2011 NPPL Las Vegas World Championships

The 2011 NPPL Las Vegas World Championships, promoted as the NPPL World Paintball Championships, was a National Professional Paintball League tournament held from 11–13 November 2011 at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It was the fourth and final event of the 2011 NPPL season.[1][2]

Chicago Aftershock won the professional competition, while runners-up San Diego Dynasty secured the professional season championship.[3][4]

Event

The league's event information identified the venue address as 2901 Las Vegas Boulevard South. Registration and the captains' meeting took place on 10 November, followed by competition from Friday to Sunday.[1]

The tournament used three fields. Contemporary reporting described play continuing into the evening under artificial lighting.[5]

Competition included professional and amateur seven-player divisions, separate Division 4 five-player competition, and pump play.[3][6][7][8]

Tournament results

Division	First	Second	Third	Fourth
Professional	Chicago Aftershock	San Diego Dynasty	DC Arsenal and Edmonton Impact; order unresolved
Division 1 seven-player	Dynasty 2	Louisville Sluggers	Impact Echo	Denver Fury
Division 2 seven-player	Top Gun Evolution	LSD Savage	Vanguard Factory	Rampage City Paintball
Division 3 seven-player	Good 4 Nothing	Blackout	Mercenary	Paintball Addix
Division 4 seven-player	Sac Royals Too	Camp P. Heat powered by Pblyfe	Armed Force Rage	High Intensity
Division 4 five-player	Centermass Hawaii	Colorado All Stars	UNLV Rebels	La Distraction
Pump	FrontKick2theSternum	LA Hitmen.com	Total Greif	Zero

Results are recorded in contemporary reporting and the archived official divisional scoreboards.[3][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Professional placings

Paintball Pit's results report lists DC Arsenal third and Edmonton Impact fourth. However, the official final season table awards Impact 17 points for Las Vegas and Arsenal 15. The surviving official professional scoreboard does not complete the final-four results, so the conflicting lower placings remain unresolved.[3][4][12]

Divisional finals

Dynasty 2 defeated Louisville Sluggers by two games to one in the Division 1 final. Top Gun Evolution won Division 2 after an opening draw and two victories against LSD Savage.[9][10]

Good 4 Nothing won Division 3 against Blackout, recording two victories and a draw. Sac Royals Too defeated Camp P. Heat in two straight games for the Division 4 seven-player title.[6][11]

Centermass Hawaii won both games against Colorado All Stars in the Division 4 five-player final. FrontKick2theSternum won the pump championship against LA Hitmen.com following an overtime decider.[7][8]

Season championships

The final official rankings identify the following 2011 series champions.[4]

Division	Season champion	Points
Professional seven-player	San Diego Dynasty	67
Division 1 seven-player	Impact Echo	179
Division 2 seven-player	Top Gun Evolution	169
Division 3 seven-player	Blackout	148
Division 4 five-player	Centermass Hawaii	182
Pump five-player	Total Greif	193

Event winners and season champions were distinct. Aftershock won the professional tournament, while Dynasty finished first over the season. Similarly, Dynasty 2 won Division 1 in Las Vegas, but Impact Echo secured the series championship.[3][4]

See also

• National Professional Paintball League
• 2011 NPPL D.C. Challenge
• Paintball in the United States

References

1. NPPL – 2011 Las Vegas Paintball Championship: player event information and code of conduct, archived 30 October 2011.
2. WARPIG – NPPL 2011 Las Vegas World Paintball Championships, contemporary event report. Its heading incorrectly gives the end date as 18 November.
3. Paintball Pit – 2011 NPPL Vegas Championship Results, 16 November 2011. Its Division 4 results are labelled five-player but correspond to the official seven-player results.
4. NPPL – Final 2011 season rankings, archived 5 December 2011.
5. View from the Deadbox – What Happens In Vegas…, 14 November 2011.
6. NPPL – Las Vegas 2011 Division 4 seven-player official scores and finals.
7. NPPL – Las Vegas 2011 Division 4 five-player official scores and finals.
8. NPPL – Las Vegas 2011 pump official scores and finals.
9. NPPL – Las Vegas 2011 Division 1 official scores and finals.
10. NPPL – Las Vegas 2011 Division 2 official scores and finals.
11. NPPL – Las Vegas 2011 Division 3 official scores and finals.
12. NPPL – Las Vegas 2011 professional official scoreboard, with incomplete final-four results.