Paintball Media Magazine October 2023 | Page 74

And thus the scene was set for Classic paintball at its best . Amongst the fields played were the classic woods field , an air ball field , the renowned “ window ” hyper field with its legendary pyramid at the 50 , and the two great equalizers : the mounds field , and Badlandz fabled zipper field . Despite the fact that the video livestream featured the woods field , spectators seemed to gravitate to the two latter forums . Why ? Because the competition here was unpredictable , and although it could be a bit tedious , it was a guaranteed slugging match . The only team that seemed to have consistent success on the zipper was the Jungle Lizards amateur team who , not by any surprise , wound up taking the fourth place spot in the 10-Man overall .
The Pro Division was hot from the start . Kapp Factory came out of the prelims with a strong lead , more than 70 points ahead of anyone else in the field . Behind them ,
Image , Adrenaline , and Far Side were separated by a mere 4 points in a battle for the number two spot .
But Kapp Factory ’ s stride faded in the woods . In the semi finals , they took the one-two punch on body counts , falling to Ground Zero and Adrenaline in succession , and dropped back down to a number 8 spot , just ahead of Los Angeles Infamous .
It was Image , the Annihilators , and Adrenaline that pulled out ahead of the pack going into the finals , showing their mastery of the classic woods format .
In the final round , a flag pull and hang by Image knocked Adrenaline down to the third rung of the podium , and in the nailbiter match against the Annihilators , they ran down the field last minute , missed the flag pull by seconds , but won by an 8 to 2 body count .
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