Today is our last day in Florida, yesterday we took some time out and visited Busch Gardens and rode the roller-coasters, got soaked on the water rides, ripped off for beer and food and went to dinner with Rich Hance from Custom Products and his family.  Cleared out the house this morning and went out to breakfast.  I’ll do a final update when I get home.

Gonna miss Lyn though.

Fluffy Bunnies take the Masters title 3-0 and Twizz gets his second World Cup winners medal and Johan his first. He’s currently offering 2-1 on for a repeat performance in 2012.  We have had 14 years of ’97, now its time for a new era – 97/11

A little clarification on yesterday’s post.  It appears that we have a Guatemalan snich in our midst, a compatriot of Sebas and Cesar appears to have tipped off the PSP (after those guys helped him out setting up his field at home).  After further discussion with the PSP the Entity guys, Wes, Cesar and Yoshi would have been allowed to re-enter as a Division 2 5-man team today while Sebas’s ban is being reviewed.

Sebas is a Div 3 rated player but was playing in a D2 team this event, he registered for the Entity Armageddon team before the others arrived and somehow the PSP registration staff put a ‘Staff’ sticker on his card, rather than a player’s one.  Players are allowed to register for more than one team as long as they adhere to the divisional rulings.

Early start today as Nexus had an 8am game, first up on the pro-field, before the webcast was even going.  So, on site for 7 so Pit Boss Pete could sort them out.  They had a hard game against Damage picking up just one point.

Next up were Relentless in their last 24 game, despite being 2-1 up with 2 minutes left on the clock Relentless lost the next point and the subsequent overtime point failing to make the last 16 cut.

Tony ‘The Tiger’ Brandon playing with Relentless and singing the theme to Rosie & Jim

Back to the pro-field for the final Nexus game Vs X-Factor, with myself ans fello photographer Steve ‘Merv TV’ Wilson on opposing team rosters.  It took some time for Nexus to start countering the Texas boys with a late comeback seeing them put up 3 points on the scoreboard against a total of 6 from X-Factor.

Nexus prepare at the gate for their game against X-Factor

Jason Wheeler in what is rumored to be his last game for London Nexus (but we’ve heard that before).

In other news, Armageddon Entity forfeited all their games on Friday due to a roster infraction and all the players from Guatemala and the UK being banned for the event, with the illegal player being banned for a whole year.

Illegal Roster, Sebas from Armageddon, Guatemala

Banned, Armageddon Entity

All UK hopes rest on Twizz and Fluffy Bunnies who finished Friday top of the pile and are straight through  to the finals on Sunday, despite a controversial play from Twizz himself who made a massive run-through to grab the flag only to be declared dirty when hanging it and incurring a major penalty, after a long, and at sometimes, heated discussion with the filed refs, other team, and the PSP official.  It remains to be seen if the Bunnies play Twizz in the final.

Twizzle, pre-rampage.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, I’m too tired to write so here’s 3000!

Relentless win one and drop one going through to Saturday first game 9.30.

Nexus loose to Infamous 6-5 in overtime and to RL 7-3 not quite the whitewash some predicted in Paris.

Twizz & Fluffy Bunnies have won their 3rd game in a row and have a 4th to play later.

Armageddon Entity have won one and lost one in the Race to 2 and have 2 more to play.

Famously, Twizz won World Cup in the last millennium and does it again, or the first two prelims at least, with Fluffy Bunnies in the Masters Race to Four Division.

He nearly pulled off a spectacular 3 on 1 but traded with the last man.

Joining him was Johan of Aggression (the Belgian SPL team).

Mark ‘Twizz’ Dale

Johan Strampraat

Game 1 Vs Prime went to a 1-1 draw and into overtime with Prime taking the point. Game 2 Vs LSD went 2-2 with Levis hanging the flag in the 5th point just as the game timer had rolled over zero! Another overtime point saw them take the game.

Guest player Trevor Hass with Relentless, game one.

James Granville – Captain London Relentless

Posted from my Blackberry.

Bit of rain on Tuesday night but not the thunderstorms predicted, though it was quite grey and windy, first look at the site today and a walk of the GI field for Relentless, in what felt like a British autumn day.

Fantasy of Flight from the road with the fields behind.

For once registration and seemed to go quite smoothly, everybody brought their ID and there were no dramas.

Registration Hall

Signing the team roster

Then a brief chance to check out new products

DM12

Despite their arduous journey to Orlando, nexus were up early on Monday morning, and off to Paintball World Orlando for practice with Ironmen and then to CFP on Tuesday morning where they scrimed with RL and Moscow Grad.  Sporting box fresh DM12s (hence no pictures) they were working hard on the field to catch up.

Relentless and Tigers had a day off, the weather forecast wasn’t promising. though it turned out just to be overcast with a few showers, and most indulged in a little more retail therapy, or at least browsing, around Florida Mall, Early start in the morning, fields to be walked before registration.