2013 NPPL Las Vegas World Championships
The 2013 NPPL Las Vegas World Championships were a National Professional Paintball League tournament held from 4–6 October 2013 at Vegas Xtreme Paintball in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Organised by PB Promotions, the event concluded the 2013 NPPL national season.[1]
Fort Wayne Outlaws won both the professional event and the professional season championship.[2]
Venue and formats
[edit]The official event listing identifies Vegas Xtreme Paintball, at 70 West Craig Road, as the tournament venue. The Riviera Hotel and Casino served as the host hotel and hosted associated social activities.[1]
Professional and semi-professional teams used seven-player S7 race formats. Divisions 2, 3 and 4 offered traditional seven-player competition, with an additional traditional five-player Division 4 competition.[1]
Event results
[edit]The following placings are derived from the Las Vegas event points in the NPPL's archived official rankings.[2]
| Division | First | Second | Third | Fourth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional seven-player S7 | Fort Wayne Outlaws | Camp Pendleton Raiders | San Francisco Explicit | New England Avalanche |
| Semi-professional seven-player S7 | TradeMyGun Effect | Hawaiian Heat | Aggressive Factory | Xclusive |
| Division 2 seven-player | Hawaiian Heat | Orange County Flashpoint | MGC | — |
| Division 3 seven-player | Capital Edge DMG White | Raw Material | Xtreme | Marine Team Alpha |
| Division 4 seven-player | West Coast Sharks 4 | Chicago Bomb Squad | Camp Pendleton Raiders Black | TMG Outlaw X |
| Division 4 five-player | Destiny Army | Cen Cal Alliance | STK | Tropix Hawaii |
Only three teams received Las Vegas points in Division 2. No Las Vegas results appear in the archived Young Guns table.[2]
Destiny Army
[edit]The all-female Destiny team won the five-player Division 4 competition. Contemporary coverage in OC Weekly included a participant's account of the team's victory on 6 October.[3]
Season championships
[edit]The following teams finished first in the NPPL's published final season standings.[2]
| Division | First in season standings | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Professional seven-player S7 | Fort Wayne Outlaws | 69 |
| Semi-professional seven-player S7 | TCP Machine | 146 |
| Division 2 seven-player | Orange County Flashpoint | 168 |
| Division 3 seven-player | Capital Edge DMG White | 193 |
| Division 4 seven-player | West Coast Sharks 4 | 174 |
| Division 4 five-player | Cen Cal Alliance | 129 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- National Professional Paintball League – “Las Vegas World Championships”, official event information, archived 15 November 2013.
- National Professional Paintball League – “Team Rankings”, archived 4 November 2013. Includes Las Vegas event points and final season standings.
- OC Weekly – Matt Coker, “Team Destiny, Ladies Paintball Team Based in Huntington Beach, Makes National History”, 11 October 2013. Includes Kat Secor's account of the team's victory.