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23/08/2026

CPPS Round 4 2026 - Scorchio!!!

Some days you're down, some days you're up. Round 4 turned out to be a bit of an up day for the 'Dead which made a lovely surprise after the asskicking we got last time out.

Let's start at the beginning, Saturday 15th of August was the 4th round in the 2026 season; and after the eleventy-billionth heatwave of the summer, the Walking Dead dragged their sorry arses from all points East, West and South to the sun baked Midlands.

August often sees depleted numbers in the team as holidays hit, but for once we were doing ok, snake was looking a bit thin with Kieran being forced to work rather than play out in the sun with the rest of us, but with the triumphant return of Cosmin from his summer hols (no Tony still hasn't forgiven him) we were able to field a team for the day; which, judging by the number of teams that turned up, was a good thing as it seemed that more than a few couldn't.

Who has holidays in August, honestly!

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14/07/2026

Walking Dead - CPPS Round 3 2026 - Well…
..that wasn’t ideal.

There are some tournament reviews that are easy to write.

You have a decent day, win a few games, maybe win enough to sneak onto a podium and spend a couple of thousand words modestly pretending you weren't secretly delighted with yourselves.

Then there are reviews like this one....

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12/05/2026

Walking Dead – CPPS Round 2 2026 - Improvement?

Another round, another early start; things weren’t looking good for CPPS Round 2. After a few weeks of welcome nice weather forecasts were grim, rain was due in Penkridge, rain all day.

Lovely!

Things looked equally as bad to those of the ‘Dead making the drive south. Dark clouds, heavy rain and motorway spray around Stafford had all the signs of a thoroughly miserable day ahead. Round One had been damp, round 2 was looking to be...moist.


Editors Note: You do know people hate that word don’t you?

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...well not really, but we did have a lot of fun

11/03/2026

"Walking Dead – CPPS Round 1 March 2026 - Dogsh…

Before we begin this dissection of a dismal Sunday for the ‘Dead, we must first address a matter of great importance.

The following individuals have been tried in absentia and found guilty of the following crimes:

Failure to attend Round One
Gross dereliction of paintball duty
Possession of cold beers while teammates suffered in Staffordshire

The accused are as follows:"

Want to find out who the accused are? You can read our Round One disappointment blog here.

Before we begin this dissection of a dismal Sunday for the ‘Dead, we must first address a matter of great importance.

24/12/2025

Merry Xmas you filthy animals...see you on the other side.

25/11/2025

Sunday Silliness

It was ominously dark and wet as, at least, the Northern contingent of the Walking Dead got up at an ungodly hour and headed onto the motorways that (eventually) led to Staffordshire...and by ominous we mean it was pitch fkn black, freezing fkn cold and fkn pi***ng down...not our favourite combinations of weather...but hey, at least it wasn't snowing!

Happily though as the morning moved from 'ungodly' to just 'early' the rain stopped, the skies started to clear and by the time the light had arrived (along with Cosmin and Tony) we were presented with a beautiful, blue sky.

Things were looking up!

What dragged us out of bed at this time on a Sunday, especially in late November you may ask? Well obviously it was the chance to play the CPPS 7-man competition, mixed teams for mixed divisions all on the same bill, including a bunch of dossers from Div 5 who try not to take things seriously.

Why were we there? Because Cosmin made us...seriously...he did not shut up about the 7 man all through the last round until Mike went and signed us up.

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It was ominously dark and wet as, at least, the Northern contingent of the Walking Dead got up at an ungodly hour and headed onto the motorways that (eventually) led to Staffordshire...and by ominous we mean it was pitch...

27/10/2025

Walking Dead Player of the Season 2025

So, last season we launched our Player Of The Season award as a little reward for the member of the ‘Dead who we felt had been consistently brilliant all season long.

26/10/2025

CPPS Round 5 12/10/2025 - A Sunday Sh*tshow

Dark, where did bloody dark come from?

Well, dark is was when the alarms went off and the ‘Dead rose from their slumbers and dragged themselves from all corners of the UK to the home of paintball, CPPS.

Round 5 was incoming, the final round of the season and a final chance for the gang to get back together, play a few games, take the p**s, and have a good time playing paintball for potentially the last time this year (more on that later).

There were ten of us in the pits for this round, nearly enough for two teams if only our pit crew was old enough to play (you just wait until he is!) With this round being the last chance for us all to get together we had the full 2025 crew on deck, which was nice. Banter was flowing right from the off and the two skiving gits from the last round were dutifully humiliated for their absence!

(We missed you really guys)

We went into the round with a sense of optimism, we felt good, we had a good squad and three of the team had not only seen the field, but trained on it…imagine our surprise to find that land we’ve identified and practiced were no longer visible on the layout.

How does that happen by the way? Frustrating!...
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Dark, where did bloody dark come from?

07/09/2025

We Did A Training Thing!

1/10 - wet and muggy, would not recommend!!!!

Joking aside it was a fun day, wish there was more of us though. Big thanks to the Kezbands boys for giving someone to at least try to shoot at when it wasn't ☔️⚡️☔️. Can't think of a better place to be when there's lightning around than under a pylon :)

Consensus was we didn't really like the layout, and boy did we miss using Evil, (or rather missed not missing when using Evil) but roll on Round 5, what a way to go out for the season!

19/08/2025

CPPS Round 4 16/08/2025 – Who Makes Us Play In 'Flaming' August??

That was a bit of a warm one.

It was an odd feeling that the 'Dead felt as we headed across the country to CPPS, and that wasn't just the creaking in Andy's back after spending the night in a 'photo-me' booth at Northampton station (Don't ask).

Anyway, the feeling was caused by one, nagging, question. Paintball...in August...have we ever?

OK, so our memories aren't that great but we couldn't think of a summer season of paintball like this, and after the recent mini-heatwave hitting the low 30's in some parts of the UK the thought of pulling on the padding and running about in the sun being shot at wasn't exactly excitement filled.

Still the skies weren't exactly blue as we started our journeys so perhaps it wouldn't be that bad.

It was looking like a good turnout for the team for the day, not bad for a squad that had to come back from the void not that long ago. Sadly we were to be without both Cosmin and Keiran this round, but the return of the aforementioned (bet you never thought you'd read that word in a paintball blog!) Andy and with Harry also rejoining the team after skiving the last round to some sort of, frankly unimportant, family things (weddings and the like...tch!) we at least had someone that could play snake willingly and with experience based on some sort of VR game, eager to get in there and do damage.

Round 4 was indeed looking like being a good layout, plans had been made, but none of them really make it past the first look at the field as it is. The bag side boys weren't exactly enamoured with the big complex in the middle making it easy to lose someone in, but were keen on the fact that it wasn't as wide and open as some of the layouts we'd been playing recently. Still, the snake side was looking powerful again which made the snake players happy, and hell it doesn't take much to please those guys...simple as they are!

Come on, running and diving headlong into a snake and enjoying it? You've got to have something wrong with you, right?

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That was a bit of a warm one.