1999 ZAP International Amateur Open
1999 ZAP International Amateur Open was a paintball tournament held at Three Rivers Paintball near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1999. An edition of the International Amateur Open, it included three-player, five-player and ten-player competitions alongside a trade show and players' party. [1]
P&L Paintball Factory Team won the ten-player competition, a result also documented by Paintball Times. The Mob won amateur five-player, Sharp Shooters won novice five-player, and Dislexic Dogs won three-player. [1][2]
Results
[edit]WARPIG records the following final results. ClassicScores corroborates the first four places in the ten-player and both five-player divisions. [3][4][5][6][7]
In the ten-player and five-player tables, first to fourth and fifth to eighth places were decided in separate final groups. Points should therefore be compared within each group. [3][4][5]
Ten-player
[edit]| Place | Team | Final-round points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | P&L Paintball Factory Team | 210 |
| 2 | Tagg Team | 207 |
| 3 | Inferno | 116 |
| 4 | True Players | 26 |
| 5 | Extreme Rage | 128 |
| 6 | Sonic Rage | 125 |
| 7 | OPM Allstars | 84 |
| 8 | Rapid Fire | 38 |
Amateur five-player
[edit]| Place | Team | Final-round points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mob | 199 |
| 2 | Adrenalin | 144 |
| 3 | Tagg Team – Blue | 140 |
| 4 | Minutemen | 38 |
| 5 | Tippmann Effect | 218 |
| 6 | Team Junkies | 206 |
| 7 | Dangerous Toys | 94 |
| 8 | Twilight Zone | 40 |
Novice five-player
[edit]| Place | Team | Final-round points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharp Shooters | 207 |
| 2 | Florida Predators – Silver | 124 |
| 3 | Team Sprinter | 112 |
| 4 | ECM | 100 |
| 5 | OBR 2 | 250 |
| 6 | Team Squeegie | 138 |
| 7 | Florida Predators – Black | 120 |
| 8 | The Wicked Clowns | 60 |
Three-player
[edit]| Place | Team | Final-round points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dislexic Dogs | 495 |
| 2 | Crow Dogs | 395 |
| 3 | Aces Wild | 300 |
| 4 | Wicked Clowns | 235 |
References
[edit]- WARPIG — 1999 Zap International Amateur Open: on-scene coverage. Archived 12 October 1999.
- Paintball Times — On the road to ZAP IAO, 27 October 2000. Includes an interview with P-N-L Factory Team's Mike Goodman and confirms the team's 1999 ten-player victory.
- WARPIG — Zap International Amateur Open: ten-player semi-finals and finals.
- WARPIG — Zap International Amateur Open 1999: five-player semi-finals, finals and rankings.
- WARPIG — Zap International Amateur Open 1999: novice five-player semi-finals and finals.
- WARPIG — Zap International Amateur Open 1999: three-player semi-finals and finals.
- ClassicScores — public tournament dataset: 1999, IAO, Zap International Amateur Open, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Accessed 31 October 2026.