first place in each of the first two Millennium Series events
in 2016. This is a dominant team that will surely make the
upward jump to the SPL next season. FiveStar Lleida
2 had a second and third place finish coming into the
campaign cup.
Staying tru e to form RMG Symphony Bratislava stood
out all weekend, with dominating win after dominating
win in Division One. FiveStart Lleida 2 also looked like
their usually strong self until the quarterfinals where they
were sent home much earlier than they hoped for by
West Connection Rouen in a 4-0 shutout. Brussels Heat,
another surprise team making it to late Sunday afternoon
also played well enough to make it all the way to the
finals. So the stage was set for a finals matchup between
the favored RMG Symphony Bratislava and the surprise
Division One team Brussels Heat. The underdog story
ended in the finals however, as RMG Symphony Bratislava
did what they always seem to do… winning the final-round
matchup, this time against Brussels Heat. RMG Symphony
Bratislava has now played three events and won all three!
It’s pretty rare when a team enters its first event three
events into the season and walks away winners. That’s
exactly what happened when Falkoeping MASH0313
entered the Campaign Cup’s Division Two, where Ultra
Moscow had won the previous two events. But not this
one. Falkoeping MASH0313 played great paintball all
weekend making it all the way to the finals where they met
and beat Diaspora Vilnius 3-1.
Harbour Crew Hamburg beat Izmir Angelpark to win
Division Three and RabbitZ Toulouse beat Liverpool
Showtime to take Division Four.
The Nations Cup/World Cup is always a favorite of
tournament paintball fans worldwide and for this event
the theme was Men’s play. All-star teams from around the
world come together in this event to see which nation
can stand out among the crowd and for the first time
this season, not only were many of the European nations
represented, but the United States was as well. In addition
to the US teams were fielded by Norway, Germany,
France, Gabon, Sweden, Great Britain, Belgium, Russia,
Argentina, Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic
and Spain. It was quite the gathering of worldwide talent.
There was one major surprise game in the Men’s Nations
Cup, with Norway beating Russia in the quarterfinals 4-1.
Most everyone around the event was predicting a Russia
versus United States final round game but it was not to
be. In the end it was the United States versus Norway and
as well as Norway played throughout the event, it was not
enough to contend with the Americans who won the final
game and event 4-1.
We’ll see you all at the Millennium Series finale in Chantilly,
France in a few weeks! • • •
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