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'''Disposal Unit''' was a New Zealand competitive [[paintball]] team based in Auckland and documented from 2011 to 2016. Its results included victory at a Rotorua tournament in 2011, second place in the 2014 [[South Auckland Paintball Club]] Open X-Ball season and the Division Two title at the [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]].[1][2][3]

Disposal Unit was a predecessor of [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit]], according to a contributor familiar with the teams. The surviving tournament databases establish the two teams' chronology but do not independently state the organisational relationship.

== Tournament history ==

=== 2011 Rotorua tournament ===

Disposal Unit competed at a Rotorua tournament reported during Queen's Birthday weekend in June 2011. The first-day table placed the team third with 672 points.[1]

The Cup results subsequently listed Disposal Unit first, ahead of Hybrid, Arachnids and The Expendables. A participant separately reproduced the same Cup order from memory. The recovered discussion does not provide the event's formal title, so none is assigned here.[1]

An October entry list for the 2011 NZPPL Nationals named both ''Disposal Unit'' and ''Disposal Unit #2''. The list establishes two intended entries but is not a result sheet and does not by itself confirm that both squads started the tournament.[7]

=== 2012 NZPPL Auckland event ===

Disposal Unit fielded two entries at the NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1, held at [[Lock N Load Paintball]] on 7–8 April 2012.[4]

A participant's post-event order abbreviated the entries to ''DU'' and ''DU 2'', placing DU second and DU 2 fifteenth among sixteen teams.[4]

The author qualified the order with “If I am not mistaken”, and no official final table was recovered. The placings are therefore presented as a participant-reported result rather than an official classification.[4]

=== 2014 SAPC season ===

PBLeagues records Disposal Unit competing in all four rounds of the 2014 SAPC Open X-Ball series.[2][5]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Disposal Unit – 2014 SAPC Open X-Ball results
! Tournament
! Dates
! Position
! Ranking points
|-
| SAPC February Race #1
| 8–9 February 2014
| 2nd of 6
| 82
|-
| SAPC May Race #2
| 3–4 May 2014
| 2nd of 8
| 85
|-
| SAPC July Race #3
| 12–13 July 2014
| 3rd of 7
| 70
|-
| SAPC September Race #4
| 27–28 September 2014
| 2nd of 5
| 77.5
|-
! colspan="3" | Season total
! 314.5
|}

The combined standings placed Disposal Unit second for the season with 314.5 ranking points.[5]

=== 2016 Auckland Paintball Cup ===

Disposal Unit won Division Two X-Ball at the [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]], held on 16–17 April. PBLeagues placed the team first among eight competitors with 100 ranking points.[3]

This is the latest competition recorded on the team's recovered PBLeagues profile. The absence of later entries does not establish an exact dissolution or transition date.

== Identity and succession ==

In this New Zealand tournament context, ''DU'' is the accepted abbreviation for Disposal Unit. Contributor clarification identifies ''DU 2'' and ''Disposal Unit #2'' as its second squad. The full second-squad form appears in a 2011 Nationals entry list, while the abbreviated form appears in the participant-reported 2012 result.[4][7]

Contributor clarification identifies Disposal Unit as a predecessor of Ballistics Unit. PBLeagues records Disposal Unit as an Auckland team and shows competition through April 2016, while Ballistics Unit's separate Auckland profile has a database registration date of 2 July 2017.[2][6] These dates support the sequence but are not evidence of the precise form or date of the transition.

Historical roster pages exist for Disposal Unit's PBLeagues events, but their publicly accessible versions no longer display individual player names. A complete roster has therefore not been reconstructed.

== Selected tournament results ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date
! Competition
! Entry
! Result
|-
| June 2011
| Rotorua tournament
| Disposal Unit
| Cup winner.[1]
|-
| 7–8 April 2012
| NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1
| DU
| Reported 2nd of 16.[4]
|-
| 7–8 April 2012
| NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1
| DU 2
| Reported 15th of 16.[4]
|-
| 2014 season
| SAPC Open X-Ball series
| Disposal Unit
| 2nd; 314.5 ranking points.[5]
|-
| 16–17 April 2016
| [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]]
| Disposal Unit
| 1st of 8, Division Two.[3]
|}

== See also ==

* [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)]]
* [[South Auckland Paintball Club]]
* [[Lock N Load Paintball]]
* [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]]
* [[Paintball in New Zealand]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207161019/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3517 ''Scores from Rotorua'']. NZ P8NT, June 2011. First-day scores and Cup and Plate results.
# [https://pbleagues.com/team/q2Uqu9wEI8ifA5PZ Disposal Unit – team profile and tournament history]. ''PBLeagues''.
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/4588/rankings Auckland Paintball Cup 2016 – final rankings]. ''PBLeagues''.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130206050213/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4203&start=10 ''NZPPL Event (1) 2012 Auckland “Lock n Load”'']. NZ P8NT, April 2012. Participant-reported final order.
# [https://pbleagues.com/league/262/seasonRankings/2014 South Auckland Paintball Club – 2014 season rankings]. ''PBLeagues''.
# [https://pbleagues.com/team/5UYjjOgIYqtuuRM9 Ballistics Unit – team profile and tournament history]. ''PBLeagues''.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207150546/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4021 ''2011 NZPPL Nationals – teams attending'']. NZ P8NT, 15 October 2011. Final pre-event count naming Disposal Unit and Disposal Unit #2; not a result sheet.

== External links ==

* [https://pbleagues.com/team/q2Uqu9wEI8ifA5PZ Disposal Unit – PBLeagues profile]

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