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losses—and did just enough to get to the quarterfinals.
In one of the real surprises of the event UpTon 187 cRew
went on to beat the previously undefeated Los Angeles
Infamous—a team that had already won the first pro
event in the U.S. earlier in the season (PSP Dallas). Also
in the quarterfinals San Antonio X-Factor beat San Diego
Dynasty 6-5 in a game that can really only be described
as a reffing disaster. With the game tied at 5 and up two
bodies Dynasty’s Kyle Spicka did a run through, destroying
the last X-Factor players. Inexplicably the ref nearest the
run through threw the yellow minor penalty flag, which
we would find out later, was for “overshooting.” And after
watching the video of this a dozen times there’s no way
this was a penalty. At that point Dynasty’s Alex Fraige and
Ryan Greenspan went off on the refs and got another
penalty—this time a major. So for the overtime point
Dynasty started with only three players versus X-Factor’s
full five. As expected X-Factor took the final point easily
and moved on, while Dynasty literally had the game
stolen from them. But his is paintball “the sport” and in
sports refs make mistakes.
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