And Tropic Thunder did what Tropic Thunder does once again . They swept their way through weekend play , made it to the finals and dusted Step Bros 3-0 to win their fourth straight Division Five Xball event . And of course , with that they ran away with the season series title . Time to move up a division ...
Ten-Man Open Mounds
The Ten-Man mounds field games are one of the highlights for me to watch . Seeing teams like Extreme Rage with Todd Adamson , Adam Gardner , Rodney Squires , Tim Jenkins and the rest of the crew is a blast . Then throw in Adrenaline , Fox4 Darkside , Doc ’ s , the Annihilators and a handful of newer teams and you ’ ve got old versus new playing old school paintball .
Nostalgia aside , there were some great games on the mounds fields at the ‘ Cup . Extreme Rage and Adrenaline nearly ran the table in the preliminary rounds with each team losing only once in their eight games . Kissimmee Hooters Factory Team ( really ?) won five of their eight and the rest of the pack won four of their eight games or less . Every team won at least one game .
The finals would pit without question the best two teams in the division , Extreme Rage versus Adrenaline . Extreme Rage won their two fairly comfortably for the firstplace win . BTA Butchers took down Fox4 Army in the consolation game to take third place .
Photo By Gary Baum
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