2025 WCPL season

The 2025 WCPL season was a United States tournament programme of the World Classic Paintball League. Its published calendar comprised four events in Florida, Wisconsin, Oregon and Missouri, combining ten-player classic paintball with the newly announced seven-player Jim Lively's Gold Rush Classic.[1]

Contemporary reporting records LA Xtreme winning the Panhandle Classic. LA Hitmen's published team record separately claims first place at the 2025 Gold Rush seven-player tournament.[2][3]

Calendar

The following dates and venues appeared in the league's calendar, updated in April 2025. Dates are the announced event periods; supporting evidence of results is identified separately.[1]

Announced dates	Event	Venue and location	Advertised format
3–4 May 2025	2025 WCPL Panhandle Classic	Panhandle Paintball, Holt, Florida	Ten-player
2 August 2025	2025 WCPL Wisconsin Classic	Commando Paintball Sports, Little Suamico, Wisconsin	Ten-player
6–7 September 2025	2025 WCPL Jim Lively's Gold Rush Classic	Splat Action Paintball, Molalla, Oregon	Seven-player
11–12 October 2025	2025 WCPL Gateway Classic	Gateway Paintball, Bridgeton, Missouri	Ten-player

Formats and organisation

The WCPL advertised its 2025 programme as classic woodsball competition. Panhandle, Wisconsin and Gateway were listed as ten-player tournaments, while Jim Lively's Gold Rush Classic introduced a seven-player event to the calendar.[1]

The Wisconsin listing identified Fred Schultz as its contact, the Gold Rush listing identified Jim Lively, and the Gateway listing identified Tim Schloss.[1]

The published calendar does not specify a separate professional and amateur divisional structure. A professional classification or promotion system for this season should not be inferred from proposals published for earlier WCPL seasons.[1]

Event records

Panhandle Classic

Paintball Dirt reported on 19 May that the Panhandle Classic had taken place on 3–4 May. Its published top three were:[2]

Place	Team
1	LA Xtreme
2	SDG
3	Semi Serious

The same report previewed the Wisconsin ten-player event for 2 August at Commando Paintball Sports.[2]

Wisconsin Classic

Both the official calendar and the May Paintball Dirt report advertised the Wisconsin tournament for 2 August.[1][2] These advance announcements do not establish its final results.

Jim Lively's Gold Rush Classic

The league announced the Gold Rush Classic as a seven-player woodsball tournament at Splat Action Paintball.[1]

LA Hitmen's team website lists first place at the Jim Lively Gold Rush 7-Man 2025 among its achievements. This is a team-published result rather than a complete organiser-issued classification.[3]

Paintball Media's November 2025 issue announcement also identified the WCPL Gold Rush Classic among the events covered in that issue.[4]

Gateway Classic

The official calendar advertised the Gateway Classic for 11–12 October at Gateway Paintball in Bridgeton.[1]

Paintball Media's January 2026 issue announcement identified coverage of a WCPL Gateway Classic. That announcement does not provide its match results or final placings.[5]

Standings and championship

The available event records establish individual results rather than a verified season championship. Panhandle's reported podium and LA Hitmen's Gold Rush achievement should not be presented as season titles.[2][3]

The WCPL's public PBLeagues league archive does not list a 2025 programme or a corresponding season standings table. This absence does not establish that the announced events were cancelled or that no championship was awarded.[6]

References