New NEWS:
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Below Old News of team/group
Our first team practice game was at:
Operation Paintball in Hayward, CA.
September 14, 2002
Our second team practice game was at:
Operation Paintball in Hayward, CA.
October 12, 2002
Third team practice was at:
Santa Clara Fairgrounds in San Jose, CA
March 22, 2003
A team meeting and training will be on:
a new home field that we are building in Newman, CA
April 6, 2003
However, through weeks when the team does not get together, many of the Elements will practice at the local fields by just playing and showing others how fun this sport is.
Great Job guys.
Recently in July in an unoffical meeting (excluding Tony and Peter due to being down in La and could not make it (understood)
Team decision at this point is to seperate into two teams:
-I myself will still be captain of TEAM 5 E (5E). Now just leader or person to contact if want to play with group
-Murray will be captain of 5 Elements (Elements). -Perry is no longer playing. Will still be recognized as one of the original members of the team in 2001.
-Steve Chiang is a Free Agent now and part of the intermediate/advanced group with Murray. Plans on playing 2 to 3 times a week. That's dedication.
-Jeff Chiang is a Free Agent now and part of the intermediate/advanced group with Murray. Plans on playing 2 to 3 times a week. That's dedication.
-David Chiang is now a free agent and due to family/work/other commitments will no longer play until next year hopefully.
-Paul Sheh is still a member of team5e.
-Quan Truong is still a member of team5e, and also part of 5 Elements.
-Peter Lee (down south) unable to make many tournaments and practices, so suggest to put him on as Free Agent status as well.
-Tony Lin (down south)unable to make many tournaments and practices, so suggest to put him on as Free Agent status as well.
We have official two names and possible third if needed:
TEAM 5 E [T5E] (captained by Dino and co-captained by Murray Chen
5 Elements [5E] (Captained by Murray and co-captained by Jeff)
Recently Jeff, Steve, Murray has been playing quite often and Murray tried out for TEAM Syn. Great first game by bunkering 3 guys. Awesome job Murray.
Every weekend in July we have played at Santa Clara Fairgrounds in San Jose.
August 3, 2003 Shawn (another paintball player), myself (Dino), and Paul Sheh attended our first 3 man Rookie tournament bash at Valley Thunder Paintball place.
Great job guys on winning that one game and getting some points by shooting out some of the other players in the other games.
From this tournament we met up with Berzerker Baboons and the captain of the team: Jumbo.
November 8 at Santa Clara Fairgrounds there is a 3 MAN tournament reffed by Team SYN and Team Maverick.
5 Elements will be attending this. So good luck guys.
2004 Season
The group has not yet played together so far this year due to schedules and gun cleaning.
Murray and Dino checked out the NPPL Super 7 sereies on March 20 and 21. Saw a few games and the event was to be expected.
April 3, 2004 Dino, Murray, Quan, Steve, Jeff, and David finally had the chance to meet up again and play at Santa Clara Fairgrounds.
Did not go on May 1st, 2004 toNorcal Paintball field. (http://www.norcalpaintballpark.com) in Petaluma area.
So on May 8, 2004, I decided to head to Midway Paintball to play without the group to check out the field.
Then in August 2004, Murray, Paul, and myself have visited Santa Clara Fairgrounds to play.
Then in September, Murray and myself have played again at Santa Clara Fairgrounds.
Steve and Jeff have also played in August and September at SCP, but sadly our weekends did not match up to play together.
In October, BAPAINTBALL will be opening up in Burlingame and most likely we will be there on that weekend. Check out their site at: (http://www.bapaintball.com) They will hopefully have a posting up on the date they open up for the indoor field.
2005 and 2006 Season
New players to join the group.
I welcome Edward Qing Huang to the group "G6"
Also new player that is considering to join is Jeff Tarn.
Also players on the list as group member players, but not so active are Steve Pham, William Tao, and Todd Ishiguro who have their own markers but not yet played in a while.
TAG in Hollister in June 2005 - Quan, Edward, Ryan (new player), and myself joined a group of Quan's friend to play.
Midway Paintball field in July 2005 - Edward, Paul, and Dino played out at this location.
Sunol Paintball Field in May 2006 - Edward and Dino playing
SCP Paintball field in August 2005 - Paul, Jeff, Steve, and Dino play and practice.
SCP Paintball field in June 2006 - Jeff C., Steve C., Quan, Dino, Steve P and bunch of other for bachelor party.
Paintball Jungle in June 2006 - Jeff C., Edward, Dino, and new player Jennifer Z.
BEAR CREEK MILPITAS INDOOR in July 2006 - Edward and Dino played on Sunday (2nd day) opened, but Grand Opening at a later date. I will be there again on July 30, 2006 to play, take more pictures, and video tape the location and some action of us playing.
Plans are to also go to S.C. Village down in Corona, Los Angeles in California (down South) on 3rd weekend of October 2006.
Old Players updates:
These are players that have family responsibilities to take care of or have other priorities that first must be done, but only plays whenever possible, so see you at the field when you can guys:
Murray Chen, Steve Chiang, Jeff Chiang, David Chiang, Tony Lin, Peter Lee, Paul Sheh, Quan Truong, and Perry Chen,
If you wish to join us at any time or need some information, just email us.
TEAM 5 E's email account
team5e@gmail.com
TEAM 5 E
Bay Area (California)
Started team on July 1, 2002
5 members and building
We have added 1 more Element player and a potential New member in March 2003. Then in July 2003, we have 5 people that wants to become free agents to they can try out for other teams that have the same philosophy of playing every 2 to 3 days a week to practice and improve the skills. So good luck guys.
Note: The latest pictures taken were before the end of summer in 2003.
We have some pictures taken from the August 3 tournament at this website.:
http://community.webshots.com/user/dinotsai2
Click on Paintball pictures link.
If there are other pictures or more links you wish to add, just email us.
http://www.team5e.freeservers.com
team5e@gmail.com other email
