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Get To Know The Team: Sam Korp

Name: Sam Korp
Number: 71
What year did you start playing: 2003
Favorite position: Utility mostly Cameraman
How did you get into the sport? Neighbor was into it
What was your first gun? Brass Eagle Blade Turbo
What teams have you played for in the past? GL Invasion, TCP Cobra Kai, Ryan’s Raiders
What is your current setup: Kingman EM1/Spyder Sonix
Favorite part of the game: Shooting people
Favorite paintball memory: Running through 3 players to send my team to the finals.
Do you have any pregame rituals to help you play: Heavy metal and copious amounts of caffeine 
What do you do to support your paintball addiction: Tell engineers why they are wrong
What else besides paintball do you do for fun: Shoot copious amounts of lead.

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Get To Know The Team: Paul Korp

Name: Paul Korp

Number: 437 (or 22)

What year did you start playing: 2000

Favorite position: back player

How did you get into the sports: Something to do with my boys

What was your first gun: Spyder MR1

What teams have you played for in the past: Grand Ledge Invasion, TC Hired Guns, Infected Paintball

What is your current setup: Gtech with Dye Rotor and a Planet Eclipse Etha with a Dye Rotor Valken Mag fed and a Tippmann 98 Custom and a Tippmann TPX pistol

Favorite part of the game: The comradery

Favorite paintball memory: When we took 3rd place for the season in the iron mission series

What do i do to support my paintball addiction: I work at the local paintball field 

What else beside paintball do you do for fun: Bowling and golf

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2023 Events

Last year our team plans had to be put on the back burner due to injury and work commitments by multiple members of the team. This year we are planning on making up for it. We have been doing some recruiting as well too with at least one addition being Matt Swanson.

Our current plans include the TC Paintball Capital City 3-man Series along with their Capital City Classic 7-man events. We are also planning on attending Iron Mitten Series events as well. We will also be playing in the Run For Ryan charity event on June 3, 2023.

Stay Tuned For More Event Up-dates.

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Get To Know The Team: Dan Pennock

Name: Dan Pennock
Number: 96
What year did you start playing: 2006
Favorite position: Snake How did you get into the sport? I started playing woods ball with friends until I was asked to play for team P8ntballerX Factory.
What was your first gun? A silver Tippmann 98 custom. 
What teams have you played for in the past? P8ntballerX Factory
What is your current setup? Dye DSR, spire 260, dye throttle 71/4500. Proto pm6 in the bag for fun.
Favorite part of the game? Winning a gun battle.
Favorite paintball memory? Winning the 10 man mechanical tournament put on at Fort Stewart in 2021.
Do you have any pregame rituals to help you play? Tell Luke Cole not to step out of bounds again. 
What do you do to support your paintball addiction? Corrections Officer
What else besides paintball do you do for fun? Hang with my family, deer hunt, enjoy the outdoors.

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Get To Know The Team: Luke Cole

Name: Luke Cole
Number: 57
What year did you start playing: 1997
Favorite position: Back then, front center; now a days, anywhere that doesn’t require sliding or a life alert bracelet
How did you get into the sport? All my friends were doing it… so
What was your first gun? A $50 Brass Eagle Talon from Walmart
What teams have you played for in the past? Violent Conduct, Unknown, Paintball Outlet Factory, System X Factory, Outkasts, Enemy, No Patience, P8ntballerX Factory, Team Lazy
What is your current setup? Rize Maxxed, or ADG 68 Automag, Dye Rotor, or VL Revolution, Empire 68/45k, old school ER 5+4+4 that is now just a 5 pack
Favorite part of the game? The adrenaline of sweeping up the field
Favorite paintball memory? Running around the back of the of the division champion team and beating them with 4 alive at the 2003 IAO
Do you have any pregame rituals to help you play? Stretch my muscles and and some tall tales
What do you do to support your paintball addiction? delivery driver by day
What else besides paintball do you do for fun? Shoot guns and play with my kids

Luke would also like to thank some friends for the support over the years: Randy, Ross, Gramps, James, Eric, Drew, Rudy, Benny, Tim, Tom, The Rolling Rogans, Ups And Browns, AITD, and mom

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2022 Events

Currently we are compiling a list of events we are planning to play in this season. We plan on attending several of the Iron Mitten events along with events at our local field, TC Paintball Lansing, but we are looking at other events in our region as well. Stay tuned for dates.

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Future Tips and Tricks

Our plan is to post tips and tricks for new players. Our team has players that have played at several different levels of competition and also recreation, and all of them love the game and would lie to get new generations into paintball.

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Players For 2022

The roster for 2022 is not much different than last year.

  • Luke Cole
  • Dan Pennock
  • Josh Brown
  • Paul Korp
  • Sam Korp
  • Jake Kelly
  • Renin Cole

There may be a couple additions also through the season. Keep checking back, we will be having individual posts on each of the players soon.

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Welcome

This is the official website for Don’t Suck Squad. We are a newer team based in mid-Michigan. A lot more coming soon.