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Played with the Smokin’ Aces Div 4 team this weekend at the UK Masters Paintball Tournament. We won 5 of our 9 games and finished 1 point off 4th in 5th place.

It was in Lincoln and in the morning it was freezing, there was so much frost in the grass carpark that you could do some fantastic handbrake turns, it was like driving in snow!

Needless to say we had a bit of trouble with the paintball markers as the frost had frozen the lubricant and the o-rings inside the markers and Chris ended up having to sit in the car with the heaters on trying to warm up his marker.

We managed to get everything together in time for the first game and started off with a run of four wins before lunch and then lost 4 games before finishing off the day with a win.

Meanwhile in Div 2, the Smokin’ Aces Elite team managed to finish 5th as well so it was a great day overall.

Played at the UK Paintball Masters this weekend for Smokin’ Aces in Division 2. It was my first major tournament and it was great fun, attached is some pics of the scoreboards towards the end of the day and others.

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A quick Happy New Year to All!

Hope you all had a great Christmas!

Got my third year results from the Open University and they were good enough to keep me on target for my first class overall, so I’m very pleased with them.

Have a great New Year

Had an interesting day paintballing just south of Manchester on Saturday.

It was very cold and very, very wet. A lot of the equipment freezed up and wouldn’t work and setting up the site took a long time. However we got a lot of paintball in once we got going.

Last night following a couple of guides (including this one) I installed Ubuntu Gutsy on my PS3.  It’s working fine and loads ok, but the graphics mode and the wifi aren’t correct yet.

LIPS Paintball Shop provide a fantastic service. I sent off my air bottle on Monday, they fixed it on Tuesday and sent it courier back to me today (Wednesday). I’d broken the fill valve O-ring but it’s all fixed and ready to go when I next play paintball.

When I next play paintball depends on how fast I finish off my first M366 (Artificial Intelligence) assignment. It’s due on the 11th December and I’m hoping to paintball for the final time this year on the 8th.

I got round to studying today and have got 1/4 done so far so it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

Great day paintballing just south of Manchester on the 17th.

It was a three man noob tournament on a sup’air field and, while it was really cold, it didn’t rain so that was really good.

We (Team Ignis) played 7 games and won 3 of them, coming in 5th out of about 9 teams overall.

Only Rehum and myself made it as Ben and Sam were down with a cold so we had to have a sub player to help out.

Also the valve on my air bottle went halfway through the game so I had to use somebody else’s gun for the rest of the day.

Best moment for me was bunkering a guy in the snake with a run from the back centre, fantastic day overall.

EDIT: Some pictures here

Just got the results in from a Mensa test I took two weeks ago…

Cattell B Scale 146 (Top 3%)

Culture Fair Scale 137 (Top 1%)

I’m now a Mensa Member, , YAY!

Artwork for Team Ignis (Me, Ben, Sam and Rehum):

I could have done with avoiding rugby and picking up a pair of kneepads prior to playing paintball this weekend …

Started off playing paintball at a Delta Force site and managed to smash my knee in the second from last game. It wasn’t too serious (so I played the last game :D) however it reeaally hurt to kneel down on it. My team won, which was good, and I got a decent kill/death ratio, so at the end of the day I hobbled home feeling quite pleased with myself.

I have now bought a pair of second hand kneepads from a guy over at www.p8ntballer-forums.com so I should now be fairly safe from knee related paintball injuries!

My knee was feeling much better on Monday so I went out with family and friends up to Dovedale and did the up Thorpe Cloud and over the stepping stones round trip from the Dovedale car park.

We then went on to Ilam where we decided to play a game of rugby, and to cut a short story even shorter, I managed to get a knee smack in the middle of my cheekbone whilst making a diving tackle within the first two minutes of play.

I have never come across concussion before, but … according to my very worried Mum, my Dad, and a nurse that Mum found (that is a long story…) I definitely had it.

Hence I wasn’t allowed to do much on Tuesday except read the course books for my next OU course (Fortunately I am allowed to go back to normal work in Leicester tomorrow).

My latest course in my epic journey towards a degree is M366 Natural and Artificial Intelligence which has it’s first tutorial this Saturday.

Block 1 is quite interesting and I’m looking forward to meeting my new tutor at the tutorial.

Anyway must go, I apparently can’t stay up til my usual 1am as it’s bad for the concussion… bye!