In just under 24 hours the Bolingbrook Aquatic Center will be swarming with paintball enthusiasts and sounds of buzzers and flying paintballs. The 2008 Chicago Open is a national paintball tournament hosted by the PSP, and will take place June 25th-29th. Last year the Chicago PSP event consisted of over 2,400 players in the tournament, and this year is expected to be even bigger. The Chicago PSP event has historically been considered one of the bigger tournaments of the year, so you should expect to see some real competition on the field. Dynasty, Ironmen, X-Factor, Red Legion, and all the other big team names will be playing at the event among the rest of the lower divisions.

The Chicago event is ironically located in Bolingbrook, IL, a close suburb of Chicago. Its location is perfect for anybody of any age to come and watch the games for FREE. Personally, I was first introduced to the sport of paintball by simply watching the tournaments at events like these. It's truly something you need to experience in the first person, especially while it's summer.

For the people curious as to what the teams are playing for, here is a list of the prizes for each division:
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The 2007 PSP World Cup event ended on Sunday, October 29th. Team Ironmen took the cup defeating Boston Red Legion in the finals with a score of 7-6. Close game. Team Ironmen are now the new 2007 World Cup Champions, 2007 NXL Series Champions, and $30,000 richer.

Bea Youngs blogged about the event as she was announcing it. She also grabbed an interview with Ken Griffey Jr., who was there playing with his kids. Sounds like a cool guy. Check out a picture of his Ego 8. Watch the interview below.

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After a long week of scorching hot weather, PSP's River City Open event has come to an end. Here are the final scores:

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Paintball Sports Promotions (PSP) will be holding the second annual NXL All-Star event this summer at the Chicago PSP.

The nominated players for this year's NXL All-Star event are:

Eastern Conference:
Boston Red Legion - Alexander Berdnikov
Baltimore Trauma - Tyler Humphrey
Chicago Aftershock - Darcy Schlickenmeyer
Detroit Strange - Jimmy Saraiva
Miami Raiders - Billy Bernacchia
New York Hurricanes - Brian Gigliotti
Philadelphia Americans - Ryan Moorhead
Ultimate - David Becker

Western Conference:
Dynasty - Davey Williamson
Las Vegas LTZ - Brennan Farmer
Los Angeles Ironmen - Billy Wing
Seattle Naughty Dogs - Rocky Knuth
Oakland Infamous - Jon Richardson
San Diego Legacy - Tyler Harmon
X-Factor - Dixon Yang
XSV - Rich Telford

In order to vote for who you'd like to play in this year's All-Star game, vote here.

Even if you hate paintball with a passion, you'll want to see this game.

This year's Mid-Atlantic Open (MAO) came to an end yesterday. It rained most of the event except for the last day which was nice and sunny. Our pictures are being processed and rendered as I type. Give us the day to get them all up... there's hundreds and hundreds of pictures to go through.

Here are the final scores:
NXL: Russian Legion (or Boston Red Legion) won the NXL division event 9-4 over X-factor.

Open: In the Open division San Diego Aftermath defeated Avalanche X 6-5.

D2: Denver Altitude defeated Vicious 6-5.

D3: Sin City Paintball beat GRIDLOCK BLACK 5-4.

D3 5-man: Team Encounter defeats Stringer Factory.

D4 5-man: Looseballs defeat DBSpaintball.com.

Find more details here.