INTRODUCTION SECTION I

INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION TO TEAM BLACK CELL
Team Black Cell is a locally competitive paintball team from the
Central / Northern New Jersey area, drawing players and
attending events in the New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania tristate area.
We compete primarily in three-man format
competitions, although we plan on adding five-man format to our
experience in the near future.
The team came into existence
roughly six months ago, when members Brian Casani and
Jeffrey Bouquio decided to recruit players with the intent of
competing in local tournaments.
The complete roster can be
found in the Team Roster section.
For the six months, Black Cell has been practicing and organizing local
events in our area.
Our members have competed individually in
tournaments, and the team is now entering the stage of its growth where it
competes in local events. We have competed locally in Fireball Mountain’s
(www.fireballmountain.com) three-man tournament series.
Also, our team has planned local paintball events, including New Jersey AO
Day One, a gathering of twenty to thirty members of Automags.Org, at Top
Gun Paintball in Jackson, New Jersey. The day
featured a barbecue sponsored by Team Black
Cell, and guests attended such as Airgun
Designs technician Jon Comprado, Modified
Paintball owner Don Florencio, Paintballistix
owner Mel Maravilla, and Amy Low.
The event
involved coordination with Top Gun staff, Airgun
Designs, as well as numerous guests and
attendees. Black Cell also performed much of
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the organization for New Jersey AO Day Two, also called the “AGD
Level 10 Bust-Out Party”, a much larger event held at Paintballistix
Battlegroundz in Sussex, New Jersey. The field, not yet open to the
public, was made available for the event. Over 130 players attended,
largely Automags.org members (this number does not include nonplaying guests). The day featured a mini-3-man tournament, a
Sydarm shootout contest, a Level 10 Demonstration, raffled-off
prizes, and a barbecue sponsored by Team Black Cell.
Special
guests included Bill and Dawn Mills of Warpig.com, AGD
Spokesmodel Clare Benevides, AGD sales representative Jon
Comprado,
AGD
technician
J.J.
Ontiveros,
Automags.org Moderator Philip Carroll.
Amy
Low,
and
The team performed
"I haven't seen this
many mags at a field in
a long time" - Bill Mills
extensive planning duties, including coordination with Paintballistix
Battlegroundz co-owner Mel Maravilla and AGD sales representative Jon
Comprado; publicity and pre-registration; field preparation; picking up/housing
AGD spokesmodel Clare Benavides; and general staffing duties the day of
the event, such as setup of facilities, refereeing duties, and other
miscellaneous duties.
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QUALIFICATIONS?
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WHAT BLACK CELL HAS TO OFFER
Now you may be asking yourself what Black Cell can offer Airgun Designs.
We are not a top-level NPPL team, we don’t have groupies, and we aren’t
famous.
What we do have going for us is two things, hard work and loyalty. Even
without sponsorship, Team Black Cell works to promote Airgun Designs
products on and off the field.
When we play, we take time out to show
players Scott’s SFL or JT’s C&C Extreme, to demonstrate the capabilities of
the Warp Feed, or to give a quick Level 10 demonstration. We make the
effort to explain to players and refs alike the direction AGD is heading in with
their new products, and what those products are capable of. We also do our
best to dispel the rumors that run rampant in paintball, such as cockers
having better range than mags, etc.
We are also very active on the Automags.Org forums, from organizing AO
Days in the main forum, talking about classic cars in the Friendly Corner, or
discussing the weight of compressed air in Deep Blue. In fact, Black Cell is
one of, if not the most active team on Automags.org
when it comes to posting on a regular basis, accounting
for very nearly one percent of the total posts made on Automags.org to date
(4000 out of 401,000 at the time of this writing).
The thing we have to offer that we believe is the most valuable, however, is
our ability to push AGD and AO events to new levels, as we have the past
and plan to continue to do in the future. A small event we organized with Jon
months ago has turned into a nationwide flurry of Automags.Org events. We
believe that while this is a great start, it is just that, a start, and there are
many more things that can be accomplished through these gatherings. It is
our intention to continue what we’ve helped start and see the growth of “AO
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Days” to the point where they become large annual (or more often) events
with sponsors, large turnouts, prizes, events, and who knows what else the
future may bring.
We are now in the preliminary stages of
organizing the next NJ AO Day, or perhaps the one after that,
"SOMEONE SHOULD TELL TOM TO
as a 24-hour paintball experience.
HELP
ORGANIZE
AS
MANY
OF
THESE AS POSSIBLE. TALK ABOUT
It is our belief that, aside from offering paintball players and
Automag users in particular an amazing day filled with fun and
paintball, these events are also of a large benefit to AGD. For
A SALES TOOL. I AM JUST ONE OF
THE MANY PEOPLE WHO WENT
AND BECAUSE OF WHAT I SAW
AND EXPERIENCED, I'VE ALREADY
example, at the New Jersey AO Day II, aka the NJ Level 10
BOUGHT A WARP AND A LEVEL 10.
Release Party, Jon Comprado quickly sold out of the Level 10
THE
kits he had with him.
I believe that these events can, with
HAPPEN, THE MORE AGD'S SALES
proper organization and planning, become effective sales tools
WILL GROW" – SCOTT RUSSO, aka
for AGD, where they can bring the information present on
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Automags.Org out into the field and demonstrate their products, and in doing
so create customers.
Our team members also have have some personal working experience with
Airgun Designs in the past, as well. Team member John Trussel worked at
the AGD booth at the 2002 Diablo International Amateur Open, as did team
members Brian Casani and Scott Kuebler later in that week. They
assisted in setting up and breaking down the booth, doing inventory,
and answering questions at the table itself, as well as doing
numerous errands.
