Editing Disposal Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)

{{Short description|New Zealand tournament paintball team}}

'''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 chronology of the two teams 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 has been 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 the team’s 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] Results for the two entries are retained separately wherever the source records them as distinct tournament entries.

Contributor clarification identifies Disposal Unit as a predecessor of Ballistics Unit. PBLeagues records Disposal Unit as an Auckland team and documents 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 documented sequence but do not independently establish the precise date or nature of the transition.

== Documented players ==

PBLeagues lists the following players as members of Disposal Unit:[2]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Player
! PBLeagues profile
|-
| Chris Jones
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/NnTTui3WJc82j6cX Profile]
|-
| Cuan Lategan
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/9Vwlza0mm4obbPLO Profile]
|-
| Daniel Renner
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/JGyzkSGDa9WLBNV9 Profile]
|-
| Ethan Bailey
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/zbj8TP5KGxtBrQ6f Profile]
|-
| Joshua Bailey
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/Bkp9z6T2KhCmLM0h Profile]
|-
| Kane Anderson
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/AI4AEU07bGLHZVge Profile]
|-
| Mike Taylor
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/T4lt8tv4XnyDpN2B Profile]
|-
| Tom Van Lierop
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/639I5ib0lzyqDRIp Profile]
|}

The PBLeagues membership list documents association with Disposal Unit but does not establish that every listed player appeared at every tournament recorded in the team’s history.

== Selected tournament results ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date
! Competition
! Published entry
! Result
|-
| June 2011
| Rotorua tournament
| Disposal Unit
| Cup winner.[1]
|-
| October 2011
| NZPPL Nationals
| Disposal Unit
| Listed before the event; participation and result not established.[7]
|-
| October 2011
| NZPPL Nationals
| Disposal Unit #2
| Listed before the event; participation and result not established.[7]
|-
| 7–8 April 2012
| NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1
| DU
| Participant-reported 2nd of 16.[4]
|-
| 7–8 April 2012
| NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1
| DU 2
| Participant-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 in Division Two.[3]
|}

The 2011 Nationals entries are included as registration evidence and are not treated as confirmed participation.

== 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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[[Category:Paintball in Auckland]]
[[Category:2010s in New Zealand paintball]]