Norwegian Series Champions are........
Slagen Bandits wins the Norwegian series title!
Last weekend the Slagen Bandits geared up for the last round of the Norwegian Paintball league held at Tufte paintball park. Before the tournament Oslo PB Kids, Stavanger Mayhem, Drammen Sabotage and Slagen Bandits were almost tied on points for the series title. That meant that the winner of this tournament would probably end up with the series title aswell.After starting our season with a win, we were eager to end the season in the NPL on top of the podium once again, before we start preparing for the biggest tournament in Norway: the Norwegian Championship.
This time around we were prepared for fight all the way to the top, as this season has been one of the thoughest in the history of the NPL, as every team this year has been a contender. There are no pushover team in the Elite division anymore. And we thrive on this competion as it has made us practice harder!
We arrived at the sunny field early, it was a perfect day
for paintball. We found out that our local rivals and friends Drammen Sabotage had decided to make things even more interesting by bringing over London Nexus player Ash Chaplen.We had the first match of the day against GS Vendetta and got of to a great start with a 3-0 victory. Next up were Ratpack, this game had some long slow points including a two on two that we pulled of with 15 seconds left on the clock. The final score was 2-1.
Our third match was against Drammen Sabotage was a thight lowscoring game with them winning 2-1. We should have tied it up to 2-2 execpt for some bad clock managment on our part. In the last point we had 4 players alive but did not pay attention to the clock and didnt make it to the buzzer in time. That was a mistake that we will never make again!
Next up was Stavanger Mayhem and another close match. In the end we lost 3-2 with them pushing the buzzer with 5 seconds left. Extremly frustrating when you consider that we had one point taken away after a freak shot over the chrono at the end of that point.
After a little nailbiting while the scores were added up, we were through to the semi-finals to face Sabotage yet again. Things looked bleak as we quickly went 2-0 down but as the team has shown several times this season; we never give up. We made some adjustment to our game plan and managed to shut down Ash from making those early aggressive moves and took 3 points in a row to win the match.
In the finals waited Mayhem and another chance for a rematch. We continued our streak from the semifinals and scored another three really convincing points to win the final 3-0 and the series title! It was a great feeling to see all that hard work finally paying of, and it was smiles and hugs all around as we walked of the field and onto the podium to thank ours sponsors and friends:In divison 1 Slagen Bandits Silver secured the series title with the smallest possible margin on Sunday. A great accomplishment for a young team that mainly consisted of players that played division 2 last year!
The Emortal Army marches on!
Planet Eclipse for our great, great markers, clothing and padding. We love you guys and really appreciate the support you give us!Dark Sports and Game-On for the great paint all season!
Globe Souldiers for the tremendous Spines, Columns and the Blackstar butts.
Goldhammer for the awsome shoes.
Hybird photo for making us look good all year long.
Tanked for the great jerseys.
Slagen Paintball our home field, the place were we lay the foundation for our sucsess.
KM straps for our own custom Slagen Bandits straps
Snøservice.no for believing in us and what we can achieve together
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