Tippinators Promote Paintball at Atlantic Outdoor Sports & RV Show

The Tippinators attended the 23rd Atlantic Outdoor Sports & RV Show held from March 16 to 19, 2006 at Exhibition Park in Halifax Nova Scotia and helped man the booth operated by Overkill Sportz. The show was a huge success with the team meeting and talking to thousands of paintballers and fans.

Scott 'Hired Gun' Knowles, Austin 'Juno' Flaherty and Bruce 'Charon' Johnston met and talked with current, past and future paintball players of all ages over two days. The team gave out hundreds of team stickers, promotional photographs and autographs to the many visitors to the booth while answering questions about the sport. The team posed for pictures with wide eyed kids who were holding their mil sim Tippmann A-5 markers that were sometimes taller then the kids holding them.

What Ever You Do, Don't Do This!

Humble Confessions of Players who have Learned - "What not to do in Paintball"

By Paul Knoch, Bruce "Charon" Johnston, and Jordan F. Ricks
originally published in the March 2006 issue of Paintball Sports Magazine

Everyone's history is stained with momentary episodes of intellectual challenge (a.k.a. stupidity); albeit, some tend to experience more frequent, and more pronounced degrees of ineptitude than others, but as humans, we're all prone to imperfection. However, some of us push the accepted norm of "imperfection" to new frontiers of sheer idiocy, and as a species, we continue to find ways to "go where no man has gone before", or would want to go again.

Tippinators Named Official "RECON" Team

The Tippinators are pleased and very honoured to have been awarded to prestigious designation of "Official RECON Team" by Special Ops Paintball.

Special Ops Paintball based in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the paintball industry leader in the sport of forest paintball or Woodsballtm has recognized and share the Tippinators team values of honesty, integrity and fair play.

Tippinator's Story Covered in Local Newspaper

Halifax, Nova Scotia - February 1, 2006: A local paintball team is receiving international media attention and attracting the interest of several of the sport's most influential companies. Action Pursuit Games magazine is featuring the three-man team (known as the Tippinators), in the April 2006 issue, and the Canadian paintballers have already received mention in Paintball Sports and RECON magazines. Eastern Passage resident Bruce Johnston, the team captain and leader both on and off the field is a founding member of the team. The Tippinators' unusual story and rare style of play has placed the team among the "who's who" of paintball and introduced Nova Scotia to fans and players throughout the United States and around the world.