Valken files for bankruptcy protection

[JonM]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLYvHyfJ...owdWM4dGF6aXo4

[Insixdays777]

Hope they can get their act together. I have always loved their paint.

[Heavy_D]

Ouch... Damn our field just switched to Valken paint this season, I was liking it alot more than WPN....

[The Jayster]

The paintball industry ain't what it used to be...

[Drcemento]

Ouch thats rough. without graffiti... the world looks pretty grim. hopefully just the usual corporate shenanigans to screw over everyone they owe money to.

[TF_Aloha]

Chapter 11, it's a re-org, the inconsistent paint will still flow.

[iamthelazerviking]

Graffiti used to be good but several people have complained recently of it being way too brittle and breaking in every marker they tried, them switching paint and having no problems.

Last Graffiti I used was tiny, like everything else , but decently round. But the opposite of brittle and bouncing off everything.

[RhoXi]

I was one of those people. It was Graffiti Platinum and it broke in everything except my Phantom.

[nerdcore]

Valken still run by Gino? I'm shocked they haven't fallen prey to a private equity firm. Or maybe they will if this restructure falls through.

Never tried their paint. Feels like i missed out on its glory days. Been only playing FPO fields for over 10 yrs, and they all carried GI. But i do miss Valken's introduction gear, like the Redemption pod pack - that thing rivaled og NXe packs. Wish i kept mine. Still have the tank cover in the same color/pattern.

[Bow]

Og clear and green shell yellow fill Redemption from Taiwan was the best paint I ever used. When we carried it I would always know it was good shit. It smelled sweet, and wasnt actully that bad tasting. Then we switched to GI and HK, and it always seemed inconsistent and smelled funny. Hk is always greasy.

[fullofpaint]

Ya, Redemption was IMO the most consistently good paint from batch to batch for a long stretch. Only topped by the legendary Dye CG.

[Arthur]

Jesus

[Ecapnation]

They will just simply come back under a different name

[SignOfZeta]

I bought a case today. Hopefully not my last.

[Impactfour]

My dads a business lawyer and specializes in corporate bankruptcy stuff. I don't understand much but I'm pretty damn sure this is some classic chapter 11 debt shuffling bs. I could be mistaken, and I'll get his opinion, but I'd bet that they'll be back and are just ducking debts.

[SignOfZeta]

UPDATE: I ordered a case of Graffiti from Amazon. The seller is Valken, this is often how I buy it. It was delivered in about 12 hours.

The tiger stripe pattern is gone, at least for my batch. That sucks. There were no cardboard separators in the box. It measures not that round and is about .675-.678 depending on which axis you are measuring.

I put ten rounds in my smallest Phantom, the one with the 2.0 body that I always complain about, and went to my usual target in the back yard. No rollouts. One shot went winging off somewhere but the others all grouped very well.

So I'm not in love with the basic-ass color but the actual shooting seems to still be about as good as it gets. I crushed one and I don't know if its super fragile but its not rubbery at all, which is good. I hate rubbery shells. They rob you of hits and they effn hurt.

[scottieb]

I appreciate the review/update.