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Been searching everywhere from some decent footage from the recent NPPL at Huntington Beach California and not really been having much luck. You can always count on the guys over at Social paintball to get some footage up sooner or later though.

So here it is. It's all of the dudes on Sacramento DMG during their HB battles, tearing up D2 and D3. Both the D2 and D3 teams managed 3rd places, which is pretty good.

Lets hope someone gets some more footage up soon of other teams and preferably the Pro bracket. I for one am dying to see some as there was no webcast!

NPPL. WHAT'S THE SCORE?

Well, as per my boy Chris' post and the lack of anything to get us involved with the NPPL as it happened, we come to final score time. The Breaking News feature at the top of the page is updated as soon as we know basic headlines, so we were all over that literally as soon as we knew. But, here are the full rundown of who finished where at the NPPL Huntington Beach 2013 event.

I'm still pissed that we didn't get a stream of live games. Maybe next year...or maybe there won't be a next year?

Pro:
1: San Antonio XFactor
2: Vancouver Vendetta
3: Portland Uprising
4: Fort Wayne Outlaws

D1:
1: Impact Echo
2: TCP Machine
3: Xclusive
4: Regime

D2:
1: Hawaiian Heat
2: Tippmann Effect
3: Capital Edge DMG Red
4: Team Wicked

D3:
1: Miami Devious
2: Xtreme
3: Capital Edge DMG White
4: Tombstone

D4:
1: Animal Factory Team
2: SoCal Stealth
3: NBK
4: West Coast Sharks 4

D5:
1: P4 Posse 2
2: Farside Kids East
3: Cen Cal Alliance
4: Destiny Army

And there it is. Gotta be a better way than typing in all these names hasn't there.

Until next event remember, stay safe and always ALWAYS have a live webcast, no matter what you're doing. Yeah, especially that.

SO WHAT WENT ON AT NPPL HB?

To be honest, I've not really got much of a clue. There was no live webcast, which when even the Millennium series is managing it was a bit of a letdown. There were no live score updates on the NPPL website, they had results but were slow updating them. The only info we could really get was from the actual teams and players from their own Facebook and Twitter feeds! Go bless social media huh.

From the pictures the event looked really sweet. AstroTurf on the Huntington Beach sand with what looked like large crowds gathering to see what all the crazy guys with guns shooting at each other was all about. It always seems to portray the ideal ballin' image we all want to live and be a part of. The best looking event on the calendar, and one the public can engage with. Just a shame that the ballers who weren't there struggled to get any info, especially with how new media means we can be right on the money, at all times.

Some of the main news that we could gather were things like Dynasty dropping out Sunday morning to Uprising in a game that Ryan Greenspan described on twitter as 'an embarrassing loss.' Doesn't sound good, but from what I can gather Oliver Lang got a penalty that I think cost them the game. Thing is I've no idea what it was for? Anybody?

The final was the Texan boys from San Antonio X-Factor, who struggled in the first PSP event, facing off against new Pro team Vancouver Vendetta. Vendetta where stoked to make it into the finals but X-Factor's experience proved too much for them, taking X-Factor to their first win this season. Awesome job X-Factor! Hopefully they can bring it to the next PSP and really start to show their teeth.

Also it would be real nice if the NPPL could sort it for the Chicago Open in May to be webcast. Or maybe at least get some sort of live scoring thing going on for all us fans who can't make it over. They did it for a few events last year, and whilst it wasn't quite up to the big money showing the PSP put in with the awesome Paintball Access, it was still pretty good. Not having it at HB is a huge trick missed by the NPPL and one they need to get sorted quickly.

If this was the last Huntington Beach event by the NPPL, they didn't help things by not inviting the rest of the paintball world to their party.

NPPL UPRISING

So the NPPL has suffered a bit this year with the loss of some of the top dog pro teams to the PSP. Mainly XSV, Impact and Dynasty deciding they aren't gonna play, but instead concentrate on the PSP race to format. Well now some of the remaining teams are trying to step up and break open the NPPL league.

One of those teams is Portland Uprising. They just announced that seeing as most of the PSP teams are not gonna play the NPPL, they are taking the opportunity to sign 3 very high profile players. So it's Dave 'The Beast' Bains, Alex 'Mouse' Goldman and Corey Bornstein! They're still gonna stick with their regular PSP teams for that series, but just hop on Uprising for a trip on the NPPL train. With these guys on board Uprising should be able to take that next step to getting on the podium or maybe taking a win or two this year.

Huntington Beach is gonna be a bit of an eye opener this year as we should see which of the new NPPL pro's is gonna bring it and which are gonna get crushed!

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Fancy a bit of 7 man action? Everything these days seems to be all about the 'Race To' format, but lets not totally forget the 7 man action. I always loved 7man......more targets :)

This awesome video is from Race Jones of Blacklist Media, courtesy of the guys over at pbnation. It's got some nice 7 man action from the Vegas NPPL and comes with a nice soundtrack from Kill Paris with Baby come back. Check it!