Paintball Magazine August 2017 Paintball.Media Issue | Page 173

All this Ecuadorian team has done this year
is win. Spoiler alert: Galapagos Tortugas
have played three events and have taken
first place in all three, including this one. On
the way to the win they dispatched Lucky
15s Staffordshire 2, Aggression The Hague,
Saar Fanatics Lebach, Stingray Allstars,
Manchester Firm 2 and Wolverhampton
Warped. The top four in Division Two was
Galapagos Tortugas,, Lucky 15s Staffordshire
2, AC Diesel from the US and Aggression
The Hague. Interesting to note that both
AC Diesel and Lucky 15s Staffordshire 2
were playing their first event of the year and
both finished in the top three.
To this point in the season Division Three
doesn’t have a clearly dominant team or
teams—just a handful of really solid teams
trying to pull ahead in the standings as the
season moves forward. The Division Three
quarterfinals saw London Thunderducks,
Furax Veckring, Brussels Heat 2 and Marvel
all making the cut. Of the four it would be
Brussels Heat 2 and London Thunderducks
that would meet in the finals. In a really
hard-fought match-up it would be Brussels
Heat 2 coming out on top 4-3 to win the
match and the event.
2017 WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIP MEN’S
DIVISION
If you have not seen Millennium Series/
UPBF/EPBF World Championship play
you are missing out on one of the most
exciting events in the game of international
paintball. Each Millennium Series event
hosts a themed World Championship event
and for the Campaign Cup it was the Men’s
Division (other events host the Women’s
Division, the Under 17 Division, etc.). The
teams are made up of the highest level of
play from each country fielding a team. The
Men’s Championship this year included
teams from Russia, U.S., Italy, Great Britain,
Ukraine, Spain, France, Germany, Finland,
Australia, Sweden, Austria, South Africa
Portugal, Latvia, Panama, Czech Republic,