Paintball Magazine Paintball.Media Magazine May 2016 | Page 40

Photo by John Amodea

The four teams left standing after the quarterfinals were
Edmonton Impact, GI Houston Heat, Toulouse TonTons
and Breakout Spa. Both semifinal games were hardfought, close matches with Edmonton Impact defeating
TonTons 4-3 and Breakout Spa, coached by Todd Martinez
upsetting Houston Heat by the same 4-3 score.
As well as Breakout Spa played throughout the event, the
finals were the end of the line for them. Edmonton Impact,
who hadn’t lost a match yet in 2016, continued their roll,
winning the game and event 4-1 over Breakout Spa. So far
this season it’s two events in, and two first place victories
for Impact.

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Throughout the SPL both Russian teams were playing
really good, tight paintball. Red Storm Moscow and Red
Legion Moscow looked like they might be headed for a
final round matchup, but no one was counting out Five
Star Lieida or Ramstein Instinct, both of whom looked like
they had a shot to win the SPL. And as it turned out if was
these four that moved through the rounds and into the
semifinals.
In the semis Moscow Red Legion just edged out Five Star
3-2 and Red Storm did the same to Instinct, setting up an
all-Russian final round match up. And as it always seems
to, this one came down to a single point margin of victory
as Moscow Red Legion beat their countrymen, Moscow