Spooky Goings on Recorded In an Abandoned Mental Asylum Kingseat Mental Hospital’s infamous maximum security wards have been locked up for close to 20 years, that is until last year when the team at Asylum Paintball decided to build a brand new paintball field there, unaware of the venues haunted past. After much online research […] Read more
Check out this great video of Kiwi paintball player Peter Mumby from Rotorua proposing to his brand new fiance at the NZPPL event #1 in the Kapiti Coast this weekend. We’ve personally known Peter Mumby for around 15 years, and as kids he was one of the first people to give us support as […] Read more
Asylum Paintball is situated at the former site of the Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital in Auckland. The site is allegedly one of the most haunted sites in All of New Zealand, and of course our neighbour is New Zealand’s most popular haunted attraction – Spookers! The property has even been the film set for a feature […] Read more
For many people, their first experience of paintball is a birthday party, I know mine was. Things have however come a long way since that game 16 years ago on a farm with SL-68 Pump actions, so lets look at whats involved with organising a paintball birthday party. Even though our field is new, our […] Read more
We just received this press release in our email this morning: December 20, 2013 – G.I. Sportz is pleased to announce it has acquired Tippmann Sports, bringing together two iconic paintball companies. This transaction brings the industry’s leading brands of paint (G.I. Sportz and DXS), markers (Tippmann and G.I. Victus), goggles (Vforce) and accessories together […] Read more
Congratulations to all teams involved with the SAPC Race series. Here are the winners of the open (D1/D2) Division. Scores for the series are: For the 2014 season there will be some changes. Firstly due to the change in firearms laws we will move to the international standard for Race, which is capped ramping. […] Read more
Who would like to see something like this at Asylum? The Millennium is pleased to announce the launch of a one on one championship at this year’s events, starting in Puget. The event will be high profile with as many games as possible being played on the CPL field & covered by the Millennium TV […] Read more
In this article I’ll attempt to explain the history of paintball as a sport in New Zealand, from the first ever game in the USA, to the current International Tournament scene and New Zealand’s place in it. I’ll look back at the businesses, teams and personalities who made paintball what it is today. I’m 29, […] Read more
As part of our research into the history of paintball in New Zealand we come across some weird things from yesteryear, and the strangest one so far is, the Tippmann .22 Calibre Machine Guns circa 1980s. Note that you will never see many of these products on a paintball field, or even in New Zealand, […] Read more
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