The 2024 ICPL season schedule was announced with multiple minors across the country, 1 major, and then the championship. The point standings will use your top minor, the major, and then the championship to crown a season champ. The minor events are usually combined brackets of pro and amateur teams. At the major events, you play only teams in your division. 

Another night of grub and a team meeting to get everyone prepped for Sunday. The day started off on the hyperball with wins against the Tribe Savages and Louisville Asylum. After the prelims, Smoke was 7-1 and only behind the undefeated Misfits. The semi-finals were played on the hyperball, and Smoke was put in a bracket with Detroit Fusion and Gridlock. Smoke and Fusion had already played once this event on the mounds, and Smoke handed them another loss, but on hyper this time. The next game was against Gridlock, and both teams lost a few bodies early. Smoke had the advantage and made a few mistakes in the closing minutes of the game, and Gridlock ended up with the win. After going 8-2, Smoke was sent home with a 4th place and a solid first event of the season to build from.

Team Smoke kicked off their season playing the Pro DNA Open (Minor) at The Farm in Tennessee. Smoke played in this event last year, so they knew what to expect going into it this year. The farm has a woods, mounds, and hyperball field that overall are decent for 10 man. The mounds are the best of the three, with large mounds and a few pipes to run through to get into key positions. The woods field is long and narrow, and like most woods fields, there is always one side that proves to be a little more dominant than the other. The hyperball field had a big new addition to the 50 on the side opposite of the snake. 

Field walking was on Friday, and then everyone regrouped for dinner and the always entertaining team meeting to talk about game plans. Smoke started out the event with two dominant wins on the mounds fields against Enemy Agency and Detroit Fusion. Into the woods, Smoke took a loss against MVPS Dark Ops but pulled it back in the next one against Image in a dogfight till the last seconds. Scotty Branham dug deep, gave it his all, and hung the flag with less than 10 seconds to go! Back to the mounds for the last 2 games of the day, and Smoke kept up their aggressive dominant style on the mounds field. Losing just a few bodies in each, they easily handled Thunder and one of The Farm teams. A solid first day of the event left Smoke sitting with 5 wins and 1 loss.