Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine, May 2019 | Page 90

After Hyperball and Airball were introduced
in 1996 competitive tournament paintball
went 13-plus years without stepping into
the woods—literally. Then Tom Cole’s
Ultimate Woodsball League (UWL)
happened. And although there were a
few standalone events to go along with
the UWL—like the Woodsball World Cup
in New York, the resurgence of woodsball
didn’t happen until Tim Montressor
recreated the original mounds fields of
the 1990s near Pennsylvania with his Iron
City Classic three years ago. Then the
floodgates opened with the Southern
Classic Ten Man event at Paintball
Atlanta, another Iron City Classic, the
announcement late last year about the
NXL’s new International Classic Paintball
League, the Surf City open and a host of
other ten-man Woodsball events.
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This past April the Surf City Classic
debuted near San Diego with 13 teams
competing for cash and prizes. The event
featured such teams as the Ironmen, All
Americans, Shocktech Gunfighters, Black
Sunday, The Family, Paraplegic Turtles,
Dynasty and a handful of teams newer to
the circuit.
The preliminary rounds saw Dynasty score
a whopping 765 points, easily moving
them into the top spot in their seven
team bracket. The Shocktech Gunfighters
scored 594 first round points in the same
bracket. The All Americans looked strong
amassing 585 preliminary round points,
just ahead of the Ironmen and their 515
points in the second bracket.