2016 NXL World Cup

The 2016 NXL World Cup was a National Xball League (NXL) paintball tournament held from 3 to 6 November 2016 in Kissimmee, Florida, United States. It concluded the league's five-event national season.[1]

Edmonton Impact won the professional tournament, defeating Moscow Red Legion 9–4 in the final. Impact also finished as professional season champions, with 972 points.[2][3][4]

Dates and venue

The official event record gives the venue address as 6000 West Osceola Parkway, Kissimmee, Florida. The overall competition dates were Thursday, 3 November, to Sunday, 6 November 2016; professional competition was scheduled from Friday to Sunday.[1]

Competition formats

The registration record lists 476 registered and paid entries, including the collegiate competition.[1]

Professional, Semi-Pro and Division 2–4 X-Ball were listed with 16-minute game times. Traditional five-player competition was offered in Divisions 3, 4 and 5, alongside a separate D500 division advertised with paint included.[1]

Additional competitions included Open Pump five-player, Open and Amateur ten-player, and Amateur two-player. Open Pump was listed with five-minute game times, ten-player competition with ten-minute game times, and two-player competition with four-minute game times.[1]

College competition used five-player RaceTo-2. Division 2 traditional five-player competition was advertised but attracted no entries.[1]

Professional competition

Edmonton Impact won three of its four preliminary matches, defeating Houston Heat, Seattle Uprising and Los Angeles Infamous, while losing 4–3 to Chicago Aftershock.[2]

Impact then defeated ac Dallas 9–2 in the quarter-finals and Houston Heat 6–2 in the semi-finals. In the final, Impact defeated Moscow Red Legion 9–4.[2][3]

Round	Opponent	Impact's score	Opponent's score
Preliminary	Houston Heat	4	3
Preliminary	Seattle Uprising	3	2
Preliminary	Chicago Aftershock	3	4
Preliminary	Los Angeles Infamous	8	2
Quarter-final	ac Dallas	9	2
Semi-final	Houston Heat	6	2
Final	Moscow Red Legion	9	4

Results

The tables below show the leading four published placings in each competition. D500 had shared first and third places.[4][5]

X-Ball

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Professional	Edmonton Impact	Moscow Red Legion	San Antonio X-Factor	Houston Heat
Semi-Pro	Distortion	P.C. Katana	Sacramento DMG	MLKings
Division 2	Toronto Chargers	Birmingham Prime	Camp Pendleton Raiders	Cleveland Imperial
Division 3	Noobies	PLUMLIFE	TB Jits	Lucky 15s Staffordshire
Division 4	XPX Factory	KickN Factory	Carolina Tradition	Stingray All Stars

Five-player competitions

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Division 3	Pekin Prestige	Storm Riders	West Coast Allegiance	DESTINY
Division 4	Vicious Bunnys	East Coast Regulators	Blast Camp Revolution	Whiteout
Division 5	Clean Up Crew	Revolution	Adrenalin Army D5	WFC
D500	West Coast Sharks 5 and WFC2 Red (joint first)	—	Florida boys and Nrg 500 (joint third)	—

Other formats

Competition	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Open ten-player	Quintons Army	Capital Edge Daggers	Washington Winstons	Miami Rage
Amateur ten-player	MAF	AAF 2	NRG Elite 10-Man	Schlatchet Die Gebrmutter
Open Pump five-player	Dirtbags	NPI	West Coast Sharks 1	Next Pump Invasion
Amateur two-player	The Moist Cubes	The Gruesome Twosome	Mickeys Entourage	Ohio Power 2man

Collegiate competition

The separately recorded College Class AA @ NXL World Cup competition took place on 6 November and had ten teams. Georgia State University Panthers finished first.[6]

First	Second	Third	Fourth
Georgia State University Panthers	University of South Florida Bulls	Clemson University Tigers	Embry-Riddle Eagles

Season championships

World Cup completed the national season, following the Las Vegas, Texas, Nashville and Great Lakes Opens. Event winners and season champions were separate honours.[4]

Edmonton Impact finished first in the professional season standings with 972 points, ahead of Los Angeles Infamous on 814 and San Antonio X-Factor on 799.[4]

The final standings list the following first-placed teams in divisions contested across multiple national events:[4]

Division	First-placed team	Season points
Professional X-Ball	Edmonton Impact	972
Semi-Pro X-Ball	P.C. Katana	451.05
Division 2 X-Ball	Bay State Bandits	443.41
Division 3 X-Ball	Annapolis A-Team	443.36
Division 4 X-Ball	Camp Pendleton Raiders Black	414.24
Division 3 five-player	Armagedon GUA	321.78
Division 4 five-player	Baltimore Savage	405.58
Division 5 five-player	Az goats	177.5
Open Pump five-player	West Coast Sharks 1	360
Open ten-player	Washington Winstons	317.5

The Division 5 standings mark Texas PhalanX Red as unplaced after moving to another division, despite its 300-point total. Az goats is the first-placed eligible team in the published standings.[4]

Amateur ten-player, Amateur two-player and the separate D500 competition appear with World Cup as their only event in the published season tables. Their standings therefore do not represent championships accumulated across several tournaments.[4]

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