Canadian Xtreme Paintball League
The Canadian Xtreme Paintball League is the top professional X-Ball league in Canada. It contains three conferences but is adding a minor conference in Atlantic Canada:
- Eastern which consists of Quebec, and the Maritimes
- Central which consists of just Ontario
- Western which consists of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.
Players are not required to live within these boundaries to play in a conference, but generally all events for each conference are held in those boundaries.
There are four divisions of play in the Canadian Xtreme Paintball League: CXBL Elite,CXBL, MXL, RXL and CX4. Each year, the top team in each division (with the exception of CX4) is promoted to the higher division, and the bottom-placed team is relegated to the division below (again, with the exception of CX4).
The CXBL was founded in 2005. At that time it consisted of just two divisions, the Ontario Xball League (OXBL) and the Quebec Xball League (QXBL). After the first year, the league expanded to include a Western Conference, and the OXBL and QXBL were renamed the Central and Eastern Conferences, respectively. The Western and Atlantic Conferences were later folded after the 2011 and 2012 season, respectively. Each year, the CXBL has expanded to include new divisions. MXL was added in 2006, CX4 was added in 2007, RXL was added in 2008, and RT5, which uses the RaceTo5 format with 10bps ramping, was added for the 2013 season. This has allowed a greater number of franchised teams to compete in the league, and has greatly increased the league's exposure in global paintball media outlets. PaintballAccess.com has signed on the provide some exclusive video content throughout the 2013 season.
The league prides itself in being the sole league in the world to still utilize the "original Xball format". CXBL games still utilize two 25-minute halves, 15 balls-per-second ramping, or semi auto, and full 2:00 and 5:00 penalties.
Teams
There is 6 teams in the 3 division of eastern western central in total 18 teams 6 franchised CXBL teams, 30 franchised MXL teams, 21 franchised RXL teams, and 40 franchised CX4 teams. The 2011 season saw the following teams competing in their respective conferences: Eastern Western Central. New to come this upcoming 2012 season is a new division called Cxbl Elite this consist of the most Elite teams in Cxbl these teams are Cambridge Raiders Drummondville Daytona Kitchener Recon Mirabel Impact Scarborough Hustle Toronto RockStar Tremblant Cowboys and Windsor LockDown most competitive paintball division ever created and further concentrates the available pool of highly skilled Canadian paintball athletes
Cxbl Elite
- Tremblant Cowboys
- Toronto Rockstar
- Drummondville Daytona
- Scarborough Hustle
- Vancouver Thunder
- Medonte Ntwo Factor
- Kitchener Recon
- Windsor Lockdown
- Mirabel Impact
- Cambridge Raiders
Richmond Cup
Every year the top two teams in each conference, plus an additional two 'Wild Card' teams, for a total of eight teams, enter into the Richmond Cup Championship at the NAX (North American Extreme) Finals. The 2012 Richmond Cup this year will be heald in Ottawa Ontario at Commando Paintball.
Past Champions
- 2012 - Tremblant Cowboys
- 2011 - Windsor Lockdown
- 2010 - Kingsey Falls Kamikaze
- 2009 - Edmonton Prevail
- 2008 - Edmonton Impact
- 2007 - Edmonton Impact
- 2006 - Edmonton Impact
- 2005 - Montreal Shock
MXL Division
- Sarnia Energy
- Rouyn Noranda KoolG@mes
- Waterloo Wolves
- St Germain Jokers
- WoodStock Semper Fi
- Halifax City United
- Barrie Freeze
- Winnipeg 420 Army
- Embrun Reapers (2013 Edition)
RXL Division
- Vaughan Vipers
- Niagara Aces
- King City Extreme
- Levis Infinity Pro
- Ville Marie Zombies
- Valleyfield Conquerors
CX4 Division
- Barrhaven Raiders Army
- Alexandria Mercanaries
- Brampton Rage Kidz
- Almonte Random Heroes
- Brigthon Bandits
- Ashton Saints
- Codrington Chaos
- Buckingham Blackout
- Hamilton Havoc
- Bytown Syndicate
- Lowville Lions
- Carleton Place Marked Militia
- Mount Hope RS Bedlam
- Gatineau Wrecking Crew
- Muskoka Mercs
- Hamilton Havoc
- New Sudbury Warriors
- Joliette LPG
- Oakville Riot
- Labelle Cowboy Jr
- Owen Sound Stars
- Laval Nightmare
- Petrolia Pirates
- Mississippi Mills Angels
- Vanier Attack
- Piedmont KoolG@mes P.
- Wawa Rockstar
- St-Jerome KoolG@mes R.
- Whitby Whiteout
- Val D'Or Outlaw
- Vanier Attack