1995 NPPL World Cup
The 1995 NPPL World Cup was a paintball tournament held at Paintball World in Kissimmee, Florida, concluding the National Professional Paintball League's 1995 season. Contemporary announcements advertised the tournament for 18–22 October 1995 and billed it as the sixth annual World Cup.[1][2]
Aftershock won the professional ten-man competition, while the All Americans won the professional five-man competition. Image won amateur ten-man and Phantom Force won amateur five-man.[3]
Venue and organisation
[edit]The World Cup followed the 1995 NPPL Chicago Open as the final tournament on the published five-event league schedule.[1]
Paintball World was a commercial woodland paintball field behind the Old Town entertainment complex in Kissimmee, within the greater Orlando area. The World Cup had relocated there from New York in 1994.[2]
Contemporary league advertising announced more than US$100,000 in cash and prizes for the 1995 tournament. Refereeing was advertised as being supplied by three NPPL teams, with at least four referees on each five-man field and six on each ten-man field.[1]
Advertised programme
[edit]The published programme scheduled five-man competition for Wednesday and Thursday, followed by ten-man competition on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The event listing advertised capacity limits of 42 five-man teams and 64 ten-man teams; these were entry limits rather than confirmed attendance figures.[1]
Competitors were permitted to bring their own paintballs. Advertised team entry fees were US$500 for five-man, US$1,500 for amateur ten-man and US$2,000 for professional ten-man.[1]
Results
[edit]ClassicScores records the following top-four finishes in the professional and amateur competitions.[3]
Ten-man
[edit]| Place | Professional | Amateur |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aftershock | Image |
| 2 | All Americans | All Americans 2 |
| 3 | Ironmen | OBR |
| 4 | Jacksonville Warriors | Strange |
Five-man
[edit]| Place | Professional | Amateur |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | All Americans | Phantom Force |
| 2 | All Americans 2 | Nobodies |
| 3 | Palm Beach Predators | Image |
| 4 | Nam Wrecking Crew | Shockwave |
The All Americans' professional five-man victory is also listed in the historical chronology “81 Moments that Shaped Paintball”, published in Paintball 2Xtremes. That account separately identifies the team as the 1995 NPPL five-man series champions.[4]
DYE Paintball's later history of Team Image also records the team's 1995 World Cup victory.[5]
See also
[edit]- Paintball World Cup
- National Professional Paintball League
- 1994 NPPL World Cup
- 1995 NPPL Chicago Open
- Paintball in the United States
References
[edit]- NPPL “Time to Play” season advertisement and “Calendar of Events”, Paintball Sports, April 1995. Contemporary notices advertising the sixth annual World Cup for 18–22 October at Paintball World, including the programme, entry limits, fees and prize fund.
- WARPIG — Road to World Cup 2005, October 2005. Historical account documenting the 1994 relocation to Paintball World in Kissimmee and the venue behind Old Town.
- ClassicScores. Select 1995, National Professional Paintball League, World Cup, Orlando, Florida. Historical results recording the top four in the professional and amateur five-man and ten-man divisions.
- History of Paintball, Automags.org. Reproduction of “81 Moments that Shaped Paintball”, Paintball 2Xtremes, June 2005; entry 53 lists the All Americans' 1995 World Cup five-man victory and five-man series championship.
- DYE Paintball — Image Joins the DYE Family. Historical account recording Team Image's 1995 World Cup victory.