The last time I played paintball was last March 2009 during the Malaysia National Paintball League. It was my last game after deciding to completely stop from playing paintball. And just recently, some former members of PSG Warfreakz were trying to convince me to lead a team again in Singapore Paintball Series 2010. It took me a month before I decided to put up a 6 man team for the competition. The tournament was held at East Coast Park, last October 16 to 17, 2010. There were a total of 29 teams and we are fighting against 14 teams in the Novice Division.
We had one practice only, and after firing up everyone's excitement about our return in the paintball competition, I was able to convince other members to put up a second all Pinoy team whom we called as PSG Warriors. On the tournament day, we have two Filipino teams against 12 local Singaporean paintball groups.
It was a tough competition since the players in Singapore are now more mature and more experienced. It was different when we competed last 2008, the players are more hesitant and afraid. It was our team who can run and attack the opponent without fear of being peppered with paintballs. We were fast, fearless and we enjoy the pain of being hit. I think thats what make us unbeatable then that time.
For this competiton, I had difficulty in rallying my team mates for a fast offensive attack. We won the game mostly on defense position and move only when there are few opponents left. However, for almost two years of not playing, I thought it was still an exceptional performance for everyone.
The 2nd day ended with my team losing in the quarterfinals after winning 4 matches out of 6 games in the prelim games.. I bruised and wounded my right knee and elbow, in my effort to push the attack faster. But, we lack the speed of doing it, most of us are shot long before they can position ourselves.
However, it was a good feeling in bonding again with my former team mates in PSG Warfreakz. It has been quite long also that I have not played and even use my paintball gears. Anyway, the joy of playing again was priceless. And I can say Singaporean paintball teams have improved greatly in their play.
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Hi Jessica,
I'm sorry this had to end up under the comments section. There wasn't another way to reach out to you.
I come because you have a wide reach of the Filipino community as well as the Filipino expat community.
I was wondering if you could help publicise a cause to reach out to the Filipino expat community. The cause is a programme known as Goducate (http://support.goducate.org/)
Goducate has been doing social work in the Philippines for the past 30 years and his outreach has spread to 26 Barangays as of 2012. Dr Paul Choo is the founder of Goducate and has been spearheading the social work in the Barangays. He feels that his cause would be more effective if Filipino Expats were to spearhead it, rather than a “foreigner”, because these Filipino expats also once came from humble backgrounds.
Dr Paul Choo will be organising an outreach session, “Orchestrating a Rural Revolution” on 23 June (this Saturday) only for the SINGAPORE Filipino Expat community to engage them and share more about his cause. We hope you can help us to publicise this event!
Here are the details:
Orchestrating a Rural Revolution
By: Dr Paul Choo
Especially for: Filipino Expat Community
Date, time & venue: 23rd June 2012, 2-3pm, The Studio Cocktail Bar, 778 North Bridge Road
E-format: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/546/paulchoofilipinoexpatou.png/
Thanks Jess, I appreciate all the help I can get to make this successful!
Linton
Entrepid.sg
Goducate.org
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