Editing 2019 New Zealand Local Series (section)

== Season ==

=== Round 1 ===

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

[[Kaos Theory (New Zealand Paintball Team)|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:

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
|-
| 1st
| '''[[Kaos Theory (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Kaos Theory]]'''
|-
| 2nd
| [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 1]]
|-
| 3rd
| [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|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]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
|-
| 1st
| '''[[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 1]]'''
|-
| 3rd
| [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 2]]
|}

The team's report, published on 11 May, credited [[Expendables Feilding|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 (New Zealand Paintball Team)|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]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
|-
| 2nd
| [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|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.