What makes Texas unique in the world of competitive paintball?
I think Texas is a real unique place for paintball as of recently. When I grew up playing against guys like Archie, the Odells, the Cohen, and Dixon, we had two solid tournament series that everyone attended and I think that’s a big part of why X-Factor has been so successful. For some reason, all the leagues collapsed here in Texas. The only thing left are rookie 3-man or random open tournaments leaving the whole state fractured by cities and regions. So when we went looking for talent this year I wasn’t expecting what showed up at our front door. Out here in Texas we’ve never had another pro team to model ourselves after. States like Florida and California have such rich paintball backgrounds and it’s easy for kids to see what the pro paintball level is and try and obtain it. We didn’t have that out here. All we saw of other pro teams was at tournaments so we had to figure things out for ourselves as we went. It also kept us somewhat immune from pro teams cherry-picking our players u
