TOURNAMENT
The Mid-Atlantic Paintball League wrapped up
its 2013 three and five-man seasons with a final
tournament, the MAPL Masters, in early October.
Held, as the rest of the 2013 MAPL season had
been, at the league’s home-park, OXCC Paintball
in Chesapeake City, Maryland, the event saw
over thirty three and five-man teams arrive to
compete one last time in RaceTo paintball on the
just-released PSP World Cup layout.
The MAPL Masters was played on an unseasonably hot weekend for Fall in Maryland, with temperatures for the event climbing into the nineties
both Saturday and Sunday. As turnout for both
Saturday’s three-man and Sunday’s five-man portions of the event approached but did not clear
twenty teams, the entire event was conducted on
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a single field featuring the PSP World Cup layout,
which had been released only days prior to the
event. Both league representatives and players felt
this had an effect of leveling the playing field as
no teams had been able to practice the layout in
the weeks leading to the event. Some players did
take advantage of their ability to play the layout
in three-man play on Saturday and then return
for five-man competition Sunday, however. Teams
not quite sure about how to play the layout often
broke to the first five bunkers they could reach
and simply shot it out from there, while more
aggressive and experienced teams were more
willing to move up the field, taking chances on
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