Team Poison Ivy

SO we are back from our trip to San Diego and Huntington Beach!  

We arrived Sunday night and after three different flights and more than 15 hours in the air.....!!

Monday: shopping!!!!!!! :) No big surprise there... what can I say, girls will be girls!

Tuesday: We got up early and went to Dye to get our new gear!!  We met up with Katie Kelley, Kat Secor and Bea Paxson from Destiny at Dye and got ready for practice at Camp Pendleton. Mike Paxson and Carlos from Hitmen joined our practice and  we learned so much and had a great practice.We got to play a lot  and did some talking about the upcoming tournament!  We are so used to playing on a millennium field, so to play on a field without the big M on the middle made the field seem more open . Usually the M spilts up the field and we really had to change the way we think when we play...

From the left: Bea Paxson, Linn A.Askevold, Karoline Seheim, Benedicte Rønneberg, Katie Kelley, Kathrine Secor, Silje Eriksen and Pia A. Askevold.

Wednesday: We hung out at  Dye all day, and we had a fun photoshoot with the sweetest photographer in the world! ;)

Thursday: Spent the day in the park  ;) more about that later... :P  After that we drove up to Huntington Beach and got checked in to the hotel, ate dinner and went to bed.. As always we had the first game of the day (0800) on Friday so we had to crash early! 

 Friday : We met up at the field at 0600 am  ready for a great day! Although we had one good practice with Kat, Katie and Bea, playing with three new girls is scary. And on top of that we had our newest member on poison ivy, Karoline, and this was her first big event ever(!)

We lost our first game, but we gave them a good fight. After the game we had a good talk and decided forget about the first game and focus on the next two games!  The rest of the day we met  a lot of nice people, and watched some pro games :) 

Saturday:  We played two games and both  went to overtime. We won the first one and lost the second one. But we played really good and had so much fun! And we still made it to sunday!

Sunday: Lost  the first game,  and ended up playing for 3rd place at the pro field! So much fun! It ended up being 36 seconds left on the last point and we decided to just go for it! So we tried a run through :D We gave it our best, but lost the game 3-1... oh well

After the final game on Sunday we drove back to sd and went out to a great place called duck and dive, had a blast!!

Monday= hungover, but we did take a loooong walk down to the harbour and did some more shopping.)                                                                                                                                                                                         Tuesday: we had a really early flight from San Diego to NY,  then from NY to Norway and arrived back in Norway Wednesday morning!!!!                                                                                    

Looking back at a tournament there's always things you wish you would have done differently, or things you regret doing... but overall we are really happy with our performance and we played good and fun paintball. We got to show of our team, and make sure people know that we are here to stay! Although we didn't win the tournament we had so much fun and met a lot of awesome people, and gained some really good friends! So this have been such a good experience for us.

We all agree on going  back next year and to make this trip a tradition!!   We would love to play more of NPPL or PSP, but everything depends on money, and with all of us beeing students now its not easy. 

 Big thanks to NPPL (and specially Chuck) for making this event possible for us,thanks to DYE (specially SK) for awsome gear and for our new amazing Reflex', thanks for great paint, and thanks for all the support!!! We are amazed by all the comments and ''likes'' on our fb-page!! Thanks to Bea, Katie and Kat for playing with us! :)

Go to our facebook-page for more pictures from the trip! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Team-Poison-Ivy/257948284248640

XOXO P.I <3



Big thanks to Dye Paintball for our new AWESOME Reflex' !!!

Silje playing with our new gun at NPPL Huntington Beach!

And here's our new beautiful jerseys!



WE LOVE DYE PAINTBALL :)

xoxo- P.I

We are happy to announce that a new girl has joined our team!

Linda has been practicing with us during the winter and she shown us great potential  :) We are so happy she decided to join us! This season is just getting better and better!

Welcome Linda <3

xoxo- P. I

Last weekend some of us had a great practice weekend at Sniper Paintball in Drammen, while two of our players helped out our good friends FL Charms at a tournament in Denmark. Here are some pictures from the the practice and the tournament in Denmark! 

SNIPER Paintball, Drammen



Silje and Karoline in the middle, in red. Copenhagen, Denmark. 



Karoline, Silje and the rest of the girls from FLC :)

We are so excited to get our season started in California! This is gonna be a really cool and a new excperience for us! Good luck to all the teams in France, and for those attending HB; can't wait to meet you all!  :) 

xoxo- Poison Ivy



It looks like spring have finally arrived in Norway and that's good news for paintball! We can't wait to play some ''real'' paintball outside again, and to really get the season started!!

