Editing 2025 ICPL Pittsburgh Open Classic

The '''2025 ICPL Pittsburgh Open Classic''' was a mechanical paintball tournament held from '''1 to 3 August 2025''' at [[Urban Assault]] in McDonald, Pennsylvania, United States. The event formed part of the [[International Classic Paintball League]] programme and featured professional and amateur ten-player competition alongside open and amateur five-player divisions.[1][2]

Chicago Aftershock won professional ten-player, Dark Carnival won amateur ten-player, ac EMPIRE won open five-player and Ohio Outlaws won amateur five-player. There were 63 entries across the four divisions.[2][3]

== ICPL status ==

Major League Paintball included the Pittsburgh Open Classic in its published 2025 ICPL season calendar. Although the event used a separate Pittsburgh Open Classic organiser account on PBLeagues, its results were incorporated into the ICPL season standings.[1][2][5]

== Venue and schedule ==

The tournament took place at Urban Assault, 201 Cecil-Sturgeon Road, McDonald, Pennsylvania 15057.[2]

Five-player competition was scheduled for Friday, 1 August. Professional and amateur ten-player competition followed on Saturday, 2 August and Sunday, 3 August.[2]

== Formats ==

The event offered four classic paintball divisions.[2]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! Playing dates !! Entries
|-
| Professional ten-player || 2–3 August || 18
|-
| Amateur ten-player || 2–3 August || 28
|-
| Open five-player || 1 August || 5
|-
| Amateur five-player || 1 August || 12
|}

The event notice specified 12-minute games on the hybrid and woods fields and ten-minute games on hyperball and mounds. Five-player registration listed six-minute games.[2]

Professional ten-player semi-finals were assigned to the woods field and amateur ten-player semi-finals to mounds. Both ten-player finals were assigned to hyperball.[2][4]

== Competition ==

=== Professional ten-player ===

Image led the preliminary round with 685 points. Nine teams advanced to the semi-finals, from which Image, Chicago Aftershock and All Americans reached the final.[4]

Chicago Aftershock won the final round with 112 points, ahead of Image on 103 and All Americans on 102.[4]

=== Amateur ten-player ===

Dark Carnival won the amateur ten-player final with 116 points. Sniper Squad finished second with 111, followed by Oiled up with 15.[4]

=== Five-player competition ===

ac EMPIRE won open five-player with 140 final-round points, ahead of Team Farside on 110 and Chicago Aftershock on 12.[4]

Ohio Outlaws won amateur five-player with 114 final-round points. Roadies Factory finished second with 30 and All Americans 5 third with 24.[4]

== Final standings ==

The following tables reproduce the final divisional placings published by PBLeagues.[3]

=== Professional ten-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Chicago Aftershock
|-
| 2 || Image
|-
| 3 || All Americans
|-
| 4 || FARSIDE
|-
| 5 || Philadelphia Iconic
|-
| 6 || Team Smoke
|-
| 7 || Omaha Bulls
|-
| 8 || Adrenaline
|-
| 9 || The Misfits
|-
| 10 || Ground Zero Gold
|-
| 11 || MVPS Dark Ops
|-
| 12 || Infamous
|-
| 13 || Rogue
|-
| 14 || Louisville Asylum
|-
| 15 || ac EMPIRE
|-
| 16 || Prime Suspects
|-
| 17 || Trauma
|-
| 18 || TEAM CROWLEY RANGERS
|}

=== Amateur ten-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Dark Carnival
|-
| 2 || Sniper Squad
|-
| 3 || Oiled up
|-
| 4 || Thrashers
|-
| 5 || Brawlgang
|-
| 6 || AAF
|-
| 7 || FRACTION
|-
| 8 || NJ Jesters DAF
|-
| 9 || FMI
|-
| 10 || Joe Exotic and The Boyz
|-
| 11 || Pittsburgh Rampage
|-
| 12 || Roadies Factory
|-
| 13 || DETROIT FUSION
|-
| 14 || Brimstone Smoke
|-
| 15 || Boss Ballers
|-
| 16 || Dirty.
|-
| 17 || G-Force
|-
| 18 || Ground Zero Red
|-
| 19 || APE Guerrillas
|-
| 20 || The Hooligans
|-
| 21 || Moisture Missiles
|-
| 22 || Pittsburgh Mercenaries
|-
| 23 || IPC
|-
| 24 || RagTags
|-
| 25 || LOCKOUT
|-
| 26 || P-Town Posse Fight Club
|-
| 27 || Crisis Tactical
|-
| 28 || NYPD Finest Paintball
|}

=== Open five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || ac EMPIRE
|-
| 2 || Team Farside
|-
| 3 || Chicago Aftershock
|-
| 4 || Image
|-
| 5 || Omaha Bulls
|}

=== Amateur five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Ohio Outlaws
|-
| 2 || Roadies Factory
|-
| 3 || All Americans 5
|-
| 4 || ac EMPIRE EVIL
|-
| 5 || LOCKOUT
|-
| 6 || AAF
|-
| 7 || Diamond Dawgs
|-
| 8 || AAF 2
|-
| 9 || Dirty. Bastards
|-
| 10 || APE Guerrillas
|-
| 11 || The Leftovers
|-
| 12 || The Hooligans
|}

== See also ==

* [[International Classic Paintball League]]
* [[2025 ICPL season]]
* [[2025 ICPL Old Bay Classic]]

== References ==

# [https://www.majorleaguepb.com/icpl Major League Paintball – ICPL: 2025 season schedule.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/8934/info PBLeagues – Pittsburgh Open Classic: event information, dates, venue, divisions and playing times.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/8934/rankings PBLeagues – Pittsburgh Open Classic: final divisional placings.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/8934/scores PBLeagues – Pittsburgh Open Classic: preliminary, semi-final and final scores.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/league/435/seasonRankings/2025 PBLeagues – International Classic Paintball League: 2025 season standings.]

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