Want X Ball™? Want $20,000?

[raehl]

Do you have what it takes to play over 90 straight minutes of paintball?

The MWAXL has increased the Amateur Season Champion prize to $20,000 and expanded the Amateur schedule to 5 matches per team.

Entry fees for the Novice division have also been reduced from $5,000 to $4,000 per team. All matches are BYOP.

Held in conjunction with On Target Entertainment's Heartland 7-man series, all events are at fairgrounds locations, on green grass with inflatable bunkers and fully netted fields. The MWAXL is also hiring the best officials in the Midwest and paying over triple the going rate to make sure we get them.

"You shouldn't have to be a pro or a college team to play X Ball™," said MWAXL founder and NCPA President Chris Raehl. "So we've thought of every excuse you might have to not try X Ball™, and we've eliminated them all. You don't have to fly or rent cars or stay in a hotel for four days. You don't have to take off work. You don't have to play on dirt or rocks or sand. You don't have to sell your winnings on E-Bay, because we're giving out cash. You don't have to buy our paint, you don't have to deal with poor officials, and you don't have wait all day to play a couple minutes every hour. It's just you, your opponents, and over 90 straight minutes of paintball."

For more information on the MWAXL, visit www.mwaxl.com, email info@mwaxl.com, or call (715)720-9131.

[Python14]

$4000 seems awful steep for a novice team, even if it is a series tournament.

[raehl]

How much do you pay to play a 5-man tournament? $150? $200?

Lets say that after entry fee and field paint you pay $150 to play a 5-man. Take you and 14 of your buddies, make an X Ball squad, and now you've got $2250 per event. $1000 of that goes to the entry fee, and you've still got $1250 left to buy paint - which since it's BYOP, you can easily get 25+ cases of.

So it's about the same. EXCEPT - you're not just another of 30+ teams at a 5-man tournament. You're one of 10 teams, and one of 2 teams on the field for almost 2 hours. Your team gets a page on the league website, your sponsor's logos go there, your team's or sponsor's logos go on the field. You get to play on grass at a fairgrounds with top-level officials. And you get to play X-Ball.

Now, I'm not saying the league is for everyone - there are certainly plenty of teams out there who are going to be more suited to playing tournaments on the cheap at their local paintball field. But there are also plenty of nov teams out here who would like to play a national-quality event without having to dish out national-level event entry fees, airfare, 4 days of lodging, 3 days of missed work, etc, and that's where we come in.


Different way to play paintball, nut much if any more expensive than the way you're playing now.


- Chris

[Python14]

eh, sounds a little more decent to me now. Will you ever be hosting events in say, Virginia?

[FalconGuy016]

Originally posted by raehl
How much do you pay to play a 5-man tournament? $150? $200?

Lets say that after entry fee and field paint you pay $150 to play a 5-man. Take you and 14 of your buddies, make an X Ball squad, and now you've got $2250 per event. $1000 of that goes to the entry fee, and you've still got $1250 left to buy paint - which since it's BYOP, you can easily get 25+ cases of.


- Chris

I cant make sense of that. If the entry fee is $4000 per team... how is just $1000 of that money said above just going to etnry fee?

[raehl]

The $4000 is for the whole season, which for Novice, is 4 matches on 4 separate Sundays. Each match runs for 90 minutes, which is quite a chunk of change. You're basically playing paintball for 2 hours straight.

$4,000/4days = $1000/team/day.

- Chris

[TheJester]

Originally posted by raehl
Each match runs for 90 minutes, which is quite a chunk of change. You're basically playing paintball for 2 hours straight.


90 min is only an hour and a 1/2 ;) , not two hours

[Smitty2k1]

Originally posted by raehl
You're basically playing paintball for 2 hours straight.
- Chris


Ahem, its only an hour and a half.

Actully Ive never heard of this x-ball... can someone hook me up with a webby?

thanks
pat

[raehl]

How long is a one hour football game?

It's 90 minutes of game clock. There's a halftime and some timeouts in there.

www.xballpaintball.com

Or pick up pretty much and recent paintball publication. They all seem to have articles on X ball at IAO or Word Cup.

- Chris