Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine June 2016 Issue

Photo by Gary Baum event in Texas. Infamous, ending Edmonton Impact’s perfect season. In the pro finals it was Los Angeles jumping out to a 2-1 start behind really strong play by Damian Ryan and Thomas Taylor. The third point appeared to be scored by Edmonton Impact but it was overturned for a dirty hang. Infamous would extend their lead to 4-1 with roughly nine minutes to play--quick points and a lot of action in this one. Edmonton Impact then got it to 4-3, just grinding out points to keep this one close. The teams then traded points, 5-4. Then 6-3 Infamous. Then 6-4, 6-5 and finally Infamous pulls away 7-5, although the game would end up 7-6. What a game and what a win for Los Angeles The pro division was definitely a tough act to follow but there are nine othe r divisions in the NXL. In the semipro division it was the Brooklyn Bears sitting atop the season rankings list after their win in Las Vegas. Distortion, TJ All Stars and Sacramento DMG rounded out the top four going into Texas. While all of the bracket leaders struggled a bit in the preliminary rounds, only the TJ All Stars didn’t make it to Sunday. Looking at the semipro preliminary round scores with a bit perplexing as there wasn’t a single team of the 21 entered www.paintball.media 035

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