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![]() XPSL Redlands 2005 Photos by Matt Dawson HK - Amateur First
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The 2005 Proto XPSL paintball tournament series made its fourth stop of the year in at Outlaw Paintball in Redlands, California. After kicking off in Corona, playing in Santa Clara, and again in Corona, the stop in Redlands would be the last before the season ender at Bellflower in early July.
Games started on Friday with the preliminary rounds for the Amateur and Novice teams. For the Ams, out of the gate TKO and Bad Karma were the strong early leaders, though by the end of the day, each had lost a single game. Out of thirteen teams competing, the top eight, based on their total scores would be advanced into the quarterfinals on Sunday. For the 27 Novice teams, 16 would move on. Here there was a stronger division between the teams. By the end of games Friday Excessive Force, Team RIP, and Vengeance had all completed five undefeated games. This Misfits, also having only wins, were only three points behind. SATURDAY The am and nov prelim games were completed on Saturday. TKO held their top ranked amateur position, suffering their second loss. Wicked, HK and Anarchy Factory all pulled ahead of the previously second ranked Bad Karma. The number 8 slot, the last to make Sunday’s quarterfinals was filled by Street Hustlers. They pushed Breakout out of the running with a 73 point lead.
Rookie teams played the first half of their preliminary games on Saturday. By keeping all of their games on the weekend, the XPSL scheduling is designed to make travel arrangements easier for newer teams. The rookie division, with 32 teams competing was the largest of the tournament, but had the fiercest cut with 16, only half of the teams going into Sunday’s quarterfinals. At the end of their first 5 games Lit was at the top of the leader board with 489 points. At 485, Mixed Company was hot on their heels. Kolohe Boys and Turbulence Rookie found themselves tied with 302 points, but for these two teams the tie breaker placement didn’t matter, they both made it in, leading ahead of the 17th place Overkill’s 236.
The eight young gun quarterfinalists were split into two divisions of four, playing each of the other teams in their division, and the top two from each advancing to the semifinals based on total scores. Contraband was the top finisher of the group, followed by Ballistic in their same division, and Mixed Kids and Karnage Factory Kids. In the semifinals Mixed Kids defeated Ballistic and Karnage Factory Kids came out over Contraband. The finishes in the semifinals ranked the teams for their spots in the finals where Ballistic beat Contraband, finishing in third place. Mixed Kids fell to Karnage Factory Kids, finishing second with the Kids in first. SUNDAY The amateur quarterfinals picked HK, Wicked, Street Hustlers and TKO as the top four. In the semifinals, HK beat TKO and Wicked came out over Street Hustlers. This created a finals lineup where HK beat Wicked for first place, and TKO beat Street Hustlers for third. The novice quarterfinals, with 16 teams were broken into four divisions of four, the top team from each division went to the semifinals. These were Epic, Misfits, Vengeance and Just Paintball Factory. In the semifinals, Epic beat Just Paintball Factory and Vengeance defeated Misfits. In the finals Misfits beat Just Paintball Factory, for third place, and Epic finished first by beating second place Vengeance.
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