PaintballX3 Magazine June 2014 | Page 66

66 1 Dynasty: You can argue that Dynasty is not the greatest paintball team of all time if you like, but you’d be 100 percent wrong. From the Portugal 2002 event until August 2004, Dynasty won 18 straight Millennium Series seven-man tournaments, competing against the best teams in the world. Picture this, for nearly three years hundreds of teams gathered event after event all around Europe for the honor of battling for second place--until Dynasty was finally dethroned by Arsenal in Spain in ‘04. Dynasty has won more Millennium Series events than any team in the world. They have won more PSP events than any team in the world. And they have won more NPPL events than any team in the world. In fact, they have won more professional events in to- June 2014 tal than any other three professional teams in history combined. Beginning in 2002 Dynasty won the NPPL series Championship for seven straight years, they won the Millennium Series Championship three straight years, and they were crowned World Paintball Champions three straight years. In all Dynasty has won 68 major Professional Division seven and ten-man paintball tournaments (NPPL PSP, Millennium Series) in their twelve seasons as a franchise (ten-man, seven-man, X-Ball, RaceTo). No other team has won 30. Other Dynasty notes of interest: Before they were Dynasty they were called the IronKids and they were dominating tournaments in the west coast as amateurs in their early teens. In fact they were so dominant that they won all five ten-man events in their first season playing the Great Western Se-