PaintballX3 Magazine PaintballX3 Euro, November 2012 | Page 37

down to fight for 3rd and 4th place. ML Kings wouldnt go down without a fight but Izmir was just too much for them and would have to settle for 2nd place as Izmir took both Disney World Cup win and D1 2012 series championship. RMG would take 3rd winning over Gold Coast. However a twist to the finals would be all four teams would be promoted to SPL in 2013 and would be meeting each other again during the next season! The Division 2 race was not as close as other divisions. Series leader Aggression the Hague would not make it into the semis however would still take the series title and move up to D1. Joining Aggression would be NPP Valenciennes who would end up in 13th place for this event but still with enough series points to give them 3rd place overall. The excitement for the weekend would come down to four teams: Scorpions Milano, Elite Ile d’ Oleron, Bullitproof Monkeys Strangnas and Bramble Incredi Knights. It would be a battle of Scandinavian teams when it would be Knights vs Bullitproof Monkeys. It would be a tight game ending in a tie taking them into overtime. In overtime the two teams fought hard to get that sudden death point but once more time ran out. Enter the rarely used ranking rule, 33.01 in the current Millennium Series rule book. It states that in the event that in overtime if neither team scores instead of taking a second 5 minute overtime match the winner would be decided by seeding rank. In the case of Knights versus Bullitproof Monkey’s it would be Knights taking the win since the team had participated in every event this season giving them a higher ranking overall. They would go on to face Scorpions Milano and sending Bullitproof to play Elite Ile d’ Oleron. After the smoke from the ranking rule cleared it would be the victorious Scorpions Milano taking first place, the youth team Knights taking second. Bullitproof would take home 3rd and Elite would take home fourth. With the win for Scorpions they would be the third team moving on to D1 next season and 2nd place overall for the season. "Teams slowly cleared out of the venue saying goodbye to friends that they see only during the season..." With more than 60 teams in Division 3 it would take some time to get down to the final four teams. London Tigers 3 with Canadian guest player Tanis Italia went from a 34th place finish in London to an amazing 1st place finish here in Paris. French team Furious Sneek would take 2nd place. GFY Evolution Paris once more made their appearance on the podium taking 3rd and Meteor Auvers taking home 4th. For the 2nd year in a both GFY Evolution Paris teams would take home series title trophies. This year it would be GFY Evolution Paris 2 in first place and their parent team GFY Evolution Paris taking 2nd place. Maxs Family Frankfurt 2 would take home third place for the season followed by Evil Men Toulouse. Once more the season came to a close at the magical world of Euro Disney. Teams slowly cleared out of the venue saying goodbye to friends that they see only during the season.