Sunday; every divisional team's dream. Surviving the prelims and moving on to play the elite in their division. But this is no PSP National event.
This is CFPS, Central Florida Paintball Series, held at CFP in Lakeland Florida. A regional event, with the theme of the series: "Race to World Cup". Winners of their respective divisions at the end of the series win entry to World Cup in October, with seeding points. Event 1 was a smaller event compared to this. Round 1 was held on Sunday January 25th, 2009. Compared to last year's SPCS events this one was small. (The SPCS is another story for another post)Event 1 was 28 paid teams, playing on 3 fields. Now compare that event to last Sunday, Event 2, and you'll see a different picture. Event 2 had 41 paid teams. Yeah, a regional 5-man event drew out 41 teams between D5, D4, D3 and Masters. The other closest 5 man series, the SPCS, which is now separate and at a new location, drew 32 teams in late February with D5, D4, D3 and three D2 teams.
The story I'm here to tell is the one you would only hear from the fans of this team, or the team members themselves. This is USF's story.
This lesson is a theme in the D-List, a theme in divisional 5-man:
You don't have to be the best team playing to win; you just have to be the best when it counts.
This rings even more true when you're using the old style of PSP 5-man scoring. (The scoring system where you get 4pts per elimination, 2pts for each of your live players, 20pts for the first flag pull and 50pts for the flag hang. The new Race2-2 plays out a little differently.
Here’s the story of USF (University of South Florida) Bulls D5 team:
These guys go to college and play paintball. This Sunday they started out going 6 wins and no losses in the prelims. They had a total score of 578, the highest scoring team in prelims. They moved on to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals the top 4 teams advance to finals, to play 3 games. The highest cumulative score will win finals. In the semis the Bulls won 2 of 3 games, combining for a score of 192. Looking at this from the outside that score would probably easily put them into the finals. But the rest of the bracket was much tighter, the highest score after Semi's being 210- Fatality Blue, then Stirr Chili and NXK Reaction tied with a score of 204, finally SPEED with a score of 198. The Bulls missed the mark by 6 points.
Here's the link to APPA for D5 Semi-Finals:
http://www.paintball-players.org/scores/L20/scores956_5_1_Scores.html
Yeah, they went 8 and 1 and didn't make the cut for finals. That's how the point system worked out. The new Race2-2 would have probably put the Bulls into finals.
Finals rolled around, and the above 4 teams moved on. Each played 3 games. Two teams went 2 and 1, Fatality Blue and Stirr Chili, both ending up with a tie score of 202. SPEED and NXK Reaction both went 1 and 2, SPEED edging out NXK by 2 points to take 3rd. Back to the tie: Fatality and Stirr Chili both played each other with Fatality winning, 4 players alive. Fatality Blue took the top spot and Stirr Chili ended the day 8 and 4 taking 2nd place.
CFPS D5-
1. Fatality Blue
2. Stirr Chili
3. SPEED
4. NXK Reaction Black
CFPS D4-
1. Fatality Red
2. ECE
3. Stealth All Stars
4. TU Stealth
CFPS D3-
1. TU Infusion
2. Merk Status White
3. Fatality Orange
4. Annihilators
MASTERS
1. CFP MASTERS
2. Men At Work
3. Wicked
This is CFPS, Central Florida Paintball Series, held at CFP in Lakeland Florida. A regional event, with the theme of the series: "Race to World Cup". Winners of their respective divisions at the end of the series win entry to World Cup in October, with seeding points. Event 1 was a smaller event compared to this. Round 1 was held on Sunday January 25th, 2009. Compared to last year's SPCS events this one was small. (The SPCS is another story for another post)Event 1 was 28 paid teams, playing on 3 fields. Now compare that event to last Sunday, Event 2, and you'll see a different picture. Event 2 had 41 paid teams. Yeah, a regional 5-man event drew out 41 teams between D5, D4, D3 and Masters. The other closest 5 man series, the SPCS, which is now separate and at a new location, drew 32 teams in late February with D5, D4, D3 and three D2 teams.
The story I'm here to tell is the one you would only hear from the fans of this team, or the team members themselves. This is USF's story.
This lesson is a theme in the D-List, a theme in divisional 5-man:
You don't have to be the best team playing to win; you just have to be the best when it counts.
This rings even more true when you're using the old style of PSP 5-man scoring. (The scoring system where you get 4pts per elimination, 2pts for each of your live players, 20pts for the first flag pull and 50pts for the flag hang. The new Race2-2 plays out a little differently.
Here’s the story of USF (University of South Florida) Bulls D5 team:
These guys go to college and play paintball. This Sunday they started out going 6 wins and no losses in the prelims. They had a total score of 578, the highest scoring team in prelims. They moved on to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals the top 4 teams advance to finals, to play 3 games. The highest cumulative score will win finals. In the semis the Bulls won 2 of 3 games, combining for a score of 192. Looking at this from the outside that score would probably easily put them into the finals. But the rest of the bracket was much tighter, the highest score after Semi's being 210- Fatality Blue, then Stirr Chili and NXK Reaction tied with a score of 204, finally SPEED with a score of 198. The Bulls missed the mark by 6 points.
Here's the link to APPA for D5 Semi-Finals:
http://www.paintball-players.org/scores/L20/scores956_5_1_Scores.html
Yeah, they went 8 and 1 and didn't make the cut for finals. That's how the point system worked out. The new Race2-2 would have probably put the Bulls into finals.
Finals rolled around, and the above 4 teams moved on. Each played 3 games. Two teams went 2 and 1, Fatality Blue and Stirr Chili, both ending up with a tie score of 202. SPEED and NXK Reaction both went 1 and 2, SPEED edging out NXK by 2 points to take 3rd. Back to the tie: Fatality and Stirr Chili both played each other with Fatality winning, 4 players alive. Fatality Blue took the top spot and Stirr Chili ended the day 8 and 4 taking 2nd place.
CFPS D5-
1. Fatality Blue
2. Stirr Chili
3. SPEED
4. NXK Reaction Black
CFPS D4-
1. Fatality Red
2. ECE
3. Stealth All Stars
4. TU Stealth
CFPS D3-
1. TU Infusion
2. Merk Status White
3. Fatality Orange
4. Annihilators
MASTERS
1. CFP MASTERS
2. Men At Work
3. Wicked
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