Tippinators Win Most Sportsmanlike Team

The Tippinators took to the field for their first tournament of the 2006 season at Stormwarning Paintball Games in New Minas, Nova Scotia on January 14, 2006. The team was eager to play at a new field for the first time.

The team was warmly welcomed by Bruce Adams and all the teams at Storms Paintball with many teams expressing their eagerness to take to the field against the Tippinators. The tournament was a rookie and novice event with 16 teams and ten rounds of play. Unfortunately the Tippinators were not able to play every team in attendance. Throughout the day the team did have a chance to meet and talk with almost every other participant and made many new friends as a result.

Surviving the Night

Night Paintball - What every player should know

originally published in the December 2005 issue of Paintball Sports Magazine

Night paintball has been around for over a decade, but only within the past year or two has the popularity of the sport experienced such dramatic change. Scenario paintballers are swarming to evening games like second graders charging the playground at recess. Big events such as Oklahoma D-Day and Nightmare City dedicate at least one evening for night paintball, and woodsball™ fields are increasingly giving players an opportunity to showcase their nocturnal combat abilities.

Tippinators Play in Open Tournament

The Tippinators stepped up the team's level of competition on November 5th, 2005 by entering an Open Class 3-Man tournament at Mersey Road Paintball for the fourth tournament in the team's history. Some great teams showed up for the tournament including; Overkill Hate Crew (tournament winners), Team Overkill, Primal (mens and ladies), Spikes 5150 to name a few. Even though the Tippinators are still a rookie team they felt the experience of playing against better teams would help with their long range development.

Tippinators Show Great Improvement at Overkill Tournament

The Tippinators took to the field for their third speedball tournament at Overkill Sportz in Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia on October 15, 2005. The team was excited to enter this tournament as it was a real step up in the level of play and it gave them a chance to meet an entire new group of paintballers.

The team played hard all day and ended up finishing 8th out of 16 teams, a huge improvement over their first two tournaments. The day was shortened due to heavy rain but nothing could dampen the team's spirits as the trademark handshakes and joking with competitors went on all day. Even after the tournament was stopped the Tippinators were still playing for fun against any team that would come onto the rain soaked field.

The points were tallied, the winners announced and much to the surprise of the team a special award was presented to the Tippinators for sportsmanship. The entire team was stunned and honoured by the award as the team had never even heard of a "Sportsmanship Award" let alone expect to receive one with so many other great players and teams in attendance.

Tippinators Break Out

The complete list of standings OKSportz - 3man Rookie/Novice Tourny - Oct 15th, 2005:

Supremacy - 1st place
Phoenix Gold - 2nd place
Unforgiven Red - 3rd place
Primal - 4th place
Spikes 5150 - 5th place
G-prime - 6th place
Phoenix Silver - 7th place
Tippinators - 8th place
Untouchables - 9th place
Triple Image Blue - 10th place
Magnitude - 11th place
Unforgiven Yellow - 12th place
Triple Image Black - 13th place
Mersey Road - 14th place
Triple Image Red - 15th place
Fire Storm - 16th place

Tippinators - Most Sportsmanship

And a special award was given out today, "most sportsmanship" we asked for input from all the refs and The Tippinators came out on top, these guys just ooze class, both on and off the field, I think their team motto pretty much sums it up: "Shake hands, play hard, have fun, make new friends, remember that it is just a game."