2019 New Zealand Local Series

2019 New Zealand Local Series was the 2019 season of the New Zealand Local Series (NZLS), a regional tournament paintball competition held across New Zealand's North Island.

Ballistics Unit won the overall championship for the second consecutive year, following its 2018 title.[1]

Surviving records document four numbered rounds, including the season final in Feilding, as well as an October tournament in Hāwera whose relationship to the numbered calendar has not been fully established.[2][3][4][5][6]

Season

Round 1

The opening round was held at Asylum Paintball in Auckland during March 2019.

Kaos Theory won the tournament, with Ballistics Unit entering two squads that finished second and third.[2][3]

Contemporary reports from Ballistics Unit and Phoenix Tahiti Paintball establish the following podium:

Position	Team
1st	Kaos Theory
2nd	Ballistics Unit 1
3rd	Ballistics Unit 2

Ballistics Unit also acknowledged a guest player associated with Phoenix Tahiti in its event report.[2]

Round 2

The second round took place in May 2019.

Ballistics Unit reported winning the tournament with its first squad, while its second squad finished third.[4]

Position	Team
1st	Ballistics Unit 1
3rd	Ballistics Unit 2

The team's report, published on 11 May, credited Expendables with supplying inflatable bunkers and helping prepare the playing field.

The remaining placings and precise tournament venue have not been established.

Round 3

The third round was held at TECT Park in the Bay of Plenty.

A surviving medal from the collection of Vince Knipmeijer is inscribed NZLS #3 2nd TECT Park 2019.[5]

The medal confirms a second-place award at this tournament. Its association with BOP Blast is based on contributor identification of the historical collection rather than an inscription naming the team.

The event's precise date, division and complete standings have not been recovered.

Hāwera tournament

An additional NZLS tournament is documented in Hāwera, Taranaki, during October 2019.

In a report published on 27 October, Ballistics Unit stated that it had won the event's preliminary round robin and secured the 2019 championship with one round remaining.[6]

The same report identified Ballistics Unit player Chris Waters as the winner of the accompanying one-on-one competition for a second consecutive year.

The report does not establish the tournament's final placings or its official round number.

The Hāwera event is therefore retained under its established article title, 2019 NZLS Hāwera Event, rather than assigned an unverified number.

Round 4: Feilding final

The fourth round was the season-ending competition in Feilding, Manawatū, in late 2019.

On 25 November 2019, Auckland Paintball School announced that its players were preparing to travel to Feilding for the final NZLS round.[7]

A subsequent team report identified the event as Round 4 and confirmed that Ballistics Unit finished second, nine points behind the first-place entry.[8]

Position	Team
2nd	Ballistics Unit

The team nevertheless retained the overall 2019 NZLS championship.[8][9]

The tournament winner and remaining positions have not been established from the available records.

The precise competition date and playing venue have not been independently confirmed.

Documented tournament calendar

Event	Documented period	Location	Known result
2019 NZLS Round 1	March 2019	Asylum Paintball, Auckland	Kaos Theory, 1st.[2][3]
2019 NZLS Round 2	May 2019	Not established	Ballistics Unit 1, 1st.[4]
2019 NZLS Round 3	2019	TECT Park, Bay of Plenty	Second-place medal associated with BOP Blast.[5]
2019 NZLS Hāwera Event	October 2019	Hāwera, Taranaki	Ballistics Unit won the round robin; Chris Waters won the one-on-one competition.[6]
2019 NZLS Round 4	Late 2019	Feilding, Manawatū	Ballistics Unit, 2nd.[8]

The Hāwera event is listed separately because its numbering has not been verified.

On 3 December 2019, AoA Paintball thanked NZLS organisers for staging four events during the year.[10] This contemporary statement supports the existence of a four-event programme but does not establish how the separately documented Hāwera tournament fitted within the numbered series.

The table therefore distinguishes documented events from an independently verified complete calendar.

Championship

Ballistics Unit won the overall 2019 New Zealand Local Series championship.[6][9]

The team announced that the title had been secured during the October Hāwera tournament, before the season's final round.

Auckland Paintball School subsequently confirmed that Ballistics Unit finished second at the Feilding final while retaining the overall championship.[8]

Ballistics Unit's season retrospective, published on 1 December 2019, described the team as consecutive NZLS champions for 2018 and 2019.[9]

Documented championship standings

Position	Team	Evidence
1st	Ballistics Unit	Contemporary championship announcements.[6][8][9]
Reported 3rd	Crisis Paintball Northland	Team retrospective.[11]

Crisis Paintball Northland reported finishing third in the 2019 season. That placing has not been independently verified against a complete official championship table.

The championship runner-up and remaining standings have not been established.

Historical documentation

The surviving 2019 NZLS records include contemporary team reports, historical tournament photographs, a medal identifying Round 3 at TECT Park and announcements concerning the season championship.

These sources permit the reconstruction of several events and individual results, but do not provide a complete official championship table.

Individual tournament placings are distinguished from cumulative season standings, and the original numbered squad names are retained wherever documented.

References