Paintball Magazine August 2017 Paintball.Media Issue | Page 91

In a fairly surprising semifinal round Moscow
Red Legion ended San Antonio X-Factor’s
weekend early, 5-3 and Tampa Bay Damage
beat Edmonton Impact by 3 points, 8-5.
Raise your hand if you called Tampa Bay
Damage versus Moscow Red Legion in the
finals before the event started. And like
every other NXL event this season in the
pro division this one came down to a single
point—and that single point edge wen to
Moscow Red Legion as they beat Damage
4-3, ending another great NXL pro event.
If you missed it you can always catch every
pro game at www.GoSports.com on demand.
DIVISIONAL PLAY
The Semiprofessional division of the NXL
saw 20 teams entering play on Friday
morning, each with the goal of coming out
on top by Sunday afternoon. But this is a
tough division; just ask DZ All Stars and
Montreal Image. These were top of the very
best teams Division Two had to offer in 2016
and yet neither would win a single game in
Atlantic City in the Semipros.
New York Xtreme, Wolfpack, Distortion,
Sacramento DMG and Louisville Asylum
all made it out of the preliminary rounds
without a loss. But it’s not always how fast
you start—it’s how you finish and Prague’s
MLKings rattled off four Sunday wins to
take first place in the Semipro division; this
after barely squeaking into Sunday play. The
MLKings victory coupled with the Moscow
Red Legion win in the Pro Division was the
first time in paintball history that European
teams finished in first place in the top two
divisions of a major U.S. event.
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