It has also [...]
This Is A Bit More Troubling Than Pink Airsoft Guns
Posted on 23 June 2011.
The on-going battle between the police, videotaping them and constitutional rights
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A Monumentally BAD Idea
Posted on 08 February 2011.
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Paintball and the Information Age
Posted on 29 September 2010.
As some of you may recall, 68Caliber announced the introduction of its weekly newsletter a few weeks ago and then (almost as quickly) announced that “due to technical difficulties” the newsletter program had been suspended while we worked out some glitches. I’m happy to say that those glitches have been worked out and we’re moving [...]
Editorial #2: Spam, Infringement, Lame Marketing and Hacking
Posted on 21 September 2010.
Yesterday I entitled the editorial as #1 since I actually thought that I was going to get around to putting editorial #2 up as well. That didn’t happen which makes both editorial titles seem a little weird. But as always, we forge ever onwards, so don’t let it bother you. This editorial’s subject runs the [...]
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Editorial #1: Proof in the Paintball Pudding
Posted on 20 September 2010.
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Woodsball World Cup Report Coming
Posted on 13 September 2010.
I had an absolute blast at the first ever Woodsball World Cup at Paintball Sports New York: I got to hang with a bunch of old friends – many of whom I haven’t seen in well over a decade – and to make a lot of new ones – ones who will become old friends [...]
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Woodsball World Cup Weekend!
Posted on 09 September 2010.
The paijntball playing public (and the public public as well) are invited to join the legends of paintball this weekend at the inaugural Woodsball World Cup tournament!
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A Loss for Paintball: Forest Brown
Posted on 06 September 2010.
According to a post on Automags.Org, Forest Brown, founder of the Challenge Park field outside of Chicago and originator of CPX Paintball Park, passed away in his sleep yesterday (9/4). Forest captained Team Farside, helped to introduce paintball technology to movie-making (as props and special effects tech), had one of the most fantastic retail stores [...]
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A First For Paintball
Posted on 05 September 2010.
Lonnie Schuyler, writer/director of the indy feature film SPLATTER – Love, Honor & Paintball, is a paintballer himself. His film (fresh off of winning yet another audience award at a film festival) will be a featured presentation at the upcoming Paintball Extravaganza (presented by 68Caliber!) in Annaheim, CA. We recently received the copy of the [...]
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Editorial Review: A Selection of Past Editorials
Posted on 22 August 2010.
Want to know what we’re thinking? Check out this selection of editorials posted by the editorial staff at 68Caliber over the past year or so. Then let us know what you’re thinking! The Uncertainty Principal Paintball and Intellectual Property Bringing People Back To The Game Where We Need To Go Limited Paint Paintball Tournaments When [...]
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The Uncertainty Principle
Posted on 18 August 2010.
No, I’m not going to be laying cosmology and physics on you (though if you want, you can Google Heisenberg and Schroedinger), unless you count the ‘physic’ part of ‘physical’, because today I’m going to discuss new players. Specifically how and why new players get introduced to the game, what they are looking for and [...]
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Paintball & MilSim Look-a-Likes Causing Problems Worldwide
Posted on 13 July 2010.
Two mainstream press stories released today make the point following arrests in one country and the deployment of a bomb disposal team here in the US: look-a-like weapons are often seen and reacted to by security personnel as the real thing – and for good reason. They’re designed to look just like the real thing. [...]
Paintballers and the Press
Posted on 11 June 2010.
There have been a couple of high-profile mainstream news stories lately (Israeli Commandos Use Paintball Rifles, Paintball Age Limit, Terrorists Used Paintball for Training) that have obviously made it necessary to once again revisit the subject of how we all should talk to the press when interviewed on a subject related to paintball. I’m not [...]
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Controversy in Paintball Land: Are Half-Naked Chicks Appropriate At Events?
Posted on 02 June 2010.
68Caliber and staff have, for quite some time, been pushing a ‘family-friendly’ agenda for the website, our news coverage and the paintball industry in general. Our position has nothing whatsoever to do with morality or ethics, religious mores or personal views about the things that are or are not appropriate. It has always clearly been [...]
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Paintball & Intellectual Property (Copyright, Trademark, Patent)
Posted on 24 May 2010.
A recent blog post has prompted me once again to weigh in on the subject of Intellectual Property, which includes such things as copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets & etc. The subject of the blog entry purportedly discusses the probability that an awful lot of scenario game promoters are breaking the law in [...]
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Pump Paintball is Coming on Strong!
Posted on 06 May 2010.
Representatives of the National Pump League (NPL) have been attending numerous high-profile events over the past several months to promote the up-coming NPL-sanctioned WOODSBALL WORLD CUP tournament. NPL reps have attended, amongst many other local events, the Spring Classic at West Point and EMR’s latest Castle Conquest and are happy to report that reception to [...]
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Bringing People Back To The Game
Posted on 03 April 2010.
I was talking with one of my old-time paintball buddies the other day (like I have anything but old, old-time buddies) and, as is usually the case our conversation turned into a bit of “paintball then and paintball now”. We spent quite a bit of time discussing some of the things we used to be [...]
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Before Paintball Was Politically Correct
Posted on 06 February 2010.
There’s a lot of talk these days about “where the game is going”, “where the game came from”, “getting back to our roots”, and playing the game the way it was meant to be played before it went all politically correct – whatever that means.
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Where We Need To Go
Posted on 23 January 2010.
I don’t know how many of you have noticed this, but a lot of old names are popping up in the industry. You could start with Gino Postorivo (Valken, formerly NPS), or Richmond Italia (GIMilsim, formerly ProCaps). You can add Tom Kaye to the mix – and there are a whole lot more, like Kevin [...]
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