SAN DIEGO, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ — The year-end event of the National Professional Paintball League's 2007 season, the World Championships, was held outside of San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium November 30th - December 2nd, 2007. The three day event included a massive trade show along 5 playing fields where the top 150 teams from around the world competed for not only $100,000 cash, but more importantly for the most prestigious title in the paintball industry: NPPL Series Champions.
The event had an estimated 20,000 attendees, even with the generally rainy weather on Friday/Saturday. The event was watched on the NPPL's free live web cast, with television quality video and replays, by an estimated 50,000 viewers from around the world who watched on average in excess of approximately one hour each.
Congratulations to San Diego Dynasty as they not only won the final event of the NPPL's 2007 season, they are also the 2007 NPPL Super 7 World Series Champions. San Diego Dynasty battled it out against St. Louis Avalanche for 1st and 2nd place, while New England Hurricanes and Edmonton Impact placed 3rd and 4th respectively. In the Semi-Professional League, A-Team took 1st and earned the Series Championship after defeating Impact in a best of three while Arsenal Evolution placed 3rd and SA X-factor finished 4th.
The NPPL's platinum sponsors include Mad Croc, Rockstar, the US Marines, JT, Spyder and Angel.
The sport of paintball is the No. 1 extreme sport in the United States, according to the National Sporting Goods Association. The only team extreme sport, paintball participation increased by 44% from 2001 to 2006.
Pacific Paintball LLC is the leading owner/operator of Paintball industry businesses which cater to the highly desirable paintball audience and producer of the television show Xtreme Paintball: Beyond the Paint airing on FSN Tuesdays at 4:30 pm and Mondays at 5:30 pm through December.
via http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS209273+06-Dec-2007+PRN20071206
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