2017 NXL Texas Open

The 2017 NXL Texas Open was a National Xball League (NXL) paintball tournament held from 5 to 7 May 2017 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It followed the 2017 NXL Las Vegas Open on the national calendar.[1]

Houston Heat won the professional tournament, defeating Edmonton Impact 5–4 in the final.[2]

Dates and venue

Competition took place at Texas Motor Speedway, 3545 Lone Star Circle, Fort Worth, from Friday, 5 May, to Sunday, 7 May 2017.[1]

Competition formats

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

The event also included Open ten-player and Intermediate mechanical five-player competition. Ten-player games were listed with ten-minute game times.[1][3]

Amateur and Novice two-player competitions were advertised with three-minute game times and recorded separately through the NXL 2vs2 Series. The separate event record identifies the competition date as 7 May.[1][4]

Open Pump five-player competition was offered for registration but attracted no entries and has no published results.[1][3]

Professional competition

Houston Heat won all seven of its recorded matches. During the preliminary round, Heat defeated Tampa Bay Damage, Chicago Aftershock, Seattle Uprising and San Antonio X-Factor.[2]

Heat then defeated Los Angeles Infamous 5–1 in the quarter-finals and Tampa Bay Damage 6–2 in the semi-finals. In the final, Heat defeated Edmonton Impact 5–4.[2]

Round	Opponent	Heat's score	Opponent's score
Preliminary	Tampa Bay Damage	7	1
Preliminary	Chicago Aftershock	8	3
Preliminary	Seattle Uprising	8	2
Preliminary	San Antonio X-Factor	5	4
Quarter-final	Los Angeles Infamous	5	1
Semi-final	Tampa Bay Damage	6	2
Final	Edmonton Impact	5	4

Results

The following tables show the leading four published placings in each division. The mechanical division lists three teams.[3][5]

X-Ball

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Professional	Houston Heat	Edmonton Impact	Tampa Bay Damage	San Antonio X-Factor
Semi-Pro	Sacramento DMG	Brooklyn Bears	New York Xtreme	Distortion
Division 2	Ralph Boyz	Chi-Town Fury	NRG Elite	Houston Zone
Division 3	TBD Jits	Camp Pendleton Raiders Black	Capital Edge DMG	Seattle Ninjas
Division 4	Texas PhalanX Gray	Nasty Gold	Texas PhalanX Red	Tulsa Rage

Five-player and ten-player competitions

Competition	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Division 3 five-player	West Coast Sharks 3	South Texas Grind	Storm Riders	Austin ChaoS
Division 4 five-player	Miami DVS	Miami Devious CRU	Tampa Bay Revolution	Bloody Knuckles
Division 5 five-player	Shut up we're trying	Pro Edge Army IIII	Skeleton Crew	OKC BREAKOUT
Mechanical Intermediate five-player	THE eNMEy	POSSUM	Capital Edge Daggers-Mech	—
Open ten-player	AAF 2	Washington Winstons	Just Send It	Fox 4 Darkside

Two-player competition

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Amateur	The pluckers and wing	Greenwich Yacht Club	Jablo	The Gruesome Twosome

The separate two-player results record also lists a Novice division, but does not assign finishing positions or ranking points to its listed teams. No Novice winner is therefore identified here.[5]

Subsequent event

The next major event on the league's calendar was the 2017 NXL Atlantic City Open, scheduled for 23–25 June in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[1]

References