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Monday, August 22, 2011

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!!!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Sawyer Sez on Ballers Cafe

Here is the link!

http://www.ballerscafe.com/forum/showthread.php?45754-Sawyer-Sez-for-BallersCafe-3.1.2011&p=475674#post475674

Friday, August 20, 2010

MORE PICS - RPL Event #4 Reno, NV 5-Man

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

RPL Event #2 in Las Vegas at Combat Zone - Wrap Up

Top Left, Max'd Kidz getting their 2nd Place trophy. Top Right, Sawyer and Dan after the Kingman Training event. Middle Left, Rich Telford playing with a Kingman Training pistol. Middle Right, the Smith boys in cool hats after the event. Bottom Left, Kingman Trainging event.

We got 2nd. That just about sums it up. A really good trip and tourney, but not great. 2nd is an accomplishment, but not what we went to Las Vegas for and not as good as we could have done.

Here is a recap -

The RPL Event #2 of the 2010 season was held last weekend, April 17 and 18 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament was hosted at The Combat Zone, a new field in the Las Vegas area a few minutes past the South Coast Hotel and Casino.

The event drew teams from all over and as expected Vegas area teams were on hand to play. Nevada was well represented by teams like Sucker Punch, Sin City Blackout and Vegas Aces. The usual suspects made the trip from California to play as well; teams like us (Max’d Kidz), Golden State Pirates and G-Squad to name a few.

Sacramento XSV provide the two days of hard labor, or reffing. Thomas Taylor was the field’s head referee. Rich Telford was the ultimate ref and spent a good part of the two days getting yelled at as usual for everything imaginable. Jr. Brown managed to find a spot on the field that had shade a good part of the day and none of the other XSV players seemed to have enough seniority to take it from him.

Shawn Walker had a full RPL crew on hand to run the event and it seemed to go off without a hitch. Start times were almost dead on, as were end times each day.

The event ran a little differently than has been the norm lately, but the old school format seemed well received. The RPL brought back the format of rank mixing meaning that instead of only playing against teams of the same rank in the prelims, teams were evenly paired up to play other ranked teams as well. An example, all the AAA 5 Man teams played against an Open 5 Man team and a AA 5 Man team. Most of the teams found it nice to play up or down a level or two to work on their game. On Sunday, teams only played against their own rank based on seeding.

We did very well in the new format winning both of our games against the Open team we played and winning 2 of 3 games against the AA team we played.

We beat G-Squad in the Finals in the first RPL event of the year and faced them again this time. They won 2 of three against us in the prelims and then again in the Finals which left us with the 2nd place finish. We can’t wait to face them again next month in Event #3.

The Combat Zone (http://www.combatzonepblv.com/) was a great host of the tournament and were able to showcase their scenario fields as well as a great tournament field. Besides an easy to get to location on Las Vegas Blvd, the new complex also featured a very large player area with 20 or so picnic tables that was all fully shaded, a bar-b-q that was cranking out the dogs, burgers and kabobs as well cold drinks, a really big indoor and fully stocked store for all gear needs and even indoor restroom facilities.

We hosted a small Kingman Training event. Sponsors Kingman Training (http://www.kingmantraining.com/) supplied their new Chaser and Eraser pistols to be played with as part of their Next Big Thing Tour. They also provided all the paint and air. We helped players of the event and spectators as well to play one on ones and two on twos in a mini tournament setting and a fun time was had by all. Walker and Telford even got in on the action and went head to head against two of the field owners during a break in the RPL tourney. If you have not had a chance, you really have to shoot these ultra cool pistols. To see where team Max’d Kidz will have the new Kingman Training products available again to try out see the schedule section of their website at http://smithpaintballblog.blogspot.com/ or email smithpaintball@yahoo.com with questions.

It was nice to see another successful event in the Las Vegas area and hopefully this signals the beginning of resurgence for the sport of paintball in Sin City.