is easy to get to either driving (from places like Frankfurt,
Paris, Amsterdam, or Luxembourg) or by taking a short
flight from almost anywhere in Europe.
From an historical perspective The European Masters
is one of the longest running events in Europe as it
was originally called Maxs Masters dating back to the
early 2000, nearly 15 years. Maxs is one of Europe’s
largest distributors as well as one of the long time event
promoters doing events like Bitburg Millennium as well
as woodsball games like the EuroBigGame.
One of the things the Millennium Series does so well is
their trade show area. As players and spectators leave
the parking lot and head into the Millennium property
they are snaked through vendor row past the Millennium
check-in both and scoreboard and companies like Planet
Eclipse, Dye, GI Sportz, HK, KEE/Empire, Anthrax, Drom,
MacDev, Maxs, Access Customs, Paint Xtreme, Virtue
Paintball and PB Results. Also in the trade who area was
Sportschule Bitburg’s indoor/outdoor food court which
served great food and drinks all week. The venue also
provided indoor bathrooms with running water.
About a week ahead of the event I checked the ten day
weather forecast and it showed heavy rain for two of the
three weekend days in Bitburg. But we all know that the
Millennium Series never really gets rained on for more
than a few minutes at a time. It’s just how they roll.
THE GAMES
Coming onto the European Masters the team to beat in
the CPL (Champions Paintball League) was the TonTons
who won the league’s opening event in France. And
through the preliminary rounds here in Germany they
look like the same dominant team they were in that event,
with three straight wins by a score of 5-1 over MLKings
Prague, Marseille Icon and Amsterdam Heat. The CPL’s
Group B saw three straight wins by Houston Heat in their
easy climb to the top of the heap in the CPL preliminary
rounds. After a 5-4 scare and overtime win against the
Polar Bears from Russia, featuring Ryan Greenspan and
Oliver Lang, Edmonton Impact cruised to an undefeated
prelim bracket in Group C. And Breakout Spa handled
their business with three wins in their Group D bracket.
Under beautiful sunny skies on Sunday Toulouse
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