Team ‘Silent Demons’ (in picture above) won the first Paintball Tournament held at Udaipur’s Techno India NJR College today. Despite the game being very new for Udaipurites, 12 teams took part in the tournament. The tournament was organized by “Encounter@Udaipur” , the first Paintball Company in the city. Encounter in Udaipur will very soon open its set-up in the city.

Silent Demons, headed by Yudhveer Singh Shaktawat, won the tournament by beating 5 other teams in the knockout format, with every game lasting for 20 minutes. Yudhveer was accompanied by his team mates Veerum Dev Singh, Kapil Singh and Durlabh Singh.

The final was contested between Silent Demons and Unity. Philip Ruben and Ashish Nalwaya were the referees for the entire tournament.

According to Philip Ruben, owner, Encounter@Udaipur, the tournament began on 20^th March at Techno India NJR’s campus. Out of 12 teams, 11 were from different colleges of the city with the exception of Silent Demons, who are a group of professionals and businessmen and have been playing paintball in Udaipur since quite some time.

While giving further information about Encounter@Udaipur, Ruben said that, it will be first of its kind place where people can get introduced to this unique sporting experience.

Ruben added that they will soon launch in Udaipur but did not divulge any details about the venue or the launch date.

About Paintball (Source: Wikipedia)

“Paintball is a sport in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye and gelatin shell outside (referred to as paintballs) propelled from a device called a paintball marker”