25 of April, 2009
Fuengirola Beach Cup NEWS

Due to the adverse weather condition today in Fuengirola, we will move to an emergency rosta for tomorrow. Based on current weather forecasts, it is our intention to complete all Division 2 & 3 games tomorrow starting at 8.00 am and complete the last CPL preliminary rounds starting at 14:00. Unfortunately it will be impossible to complete any further SPL & Div 1 games. All uncompleted games will take place in Bitburg. We appologies for any inconvenience caused but this circumstance is beyond our control.

27 of March, 2009
ATTENTION
Hotel Beatrice Palace only has 15 rooms left.
Don't dispair, we've managed to get a great deal from Hotel Las Piramides, on the seafront about 400m from the Castle. It's a 4 star hotel and many of you stayed there last year. It's a great hotel with a pool, gardens and a first class Pizza restaurant and it's located on the main strip, full of bars, restaurants and discos.

Hotel Las Piramides
C/ Miguel Márquez 43
29640 Fuengirola, Spain
Keyword: PAINTBALL
The room rates are as follows. Breakfast is included.
Double Room 96.6€/night +Vat
Single Roon 70.4€/night +Vat
Triple Room 137.65€/night +Vat
Phone: +34 952 470 600
Fax: +34 952 583 297
E-mail: info@hotellaspiramides.com

16 of March, 2009
Malaga Hotels filling fast

Most hotels such as the Mirimar are now fully booked. We have, however, managed to negotiate a fantastic deal at the luxury 5 star Beatrice Palace Hotel, on the beach right next to the event site. They are offering triple rooms including breakfast at € 130.90 + Vat for 3 people. The Beatrice Palace is also expecting to sell out in the next few days, so if you want a little luxury for a very low price don't delay, book now. Full details for the Beatrice Palace are on this website under Malaga.

13 of March, 2009
Millennium Series ROF cap in 2009:

In a move to come closer to a world wide standard of rules and procedures and as discussed at the CPL/SPL team owners meeting in Amsterdam, the MS will adopt the same ROF cap (10bps) as used in the PSP. The rules will be updated shortly by following wording of rule ''10.01 Markers''

- The first 3 shots must be semi-auto mode only.
- Markers will be limited to a ROF of 10 balls per second (in 2009 actually 10.5 bps), defined as no two consecutive shots may be timed shorter than 95ms apart (reading on ROF meter of 10.5 bps or less = legal; reading on ROF meter of 10.6 bps or higher = illegal).
- Ramping of shots will be allowed only once 5 bps has been achieved. Then the marker may ramp to 10 bps, but only as long as the 5 bps is continually maintained. Once the trigger is stopped to be activated, only one single additional shot may be discharged.

Clarification: the 5 bps for start/sustain ramping dose not need to be hit physically, it refers to the time delay between trigger activations, which must be at least the equivalent to 5 bps. So a marker may start to ramp up to 10 bps, if (after the first three shots being in semi-auto only) the time delay between 3rd and 4th trigger activation is less than 200ms.

13 of March, 2009
PRESS RELEASE - CPL DRAW

The Millennium are pleased to announce that the CPL divisional draw for the first 2009 Millennium event in Malaga Spain, will take place live on Spirit of Paint on Tuesday 17th March at 2100 hrs CET. It will also be available in VOD at 2230 hrs and available for downloading at 2400 hrs.

The draw will form part of a 25 minute show designed to increase exposure of the CPL and our sport in general. The results will also be available on the Millennium website from Wednesday morning.

06 of March, 2009
DIVISION 2, FUENGIROLA BEACH CUP - NOW FULL

We are please to announce that Division 2 is now full at 32 teams for our first event, The Fuengirola Beach Cup.

''This is the fastest ever that Division 2 has filled and is yet another great and positive sign that this event is going to be one of the best Millennium events to date. It is further proof that the Millennium Series has been working hard to change with the times and provide what everyone in European paintball wants. In these times of economic turmoil, the Millennium is showing that it is still able to put on the greatest Paintball Series in not only Europe, but we believe in the world'' says Barry Fuggle CEO.

We fully expect Division 3 (the only remaining open Division) to fill quickly, before the entry deadline, so if you would like to register your team for this event please visit:

/teams.php?team=register

The Fuengirola Beach Cup will be one of the largest tournaments that the Millennium has put on with over 160 teams expected to attend. Please do not miss out on the opportunity to compete at this exciting event.

05 of March, 2009
Dear Teams, Paintball Industry and Players,

Firstly to update you on Malaga, The Fuengirola Cup; we are very pleased to say this is now really shaping up to become an amazing event to kick of the season in the sun and is sure to eclipse last years event. We have some really kick ass stuff laid on for you including a players mega party to be held in no less than the Fuengirola Castle, which over looks the venue, with the full cooperation and support of the local council and the Mayor. With Eurosport filming the event you could also have your moment of fame as well.

Hotels are filling up fast, so if you want to take advantage of the Millennium deals offered, you need to do so very soon before the hotels open up the blocked deals to the general public.

With this in mind if you fancy treating yourself to a bit of luxury then why not stay at the Hotel Beatrice Palace Spa?! This is just 20 mtrs from the venue with great sea and beach views. We have negotiated great rates and block booked the rooms exclusively but the hotel will only hold these for another 14 days before they release them for general sale and revert to standard rates. The Beatrice is going to be the centre of life at this event with its numerous bars and restaurants, indoor and outdoor pools and spa facilities. To make your reservation email reservas.palace@beatrizhoteles.com and use key word paintball, or phone +34 952 922 000

Looking forward to seeing you all in Fuengirola Malaga and starting the season with a party in the sun to wash away the credit crunch blues. We are now pleased to announce confirmed dates and venues for Germany and the UK. These are;

Bitburg is back on the 29^th -31^st May 2009

The Millennium returns to Bitburg to the same great hotels and area, but a brand new and larger venue on the aerodrome just 500m from the old venue. Having listened to you, the players, and how you wanted that great party atmosphere back in Germany we have fixed up a great event with the Eifelstern hotel at the heart of everything. With its new bar and Nightclub as well as new clubs and bars around the hotels it promises to be just that.

