Paintball Magazine Paintball.Media Magazine, June 2019 | Page 22

Photo By Brian Morrill
But all is not lost. The league did the best
they could to bring in hay to start the drying
process. The “all day rain” forecast for Friday,
day one of the event was just changed to a
“possible scattered light rain.” And Saturday
and Sunday’s reports are promising. Kudos
to the league and its army of laborers who
worked tirelessly all week to make the best of
a potentially event-ruining weather forecast.
The vendor village here in Texas has all of the
major players you’d expect. GI Sportz, Virtue,
Planet Eclipse, Luxe, and about a dozen
other companies are represented here in the
trade show.
Leading with the weather again, Friday’s
forecast of possible showers turned into no
rain at all. With clear skies and temps in the
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low 80s, this was pretty much perfect paintball
weather. Although the grounds were still a
mess of rain-soaked mud, the games went
on and were on schedule all day.
Coming into Dallas Edmonton Impact,
seemingly always the team to beat, had
previously won the Las Vegas Open—but
looked not quite as sharp in Barcelona,
finishing third. Moscow Red Legion was
dominant in Barcelona and strong but
beatable in Las Vegas, finishing fourth in the
pro division. And Houston Heat’s second
place finish in Vegas and fourth in Barcelona
has them right in the mix. And there’s ac:
Dallas, a team that’s making believers out of
even the harshest critics. Fellow Texans, San
Antonio X-Factor’s third place finish in Vegas
is promising (as X-Factor always is) but can
they step up and win an event?