Perhaps the most charged and talkedabout match of the weekend happened in the Division 2 during the Friday afternoon shift of the prelims. At that time, the slow drainage of the field was slowing the pacce of many games, and simultaneously giving the referees a challenge in calling hits. But this match between Green Monkey Kings and the Brazilian Vikings Ragnorok pulled up strong.
The first point went the Green Monkey Kings with three-and-a-half solid minutes of can standing. The Vikings would come back in the second point with a doubledup snake rundown to tie the match at 1-1. In the third point, the Green Monkey picked off two Vikings on the break, and 19 year-old Marcel Kriener showed tremendous discipline, taking the reigns of the squad to spread out the field, establish anchored field dominance, and surgically pick off the remaining Vikings while running off another two minutes from the clock.
But the Vikings came back in the next point, again, running the doubled snake to tie the match again at 2-2 with only 0:53 second remaining.
Green Monkey Kings would lose two bodies off the break in the next point, and as the Vikings slid into position to establish quick field dominance, the coach of the Kings made a smart decision to pull the towel and preserve the remaining 0:32 on the clock. Now down by a point, the Green Monkey Kings had quick business to do, and they did it. The Kings came out of the box with a full standup attack through the snake side and pressured the Vikings into mistakes. Two back-to-back minor penalties in the Doritos allowed the Kings to take a tensecond stroll to the buzzer, leaving 0:06 on the clock. www. paintball. media
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