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I first met Philippe Constant at the NXL World
Cup, where we had several conversations about the new
XField 3 video game they were getting close to release.
And then again just a few weeks later we met at the
PALS World Cup Asia event in Malaysia. Watching XField
throughout the year I could see the progression of not only
the game, but the company. At each of the last 4-5 events
of 2015 players were able to play the latest beta versions
of the game before its actual release, which is coming
any week now. XField held one-on-one tournaments at all
three World Cup events of 2015 (NXL, Millennium Series,
PALS) and those were a blast to watch.
I recently caught up with Philippe to ask him how things are
progressing with XField 3 and to give us some background
on the company.
Philippe, please tell our readers a bit a bout XField
Paintball.
XField Paintball is a big family that has many shareholders,
including paintball professionals (paintball field, paintball
equipment, paintball world champion, paintball
consultant), Web, Big Data and 3D specialists, video game
industry entrepreneurs, media, PR, etc...

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We are three key associates involved with the day to day
management of the XField Paintball operation, Fabrice
Tron, Sebastien Munier and myself.
We’ve seen XField Paintball at many of the major
events in 2015. How did that play out for you?
During the last four months in 2015 XField Paintball
has met the international paintball community and
successfully staged e-sport paintball competitions at all
the major international paintball leagues events such as
the Millennium in Chantilly, the NXL in Orlando, the PALS
in Langkawi and the SARPL in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Thousands of paintball players have tried our new PC
game on its beta version, playing each time on the layout
of the competition we were attending (and a vast majority
left their contact details to be informed as soon as the
game is released). At times our dev team developed all
night to show the next day to players the improvement
they had requested the day before. It was total fun and the
e-sport competitions hosted at times by Matty Marshall,
Thierry Bazerque or Bear Degidio brought even more life
to the very lively and cheerful events we had.