2016 NXL Las Vegas Open

The 2016 NXL Las Vegas Open was a National Xball League (NXL) paintball tournament held from 18 to 20 March 2016 at Craig Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It opened the league's five-event national season and included professional and divisional X-Ball, traditional five-player, pump and ten-player competitions.[1]

Edmonton Impact won the professional tournament, defeating San Diego Dynasty 8–4 in the final according to the official match record.[2]

Dates and venue

Competition took place from Friday, 18 March, to Sunday, 20 March 2016 at Craig Ranch Regional Park, 628 West Craig Road, North Las Vegas.[1]

A contemporary league update advertised practice sessions on Thursday, 17 March, ahead of the tournament. These sessions were offered on the non-professional fields.[3]

Competition formats

The official event record lists 161 registered and paid team entries across ten competitions.[1]

Professional, Semi-Pro and Division 2–4 X-Ball were advertised with 16-minute game times. Division 3 and Division 4 traditional five-player competition had five-minute game times. A separate five-player division was listed as D-500 — Includes Paint.[1]

Open Pump five-player competition had five-minute game times, while Open ten-player competition had ten-minute game times. Both were scheduled for Sunday.[1]

Professional competition

Edmonton Impact won all seven of its recorded matches. In the preliminary round, Impact defeated San Antonio X-Factor, Los Angeles Ironmen, Baltimore Revo and San Diego Dynasty.[2]

Impact then defeated upTon 187 cRew 4–2 in the quarter-finals and Tampa Bay Damage 8–3 in the semi-finals. The final produced a second meeting with Dynasty, which Impact won 8–4.[2]

Round	Opponent	Impact's score	Opponent's score
Preliminary	San Antonio X-Factor	7	4
Preliminary	Los Angeles Ironmen	5	4
Preliminary	Baltimore Revo	5	3
Preliminary	San Diego Dynasty	7	5
Quarter-final	upTon 187 cRew	4	2
Semi-final	Tampa Bay Damage	8	3
Final	San Diego Dynasty	8	4

Los Angeles Infamous finished third overall, ahead of Tampa Bay Damage.[4]

Divisional competition

Brooklyn Bears won Semi-Pro X-Ball, Montreal Image won Division 2, Annapolis A-Team won Division 3 and Camp Pendleton Raiders Black won Division 4.[4]

DYE's contemporary event report highlighted Annapolis A-Team's Division 3 victory and Armagedon GUA's appearance in the Division 3 five-player final. The report also recorded the Los Angeles Ironmen's narrow preliminary defeats to Impact and Dynasty, both by 5–4.[5]

Results

The following tables list the leading four finishers in each of the ten competitions with published results.[4]

X-Ball

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Professional	Edmonton Impact	San Diego Dynasty	Los Angeles Infamous	Tampa Bay Damage
Semi-Pro	Brooklyn Bears	Distortion	Tj All Stars	Sacramento DMG
Division 2	Montreal Image	Indianapolis Mutiny	Hawaiian Heat	Bay State Bandits
Division 3	Annapolis A-Team	Colorado BLITZ	new World order	Texas PhalanX
Division 4	Camp Pendleton Raiders Black	Capital Edge DMG GOLD	Cen Cal Alliance	Tampa Bay Revolution

Five-player, pump and ten-player competitions

Competition	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Division 3 five-player	Chi-Town Fury	Armagedon GUA	Elite	MEXICO
Division 4 five-player	Baltimore Savage	Hawaiian Heat 5	Ninjinhas Brazil	Detroit Action II
D-500 five-player	Az goats	Extreme XSV Platinum	Mayhem Laredo	CSUSB Coyotes
Open Pump five-player	LA Hitmen.com	West Coast Sharks 1	Critical Factory Protagonist	Kamandag Wig Splitters
Open ten-player	Bad Company	LA Hitmen	Tsunami	Dal3s Boyz

Place in the season

Las Vegas was the first of five events on the published 2016 NXL national calendar. It was followed by the 2016 NXL Texas Open, scheduled for 29 April to 1 May in Fort Worth, Texas.[1]

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