In less than four weeks we will arrive in California to play Huntington beach, and we are really excited!! It's gonna be so much fun, and a great experience for the whole team!

Stay tuned for more updates!

Check our our facebook page here : http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Team-Poison-Ivy/257948284248640

xoxo- P. I <3

This weekend we had a really good practice at Sniper paintball in Drammen. Late night practice Friday and really early Saturday :)

Unfortunately it's too cold (and too much snow)  in Norway during the winter-months to play outside, but we are blessed with an indoor field and reball.  It's not the same as the ''real stuff'', but good enough! This  weekend we have focused on the basic stuff ;  breakout drills, diving, sliding and preshooting and long runs to the back bunkers. We love our new Reflex?, and they work like a charm :) 

Here are some pictures from this weekend! 

xoxo- Poison Ivy <3

We are happy to announce that we will continue as a Dye-team in 2012, and that we will be playing with some awesome Relfex?s !!

 So what about our plans for 2012?

Some of you might know that we are not playing the first round of the Millennium-series.. and the reason is that we are playing NPPL Huntington Beach, and we don?t have the money for both. But there will be some changes on our schedule this year compared to earlier years.. We will attend different events around Europe and Scandinavia instead of just playing the Millennium Series. We hope that by doing this we will develop not only as players but as a team.

One of reasons why we?re not putting all our time and money in the millennium series is because we don?t like throwing money out the window(!). With the amount of pro-players on different teams in division 2, our chances of winning the season over all are small?. We would like to actually go to an event and play teams on our level?if we wanted to play against pro-players we would probably get a spot in one of the top division..! hehe..  

We can?t wait to get started with the season and we have big hopes for the 2012! See you soon!

Lots of love from all of us on Poison Ivy <3

Better late than never? 

We are back from beautiful Lankawi Island! And what an adventure it was  

Poison Ivy was invited to World Cup Asia by Pals and AKR last winter, and we have been looking forward to this event all year! We were invited as the only all girl team to play in 1st divison (!).We went down to the event with Silje Eriksen, Benedicte Rønneberg, Pia A. Askevold, Linn A. Askevold and Marie Magnusson. 

We flew down on the 8th of november and after a 18 hour flight from Norway, we finally landed at Langkawi airport late on the 9th.. We were super excited to see the site and venue Thursday was spent sightseeing the mangroves, on the beautiful rivers and at a really cool fishfarm, finished of with an amazing lunch at a beautiful resort right on the beach. When we got back from our little ''adventure'', we hurried down to the site (wich was a huge indoor venue, with AC and alot of space!! ). We were amazed by the size and the level of professionalism, it was nothing like we had ever experienced before.. Thursday night we attended the royal banquet with the Princess and Sultan of Kedah, Malaysia. 

As far as the teams we were playing we had no idea what to expect..... We had five games in the preliminaries, three games on friday and two on saturday... and five players..

We started our friday with a game against LostBoyz and lost 3-1, Hustel was next and we lost 4-0. Megapolis Moscow was our first good game and we won 3-1. Saturday we played against Fei-Pi 1923 and Hostile Intensions with the results 4-0 and 2-2. So over all a pretty good preliminary round for Poison Ivy. We had no idea if we made it through to the next round.. Late on Saturday we finally knew that we made it through to Sunday! 

On Sunday played Demonz , Hostile Intensions and Reaper, we lost 3-2, 2-1 and 4-0. So that was the end of the event for us... But over all we were really happy with our playing and the result. We had fun and gave it our very best. Overall we ended on 12th place with 110 points.

Congratulations to Datis from Iran for taking 1st!

We got to meet a alot of new players from Asia, and we where amazed by all the attention we were given. We were really happy to see all the girl players over there, almost every team had a girl playing for them! It's really cool to see that more girls are discovering the awesome sport of paintball all over the world! Hopefully we were a good example for girls that it's possible to be an all girl team, and still do well in the top divison!

To all the people that helped us out it the pit (especially Adrian, Eric and Kevin ), cheered for us, and helped coaching us from the sidelines; THANK YOU! Your support means the world to us! We really hope to see all of you again next year... 

To sum it up....This is probably the best event we have ever experienced, and we have to give a big THANK YOU to WCA for giving us this amazing opportunity !We hope that we are able to come back and play WCA in 2012 !!! 

xoxo -P.I

So, today we got all the pictures from Hybrid Foto! Take a look and let us know if you like them! 

Xoxo- Poison Ivy <3