Off Season Moves

This past off-season was eventful.

#1 - Max'd Kidz broke up

#2 - Sawyer got a roster spot on the Division 1 Camp Pendleton Raiders

#3 - Camp Pendleton Raiders entered the Professional Division

#4 - Sawyer became a Professional Player at 13 years old (13 years, 17 days rostered) (13 years, 2 months, 25 days when NPPL HB starts) (TBD age when first Professional points are played in a tournament)

#5 - Sawyer has some amazing new sponsors and a few hold-overs

#6 - Stay tuned for more

2 New Videos

A Few New YouTube Videos

Links -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QZJBePusiU&list=UUOoO9edpiKZbx--RJh_X32w&index=1&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo6nEzB0MOw

Picture of the Week

At D League July 1, 2012

Sawyer Sighting

Sawyer has his own INSTAGRAM account now -

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Pictures of the Week - PLURAL

NPPL HB 2012

This picture says it all!!!

Soooooooooo cool to see Max’d Kidz on the D2 podium list. The competition was NUTS! Congrats to Arsenal Kidz on winning the Division (even though they beat us in the Semi-Finals in Game 3 to knock us out of contention dang it). They were a great team and gracious Champions and we hope we get to play them again this season. Congrats to all the teams who beat us throughout the tourney. Special congrats to Hawaii Heat for the toughest Quarter-Finals match we’ve ever had. And also big congrats to CP Raiders and Wicked on making the Semi-Finals and finishing 2nd and 4th. That means Camp Pendleton teams took 2nd, 3rd and 4th in D2. Crazy competition on our home fields!!! Finally, thanks to all our supporters in the stands and to our pit crew – thanks to both for being so awesome!!! Paintball is the BEST!!! It would have been nice to write this part before I sent the last one. 

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to all our sponsors. Dye Paintball for everything they do. We wore Dye Head to Toe except tanks and shot our Proto Reflexes and loved them. Thank you to Mike Paxson for your help in the pits. Thank you to Arfan and Gen X Global for the best pods ever. Thank you to Ninja Paintball for all your help and especially to Ray for really helping out this weekend. Thank you to KM Straps and Lief for all you do and provide. Thank you to Brandon and Marky and HK Army and PBFashion for always keeping the team in HHHHHH gear. And a huge thanks to Shawn Walker and Camp Pendleton for providing us with the best practice facility a player could ask for. Again, thank you to all our supporters out there and for all the noise you made this weekend!!! Paintball really is the best.

Sawyer and Todd watching games on the pro field from VIP!

Max'd Kidz on the beach before the event.

Sawyer and his newest sponsor Greg Hastings!

Sawyer, Mel and Roya in the limo on the way to NPPL Players Party!

Sawyer and Shane Howe in the Limo at the NPPL Players Party! 

Sawyer and Dad after the podium

Ken and Zach

Our 2010 Las Vegas D4 NPPL trophy has a new friend - the 2012 HB D2 NPPL trophy!!!

Picture of the Week

Max'd Kidz hanging out with Bear in front of the HK ARMY bus in Las Vegas at NPPL World Championships right after HK set the team up with gear!

Sawyer Sighting

If you Google NPPL First Place Trophy - goto images - Max'd kidz shows up on Page 1!!! Sweet!!!

New Sawyer Sez on BallersCafe.com

Click the link to read the latest and greatest Sawyer Sez posted on BallersCafe.com

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?46748-Sawyer-Sez-10.15.2011-Vegas-baby!-Vegas!&p=479797#post479797

NPPL Las Vegas World Championships Field Layout

Here is A TON of Max'd Kidz updates for the blog

OK - We've been REALLY REALLY bad at updating the blog - it got away from us for a few weeks and then it just kept getting to be more and more to catch up on and we got further and further behind - SORRY!!!

So - we give up - we are going to do one quick catch up post here - and then try to do a better job staying current!!!

Wow - this could be a long post!!!

First - what has happened so far this season -

We are playing Division 2 in all leagues -

RPL Event #1 2nd Place

NPPL HB - Ugly, please don't make me re-live it

NPPL D League Event #1 - 2nd Place

RPL Event #2 - Again, Ugly, please don't make me re-live it
NPPL D League Event #2 - 3rd Place
 
RPL Event #3 - 1st Place
 
We continue to work with Rich Telford this season. What he has taught us has simply been amazing!
 
We have continued to get a large amount of press and exposure. Here is a list of some of it that we can remember:
Action Pursuit Games two page spread in March 2011 Issue
Cover story in Paintball Monthly Press
Interviews and guest spots on dozens of paintball blogs (Link to one as an example here) http://llpaintball.com/tag/sawyer-smith/

Mentions in NPPL Weekly Newsletters (Link to most recent here) http://www.nppl.com/news/254

Recently, HB Culture Magazine featured a two page spread of the NPPL HB Event. The first page had four pics - one of Sawyer, one of Dynasty, one of Max'd Kidz and one of the grandstands. That we got 50% of the photo spaces and shared with a team like Dynasty is exciting. The text about us in paragraph four read like this, "On the first day there was one team that really stood out to me. They are called Max' Kidz! They have this 11 year old kid named Sawyer "Soi Soi" Smith, #23, who in his third season kicks some major ass! Sawyer had so much spunk about him and sported a bitchin' green mohawk!! It was so sweet to watch him take out grown adults. I got a chance to meet this kid, who holds himself more like a GI JOE, in the VIP booth and not only was he awesome to watch play but he was also super chill to talk to."

