2020 NXL Las Vegas Open

The 2020 NXL Las Vegas Open was a National Xball League (NXL) paintball tournament held from 5 to 8 March 2020 at Craig Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It opened the league's 2020 national season.[1]

Los Angeles Ironmen won the professional tournament, defeating Moscow Red Legion 7–5 in the final.[2]

Dates and venue

The official event record lists the tournament dates as Thursday, 5 March, to Sunday, 8 March 2020. Professional competition was scheduled from Friday to Sunday.[1]

The venue was Craig Ranch Regional Park, 628 West Craig Road, North Las Vegas.[1]

Competition formats

The 20-team professional division was advertised as 15-minute X-Ball with a six-point mercy rule. Semi-Pro and Division 2 used 15-minute games with a five-point mercy rule. Divisions 3 and 4 used 12-minute games with a four-point mercy rule.[1]

Traditional five-player competition was offered in Divisions 3, 4 and 5. Open Pump and Classic five-player competitions were also held; Classic was advertised with a firing-rate limit of 5.5 balls per second.[1]

Five-player games were listed with five-minute game times. Open and Amateur ten-player divisions had ten-minute game times, while Open, Amateur and Novice three-player divisions had three-minute game times.[1]

Professional competition

Los Angeles Ironmen won three of its four preliminary matches, defeating San Antonio X-Factor, New York Xtreme and TradeMyGun Outlaws, while losing 8–5 to Baltimore Revo.[2]

The Ironmen defeated X-Factor again, 8–6, in the quarter-finals before reversing their preliminary defeat to Revo with a 7–4 semi-final victory. In the final, the Ironmen defeated Moscow Red Legion 7–5.[2]

A contemporary report published by Infamous Paintball identified this as the Ironmen's first major tournament victory since the 2009 PSP Mid-Atlantic Open.[3]

Round	Opponent	Ironmen's score	Opponent's score
Preliminary	San Antonio X-Factor	7	4
Preliminary	Baltimore Revo	5	8
Preliminary	New York Xtreme	7	1
Preliminary	TradeMyGun Outlaws	9	4
Quarter-final	San Antonio X-Factor	8	6
Semi-final	Baltimore Revo	7	4
Final	Moscow Red Legion	7	5

Individual award

Alex Rodriguez was identified as the event MVP and leading elimination scorer in Infamous Paintball's contemporary report. The report credited him with 55 eliminations across 66 points played, citing MyFanWagon statistics.[3]

Results

The following tables show the leading four published placings in all 15 competitions. Open ten-player had three teams and Open Pump had two.[4]

X-Ball

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Professional	Los Angeles Ironmen	Moscow Red Legion	Edmonton Impact	Baltimore Revo
Semi-Pro	Camp Factory	Noobies	Colorado BLITZ	Annapolis A-Team
Division 2	Killers	LockDown	PLUMLIFE	NRG Elite Alpha
Division 3	HUNTERS	Phoenix Rising Black	Faction	ac Kansas City
Division 4	Riverside Quake	Phoenix Rising Red	SLT	Shut up we're trying

Five-player competitions

Competition	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Division 3	NorCal Disruption	RAMPAGE	Armagedon	Veteran Militia
Division 4	The Gummy Bears	Paradox	Albuquerque Bushwhackers	Immortal Kings
Division 5	Ruthless Red	TOG Gray	Aloha Trajik	Maui Mixed Plate Gold
Classic, 5.5 bps	DESTINY_PE	Perico Papis	BTA Butchers	Underdogs
Open Pump	All Stars	Texas Legends Pump	—	—

Ten-player competitions

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Open	Washington Winstons	NRG Elite	DESTINY California	—
Amateur	Wicked	Hydra.Fit	Blitz	Tsunami

Three-player competitions

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Open	RUSSIAN ROULETTE	N J Jesters	PR KINGS	Ruthless Gang
Amateur	Lost Dutchman	The Claws	UNDR Bois	THOSE GUYS
Novice	Dark Soul	PDK	All Muffed Up	We Need Oxygen

Subsequent calendar disruption

The next announced national event was the 2020 NXL Texas Open, scheduled for 30 April–3 May. It was subsequently cancelled. A contemporary account published on 11 May records the league's cancellation announcement as dated 18 March 2020.[5]

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