Paintball Magazine October 2015 | Page 28

The 2015 Millennium Series season has been one to remember. The amazing play by the TonTons, Houston Heat and Edmonton Impact; Oliver Lang’s incredible run-throughs; Scorpions Milano battling Manchester Firm all season in the SPL; France’s nearly perfect Nations Cup run; Great locations, great weather, great venues and the best worldwide paintball competition anywhere. And the league’s World Cup finale also serves notice to the paintball community that the beginning of the end of the season is upon us. As the tournament season winds down the Millennium Series World Cup is the first “Cup” and league finale event of the “big three leagues” and it’s followed by the NXL World Cup in the U.S., the PALS World Cup Asia in Malaysia and the official end of the tournament season. This is one of the most exciting times in competitive paintball and the Millennium Series World 028 paintball.media magazine Cup, held in Chantilly, France kicked off the final chapter of the 2015 season in grand style. Like all Millennium Series events, the World Cup had a great trade show/vendor village with companies like Empire Paintball, GI Sportz, Planet Eclipse, Valken, Luxe, Drom, PBResults, HK Army, Anthrax, Paintball Promos, Maxs and many more in attendance. The vendor village was packed most of the weekend with spectators, shoppers and players from all over Europe. Likewise the grandstands were also busy all weekend long and they were especially packed for the big games on Saturday, all day Sunday and whenever the popular Nations Cups games were being played. If shopping for the latest gear or watching the best players in the world isn’t enough for you, there were volleyball games, bubble games, foosball games, contests, team autograph signings, music and great food.