PaintballX3 Magazine August 2013, PaintballX3 Magazine | Page 118

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Dye Any serious paintball player, and most not-so-serious paintball players know Dye as the company that has defined “cool” for years in competitive, and now tactical paintball as well thank to their DAM and camouflage equipment line. Their DM-shooting flagship teams, including the Ironmen and Tampa Bay Damage, are some of the most successful in paintball and for 2013 they were joined in Champions and Challengers PSP play by European powerhouse team TonTons who more than proved they belonged through a hard-fought season in both divisions, and longtime Ironmen legend Shane Pestana, at the helm of Challengers contender San Jose Royalty. Chattanooga CEP continues as a Dye team the surging Edmonton Impact. Damage now turn down the home stretch to play the World Cup in their home state, coming off a win, making them a favorite for a title and another piece of gold hardware for the Dye trophy case. With players like Macello Margott, Chad Busiere, Jason Edwards, Ramzi El-Yousef and Mike Paxson shooting Dye paintballs through Dye Matrix markers, it’s certain Dye will be well-represented in the professional ranks as 2013 winds down.

LUXE

Houston Heat came out and had a phenomenal 2012 season and continue to compete at the very highest level in 2013. Though Dynasty took a great deal of their thunder early in the 2013 season, Heat showed they were still hungry and more than capable by battling back to win the 2012 Chicago PSP event shooting their Luxe markers. Since its release many years ago, the Luxe has proven to be an impressive paintball success story. While other paintball gun companies release new version after new version of their flagship markers, the Luxe has been tweaked rather than overhauled and is barely into a third version and the marker appears much the same today as it for 2013 as well. While the Ironmen have did the day it was unveiled several years battled every point of every match in 2013, ago. In addition to Konstantin Federov, they have been trapped in the middle of the Ronnie Dizon, Chad George and Houston pack throughout 2013, forced to fight to Heat, Luxe is also represented by Challengstave off relegation at the California event, er’s division competitors Seattle Thunder. leaving the podium to Tampa Bay Damage, Light, sleek and still the marker that talks to who grew tired of the second place finishes its owner, the Luxe, in the hands of Houston at the first two events and finally managed Heat, still has what it takes to power great a gold trophy all the way across the country players to the top of the podium. on the West Coast, where they shut down

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