Paintball Magazine March 2018 Issue | Page 100

to the Ironmen, while team added Arturo Andrade. The legendary Ironmen are a team on the move heading into 2018. The team saw Scott Kemp retire, but added Damian Ryan from Infamous, Trevor Resar from Infamous and Kyle Spicka from Dynasty. Infamous saw both Damian Ryan and Trevor Resar leave, in addition to Max Traylor who moved to Revo, who for 2018 will shoot Eclipse markers and rejoin the G.I. Sportz family. AC:Dallas, one of the standouts of 2017, will likely remain an Empire team for the new season and added Brandon Morales from Seattle Thunder. Seattle Thunder, meanwhile, looks to be shooting Shockers for 2018 after a year behind the Luxe, and will wear UNDR soft goods. Where will Sacramento DMG wind up? How about the rest of the newcomers as they face off against the top teams in the world, along with returning pro teams like Aftershock, PC Katana, Boom, Uprising and the Outlaws? That’s why they play the games and it should be exciting to watch. 0100 paintball.media magazine NXL Europe 2018 will see European professional and international divisional paintball played under the NXL flag, as the NXL and Millennium Series agreed to terms to combine. The show will begin in April in Chartres, move to Amsterdam for event two in May, then head to either Dublin or London in early July (it’ll be on that side of the Channel one way or the other), then finish in late September in Paris. In case anyone forgot how dominant their season was, Edmonton Impact won the series title on that side of the Atlantic, too. The TonTons and the Russians will likely have something to say about that for 2018. A more recent change saw the league alter its game structure in regards to paint, as the league will allow pro teams unlimited paint, while divisional teams will be allowed “four pods plus a loader” for the upcoming season. Between a new brand name, new locations, new paint rules and new bunkers, big league paintball in Europe is in for an interesting 2018, but the implications of bringing European and American paintball