That is right, we are running yet another giveaway, and this time it will not be a random drawing. You have a part in if you win this one or not, it is a contest! I don’t want to give away all of the details right here, because you need to read through all of the rules. Needless to say, you guys are going to make your own videos and submit them to us, one of you will win from votes by your peers. Another one of you will win, because we as a staff liked your movie the best. So, read the rules, get your videos filmed, play your audience – and may the best videos win!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR9PBkZNPpU&feature=youtu.be

[link to entry]

www.Facebook.com/HustlePaintball

 Video Contest Rules

Video requirements:

1. Video must be 30 to 90 seconds in length.
2. Video must include prank/shenanigans where the Hustle logo is easily visible, either on clothing, stickers or through the use of other creative ideas.
3. Avoid profane language, violence, sex or personal attacks on people or organizations.
4. Avoid violating copyright laws- which means you must have express permission to use music that is not royalty free from musicians.
5. Avoid breaking laws, which means do not shoot paintballs at public property or cause harm or damage to property that is not owned by you.
6. Do not break any paintball safety rules.
7. Your video must be original content for this contest. Do not submit a video that has been submitted elsewhere.
8. Videos must be submitted using Offerpop’s third party app.
9. Videos that are submitted without an entry form will not be included.

Prank/Shenanigan Videos Hustle Paintball Style Video Contest Rules

Please read these Official Rules before entering this promotion (the “Promotion”).   By participating in the Promotion, you agree to be bound by these Official Rules and represent that you satisfy all of the eligibility requirements below.

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS PROMOTION. THIS PROMOTION IS IN NO WAY SPONSORED, ENDORSED OR ADMINISTERED BY, OR ASSOCIATED WITH, FACEBOOK.

WE ARE NOT LIABLE OR RESPONSISBLE FOR ANY INJURIES OR DAMAGE THAT RESULTS FROM THE PRODUCTION OF THESE VIDEOS. Use common sense, have fun and be safe.

1.    Eligibility. The promotion is open to individuals who are at least 18 years or older (or the age of majority in entrant’s state of residence), and who, upon entering the Promotion, at the time of the drawing, and if asked to provide an affidavit of eligibility following the drawing, have either: (i) a user account on Facebook and “like” Hustle Paintball on Facebook. The promotion is open to any residents of any country where the promotion is legal.  Winners outside of the United States will be responsible for paying for shipping of the prize. If you do not meet any of these requirements or any other eligibility requirements in these Official Rules, you are not eligible to win a prize, and Hustle Paintball. (“Sponsor”) reserves the right not to award prizes to you. Employees, directors, officers and contractors of Sponsor and Sponsor’s advertising and promotion agencies, and their respective immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each, are not eligible to win. The Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.

2.    Promotion Period. The Promotion starts at 12:00 am.EDT on July 9th, and ends at 12:00am.EDT on July 31, 2012 (the “Promotion Period”).  All entries must be received during the Promotion Period to be eligible to win a prize.

3.    How to Enter.
(a)    On Facebook.  “Like” Hustle Paintball through your Facebook account, if you have not done so already. Upload your video and fill out the entry form (the “Entry Form”) provided under the Video Contest tab on the Hustle Paintball Facebook page (located at http://www.facebook.com/hustlepaintball), and submit the Entry Form by clicking the “submit” button.

Only one (1) entry per person, per platform during the Promotion Period.  Entries become the property of Sponsor. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the email address connected to the Facebook or Twitter account that is used to enter will be deemed to be the registrant or player. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address.

4.    Prize: One(1) Grand Prize winner will receive: (1)One Tippmann Crossover paintball marker. One (1) Staff Favorite winner will receive:  (1)One Dye Proto Rail paintball marker. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries received.
5.    Votes: The winner will be selected based on fan votes by July 31, 2012.  The video with the most likes will win the Grand Prize and the winner of the Staff favorite will be chosen by the Sponsor based on creativity, ingenuity and branding .   The winners will be notified by email (at the address provided in the Entry Form) by August 1, 2012.  Prize will be awarded within thirty (30) days after winner verification. If a prize notification is returned as undeliverable or if the winner does not respond to the notification within seven (7) calendar days, it will result in disqualification, and the prize will be awarded to an alternate winner in a separate random drawing. The prize winners may be required to execute an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release within seven (7) days following the date of attempted notification. Prizes are not assignable or transferable, except to a surviving spouse.

