The window for the Nominations Period of the 9th Airsoft Players’ Choice Awards is getting smaller as the days go by. Always remember that the Nomination Period will end on the 28th of December 2018 by midnight. If you don’t make it by then, then your nominees may not make to the Finals/Voting Period.

The airsoft fun continues as the MOA Exhibition 2018 goes on its third day. Whilst exhibitors are tired as well as us in the airsoft media, we continued on as many visitors continue to enter the exhibition floor despite a wet Taipei Sunday.

The heaviest day of the Military, Outdoor and Airsoft (MOA) Exhibition 2018 organised by the QRF Magazine in Taipei, Saturday saw a deluge of airsofters, industry representatives, as well as purchasers from around the world. The latter is significant as we see airsoft dealers and retailers from Asia and Europe checking out products and sealing deals with potential suppliers to keep airsoft players happy in their locations.

It was a very busy day to us as we are now in Taipei for the MOA Exhibition 2018. If you want to see th Taiwanese airsoft industry in other one roof, plus some more companies from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Japan, then this the trade fair that you will want to visit.

If you love collecting firearms and works of art, you can combine both if you have the money and connections, to collect the limited edition CZ 75 Republika pistol. This was designed as commemorative pistol in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic which separated into the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

We are in the Philippines right now, preparing for an appreciation event for the local airsoft players, the RATRATAN 2018. The local airsoft community is one the oldest and most vibrant airsoft communities in the world, and the local Milsim community works closely with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in which facilities are opened to the Milsimers for their use in their events that also involve active service people.

If you are an airsoft player based in The Netherlands or if you are planning to play there next year, here is something for you to take note and keep in mind. There is a new set of Joules Limits (not FPS) that has been approved by the NABV, or the Dutch Airsoft Association and it will take effect on the 1st of April 2019 (nope not an April Fools’ joke).

That was a big first week of nominations for the 9th Airsoft Players’ Choice Awards. Already, thousands of airsoft players already submitted their lists of Nominees. We haven’t peeked at the lists yet since we only do that after the Nomination Period has ended so we don’t know if the usual names are in there or there will be new ones who will shake up the awards.

We’ll be undergoing scheduled site maintenance this weekend and will start at 0100H GMT tomorrow as we prepare for the website for more news updates and cleaning up to make more space due to limitations in our hosting. The scheduled maintenance will take the whole weekend until late evening of Sunday, the 2nd of December 2018.

Perhaps the best thing than owning a drone is being able to have your own personal hoverboard. You can fly to locations instead of driving a car and be able to skip the traffic below. Franky Zapata, the man behind the hydro-powered Flyboards seen at beach resorts, has developed a micro-jet- powered hoverboard called the Flyboard Air in 2016 which his company claims is “the safest, most reliable, lightest, fastest, and least expensive personal flight system ever created.”