The Venue
The Teams
The Games
The Venue
The 2025 National Xball League( NXL) held its third event of the season in Joyce Park, just outside of Cincinnati in Butler County, Ohio. The 309-acre venue features a plethora of baseball and softball fields, soccer fields, a football field, and volleyball courts— as well as cabin rentals, a BMX club and plenty of parking and room needed for a major paintball event such as this.
The Teams
Once again, the NXL and Major League Paintball are showing us that the game of tournament paintball is alive and well. The Midwest Open drew a very solid 244 teams across 20 divisions in what is traditionally a tough month( June) in the schedule. As is always the case at NXL tournaments, the main events are the Pro, WNXL( Women’ s
Pro), Semipro and Divisional Xball divisions.
The Games
Pro Xball
Out of the gate TonTon FSU, Edmonton Impact, San Diego Dynasty and PaintballFIT came out swinging, each going undefeated in their four game sets. Houston Heat and Red Legion each won three of their first four games. No other team in the Pro field of 20 teams could muster more than two wins in four games. Moving on from the preliminary rounds in the Pro division were San Antonio X-Factor, Los Angels Ironmen, Chicago Aftershock, Royal City Seadogs, TonTon FSU, PaintballFIT, Houston Heat, red Legion and Edmonton Impact. Tampa Bay Damage and New Orleans Hurricanes missed the cut by the slimmest of margins.
Photos this spread by Nicholas Shaw www. paintball. media
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