Editing 2007 PSP season

The '''2007 PSP season''' was a five-event United States paintball tournament series organised by [[Paintball Sports Promotions]] (PSP). It included professional [[National Xball League]] (NXL) competition, Open and divisional [[X-Ball]], and five-player tournaments.[1][2][3][4][5]

[[Los Angeles Ironmen]] won the NXL championship through the season-ending World Cup play-offs. San Diego Aftermath won the Open X-Ball season title, Vicious won Division 2 X-Ball and DBS Kidz won Division 3 X-Ball.[5]

== Calendar ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Round !! Dates !! Event !! Venue
|-
| 1 || 1–4 March 2007 || [[2007 PSP Los Angeles Open|Los Angeles Open]] || Home Depot Center, Carson, California
|-
| 2 || 3–6 May 2007 || [[2007 PSP Mid-Atlantic Open|Mid-Atlantic Open]] || PBC Sports Park, Rock Hill, South Carolina
|-
| 3 || 20–24 June 2007 || [[2007 PSP Chicago Open|Chicago Open]] || Bolingbrook Recreation and Aquatic Complex, Bolingbrook, Illinois
|-
| 4 || 2–5 August 2007 || [[2007 PSP River City Open|River City Open]] || Council Bluffs Recreation Center, described in contemporary coverage as the Omaha-area venue
|-
| 5 || 24–28 October 2007 || [[2007 PSP World Cup|World Cup]] || Disney's Wide World of Sports complex, Florida
|}

Dates follow the PBLeagues event archive and contemporary reports.[1][2][3][4][6]

WARPIG identified the River City venue as “Council Bluffs Recreation Center”, while describing its location as Omaha, Nebraska. Its report is the source of that venue wording.[4]

World Cup's wider programme began on 23 October with field walking and trade-show activity; competition began on 24 October.[5][6]

== Competition formats ==

The main X-Ball categories were the professional NXL division, Open, Division 2 and Division 3. Open admitted Division 1 teams and professional or semi-professional teams outside the NXL.[1]

Divisional teams generally played four preliminary matches before advancement rounds. Division 3 used a race-to-five format, with a match ending when one team reached five points.[3]

Five-player competition retained its separate tournament structure. At Los Angeles, teams played three games against each preliminary opponent and retained their best two scores from each pairing for advancement.[1]

== Event results ==

=== Professional NXL ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Event !! Winner !! Runner-up
|-
| Los Angeles || Los Angeles Ironmen || Boston Red Legion
|-
| Mid-Atlantic || Boston Red Legion || X-Factor
|-
| Chicago || X-Factor || Los Angeles Ironmen
|-
| River City || Boston Red Legion || San Diego Dynasty
|-
| World Cup championship || Los Angeles Ironmen || Boston Red Legion
|}

Sources: contemporary WARPIG tournament reports.[1][2][3][4][5]

The Ironmen's Los Angeles victory was their first NXL tournament win. X-Factor defeated the Ironmen 7–6 in Chicago, while Boston defeated Dynasty 8–6 at River City.[1][3][4]

=== Divisional X-Ball ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Event !! Open winner !! Division 2 winner !! Division 3 winner
|-
| Los Angeles || Team Impact || Denver Altitude || DBS Kidz
|-
| Mid-Atlantic || San Diego Aftermath || Denver Altitude || Sin City Paintball
|-
| Chicago || San Diego Aftermath || Vicious || Speedin Dirty
|-
| River City || Avalanche X || Drama Paintball || DBS Kidz
|-
| World Cup || Avalanche X || Dynasty Entourage || Speedin Dirty RNT
|}

Sources: contemporary reports.[1][2][3][4][5]

The Mid-Atlantic Division 3 winner was named Sin City Paintball in WARPIG's report and Sin City Metal in the historical PBLeagues season table.[2][7]

=== Five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Event !! Division 3 winner !! Division 4 winner
|-
| Los Angeles || Stinger Factory || Ballistic
|-
| Mid-Atlantic || Team Encounter || Looseballs
|-
| Chicago || Team Encounter || Corruption
|-
| River City || No Limit || Who What
|-
| World Cup || Team Unlimited || Gravity Kidz
|}

Sources: contemporary reports.[1][2][3][4][5]

Chicago also held Division 2 five-player competition, won by Flavor Explosion. At World Cup, swatpaintball.com's Warped Army won Division 2 five-player.[3][5]

== Season championships ==

WARPIG's season-ending report identified the following overall champions, separately from the winners of the World Cup divisional tournaments.[5]

