UXL Finals recap

October 4th Hit Different

We ran play-by-play all day from the production tent at Upstate Action Park for UXL Event 4 - Finals, and Rochester showed out. Muddy medals, stacked points, livestream humming, and two divisions decided the hard way. If you were watching the stream, you heard it live. If you weren't, here's how it ended.

Champions Division: The Hooligans Bring It Home

Champions is where the big dogs live, and The Hooligans closed it out.

Long points, smart rotations, and clutch closes down the stretch to take the UXL Champions Division title. Congrats to the squad on getting it done when it mattered.

MVP of Champions Division goes to RJ Gaudioso — trophy in one hand, MVP medal in the other. The guy posed with both after the win and earned every bit of it. Leadership on the field, winning the 1s when we needed them. 

We called it from the booth and broke it down on the drive home — Hooligans as Champions Division winners. 

Challengers Division: Belfast Bombers Smash Through

On the other side of the bracket, Belfast Bombers took the UXL Challengers Division Championship. Full squad photo with medals and trophies on the grass at Upstate — that team came to play. 

And your Challengers MVP: Ben Suslik of the Upstate Grizzlies.

If you saw the post, you know the vibe — Grizzlies jersey, MVP medal in the mouth, all celebration. Ben was everywhere on the dorito side, winning battles and keeping points alive. 

Young gun. Big future.

Why This Finals Mattered

UXL started as Upstate's league. Now it's the league for NY teams to cut their teeth before NXL regional and national looks. Upstate Action Park as the home field, production getting cleaner every event, and the stands actually full of teams watching other teams — that's growth you can feel.

Shoutout to every crew who grinded the season to get to Finals weekend, the refs, the media crew at  Redcoop Live ,  3 pedal Media Under the Nets, Rylos Group , Drive By Media , D Graziano Photography and everyone who tapped into the stream. 

Fall Drop Plug: Havoc Hoodie - $35

Finals weekend was cold in the morning, hot by noon — classic Upstate fall paintball. Which is exactly why we're moving the fall inventory now.

ORDA66 Havoc Hoodie - now $35 (was $50) — heavy orange, built for the pits, podium photos, and those late-night drives home from the field. We just posted the last XXL bundle with the black Predator beanie at orda66paintball.com. 

If you need your winter layer before Cup season and Rochester winter actually hits, grab it. Once this colorway is gone, it's gone.

Shop the drop at orda66paintball.com and rep it at practice. Tag us in the Havoc — we repost.

See you outside the nets.

— Gavin / ORDA66