World Cup; two words that carry a heavy weight in the world of competitive paintball. Since 1989, the Paintball World Cup has been the premiere professional paintball tournament that every player dreams of winning. Under the NXL it has become one of the largest single outdoor sports tournaments in history; nearly 500 competitive teams and 5000 players all competing for a coveted World Cup title.

Throughout the near decade of the NXL Pro Division, there has never been a race for the title that has been this close. Four teams are in contention for taking home the most coveted award in all of paintball, the National Xball League Season Title, and with it, the right to claim the throne as the best paintball team in the world. Since the inception of the NXL in 2015, the Season Title has been mostly dominated by Edmonton Impact. But, as the league continues to evolve, the

The final event of the National Xball League season is less than one week away, and after a hard fought season, the season title race is closer than ever. The Windy City Major was an exciting and dramatic event that drastically altered the Power Rankings for World Cup after the cinderella runs of LVL, NRG, and Uprising, as well as the complete dominance of Dynasty. Also at stake are the professional paintball lives of teams such as ac Dallas, the MLKings, and Sacramento DMG.

After yet another exciting event at the NXL Windy City Major, I begin to look back at everything that occurred this past weekend. Beneath all the incredible stories that emerged throughout the weekend; Dynasty's win in dominant fashion, Columbus LVL going 4-0 and making their first Sunday, major programs like Impact and Heat missing the finals, or even the cinderella run from the short-handed Baltimore Revo roster, I find my mind elsewhere. Even with all these astonishing st

As we look ahead to the NXL Windy City Major in Chicago on September 17th-19th, our new power rankings feature an in-depth look at all 20 professional paintball teams in the NXL and rank them based on their performance thus far, as well as how we think they will perform on the layout. However, we are also looking ahead to the end of the year, and speculating on if these teams have the firepower to either continue their dominance going into the World Cup, or if they can hang o