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Smokin Aces at the Campaign Cup [VIDEOS]

Joshua Scotton — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:37:28 +0000

Smokin Aces put two teams in for the M5 division of the British Leg of the European Millennium Series.

I was part of the Smokin Aces Extreme team, we won 8 out of 12 games.

Videos follow after the jump…

Smokin’ Aces Elite

Smokin’ Aces Extreme

UK Masters Lite

Joshua Scotton — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:41:03 +0000

The Smokin’ Aces came third in the UK Masters Lite Xball May ’08 tournament.

Here’s a couple of photos:

Snow, Ice and Paintball

Joshua Scotton — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:04:55 +0000

I played at the UK Masters Five Man this weekend and had to drive up from Essex starting a 5am in the morning. Driving conditions were very interesting as it rained at first and by the time I had arrived at 7:20am it was like a blizzard and we had 3-4 inches of snow on the ground.

Play went ahead though and by 11 the sun had come out and the snow had started to melt. However towards the end of the day we had problems with the wind and play was cut short after 6 full games with some teams having played 7.

A few pics below, the last one is the Div 2 scoreboard at the end of the day (I played for Smokin Aces).

UK Masters February

Joshua Scotton — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:24:42 +0000

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.

UK Masters

Joshua Scotton — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:01:47 +0000

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.

Paintballing and hacking my PS3

Joshua Scotton — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:41:14 +0000

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.

Paintball Repairs and OU Assignments

Joshua Scotton — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:53:16 +0000

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.

Paintball @ Manchester

Joshua Scotton — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:31:06 +0000

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

Team Ignis

Joshua Scotton — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:19:56 +0000

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

Paintball, Rugby and Kneepads

Joshua Scotton — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:21:07 +0000

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 ) 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!