It has begun …

First off – A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and a great New Years Eve with family, friends and loved ones. All the best for 2012 and everything you all wished for.

Although we are still in the “off-season” period, “THE GRIND” has literally begun. We have been everything else than lazy over the last weeks and besides waiting the last 10 days to see if we get a positive response on any sponsorships we have been proposing, we are ticking off the boxes on our “To-Do” list pretty much on schedule.

The biggest news of this week is – our NEW LOGO is final and approved. So I hereby present you the new Samurai Paintball logo which we will be wearing with pride for the future, which was sorted out for us by Tanked Paintball, the newest addition to companies that are supporting us starting this season – once we have some jersey designs ready we’ll be showing you all more.

On the charity front we are not even one week in and are on about £ 800,- in the first half of January. This mainly is again thanks to Bricket Wood Paintball and the Christmas party that raised over £700 for us and we received this in the first week of January. Thanks again to Yorkie and his team and Bricket Wood!!! Donna, the charity coordination person for the Greater London area, which works for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust is planning on swinging by at the Training Center on the 22^nd Jan to meet the boys and also sit down and talk about how they can support us in raising funds throughout the year … so we are looking forward to that as well.

Last but not least – the grind begins on the 22^nd January. Everyone is already really jumpy and can’t wait to get back on the field to start training for our first tournament – we are currently working on a training schedule (for the entire 50 remaining weeks of 2012 and the actual training days) which we want to have ready for the team by the 22^nd to hand out. So let’s see how that goes. Our calendar looks as follows:

4^th March 2012            – CPPS (UK League) / Round 1 (Staffordshire, United Kingdom)

23^rd-25^th March 2012 – Millennium Series (EU League) / Riviera Cup (St.Tropez/Cannes, France)

22^nd April 2012            – CPPS (UK League) / Round 2 (Staffordshire, United Kingdom)

25^rd-27^th May 2012    – Millennium Series (EU League)/ European Masters (Bitburg, Germany)

17^th Jun 2012               – CPPS (UK League) / Round 3 (Staffordshire, United Kingdom)

29^th Jun–1^st Jul 2012  – Millennium Series (EU League) / London Masters (London, United Kingdom)

23^rd Sept 2012              – CPPS (UK League) / Round 4 (Staffordshire, United Kingdom)

12^th-14^th Oct 2012     – Millennium Series (EU League) / World Cup (Paris, France)

?? October 2012         – PSP (USA League) / World Cup (Orlando (FL), USA) – to be confirmed

Speaking of fitness & tournaments – 2 of our 4 smokers quit smoking and this is the first week for them without a smoke!!! YOU CAN DO IT BOYS!!! WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!!!

More in a few days – talk soon!