The prize is awarded “AS IS” and WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, express or implied (including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose), except that the prize will be subject to its manufacturer’s standard warranty (if any). No substitutions or exchanges (including for cash) of any prize will be permitted, except that  Winner is responsible for all federal, state, local, sales and income taxes associated with receipt and/or use of any prize. Entry and acceptance of any prize constitutes permission to use winner’s name, prize won, office affiliation, hometown and likeness for online posting and promotional purposes without further compensation, except where prohibited by law.
6.    General: Sponsor will not be responsible for late, lost, illegible, incomplete, damaged or misdirected entries and accepts no responsibility for any injury, loss or damage of any kind resulting from an entrant’s participation in the Promotion.  By entering the Promotion, each entrant agrees to these Official Rules and waives, and releases Sponsor and Sponsor’s parents, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies, and all other businesses involved in this Promotion, as well as the employees, officers, directors and agents of each, from, all claims, costs, injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the Promotion or delivery, misdelivery, acceptance, possession, use of or inability to use the prize (including, without limitation, claims, costs, injuries, losses and damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to or destruction of property, whether intentional or unintentional), whether under a theory of contract, tort (including negligence), warranty or other theory.  Sponsor reserves the right to amend these Official Rules or to terminate this Promotion.

Any provision of these Official Rules deemed unenforceable will be enforced to the extent permissible, and the remainder of these Official Rules will remain in effect.  Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of any Promotion materials, administration of the Promotion or in the announcement of any prize.  The Promotion and these Official Rules will be governed, construed and interpreted under the laws of the state of Washington.  Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding in all respects.

7.    Winner List; Rules Request: For a winner list, email support@Hustlepaintball.com  after August 3, 2012  and before August 30, 2012).  To obtain a copy of these Official Rules, email support@Hustlepaintball.com.
Sponsor: Hustle Paintball, Inc – 2795 Industrial Lane, Broomfield CO, 80020

Confidentiality: By entering, you may be contacted by Sponsor with future promotional offers.  Information provided by you to participate in this Promotion is subject to Sponsor’s privacy policy at http://www.hustlepaintball.com/privacy-security

Hey Everyone!

We have some exciting and different news today. We shut down shop for about 3 hours yesterday to have a family meeting and some interesting things came out of it. The problem we wanted to solve was “how do we do more with the same amount of time?”

First and foremost, we are changing our hours so that we can be open locally (and on the phones) on the weekend for everyone that hasn’t been able to get to us during the week. FINALLY!

So, here’s our new schedule:

At first, this may seem like an odd schedule. To be honest, it is. Our reasoning behind this is the thing that brought all of our fans to us in the first place. We are not just a retail website and a location but we promote the sport through our ever growing YouTube channel. Our videos are an important part of our company and we need to devote some serious time into it to keep up with you guys. So, we’re going to close down the phones and showroom a little bit, but expand them through the weekend. A little bit of give and take so we make sure that we’re taking care of our #1 concern (you all, our customers and paintball family), but still allowing us some “private time,” so that we can focus and produce the videos you love, update our websites, plot and scheme on new ways to help you all out!

One concern that’s been mentioned was “is this going to affect your shipping and processing times?” Absolutely not! In fact, we will continue to offer our legendarily fast processing and turnaround times, so don’t worry about that!

This new schedule should really help us be able to get our time and focus consuming video project done in a more efficient manner so that all of you guys get more videos, more consistently. Needless to say, we are doing this to step up our game for all of you and continue to provide the best service of any paintball retailer in the country, as well as provide you with fun and informative videos.

What do you think of this recent change? We hope you are all on board with it!

I’d really like to take another good company picture and get it framed and hung up. It’s been almost 2 years since we’ve taken a legit one that we all really like. It’s important to me to see the progression and different faces as the years go by – good memories, you know? Even if someone ends up getting fired or leaves, seeing them in the picture doesn’t sour it at all. I rather enjoy some of our older pictures, even though I’m the only person in them who’s still left (or maybe Trevor, too)!

2010 Staff

Part of what makes the photos so enjoyable is that we’re not just standing in front of a wall, or someone’s office and “smiling,” but rather, doing something a bit funny, slightly creative, and mostly, memorable (well, except for the picture above – that one is fairly standard). I’ve thought about ripping off the Red Hot Chili Peppers and doing a naked picture (with socks strategically worn to preserve a PG-13 rating) and masks on… but who wants to see that? It’d have to be a picture for the office only, not for the showroom or internet Then of course we could rip off the Beatles and do an  “Abbey Road” picture (maybe a Beatles/Red Hot Chili Peppers combo?). We also get on the Hi-Lift and take a picture in front of the Hustle Paintball sign outside of our building…

Partly joking, partly serious, I’m curious about what you all think we should do (yes, we do have railroad tracks nearby for a stereotypically trashy “we’re badasses on railroad tracks” picture). The time is approaching, quite soon, so throw down! What kind of company picture(s) should we take?

Around 2003, in what was described as a “fit of Inspiration”, Ethan came up with one of my favorite phrases, “Paintball Sucks”. I bought that shirt when I first came into Hustle and ever since it has never ceased to humor me. However no one has really been able to define it, despite it being on our team jerseys for quite some time, so here goes.

