Iron City Classic
The Iron City Classic was a recurring American paintball tournament established by Tim Montressor in 2017. Its inaugural event took place at Urban Assault Paintball near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 29–30 July 2017. The tournament combined ten-player competition with woodland, Hyperball and earth-mound fields.[1]
History
Establishment
Eighteen ten-player teams entered the inaugural tournament. The event brought together mechanical and electronic markers, with electronic markers restricted to 5.5 balls per second. Montressor organised the competition around playing environments associated with earlier tournament paintball.[1]
Urban Assault had previously hosted National Professional Paintball League events. Its woodland, Hyperball and mound fields provided three different playing environments within the tournament.[1]
Subsequent editions
The second Iron City Classic took place at Urban Assault on 4–5 August 2018. San Antonio X-Factor won the tournament.[1]
The 2019 Open ten-player competition recorded 72 teams in its preliminary round.[2]
In 2022, the event was listed as the ICC/Montressor Classic. It took place at Paintball Sports New York in Clintondale, New York, from 29 to 31 July. The programme included open ten-player and five-player competitions.[3]
Format
The original tournament used ten-player teams competing across woodland, Hyperball and mound fields. Mechanical markers competed alongside electronic markers operating under a reduced firing-rate limit.[1]
Later programmes also included five-player competition.[3]
See also
- Tim Montressor
- Hyperball
- National Professional Paintball League
- International Classic Paintball League
References
- “Best Seat in the House to Watch the Hyberball Field”, Inception Designs. Reports on the inaugural and second Iron City Classic tournaments.
- “Iron City Classic: Open 10-man scores”, PBLeagues, 2019.
- “ICC/Montressor Classic”, PBLeagues, 29–31 July 2022.