2024 ICPL Pro DNA Open

The 2024 ICPL Pro DNA Open was a classic ten-player paintball tournament held at The Farm Sports in Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States. The published event dates were 12–14 April 2024, with competition scheduled for 13–14 April. It formed part of the International Classic Paintball League (ICPL) calendar and featured 27 teams: thirteen professional and fourteen amateur.[1][2][3]

FARSIDE won the professional classification, while GRIDLOCK finished first among the amateur teams. Both reached the combined three-team championship round, alongside Adrenaline.[2][3]

Dates and venue

The official event record identified the venue as The FARM Sports, 2042 State Route 64, Shelbyville, Tennessee 37160.[1]

Friday, 12 April was used for field walking, according to Team Smoke's account. The official playing schedule listed games on Saturday, 13 April and Sunday, 14 April.[3][4]

ICPL status and format

The Pro DNA Open was registered under the International Classic Paintball League. The promoter's January announcement described the 2024 tournament as the second Pro DNA Open and advertised it as ten-player mechanical competition.[1][5]

Team Smoke's contemporary tournament account described the event as an ICPL minor, with professional and amateur teams competing in combined brackets.[4]

Item	Details
Published event dates	12–14 April 2024
Competition dates	13–14 April 2024
Venue	The Farm Sports, Shelbyville, Tennessee
Format	Ten-player classic paintball
Published game time limit	12 minutes
Professional entries	13
Amateur entries	14
Total entries	27

The official schedule labelled preliminary games “Mixed 10v10”. Teams played eight preliminary games across fields named Mounds, Woods and Hyperball. Subsequent rounds combined professional and amateur teams under the “Open 10v10” label, while final classification standings were published separately.[2][3]

Competition

The preliminary schedule was divided into three groups. Competition began on Saturday morning and continued on Sunday before the combined playoff rounds.[3]

Nine teams contested the next stage on the Hyperball field. FARSIDE, MVPS Dark Ops and LOCKOUT formed one three-team group; GRIDLOCK, Team Smoke and DETROIT FUSION formed another; and Adrenaline, Infamous and The Misfits formed the third.[3]

FARSIDE, GRIDLOCK and Adrenaline advanced to the championship round on the Mounds field. FARSIDE scored 96 points against Adrenaline's eight and twenty against GRIDLOCK's seventeen. GRIDLOCK then scored 98 against Adrenaline's four.[3]

FARSIDE recorded the highest championship-round total with 116 points, followed by GRIDLOCK with 115 and Adrenaline with twelve. The separate classification standings placed FARSIDE first in professional competition and GRIDLOCK first in amateur competition.[2][3]

Final standings

The following tables include every team in the official final standings. Ranking points are separate from individual game scores.[2]

Professional ten-player

Place	Team	Ranking points
1	FARSIDE	100
2	Adrenaline	96
3	MVPS Dark Ops	93
4	Team Smoke	90
5	The Misfits	87
6	Infamous	85
7	Ground Zero Gold	83
8	Louisville Asylum	81
9	Image	80
10	All Americans	62.5
11	Enemy	45
12	THE FARM	27.5
13	Fight Club	10

Amateur ten-player

Place	Team	Ranking points
1	GRIDLOCK	100
2	DETROIT FUSION	96
3	LOCKOUT	93
4	Saberwolves	90
5	Roadies Factory	87
6	SuGaR ShAcK GlAzEd DoNuT HoL3 StRiPpErZ CoUgAr BaIt CoLlAb	85
7	THE FARM SILVER	83
8	TRIBE Savages	81
9	Enemy Agency	80
10	Richmond Remechs	66
11	Thunder	52
12	Crisis Tactical	38
13	ATX Outlaws	24
14	RPS	10

Championship-round scores

The combined championship round was played on Sunday, 14 April, on the Mounds field.[3]

Team	Score	Team
Adrenaline	8–96	FARSIDE
FARSIDE	20–17	GRIDLOCK
GRIDLOCK	98–4	Adrenaline

Team	Championship-round total
FARSIDE	116
GRIDLOCK	115
Adrenaline	12

References