2006 Australian X-Ball League

2006 Australian X-Ball League was a season of the Australian X-Ball League paintball competition, featuring Pro and Division 1 categories. X-Fighter$ Red won the Pro season championship, while Straight Edge won Division 1. Round 3 was cancelled, and Round 4 was brought forward to conclude the season at Mount White, New South Wales, on 14–15 October 2006.[1]

Season

Contemporary coverage reported that the AXL reached a maximum of 18 participating teams during 2006. MacDev was the principal sponsor, with Tomahawk, Sup'Air, Hot Shots and ZAP also named as sponsors.[1]

Rounds

Round	Documentation and status	Pro winner	Division 1 winner
Round 1	Completed; results reported on 27 February 2006	X-Fighters Red	Gravity 1
Round 2	Australian forum discussion listings recovered; dates, venue and results remain unverified	—	—
Round 3	Cancelled	Not contested	Not contested
Round 4	Completed, 14–15 October 2006, Paintball Pete's, Mount White	X-Fighter$ Black	Straight Edge

A dash indicates that a result has not been verified, rather than that no winner existed.[1][2][3]

Round 1

A results report posted on the NZ P8NT forum on 27 February stated that the opening round had taken place over the preceding weekend. It supplied the following placings.[2]

Place	Pro	Division 1
1	X-Fighters Red	Gravity 1
2	X-Fighters Black	Gravity 2
3	Blade	Straight Edge
4	Jetts	Foresaken

Names follow the contemporary results, including the spelling “Foresaken”. The report did not provide individual match scores.[2]

Round 2

The archived Bill's Paintball tournament index preserves discussions titled “AXL Rd 2”, “2nd round AXL”, “AXL Round 2” and “AXL Round 2 wrapup”. The wrap-up listing records 99 replies.[3]

The recovered index does not reproduce the posts. Round 2's dates, venue, placings and match scores have not yet been verified.

Round 3 cancellation

Holger Hummel's contemporary report stated that Round 3 was skipped following a change in law. He reported that the change was subsequently reversed following work by Diane King of MacDev, but did not identify the legislation or jurisdiction concerned. Round 4 was consequently brought forward.[1]

Round 4

Twelve teams competed at Paintball Pete's field at Mount White on 14–15 October. Reffs Inc officiated the tournament.[1]

Temperatures approaching 40°C led organisers to reduce Saturday's preliminary programme from six matches per team to four. The remaining six preliminary matches were played on Sunday.[1]

Place	Pro	Division 1
1	X-Fighter$ Black	Straight Edge
2	SWAT	Sinister
3	Empire	Gravity
4	X-Fighter$ Red	Victorious

Reported Pro finals scores

Match	Winning team	Reported result	Losing team
Semi-final	X-Fighter$ Black	2–1	X-Fighter$ Red
Semi-final	SWAT	3–1	Empire
Third-place match	Empire	Won in sudden death after 2–2	X-Fighter$ Red
Final	X-Fighter$ Black	4–0	SWAT

Straight Edge defeated Sinister in the Division 1 final. The contemporary report does not give that match's score.[1]

Final season standings

Pro

Place	Team
1	X-Fighter$ Red
2	X-Fighter$ Black
3	Jetts
4	Carnivores

X-Fighter$ Red won the season championship despite Black winning the concluding round.[1]

Division 1

Place	Team
1	Straight Edge
2	Sinister

The published standings additionally list “Gravity?” in third place. The question mark appears in the original report, so that placing remains qualified. No fourth-place Division 1 team or numerical championship points are supplied in the report.[1]

References

Holger Hummel, “The Finals: AXL Mt White, Round 04 2006”, Australian Paintball Magazine, 2006, pp. 34–40. Photographs by Ahmed Abbas.
AXL Round 1 Results, NZ P8NT forum. Results posted by “stick”, 27 February 2006; archived 18 October 2008.
Tourney – Chat and Results, page 4, Bill's Paintball Forums. Archived 9 March 2011; preserves the 2006 Round 2 discussion listings.