Paintball Magazine February 2019 | Page 61

How Much Mechanical Woodsball Will We Play in 2019? There’s no doubt there will be more mechanical woodsball paintball offered in 2019 than any season the past 20 years. It’s the new (old) hot thing. There’s the UWL and their U.S. and South and Central America events; there’s the Iron City Classic and its rapidly growing list of teams for their 2019 event; the NXL’s new International Classic Paintball League and numerous other woods/mechanical events for this season. Will there be over-saturation? Prediction: : Mechanical woodsball, Hyperball and mounds ball will remain hot. Events will sell out early, the ICPL will draw solid numbers, the ICC will sell out and the pendulum will continue to swing slightly away from arena/Xball/airball and towards the woods. Now if we only did this ten years ago… www.paintball.media 061