It’s pouring rain, your friends are hidden around you in the mud and brush and just as those guys with red arm bands walk into range, your mask fogs up. Thirty seconds later you are walking back to the dead box, laughing your ass off with the rest of your failed ambush squad… Paintball Sucks. It’s a gorgeous Saturday in April, you have a game tomorrow and you know your prized Karnivor isn’t working right. As you get settled to start working on it, your phone rings and it’s that girl you have a thing for, she wants to go out tonight… Paintball Sucks. It’s the final match of the day, you are exhausted, so hot you are shivering with heatstroke in the August sun, one foot on the gate and you hear “TEN SECONDS”. The longest ten seconds of the day and despite everything there is no place you would rather be right now… Paintball Sucks.

So where does that bring us, well they say we love people for their flaws and I can’t say that hobbies are any different. Maybe I am just funny like that, that it’s the times I felt as if I had survived something that make me love the game. It’s part rallying cry and part inside joke, a feeling every paintballer understands on some level. So where am I going with this? After all it isn’t as if people are going to stop asking me what it means and why we have it on our jerseys. Maybe I just wrote this to crystallize what the phrase is about in my own head.

Whatever, Paintball Sucks, and may that never change, til the day I die.

-Jay

Hey Everyone!

Recently the pbRIOT.com forums had it’s first ever community leader vote. “Top Dog” is a member of the community, voted by the community for promoting the sport of paintball and overall just being a positive member of our extended family. Because pbRIOT is all about growing our favorite past time and providing a welcoming forum community to all; we wanted to make the community leader a pretty big deal. Our first winner of the well deserved title is Steve “Necro” Kaltenbach – The President and Founder of the Silent Assassin Squad (S.A.S.) which has chapters all over the U.S. and Internationally, in places like Canada and Colombia.

Steve is a leader in many respects. As a leader of a successful paintball clan he has the reach all over the world to spread a positive message about paintball. Whether it comes to safety or your fellow player, Steve has paintball’s best interests at heart. That is just one reason why he is the the first, and currently only person with the bragging rights of “Top Dog” on pbRIOT.com.

Steve "Necro" Kaltenbach - pbRIOT's first Top Dog

Rather than just making an announcement and hoping you guys care, we wanted to give a little insight into the head of Necro with an interview. We tossed a few questions his way and this is how he responded:

Q: Why do you think you received the most votes?
A: Purely popularity. It’s a small forum and I have a loud voice.

Q: Do you consider yourself a leader in your community (either on pbRIOT.com Forums or in the local paintball community)? Why is that?
A: Yes I do consider myself a leader in the paintball community. Through my own actions and those of S.A.S. I try to promote and expand paintball to both new and old paintball players.

Q: What led or inspired you to step up and be a positive example in the paintball community?
A: It was during one of my first pay and play games. At this point in my life I only played outlaw ball. It was a woodsball game and I remember seeing a little boy crying with 3 blood spots on his white t-shirt. Turned out a few speedballers that were regulars at the field would come play every weekend shooting hot. They would “stitch” little kids because they thought it was funny. The field owner didn’t care because these guys paid more, and played regularly. This is where I told myself that I was going to do something about it. So, S.A.S. went public and started recruiting good people with the same mindset; a brotherhood. Karma is a funny thing, now that field is no longer in business. Play for fun and don’t be an a**hole. It’s not hard to be a decent person and that’s all I ask. The kids are the future of paintball. Treat them well, respect them, show them a good example and how paintball should be played.

Q: Where’d you learn everything you know about paintball?
A: A lot of trial and error which also meant I wasted a lot of money. Everything else I learned from the larger paintball community on forums, and youtube videos.

Q: Where do you find all that time to spend on the internet, anyway?
A: Right now I’m a single father and full-time student. My phone makes it easy to log on to facebook or check my email’s if I’m away from the PC. It really doesn’t take that much time to check messages. I deal with S.A.S. and paintball related things from 8 A.M. to Midnight 7 days a week unless in class. It’s not too difficult but it can run me down once in a while.

Q: You wanted to donate your winning patch to SN Toter? Why is that?
A: Well, to be honest I feel in ways I don’t deserve it (don’t know why) I just do. Everyone on that list is a great person that has my fullest respect. Toter was the runner up and he does a great job, I dig that. His personalty is what paintball is all about – fun and respect. People do thank me all the time for what I do; but in the end I like to thank them. They are the reason I am here. Without them there is no S.A.S. and I would not be around myself.

Thanks for answering all of these questions for us, Necro! Be sure to check out the S.A.S. website at saswoodsball.com, their YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/saswoodsball, and like their Facebook page.

Thanks for joining our blog and reading about something new and different we are trying to accomplish over at pbRIOT. We may not be the biggest community out there yet, but we are definitely a welcoming community full of people looking to help out and promote the sport of paintball.

Paintall would be a lesser sport without people like Necro.

-Trevor