Paintball Media Magazine March 2023 | Page 57

Three of the four made it to the finals where NJ Bombsquad defeated LA Wildcards 2-1 to win the event . Tension won the consolation game over ML Kids 2-1 .
Eight teams entered Division Five Xball with Embry-Riddle Eagles Black taking the gold , beating Hawaiian Homegrown in the finals 3-0 . Tikis Kraken beat TPP Most Wanted to take third place .
On the heels of the 24 team 2022 World Cup first-ever Five-Man Youth Division , five kids ’ teams came to play the Sunshine State Major . In the preliminary rounds it was clear the Dangerous Toys and Infamous Kidz were heading towards a final-round match up . It was Infamous Kids that won the 2022 Youth Division of the World Cup just a few months ago . In that event Dangerous Toys also made it to the final four .
In a best of three final-round series it was the Infamous Kidz doing it again , taking out Dangerous Toys in two straight for the firstplace win . WHILS PB Kidz beat the Swamp Monkeys to take home third place .
In the WNXL , women ’ s pro paintball division eight teams came to Florida to compete . The Femmes Fatale , Cheetahs and Destiny each won three first-round games . The two new teams to the division , the New Jersey High Rollers and Northern lights faced off against one another for their respective WNXL premier . They had an exciting debut , taking their match down to a 1-v-1 in overtime for a nail-biter of a win by the Rollers .
Photo By Dave Stufflebeam
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