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tistics for kills, points and more,
is helping professional paintball
create a new group of future
stars while simultaneously reminding everyone in the world
just how good some of the experienced professionals truly are.
The Champions will be threatened in 2014 by some outstanding Challengers division teams
as well, all hungry for a spot at
the top.
The Dallas PSP event will see the
PSP pro division welcome Art
Chaos, the new Russian powerThe 2014 tournament paintball season
house team, with a roster packed
looks to build off the impressive competiwith recognizable (if not pronounceable)
tion hosted by the Paintball Sports Promo- names. Quite frankly, Art Chaos, with
tions (PSP) league, with their impressive
their Russian superstars, should make
webcast, while watching what the Ameriquick work of the Challengers division in
can Paintball League can do now that the
Dallas and make a one-event move into the
NPPL has stepped aside for 2014. Teams
Champions division. If they don’t it will
in both the Champions and Challenger’s
be quite a disappointment, not to mendivisions of the PSP look tougher than
tion a remarkable victory for the teams
ever, while the APL is currently still filling that manage to hold them down. Between
out its professional division. Since HousFederov, Berdnikov, Gaudin, Knyazev and
ton Heat and Dynasty have announced
Panteleev, about the best way we can think
they will compete in the APL pro division of for the rest of the Challengers division
in 2014, does that mean everyone else will to beat these guys in Dallas is to slash their
likely play for third while they settle the
tires in the hotel parking lot and hope they
big money amongst themselves? Meancan’t get a ride. We never thought we’d call
while, the NPPL has formally announced
the remarkable Moscow Red Legion the
they would take 2014 off to determine
“other” Russian team in the PSP, but here
their next move. Paintball on the beach at
we are. Having announced intentions to
Huntington Beach, California will live on, merge their roster with the French powhowever, thanks to HK, who have stepped erhouse Ton Tons (who had a rough time
up to present the event and offer prizes.
in PSP pro competition in 2013), the Red
Legion/Ton Tons combine are more than
In the PSP, the Champion’s Division will
good enough to make a run at the podium
likely be every bit as tough, if not tougher, in 2014. It’s very likely they will make the
than it was in 2013 with top teams battling jump out of the Challengers division after
before a world audience thanks to the best Dallas as well, which might make the 2014
webcast in paintball. The webcast, with
Dallas PSP Challengers podium a 1-2 for
Matty Marshall, Todd Martinez and its sta- the Russian teams.
February 2014