Paintball Magazine Premier Issue, May 2015 | Page 54

Millennium
SeriesMore Player Movement…
M500
Reduced Cost,
By John Amodea

and the Format You Might Be Playing in 2016

From the moment that the new game format of X-Ball
was announced on March 5, 2002, everyone knew there
was one glitch in the otherwise dynamic new style of play:
paint. Playing hour-long games with unlimited points
would require so much paint that only the top sponsored
teams would be able to afford it and the practices it would
require. Then as the PSP morphed X-Ball into RaceTo with
a more limited number of points per game, things got a
bit better. And across the Atlantic the Millennium Series

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also went to the RaceTo style of play, again in an effort to
reduce paint consumption.
BUT IT STILL WASN’T ENOUGH. ENTER THE NEW
M500 FORMAT.
The Millennium Series debuted its newest creation, the
M500 in their opening event in Puget-Sur-Argens, France,
and by all accounts it was a hit. The M500, now just in