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las, the tournament paintball season
is now upon us. Paintball Sports
Promotions (PSP) gets the competitive season going with the first major
paintball tournament of the season in the
U.S., this one held in Forney South, Texas just outside of Dallas. Held at Cousins
Paintball Park Dallas, the PSP Dallas Open
drew 116 teams spread across eight division from Pro RaceTo 7 to Division 4 RaceTo 2, and everything in-between.
As the event approached it was clear that
there were going to be weather issues in
Dallas. Solid rain leading up to and early on in the event led to mud the likes of
which we haven’t seen since the Mardi
Gras Open of the early 2000s. But this is
paintball and there’s no crying in paintball,
right?
Mud was only one of the storylines for
this event. Uncertainty was another. In the
weeks leading up to Dallas there were numerous rumors and a lot of speculation as
to the league’s new sponsorship policies,
some of the league owners being distracted
with issues not related to the PSP, and even
things like sideline coaching (or lack thereof) and rate of fire changes.
The games got underway to rain, lots of
rain. And as the games wore on the grass
wore down. You may notice in the photos there were grass fields when this event
started but not for long.
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