Team member Jeff Bouquio is a graphics designer who has created multiple
designs for Airgun Designs products, including the Intelliframe, Superbolt,
and the new Parts Kits packages. He hopes to continue that relationship in
the future, perhaps designing packages for future AGD products such as the
Emag Extreme and whatever the future may hold.
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PLAYERS
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TEAM ROSTER
SCOTT KUEBLER
FIELD CAPTAIN / FRONT PLAYER
Scott has been playing recreational paintball for about seven years, and
in the past three years has entered into tournament ball. He started out
playing rec ball occasionally with some of his friends for the first few
years, but then had the opportunity to play in a few local tournaments
with some friends and was hooked.
Scott’s first gun was a Automag Classic, which he owned for almost six
years. In the past year, after he joined Black Cell, he decided that he
needed to upgrade. He had originally been only looking at WDP Angels
when he first thought to upgrade to an electric marker, but after seeing and
handling an Emag, he was sure that was the
marker he wanted.
Soon after, he purchased a
Polished Pewter SFL Emag.
The reputation of
AGD combined with the performance of the Emag
made all the difference.
Scott would like to see the team progress to the
point where it can show off its potential and will
VITAL STATISTICS:
Name:
Position:
AO Nickname:
Age:
Hometown:
Occupation:
Scott Kuebler
Front
spacemanspiff
24
North Plainfield, New Jersey
United Parcel Service (UPS)
Years Experience:
??
Equipment:
AGD/Shocktech Pewter SFL
Emag
with
Level
10
Upgrade
HALO B / Smoke VL200
Revvy
68/4500 Pure Energy Tank
J.J. Performance Barrel
finish in the top of its league. He wants Black Cell
to be a team that is known for its sportsmanship,
and representing paintball in a positive light. He
would also like to progress his personal skills as
well as his leadership skills as captain on the field.
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JEFFREY BOUQUIO, JR.
MANAGER / FRONT – MID PLAYER
Jeffrey has been playing for blah blah blah…
VITAL STATISTICS:
Name:
Position:
AO Nickname:
Age:
Hometown:
Occupation:
Jeff Bouquio
Front / Middle
Riotz
22
Somerville, New Jersey
Website/Graphic Designer
Years Experience:
6
Equipment:
AGD Chrome RT Pro
Black VL200 Revvy
AGD Clear WarpFeed
68/3000 AGD Flatline
C.P. Pro Barrel System
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BRIAN CASANI
BACK - MID PLAYER
Brian has been playing paintball since 1996, when he took a
trip with his high school to Skirmish, USA in Pennsylvania.
He immediately loved the sport, but money and time kept his
participation in the sport to a minimum until the summer of
2000, when he decided to buy his own gun and play more
often. That first gun, a Spyder TL+, led him to look for a better gun within
months. By December, he had purchased an AGD Minimag, which he still
uses.
At this point, he was hooked.
Any extra money went into new
equipment and paint, and he was at the field once or twice a month.
VITAL STATISTICS:
After almost 5 years of recball play, Brian, with
current teammate Jeff Bouquio, decided to form a
team. The goal was to play competitively in the
local tournament circuits and to have fun while
doing it.
The only problem was finding other
Name:
Position:
AO Nickname:
Age:
Hometown:
Occupation:
Brian Casani
Middle / Back Player
Thordic
22
Cedar Grove, New Jersey
Marketing Assistant/College
Student
Years Experience:
6
Equipment:
AGD Chrome Minimag
Black Vl200 Revvy
AGD Clear WarpFeed
68/3000 AGD Flatline
Smart Parts Freak System
players who were interested signing on with a
new and inexperienced team.
Automags.org turned out to be the perfect
location, where Brian had been a member for
many months.
Other players were found and
joined the team, and Black Cell was born.
Bob Long Intimidator
Brian’s goals for the team are to play for fun, and
to win, in that order.
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JOHN “JT” TRUSSELL
FRONT – MID PLAYER
John has been playing paintball for almost 12 years. His first time
was at the now defunct Paintball World in Orlando, FL. What started
out as a “lets give this a try” for John quickly grew into a passion.
After his first day of paintball he knew that this was the sport for him.
Shortly after arriving home from that fateful trip, he had his very own
VM-68 paintball marker with a 20oz CO2 remote tank. After 3 years
of carrying around that beast, he upgraded to a tournament level
marker, an Airgun Designs Minimag powered by an 88/3000 Raptor
HPA tank. He played the local woodsball scene
for 6 years straight with the Minimag by his side,
but with college quickly approaching he had to
take a 2-year hiatus. This only drew him back to
the sport with an even stronger desire and
willingness to learn. Around June of 2000, the
VITAL STATISTICS:
Name:
Position:
AO Nickname:
Age:
Hometown:
Occupation:
John “JT” Trussell
Front / Middle Player
SprayingMango
22
Sicklersville, New Jersey
United Parcel Service /
College Student
Years Experience:
12
Equipment:
WDP Black Angel IR3
Black Vl200 Revvy
68/4500 WDP Angel AIR
Smart Parts Freak System
Minimag was dusted off and brought back to life
while going out to play with some friends. That’s
when John first saw tournament style speedball.
From that point on, he was hooked once more.
He upgraded to an AGD Emag, and now uses a
WPD Angel IR3, and plans on upgrading once
more to an AGD Extreme Emag as soon as they
AGD MiniMag
become widely available.
John now he focuses on becoming a better player and terrorizing the local
tournament scene with his fellow Team Black Cell teammates. The sky is the
limit for Team Black Cell, and John will forever remain a part of it.
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