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Thursday, February 23, 2006

LaSoya blasts player "execution style" point blank

Sometimes, you don't need to add commentary.

Here's a thread from PGI's website, and a thread on PB Nation as well. and the basics of the incident.

Oakland Assassins (Bob Long's team) Vs. Doc's Raiders.

The Raiders and Assassins went at it and this match will be the talk of the tournament for those that witnessed this match up. Assassins Chris Lasoya swears up and down that he shot a Raider and when that Raider kept playing Chris Lasoya took “justice” into his own hands. When the accused Raider finally stood up to exit the field, Lasoya came up and brought his barrel to the guy’s head and shot him point blank execution style. (as reported by xdynastyx24)

It was pointed out on p8ntball's forums "It was amusing that quite a few spectators were chanting Chris's name in the stands. Goes to show that while most do not condone these actions, at lot were entertained by it."


On behalf of the Oakland Assassin's, the Infamous Team and Bob Long, we extend an apology to the Doc's Raider Player, the Doc Raider organization, our Sponsors, the NXL and the Fans of Paintball. Bob and the Team do not condone the actions taken by Chris during this unfortuate event. Disciplinary action has been handed down and will commence as follows: Chris Lasoya will be suspended from the Team for the entire Huntington Beach event and the first day of the Las Vegas PSP event. A formal apology from Chris will be forth coming, if it already has been made. It is our understanding that Chris has already personally apologized to the Doc's Raider player involved.
At the time this happen we were up 3-1, the incident costs us the pending point and 1 was taken away for the infraction, which left us at 2-1 starting the next half. These actions taken by Chris changed the momentum of the match, we ended up soon down 2-3, but in the end prevailed thru the hearts of the rest Team.
It has been clearly pointed out to Chris, if this ever happens again, he will be permanently ejected from the Team and his sponsor will cease their support.


LaSoya himslef posted on PB Nation :

Hey guys.... yes I felt bad about it and it was the heat of the moment thing but it still did not make it right. I did call him after I arrived home yesterday and made it right. It was a real dumb thing to do and yes I will never do it again. Once again sorry guys..


You know... Even though this is a "cynics" blog, and I could have a field day ripping this apart, I don't think I need to this time. Other than to say it's nice to see that a phone call "makes it right" to shoot somoene point blank in the back of the head outside of the game play. If a football player clips another guy at the knees intentionally, destroying his career, will a phone call "make it right"?

This sport needs a healthy dose of "Grow the hell up".

3 Comments:

  • The sport needs a healthy does of "grow the hell up" and Lasoya needs a healthy punch in the face everytime he tries one of his retarded stunts. How he has gone this long without someone intentionally maiming him is beyond me.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Friday, February 24, 2006 11:15:00 AM  

  • Personally, if I was a tournament organizer, I'd keep a roster of player not allowed on the field. LaSoya's name would be at the top of it. Why? This incident and the one several years back where he knocked out an opposing player by overshooting him in the head. You can't control your temper, and you can't control your marker, then bud, you are a legal liability, and can play somewhere else. I don't care how famous you are, how many markers exist with your name attached to 'em, or how many sponsorships you've got, if you're a safety violation waiting to happen, you're not welcome at my tournament.

    Probably a good thing I don't run one, or it would be a shorter list to say who could play compared to the list of those not allowed in.

    This is just disgraceful. On both sides of the match. I feel not one whit of remorse for the guy who got it "execution style", as he probably did continue to play on after LaSoya shot him originally. It was the following act that disgraces all of us in paintball.

    Ever since you originally mentioned how paintball could get into TV easier as a reality series, I've been mulling it over in my head how a major network would go about doing it - assets, shoots, locations, who to follow, and everything else. But I keep cringing when I see stuff like this and it makes me think: do we really want to show the world this face of paintball? Yes, it's the truth, but do we have to go out of our way to let everyone know that the most famous of our sport can't even be trusted to play the game in an honorable fashion. Of course, I've been thinking of the show in terms of following a tourney team as angoing reality series like the Real World. More thinking needs to be done, that's for sure.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Saturday, February 25, 2006 2:31:00 AM  

  • Yeah most of you have no idea what your talking about. He is a great guy and a phenomenal player. I am sure most of you don't even know him not have ever met him personally and rely on your reading skills to make an assumption. Either way I'm a fan as well as most of te people I know.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at Wednesday, August 01, 2012 2:56:00 AM  

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