We show up all over the place randomly in other people's paintball videos. LA Hitmen and Max'd Kidz are pretty much the only Divisional teams shown as the rest are all Professional Teams in this particular video link on NPPL HB 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynAmvPo6h4U (1 minute 46 sec mark).
Max'd Kidz YouTube videos have started to be put up by others (not us but friends and fans) and have accumulated thousands of views. Here is a link to one of them - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaRcHEhuEY0

Last week Sawyer and his Dad sat down for on camera interviews for the Paintball Documentary coming out soon - "Holding the Wire". Go to http://www.holdingthewire.com/ to see the movie's trailer. Sawyer and Max'd Kidz will be featured in the movie.
So, there it is in a nutshell! March thru August.

We'll do better updating the blog - WE PROMISE!!!

Max’d Kidz registers for 1st event in 3 leagues

Max’d Kidz has officially registered for the first event in all three leagues we will be playing in this year. First up is The RPL on March 5-6 at Jungle Island in Lake Elsinore, CA. To register, go to www.therpl.com

Up next is the NPPL’s Surf City Open in Huntington Beach, arguably paintball’s best and most attended event annually. It will be held on the beach by the pier in Huntington Beach on April 1-3. To register, go to www.nppl.com

To finish up all the first events we will be playing in, Max’d Kidz is registered for the D League on April 30-May 1at the Camp Pendleton Tournament Parks in Oceanside, CA. To register, go to http://www.dleaguepaintball.com/

Sawyer Sez on PBLive.tv catch ups

Catch the 1/19 and 1/26 Sawyer Sez Episodes #21 and #22 onthe PBLive.tc site under the Sawyer Sez section on the home page - they were not posted on YouTube for us to link

Episode #19 NPPL Vegas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJDTk8oyjY

Episode #20 RPL Final Fight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNuYc4D91HM

Max'd Kidz to play D2 and 3 leagues in 2011

Max'd Kidz is pleased to announce they will be playing D2 in the NPPL, RPL and D Leagues for the 2011 season.

This will be the 2nd season for the team and their first playing 7 man in addition to 5 man.

More Wrap Up Pics

Wrap Up Pics

Wrap Up - October thru Mid Jan

So - alot has happened since the blog was updated - as the season came to and end last year we were just so busy - and then the off season came and a break from paintball and all the responsibilities came too - but now it's time not only to start grinding at practice - but grinding on all the other stuff too like the blog, Facebook, Twitter, Sawyer Sez, Etc.

Where we left off - Bonus Balls leading up to NPPL Vegas. We took 2nd. We had it in the bag, let down, got pushed to a 1on1 and then lost it. Bummer. Free entry to Vegas - GONE. OUCH.

Then the week before Vegas - our snake player James breaks his hand at practice. OUCH OUCH.

Then we go to Vegas with 7 guys on the roster - One is having a baby that weekend. One is told if he misses work he is fired. One has a family member die and has to go to the funeral. Down to 4 guys on Wednesday night already in Las Vegas. OUCH OUCH OUCH.

We called EVERYONE frantic to pick up a player - we pick up Brandon Cornell from the Pirates. He came up Thursday. We started playing Friday. We went to Sunday with the #3 seed out of the prelims.

Played good but not great in Vegas. Our roster was a mess. Cornell played good - but the team didn't quite click. We got 3rd when the event was over. Good but still sort of an ouch. Would have stomped with our full roster.

Good news is Sawyer played like a hero. We only had 5 players with Cornell filling in for the fifth spot so Sawyer played every game. Lots of G's. Even won 2 games by himself at the end - both being 1on1's with time running down but he shot 'em out - grabbed and hung the flag both times - REALLY AWESOME. He really picks it up for the big events.

We finish NPPL D4 ranked 5th for season - pretty good only playing 2 of 4 events.

Next we have RPL. We won the event and we won the Series Title for AAA.

Next we have WCPPL. Never playing WCPPL again. Hinman is a joke. Totally cheated. Didn't effect us really, but he still cheated. We just got stomped. But he's still DIRTY. We played the event at D2 for the first time. Also played a Race format for the first time. Took some getting used to, but was a great learning experience and we had a total blast. For sure helped for going into the 2011 season.

Ended up #2 in D4 in the WCPPL without even playing the final event in that Division. Pretty cool.

So then we just sort of hung out, played some rec ball and relaxed the rest of December and February. Now it is January 2011. We have had a few practices, changed our roster a bit - and James our snake player is back practicing with us. Check the other posts for all the exciting stuff. Hope this brings everyone up to speed quickly.

Sawyer Sighting

http://square1paintball.squarespace.com/ from scavenger hunt in Las Vegas at NPPL

Melody in HK Army NPPL Vegas Video

http://www.propaintball.com/2010/10/nppl-vegas-with-hollywood-hk-paintball-vid/

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