{| class="wikitable"
! Competition !! Season champion
|-
| NXL || Los Angeles Ironmen
|-
| Open X-Ball || San Diego Aftermath
|-
| Division 2 X-Ball || Vicious
|-
| Division 3 X-Ball || DBS Kidz
|-
| Division 2 five-player || DSSP8NTBALL.com
|-
| Division 3 five-player || Team Encounter
|-
| Division 4 five-player || DBSPaintball.com
|}

The surviving PBLeagues archive records the following multi-event divisional totals.[7]

{| class="wikitable"
! Competition !! First !! Points !! Second !! Points
|-
| Open X-Ball || San Diego Aftermath || 475.39 || Team Impact || 417.73
|-
| Division 2 X-Ball || Vicious || 474.87 || TX Justice League || 461.21
|-
| Division 3 X-Ball || DBS Kidz || 477.01 || Gridlock Black || 450.94
|-
| Division 3 five-player || Team Encounter || 448.82 || Stinger Factory || 422
|-
| Division 4 five-player || DBS Paintball.com || 469.84 || Looseballs || 438.09
|}

The present-day PBLeagues page does not preserve a complete multi-event Division 2 five-player championship table. DSSP8NTBALL.com's title is documented by WARPIG's contemporary report.[5][7]

== NXL championship ==

=== Seeding standings ===

The first four tournaments determined NXL seeding for World Cup. Their accumulated points did not themselves decide the championship.[5]

APPA's contemporary pre-World Cup table recorded the following leaders.[8]

{| class="wikitable"
! Published position !! Team !! Los Angeles !! Mid-Atlantic !! Chicago !! River City !! Seeding points
|-
| 1 || Los Angeles Ironmen || 100 || 85 || 95 || 85 || 365
|-
| 2 || San Diego Dynasty || 90 || 90 || 90 || 95 || 365
|-
| 3 || Boston Red Legion || 95 || 100 || 45 || 100 || 340
|-
| 4 || X-Factor || 60 || 95 || 100 || 60 || 315
|}

Las Vegas LTZ and San Diego Legacy withdrew before River City. Their scheduled preliminary opponents received byes.[4]

=== World Cup play-offs ===

Twelve teams entered the championship. Following preliminary play, the remaining eight contested best-of-three elimination series.[5]

The Ironmen defeated Boston Red Legion two matches to one in the championship final.[5]

{| class="wikitable"
! Final match !! Los Angeles Ironmen !! Boston Red Legion
|-
| 1 || 7 || 8
|-
| 2 || 11 || 5
|-
| 3 || 7 || 6
|}

The final championship order began with the Ironmen, Boston Red Legion, Dynasty and Seattle Naughty Dogs.[5]

== Additional competitions ==

Chicago hosted an NXL East–West All-Star exhibition series. The East won the first two games 13–8 and 9–8, before the West won the third 10–7.[3]

EGO Maniacs won the World Cup Masters X-Ball competition, defeating Wild Bunch 5–1 in the final.[5]

== See also ==

* [[Paintball Sports Promotions]]
* [[National Xball League]]
* [[2006 PSP season]]
* [[2008 PSP season]]
* [[2007 NPPL season]]
* [[Paintball in the United States]]

== References ==

# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/psp/2007/la/ WARPIG — “PSP LA Open”, 1–4 March 2007. Carson venue, competition formats and tournament winners.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/psp/2007/mao/ WARPIG — “PSP Mid Atlantic Open”, 3–6 May 2007. Rock Hill venue and tournament results.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/psp/2007/chicago/ WARPIG — “PSP Chicago Open”, June 2007. Tournament results and NXL All-Star competition. Its heading incorrectly prints 2006; the report describes the 2007 event.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/psp/2007/river/ WARPIG — “2007 PSP River City Open”, 2–5 August 2007. Venue description, withdrawals and tournament results.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/psp/2007/worldcup/ WARPIG — “PSP World Cup”, 23–28 October 2007. Contemporary season champions, divisional results and NXL championship play-offs.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/leagues/1 PBLeagues — PSP Events archive. Dates for the five 2007 tournaments.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/league/1/seasonRankings/2007 PBLeagues — “2007 Season Rankings: PSP Events”. Divisional totals and individual event placings; the professional table contains pre-World Cup seeding points.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20071012030241/http://paintball-players.org/scores/L1/seasonrankings2007.html American Paintball Players Association — “Paintball Sports Promotions: 2007 Season Rankings”, archived 12 October 2007. Contemporary standings before World Cup.]

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