Full booking info and great special deals will be posted on the web very soon so keep a look out for details.

New venue for UK

The UK event is now confirmed as once again in Basildon, London but at a new venue of Barleylands Show Grounds on the 18^th to 20^th of September 2009. Due to the development of the former venue we had to locate a new one and have come up with a great alternative. Being just 1 mile from the old Gloucester park site it offers great grass pitches and access, and being a show ground the danger of the great British weather turning it into a mud bath has gone with hard standing walk ways for the trade area and field access. Best of all we still retain the closeness of the hotels and the great leisure, restaurant, bars and clubs of the festival park.

Again full details will be posted on the web in the next few days.

As for our 5th and final venue we are still in final negotiations and will be issuing a statement very soon on this, but what we can say is that it will be an excellent and exciting addition to our series. We would like to thank all of you the players, teams and industry for your continued support and patience it has not been an easy task to pull together for 2009.

See you all on the beach in Spain.

Barry Fuggle

Managing Director

23 of January, 2009
For 2009, the paintball industry is on the way to harmonize the game format. A bridge has been created between the major leagues and Sup'AirBall will therefore slowly bring the Millennium Series and the PSP field to a common ground. In that perspective, the 2009 Millennium Series Upgrade kit will be a pack of 8 Trees, thin cylinders about 3.3ft wide and 5ft tall, already used on the PSP fields for a few years.
Those new bunkers will bring the Millennium Series field to a 44 bunkers package and offer new options for the field layouts and a fast paced game.

Millennium 44 bunkers field 2009

• 4 Cylinders
• 2 Medium Cylinders
• 5 Giant Beams
• 4 Bricks
• 6 Cakes
• 6 Temples
• 4 Maya Temples
• 4 Doritos Medium
• 8 Trees
• 1 M Millennium +Tubes

Contact Thierry Parent [thierry@supairball.com] for more information about availability and prices.

22 of December, 2008
THE PAINTBALL SHOW ON EUROSPORT

Many of you may already have seen the Paintball Show on Eurosport 2 last week featuring the 2008 Millennium Paris event. However, due to live coverage of the Olympia Horse Show, the UK will get this program at 20.30 (UK Time) on December 23rd.
The show is well worth watching and will give you an insight into how the profile of our sport is now going to be raised to a new level.

15 of December, 2008
2009 Gun & Product Clarification

The Millennium Series has a fine line to walk between the needs of the sponsors and those of the players in order to raise the necessary funding to produce a series of high level professional events at as reasonable a cost to the player as possible. At the same time The Millennium makes massive efforts behind the scenes trying to raise the profile of the series and teams in order to attract funding for all from new outside industry sources. The results of this work will now hopefully start bearing fruit during the course of 2009 with benefits for all.

The primary goal of The Millennium Series has been to market the sport to a wider audience in order to ensure new players are attracted to play paintball, (not necessarily our series), at every level ensuring the good health of the industry.

The Series only exists in its current form due to industry sponsors. Without them either the level of professionalism would be considerably lower than today, therefore not being attractive to a wider audience, or entry fees would be so high that all but a very few rich teams could afford it. Either way without this there would be no series fit for purpose.

Many of our sponsors have supported us for several years, and as a result have supported the teams that play the Millennium. There are also many companies that have not supported us, and of course they have the right not to, but use the Millennium very successfully to market their products. Whether this is fair or not is a matter opinion, but we think what is clearly not fair is the few paying for the many.
We also have to bear in mind current economics and try to widen the source of funding in order to maintain the necessary level of professionalism required if we want to achieve our goals.

Certain statements have been made on various forums that are blatantly not true or only tell part of the story. Due to client confidentiality we cannot enter the fray each time something is written but we would like to make the following clarifications that should give you a good idea of when certain claims are at best being exaggerated.

For 2009 we are asking gun manufacturers, (who enjoy the most direct marketing benefits of the Millennium), to support the Millennium at a minimum level of a Gun Display Sponsor. The cost for this is €10,000 for the entire series, not the €60,000.00 that has been claimed in some forums. To ensure there is a benefit for all new and existing sponsors we will also protect them in so far as ensuring only guns from a sponsor can be used in the locked divisions, those benefiting the most from TV coverage. It was always our intention not to impose this on Division three and after further discussion we have also decided to extend this to Division 2 teams. We feel this is a fundamentally fair position for all. We have had discussions with all major manufacturers both old and new and at no point did anybody have a major negative reaction to this. In fact at the meetings held in Paris & Orlando, everybody left us with the firm impression that they were on board. There are some other manufacturers that we are currently talking with to try to ensure no major gaps occur for the players. We also know of certain manufacturers who intend to assist any teams who may have issues here through a variety of assistance programs.

There are manufacturers in paintball that heavily invest in furthering our sport and support teams widely. Without these people there would be no real competitive paintball anywhere in the world. They deserve our support and the support of the industry.

There are other statements being made relating to other products, hoppers, packs etc. It is not the plan of the Millennium to impose any restrictions on players regarding any other product except for Paintballs which has been the case for some years.

The interests of all parties involved with The Millennium Series is a continual balancing act which of course can never make everybody happy all of the time. However, very few people have contacted The Millennium directly with any real complaints on these issues.

We hope this release has been of assistance in clarifying our position. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us directly for further assistance.

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