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News featured in this month's issue

PAINTBALL PLAYERS GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
   
March 22,2004, Corona, CA - Penalty Box Paintball is pleased to announce it’s upcoming charity event, to be held at S.C. Village in Corona, CA. The event will feature a day of competitive paintball play, and proceeds will go to benefit the San Gabriel/Pomona Valleys Foundation for the Developmentally Disabled. The event will be held on April 17th, between 8 A.M. to 4 P.M. Cost to enter the tournament is $130 dollars per team. The charity competition is comprised of 3-man teams competing with the unique penalty box rules. Entry fee includes free air fills all day.

The Penalty Box Paintball Charity event is one of 4 total planned charity events on a tour that will span across the country. The other three events will be held in West Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Plans are in the works to expand the tour beyond the introductory four events. Founder of Penalty Box, Sonny Lopez says about the tour, “It’s nice that we can offer a way to help out the less fortunate simply by playing a game that we love to play anyway.”
Paintball is the fastest growing extreme sport in the country, and is emerging as a favorite among the youth culture. Utilizing its mass appeal for the benefit of charity groups is the least the industry can do. Major sponsors of the Penalty Box Charity include: paintball giant WGP (Worr Game Products), Facefull Magazine, Paintball News, PGI, and local paintball shop chain XS SPORTS.

Penalty Box Paintball Charity Tour information can be obtained through their website at www.paintballcharityevents.com.

- NPPL Super 7 at Huntington Beach, Event #1 - Article and Coverage by Giacomo Kelley

Featured in Previous Issues: 

- Cal Jam 6 - Announcement from Sean Takeda
- Young Guns and Old Timers - Announcement from Sean Takeda
- Paintball goes Hollywood and on Television - Announcement from Sean Takeda
- WPF Announced St. Louis Open Winners - Announcement from Matthew Gann
- Joker's Wild 2000, Johanesburg South Africa
- Carter Machine's Best in the West Series, Sunol CA
- Heavy Hitter's First Smackdown, Corona CA
- Tombstone Paintball's First All Kid's Tournament, Corona CA
- Exclusive Coverage of Pan Am Las Vegas - Coverage by Debbie "Mama Duck" Glaze
- 3rd Pump Tourney at Tombstone Paintball - Coverage by Sean Takeda, photos by Brent Johnson
- "Big Game" at West Point - Coverage by Joe "Gumby" Allen
- The MPN's third tourney "The Springtime Showdown" - by Coverage by Sean Takeda, photos by Brent Johnson and James Scarcella
- 2000 LA NPPL - Pictures by MPN Photographer Brent Johnson
- Exclusive Coverage of the Central Coast Showdown in San Luis Obisbo - Jason Knudson and Brad Scott
- Skyball 2000 - Coverage by Carolyn "Sabrette" Richardson - New PIctures!
-Exclusive coverage of the Y2K Showdown - Coverage by Sean Takeda
-Exclusive coverage of the Kick'n 2000 from Springfield, Missouri - Coverage by Sean Takeda
-GWS Hawaii - direct coverage from Oahu, Coverage by Sean Takeda & Jason Knudson
-Rookie "Sponsorship" Tournament at Tombstone Paintball - Coverage by Sean Takeda
-E-Money's Pump Tourney at Tombstone Paintball - Coverage by Sean Takeda
-South Africa Cargo Tournament - Coverage by Richard Hooper
-Team Ironmen's Cal-Jam at SC Villiage - Coverage by Sean Takeda
-Results from Sunny Lopez One-on-One Shootout - Congratulations to Broken Arrow's Carlos Mariscal, Dennis Carfrae, and Mike Weber who took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at the first One-on-One Shootout.  Winners won new Autocockers, along with other goodies all the way down to 5th place! More pictures coming soon!
-Tropical Illuzion's Tourney at SC Village - by Sean Takeda
-1999 Tombstone Paintball's first Pump Tourney - by Sean Takeda
-1999 Summertime Showdown at Tombstone Paintball - Exclusive Coverage by the MPN - by Sean Takeda
        Review of the Summertime Showdown - by Brian Speiser
-1999 Joker's Wild Invitational - Exclusive coverage from South Africa - by Richard Hooper
-1999 Zap European Amatuer Open - Exclusive coverage - by Robert Handler
-1999 Earon Carter Stock Class Invitational - Exclusive Coverage from the MPN - by Sean Takeda

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