TOURNAMENT
The Freedom organization of three and five-man
teams playing out of OXCC made a very strong
showing for the final MAPL event of 2013, bringing six three-man teams on Saturday and another
five on Sunday’s five-man event for a total of eleven total competing lines! This certainly didn’t hurt
their chances of sending teams through to the afternoon rounds of play, as in Saturday’s three-man
competition a full half of the teams moving into the
final rounds of play were Freedom squads, joined
by United and Coka Nostra. By mid-afternoon
the dust had settled at OXCC and it was Freedom
that took the gold trophy, with the Freedom Kidz
in second and United in third. This sealed the deal
for Freedom as the 2013 MAPL three-man D4/5
series champions as well.
Saturday’s five-man portion of the event saw
Rogue, out of Virginia’s Skyline Paintball, play
impressive paintball all day along with NRG Elite,
Freedom and Leverage D4, who had won three
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of the four previous MAPL events of 2013 and
were looking to close out their banner season on
a high note. Late afternoon at OXCC saw Skyline
pushed into the match for third against Freedom,
which they won, while Leverage would battle
NRG Elite for the MAPL Masters title. While Rogue
took third and relegated Freedom to fourth in two
straight games, NRG Elite came out and took the
first game away from Leverage. Leverage came
back and ground NRG Elite down in the final
two games, however, finishing out their season
with another gold trophy and the series title. For
their trouble, Leverage walked away with five of
Bob Long’s impressive new Insight markers, an
upgrade from the G6R markers the league had
advertised for first place. Other prizes for winning and placing teams included Valken Proton
markers, Crossfire custom compressed air bottles,
Eclipse gear bags, backpacks and gift certificates
and pile of Spire loaders from Virtue Paintball.
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