Paintball Magazine Paintball Magazine March 2020 Issue | Page 33

The Guns of Navarone
Markers to be used by top pro
paintball players of 2020
In the earliest days of top-level competitive
paintball, it was Navarrone with their
Bushmasters, later the Ironmen and their
Autocockers, and even later Avalanche with
their Angels making the headlines. In the
early days of the NPPL, Autocockers squared
off against the Automag in a battle for pro-
level supremacy, Dynasty later dominated the
seven-man NPPL with their Angels while in the
days of full-match XBall in the original NXL,
teams like the Philly Americans took two pro
titles shooting the Shocker and Impulse against
teams using Intimidators or the Matrix. As the
2020 pro paintball season begins, there are a
handful of markers used by the teams playing
at the highest levels of the game, each looking
for an edge in a battle of inches where every
paintball must go where it’s aimed.
Planet Eclipse has enjoyed years of success at
the highest levels of paintball, powering teams
to series titles and event victories since the
release of their earliest Ego models. In more
recent times, teams like Edmonton Impact and
2019 powerhouse San Antonio X-Factor have
won an impressive pile of hardware shooting
Eclipse markers like the CS2 and the LV. For
2020, Eclipse will power a large swathe of
the NXL professional division, with no fewer
than seven teams in the stable for the coming
season. The aforementioned San Antonio
X-Factor and Impact, with players like JRab,
Archie Montemayor, Colt Roberts and Alex
Goldman rostered, will be joined by Baltimore
Revo, a newly revamped Infamous squad, New
York Xtreme, Sacramento DMG and the TMG
Outlaws. Looking at that lineup, it’s safe to
say the marker maker from across the pond is
certain to have another excellent season at the
pinnacle of paintball, especially as new models
join the CS2 Pro in their lineup like the Geo IV
and LV1.6
New York Xtreme will shoot Planet Eclipse markers in 2020
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