Bob Tahar Photography

This is the 4th AmBank Paintball Challenge and the 3rd time we play at Xtion Paintball. This is the only event at the moment I dare to play paintball, even though I know how it felt to be hit with a pallet from E-Marker from previous experience photographing paintball at MPOC & PALS.

All images captured with Sigma 70-200mm F2.8 & Sigma 18-200mm OS.

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The Independence Cup 2007 was held at Bukit Jalil Xtion Paintball Park, KL. This is one of the series in Paintball Asia League Series (PALS). The event was the 2nd series that supposed to be held in Thailand, but due to the political situation there it was canceled and brought to KL. The last series will again be in KL for the World Cup Asia in December.

All images captured with Sigma 70-200 F2.8 & Nikkor 18-50 attached with Pro Tama Wide Converter.

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This is the postponed semi final for the National Paintball League (NPL) 2nd round that was held at Kuantan early this month. I was told that the storage for keeping the pallets was destroyed by fire and due to this the event itself was in shortage of pallets.

The postponed match was held at Malaysia Paintball Academy at PJ.

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For the 1st time in Malaysia Paintball, MPOC introduce the M7 category under division 1, closed division. M7 is simillar to X-Ball Lite and hopefully will become the international standard of paintball competition.

This will be an elite division of MPOC and the players will be drafted for the Intercontinental Cup at World Cup Orlando in Nov ‘07.

More on M7, please visit http://www.millennium-series.com/about_millennium.php.

Features game is between 2006 div 1 champions, X Fox (reds) and 2006 div 2 champions, Assassin X (yellows). Final result X Fox thrashed Assassin X 5-0.

All images captured with Sigma 28-300mm DG Lens.

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National Paintball League (NPL) is the 2nd main league in Malaysia after MPOC. NPL kick off their 2007 campaign at Padang Merbok KL same date as MPOC leg. Looking at the tentative dates for all 5 legs of NPL and MPOC, all of them will be at the same clashing dates.

Both league should sit in a discussion so both of them can held the leagues without clashing each other dates. Malaysian paintball teams would have the opportunities to play a total of 10 competitions in a year rather than 5 due to the clashing dates. For more information on NPL, please visits http://www.my-npl.org.

All images captured with Sigma 28-300mm DG lens.

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Malaysia Paintball Official Circuit (MPOC), held it 1st leg Paintball match for the Wilayah Cup Open 2007 at Titiwangsa Lake Garden from 3rd to 4th February. Overall there are 5 legs will be held around Peninsular Malaysia from Penang to Johor. Further information on the MPOC Legs, please visit Xtion Paintball website at http://www.xtionpaintball.com/forum.

The MPOC leg kick off together with Wilayah Day Festival, that was officially launched by the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur.

All images captured with Sigma 28-300mm DG lens.

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Xtion Paintball has taken part in the Wilayah Day Marching at Merdeka Square. This is to promote paintball to Malaysian and also to promote the MPOC events that will be held on the 3rd & 4th February at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa.

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Another paintball collections. The sport is gaining popularity here in Malaysia, every month and every states there will be a tournament. This time its the Rakan Muda Paintball Challenge for the Novice Cup. Held at a Paintball Academy Field behind Armada Hotel PJ.

The previous paintball blog was captured with Nikkor 70-300mm G Lens and compare with Sigma 28-300mm DG Lens used today, both of them behave similarly only advantage to sigma for its wide aspects.

The net conditions of the field not that good, too many ripple thus effects the pictures quality. Tight and straighten net can void blurriness in the picture.

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