2009 Millennium Series season

The 2009 Millennium Series season was a season of the European Millennium Series tournament paintball circuit. Its five events took place in Spain, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Turkey. SK Moscow won the professional Champions Paintball League (CPL) championship with 356 points, ahead of DC Arsenal Dynasty on 292 and Budapest Bullets on 264.[1]

The CPL championship comprised four points-scoring rounds: Málaga, Bitburg, London and Antalya. The Millennium Cup at Paris-Disney was a separate competition and does not appear as a points round in the official CPL season standings.[1][2]

Events

Event	Location	Date	Professional or principal cup winner
Fuengirola Beach Cup	Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain	24–26 April; outstanding matches completed later	Frankfurt Syndicate — CPL
European Masters	Bitburg, Germany	29–31 May	DC Arsenal Dynasty — CPL
Millennium Cup	Paris-Disney, France	3–5 July	Chilli Peppers Riga — Millennium Cup and Intercontinental Cup
Campaign Cup	United Kingdom	September	SK Moscow — CPL
Sarsilmaz Cup	Antalya region, Turkey	October	DC Arsenal Dynasty — CPL

The CPL event winners are recorded in the official season table. Contemporary reports document the separate Paris competitions and the completion of the postponed Málaga final during the Paris event.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Season overview

Disrupted opening event

The season opened with the Fuengirola Beach Cup on the beachfront at Fuengirola. Strong winds and rain disrupted the tournament, leaving matches to be completed at later Millennium events.[8]

The official Paris schedule reserved the opening CPL-field session on 3 July for the Málaga semi-finals and finals. Frankfurt Syndicate defeated SK Moscow 5–3 in their semi-final and London Nexus 5–2 in the final. These results belonged to the Fuengirola Beach Cup, despite the matches taking place during the Paris weekend.[3][4]

Frankfurt consequently received 100 championship points for the opening round, with Nexus taking 88 for second and SK Moscow 80 for third.[1]

Bitburg

DC Arsenal Dynasty won the European Masters in Bitburg, defeating SK Moscow 5–0 in the final. Budapest Bullets beat Chilli Peppers Riga 5–4 in the third-place match.[5]

With second place at Bitburg following third at Málaga, SK Moscow had accumulated 168 points from the opening two CPL rounds. Dynasty's Bitburg victory followed tenth place at Málaga.[1]

Paris competitions

The Paris-Disney event included the Millennium Cup and a separate Intercontinental Cup. The Millennium Cup draw placed teams from different Millennium divisions together: one preliminary group included London Nexus, Ronins PBW Haguenau, 2easy Warsaw and MacDev Ronin.[2]

Chilli Peppers Riga won both competitions. Riga defeated DC Arsenal Dynasty in the Millennium Cup final and Joy Stockholm in the Intercontinental Cup final.[6]

Although Paris was part of the season's event programme, its cup results were separate from the four-event CPL championship table.[1][2]

Campaign Cup and Antalya

SK Moscow won the Campaign Cup by defeating Chilli Peppers Riga 5–4. Planet Eclipse's contemporary report described SK recovering from a 4–0 deficit, drawing level at 4–4 and winning the deciding point after the game reached a one-on-one situation.[7]

The victory increased SK Moscow's championship total to 268 points before Antalya. Budapest Bullets stood second on 200, while DC Arsenal Dynasty and Joy Stockholm each had 192.[1]

DC Arsenal Dynasty won the final CPL round at the Sarsilmaz Cup, ahead of SK Moscow and Joy Stockholm. SK's second place secured the season championship with 356 points, a margin of 64 over Dynasty. Budapest finished fifth at Antalya and retained third in the final championship standings.[1][9]

The Antalya tournament also included the Semi-Professional Paintball League, Division 1, Division 2 and M5 competitions. Its reported winners included Art Chaos Moscow in SPL, All Russians Moscow in Division 1 and Dogs D'Amour Thessaloniki in Division 2. These were event results rather than season championship standings.[9]

Champions Paintball League standings

The archived official standings record the following final championship positions. The event columns show finishing places, while the final column gives accumulated championship points. Paris was not included in this table.[1]

Position	Team	Málaga	Bitburg	London	Antalya	Total points
1	SK Moscow	3	2	1	2	356
2	DC Arsenal Dynasty	10	1	5	1	292
3	Budapest Bullets	7	3	4	5	264
4	Chilli Peppers Riga	14	4	2	4	244
5	Joy Stockholm	6	11	3	3	240
6	Copenhagen Ducks	4	5	9	7	216
7	London Nexus	2	8	7	9	208
8	Frankfurt Syndicate	1	12	12	6	196
9	Toulouse Tontons	9	6	6	14	156
10	Oslo Menace	5	16	14	8	120
11	Offenbach Comin At Ya	11	9	8	16	100
12	Ramstein Instinct	8	10	13	15	92
13	Marseille Icon	15	7	16	12	80
14	London Shock	12	13	11	13	76
15	Stockholm Ignition	16	14	10	11	68
16	Vision PPC Grenoble	13	15	15	10	60

Team names follow the official 2009 ranking table. In particular, the table identifies the Bitburg and Antalya winner as DC Arsenal Dynasty.[1]

See also

• Millennium Series
• 2010 Millennium Series season

References

1. Champions Paintball League ranking 2009 — The Millennium Series, archived official standings.
2. Disney Millennium Cup: Schedule Preliminaries, 3 July 2009 — The Millennium Series, official Friday schedule.
3. Syndicate Wins Malaga in Paris! — SEBURO, 4 July 2009.
4. Paris Update: Syndicate Wins All 3 — SEBURO, 4 July 2009.
5. Millenium Series #2: German Masters — SEBURO, 1 June 2009, final results.
6. Riga Chili Peppers Take Millennium — SEBURO, 6 July 2009.
7. Campaign Cup Results — Planet Eclipse, 22 September 2009.
8. Стихия разбушевалась на Millennium-2009 — VVV.ru, 6 May 2009, report on the weather disruption at Fuengirola.
9. Paintball'da bir taşla iki kuş — Türkiye Turizm, 27 October 2009, Sarsilmaz Cup report and divisional podiums.