Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine April 2019 | Page 28

Player Movement
There was a ton of off-season player moves
this year. Some of the notables were Keith
Brown leaving Edmonton Impact and
returning to Tampa Bay Damage. Raney
Stanczak also left Impact to join X-Factor.
Bobby Aviles left the Los Angeles Ironmen for
ac:Dallas Greg Siewers left the Los Angeles
Ironmen, filling the hole left by Keith Brown
on Impact. Alex Rodriguez is back with
Dynasty and BJ Heningburg moved up from
ac: Diesel to ac:Dallas. Click HERE to see all
of the off-season pro moves at PbNation.
wasted no time showing they belong. Last
year’s Semipro title winners stepped up
and onto the pro playing fields as if they’ve
been there forever, winning each of their first
round games, including beating Houston
Heat. Edmonton Impact and ac:Dallas also
won their four preliminary round games.
Houston Heat, San Antonio X-Factor, San
Diego Dynasty and Moscow Red Legion
each won three of their four Friday games.
MLKings, now in their second year playing
pro in the NXL struggled, losing all of the
games and scoring a combined five points
in four games.
In Saturday’s ocho rounds San Diego Dynasty
Interesting stat: 87 non-American teams took care of the Los Angeles Ironmen 3-2 and
competed in at least one NXL event in 2018. Baltimore Revo beat Seattle Thunder by the
same 3-2 score. As the crowds in the stands
The Games
grew so did the tension and the importance
of the games and there were some great
In the Professional Division preliminary matchups. In the quarterfinals Moscow Red
round newcomers San Diego Aftermath Legion’s first game of the day Saturday was
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