Paintball Magazine May 2017 Paintball.Media | Page 48

over Lucky 15s Staffordshire. DIVISIONAL PLAY In Division One it was Kiev Xpress defeating Paris Camp Carnage 2 in the finals to take first place. Galapagos Tortugas from Ecuador knocked off Palm Beach Royals from the Netherlands to take the Division Two championship. And Paintball Family Puget won their Division Three final round game against Brussels Heat 2 for the win. THOUGHTS… T he move back to Puget-su-Argens probably didn’t work out the way that the Millennium Series owners and teams would have liked. The weather was not pleasant but the fact is that’s not uncommon for almost anywhere in Europe 048 paintball.media magazine in March. So what options does that leave for the Millennium going forward? There are no sure bets in Europe for a March event. April? Eight of the ten final round teams from the five division represented different countries. From the Netherlands to the Ukraine and all the way to Ecuador and New Zealand, worldwide paintball was represented at the highest level of each division. The competition in the CPL—look for Russian Legion, TonTons, Impact and Breakout Spa to dominate the CPL all year. After that it’s a pretty even field of teams. Best guess is Joy Division and MLKings separate themselves from the second tier pack by the season’s end. Still it’s hard to imagine either will crack the top four more than maybe once or twice this season.