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PRESS RELEASE – HUGO DOMINGUES BAN SUSPENDED
Hugo Domingues was a regular player at The Millennium events from the very beginning, last playing with Lisbon Benfica. In 2012 there was an incident which involved Hugo in a violent act against a referee. In a subsequent hearing Hugo was banned from EPBF & Millennium events for a substantial period. At the time Hugo accepted responsibility for his actions, apologised and understood why a ban was imposed.
Since then Hugo has continued to assist teams in his native Portugal and still has a great passion for our sport. There have been no similar actions at any other events that prompted his ban. Hugo has approached the Millennium with a desire to be able to once again compete in the best series in the world and to do so has offered a large financial penalty.
After much consideration and takin into account Hugo’s love of the sport, assurances of no future freak moments and bearing in mind Hugo’s many positive actions, the Millennium is prepared to suspend this ban & enable his return to the series. Rather than paying a huge sum we have agreed that Hugo will continue his good work with young teams in Portugal and will pay a fine of €500 which will be awarded to the winners of the first Millennium 3-man competition in Puget 2015.
Whereas The Millennium’s first priority is to ensure the safety of its customers & staff, we firmly believe that lessons have been learned with the ban already served and that Hugo has earned a chance to enjoy the Millennium whilst he’s still young enough to compete.
This is what Hugo Domingues had to say;
"SAUDADE it's a typical Portuguese Word that you cannot translate to other languages, but it's the most appropriate way to describe my life for the last 2 and a half years that I've been away from the Best Paintball League in the World... THE MILLENNIUM PAINTBALL SERIES.
The best way to translate SAUDADE to English words is, trying to explain when you are incomplete or missing something at the point of not feeling able to breathe properly from missing something so much...and I could be here trying to explain how hard these times have been to me for days, since I've been playing the Millennium Series from it's Beginning and only missed like 2 events since the Series started (one I got Married and was on Honeymoon and the other one my son was born)...
It’s with great regret that I talk about the incident that I've been involved with the Referee, and would like to apologize to everyone involved and ask for your forgiveness.
I've always been involved in Paintball since I can remember even when we were all still in the woods Playing MEGA CAMPO , TOULOUSE, MAYHEM MASTERS etc... I've been around for so long that I can't remember (No I do remember every game every event cause paintball is my life and my passion).
And it's with great joy that after talking with various Millennium Directors, I would like to say thank you all for the opportunity that the Millennium Board is giving me to come back and feel complete once more.
I won’t let you down you have my word on it.
Your friend
Hugo Domingues
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The incident in Bitburg has not gone unoticed. During a Lisbon Benifica match Domingues was called for physical contact on the field. Appropriate penalties were assigned and the game continued. After the match was over he approched the head marshal and the marshal that pulled him.
The two tried to explain what the penatly was over, Domingues would not except the decision and ultimately punched the polish marshal who called him for physical contact. The marshal was taken to the hospital directly for facial injuries. It has now been released that Domingues has recieved a harsh punishment, an 8 year ban from any Millennium event. He cannot attend as spectator, vendor or staff. He has been banned from the remaining events this year and his 8 year ban is set to begin January 2013.
http://pbhub.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=754959#754959Roberto Olhao:
Hugo was leaving the field and was out of the four lines to go along with his colleague Sven where they spoke out as the net, and a referee applies 1por1 by talking on the pitch. Hugo asks why and the referee turns his back, Hugo asks again and again is ignored, so the Hugo pulls the jersey without any violence to try to talk to the referee and this cut him off and says that the card is ejected. Hugo wait until the end of the game and meet at the table to talk to referees referee where the mind and says that Hugo had pulled him by the throat and threatened. Several people saw and testified, saying the referee was lying, the referee after a while he admitted the truth, but still decide that the Hugo and expelled. Hugo asks the referee finds that the cast is right what he did, where it responds in a tone of joy: **** happens, place that part of Hugo for aggression.
Roberto Olhao:
‎Social Paintball,
I know that was not the right attitude, one more fix it gave him a punch, but not broke his nose. The two acted improperly, I think only that the penalty was too heavy for a person to practice the sport you love and pay to play, making all possible efforts to participate in a competition as prestigious as nothing cheap in terms of travel and for all stays. In the end two people with less own behavior but only one suffers consequences.
We love our sport, we should not spoil but also we should not be deprived from participating in it...
