Paintball Magazine April 2020 Issue | Page 36

In the quarterfinals Camp Factory would continue their domination with a 5-0 drubbing over New Orleans Hurricanes, another team new to the Semipro division. The Newbies then handed Blast Camp their first loss of the tournament; Colorado Blitz beat Brawl; and Annapolis A-Team beat a very strong CEEP 8-3. Twenty-one teams entered the NXL Las Vegas Open in Division Two and not a single one won all four of their preliminary round games. And by the same token, no team in this division lost all four of their preliminary round games. That’s how evenly matched this division appears to be early on in the 2020 season. In the Semipro semifinals the Noobies won a very slow moving 2-0 game to advance to the finals. Camp Factory won their semifinal matchup against Annapolis A-Team in a really good game, 6-4. PaintballFit.com, Killers and CO Blitz got off to a good start in Vegas, each winning three of their opening round games. All three would play well enough to make it to Sunday and into the quarterfinal rounds. There it was Killers beating TNB 5-0; Lockdown over CO Blitz 6-3; Plumlife over Seattle Ninjas 2-1; and NRG Elite Alpha over PaintballFit.com 4-3. Lockdown and Killers advanced through the semifinals to meet in the final round that would decide the event’s winner in Division Two. Killers would come out on top 3-1, game... match… set. The Semipro finals matchup between the French Camp Factory Team last year’s 14th ranked Noobies again ended with a Camp Factory win as they go wire to wire without a loss. This one was another show of dominance by the French squad, 7-2. Colorado Blitz won the consolation game against A-Team 5-2. 036 paintball.media magazine