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Alex, where do the Shoreline Rangers
call home?
Primarily London, England, but we currently
have 25 players from all over the UK.
How long has the team been together?
We started out in June 2006 as a pub team,
a friend of ours was working behind the bar
and rounded up a bunch of us to go out and
play for the day at the site he worked at. From
day one loads of us were hooked. That summer we played as much as we could and ended up forming the Redbourn Rangers, named
after the village we were all from. The bull in
our logo originates from the name of the pub
(The Bull Inn) where we all drank.
the world. It’s been a cracking ride.
Where have you played?
We’ve played almost everywhere there is to
play in Britain, and have also attended twice
across the pond at Oklahoma D-Day, as well
as sending people to France, Belgium, Holland, Croatia, Russia and Germany.
What are the plans for 2014?
For scenario, we just plan to carry on traveling the world and playing the best games we
can find in the most outrageous locations. We
also made the leap last year into tournament
paintball, so this season we’ll be taking that
a lot more seriously, and aiming to put some
We discovered scenario events toward the end more silverware in the cabinet.
of 2007, and quickly gained momentum as
Are you planning to play Millennium or
a team, winning ‘Breakthrough Team of the
CPS this season?
Year’ at the UK paintball awards in our first
full year playing scenario (2008) followed by
‘UK Scenario Team of the year’ the year after. This year will see us compete in our first national level tournament when we head over to
Paris to play in the CPS tournament.
From then on we’ve grown and spread out
from our little village pub to having players
from all over the country, and playing all over We started played regionally in the CPPS last
January 2014