Editing 2025 NXL Atlantic City Open

The '''2025 NXL Atlantic City Open''' was the second tournament of the [[2025 NXL season|2025 National Xball League season]], held at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey, from 2 to 4 May 2025.[1]

[[PaintballFIT]] won the professional division, defeating TonTon FSU 3–2 after overtime and a one-on-one decider. Preferred mob won the Semi-Professional division.[2][3][4]

== Venue and dates ==
The tournament took place at Bader Field, 545 North Albany Avenue, Atlantic City, from 2 to 4 May 2025.[1]

== Competition formats ==
The published programme specified 15-minute professional X-Ball matches with a six-point mercy rule. Semi-Professional and Division 2 used 15-minute matches with a five-point mercy rule. Divisions 3 and 4 used 12-minute matches with a four-point mercy rule, while Division 5 used ten-minute matches with a three-point mercy rule.[1]

Additional categories included divisional and youth five-player competition, Classic Open five-player and seven-player competition, Open and Amateur ten-player categories, and Amateur, Intermediate and Novice three-player competition.[1]

== Professional competition ==
Twenty teams entered the professional division, with ten advancing from the preliminary round. San Antonio X-Factor, Baltimore Arsenal and Red Legion each won all four preliminary matches.[2]

PaintballFIT qualified with two wins and two defeats. Its preliminary losses came against X-Factor and ac DIESEL, both of which it subsequently defeated in the elimination rounds.[2][4]

PaintballFIT beat ac DIESEL 6–0 and X-Factor 7–1 before defeating Red Legion 4–2 in the semi-finals. TonTon FSU defeated San Diego Dynasty 3–2 in the other semi-final.[2]

=== Final ===
PaintballFIT defeated TonTon FSU 3–2. The match required overtime and a subsequent one-on-one decider, in which Scott Stewart eliminated Axel Gaudin.[2][4]

The victory was PaintballFIT's third consecutive professional tournament title, following the [[2024 NXL World Cup]] and [[2025 NXL Tampa Bay Open]].[4]

Red Legion finished third and Dynasty fourth in the official event standings.[3]

== Women's competition ==
No professional [[Women's National Xball League|WNXL]] X-Ball division appeared in the programme or final standings.[1][3]

The women's five-player category recorded one entry, NJ High Rollers. The placings page listed the team without ranking points; this listing does not establish a contested women's tournament result.[1][3]

== Results ==
The table lists the first two finishers in categories with multiple teams in the published final standings.[3]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! First !! Second
|-
| Professional X-Ball || PaintballFIT || TonTon FSU
|-
| Semi-Professional X-Ball || Preferred mob || BR Factory
|-
| Division 2 X-Ball || Rejects || Noobies
|-
| Division 3 X-Ball || AG Knights || L.A. Wildcards
|-
| Division 4 X-Ball || Filthy || Team No Name
|-
| Division 5 X-Ball || Protocol || Filthy Few
|-
| Amateur ten-player || PHILIPPINES || Hydra Mentality
|-
| Classic Open seven-player || Image || Team Smoke
|-
| Classic Open five-player || Image || Papeletto Team
|-
| Division 3 five-player || NMI || High Rollers
|-
| Division 4 five-player || Quebec Paintball || Blasphemy
|-
| Division 5 five-player || New York Khaos || Noobies
|-
| Youth five-player || Hydra Kidz || Filthy Kids
|-
| Amateur three-player || Sinners || Filthy Vikings
|-
| Intermediate three-player || Pony Princess || A.S.A. Paintball
|-
| Novice three-player || Shooting Blanks || Hasbeens II
|}

Open ten-player competition had one registered team, Annapolis A-Team, which was listed first with 100 ranking points. There was no second-place team in that category.[1][3]

== See also ==
* [[National Xball League]]
* [[2025 NXL season]]
* [[2025 NXL Tampa Bay Open]]
* [[2025 NXL Midwest Open]]

== References ==
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/8815/info PBLeagues – Atlantic City Open: dates, venue, categories and formats, 2–4 May 2025.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/8815/scores PBLeagues – NXL Atlantic City Open 2025: match scores.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/8815/rankings PBLeagues – NXL Atlantic City Open 2025: final placings.]
# [https://zenandtheartofpaintball.com/2025/05/07/atlantic-city-open-2025-san-diego-dynasty/ Zen and the Art of Paintball – Atlantic City Open 2025 – San Diego Dynasty, 7 May 2025.]

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[[Category:Paintball in New Jersey]]
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