Editing New Zealand Local Series (section)

== History ==
=== 2012 season ===
An annotated results sheet supplied by Benjamin James Crockett-Androutsos documents the [[2012 NZLS Hastings Tournament]]. The sheet identifies Hastings and 2012 in handwritten annotations and records thirteen ranked teams. Expendables led the recorded standings with 957 points, followed by Arachnidz with 934 and Rusty As with 920.[19]

=== 2014 season ===
A second annotated results sheet identifies [[2014 NZLS Hastings Round 3|Round 3 in Hastings in 2014]]. It records ten teams, with Unstable ranked first on 1,725 points, Expendables second on 1,420 and Tempest Blast third on 1,412.[20]

Contemporary newspaper reports identify an NZLS tournament held on 12 October at Kaierau Country Club in Whanganui. The preview called the competition the NZ Local Series, while the subsequent report used the description New Zealand Paintball Regional Series. Both identified the Kaierau venue and organiser Ben Androutsos.[21][22]

The series had been running since March and involved approximately twenty teams across the season. Eight teams attended the [[2014 NZLS October Tournament|October tournament]], which Expendables won after also winning the [[2014 NZLS September Tournament|September event]].[22]

Expendables secured the overall series title with one round remaining. After the October event, the reported leading series positions were Expendables first, Tempest Blast second, Dysfunctional third and Pentakill fourth. These were interim series standings, rather than the October tournament's finishing order.[22][23]

The final round was scheduled for November at Kaierau. A separate Wanganui Cup competition ran alongside NZLS; Expendables also led that competition, whose final was likewise scheduled for November at the venue.[22][23]

=== 2015 season ===
Contemporary reports from CAMO MEAT identify Rotorua as the location of the opening round. The team described entering two squads in its first NZLS appearance.[1]

Team Hijinx subsequently published photographs from an NZLS Round 3 tournament in Hastings in May 2015.[2]

Outpost 43 documented the season-ending tournament in Whanganui through a photographic album published in November. Its accompanying report described NZLS as an eight-round competition held throughout the year at different locations around the central North Island.[3]

Outpost 43 congratulated CAMO MEAT on finishing third overall in the championship and winning the Wanganui Speedball Cup. These were separately identified achievements; the report does not establish that winning the cup was equivalent to winning the NZLS final round or overall series.[3]

=== 2016 season ===
Outpost 43 published a 108-photograph album titled ''NZLS @ LnL Round 4 2016'', documenting a fourth-round event at [[Lock N Load Adventures]].[4]

An event in Hāwera is documented in footage published by Shupershuff. The recording ''PB NZLS 2016 - Hawera: Immortal vs CZ 2'' identifies a match involving Immortal Knights and CZ. Its April 2017 upload date is not the tournament date.[5]

=== 2017 season ===
==== Aces High Paintball event ====
[[PBLeagues]] records an NZLS tournament scheduled for 12 February 2017 at Aces High Paintball, 263 Flygers Line, Palmerston North. Listed as ''NZLS Event #1 Aces High Paintball'', it advertised Division Four five-player competition using five-minute games.[6]

Six teams were registered:[6]

{| class="wikitable"
! Team
|-
| Aces
|-
| [[Arachnidz (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Arachnidz]]
|-
| BOP Blast
|-
| Disturbed
|-
| Friendly Fire
|-
| Immortal Knights
|}

The database preserves entries and scheduled matches. Its displayed placings are not treated as confirmed results because the available schedule does not establish completed scores and the corresponding league championship page contains no completed season results.[6]

==== Hāwera ====
A separate Hāwera competition is documented by Shupershuff's recording ''PB NZLS 2017 - Round 1 Hawera'', published on 8 April 2017 and identifying Immortal Knights.[7]

The recording's Round 1 designation is retained as published. Its relationship to the Aces High event numbered Event #1 in PBLeagues has not been established.[6][7]

==== Final round ====
Outpost 43 published an 80-photograph album titled ''NZLS 2017 Final Round LnL'' on 19 November 2017, documenting the season-ending event at Lock N Load Adventures.[8]

=== 2018 season ===
==== Round 2 ====
[[Surge (paintball team)|Surge]] documented Round 2 at [[Asylum Paintball]] through a 40-photograph album in April. In a report published on 1 May, the team acknowledged podium finishes by Ballistics Unit and BOP Blast and thanked Johan and Luke for organising the tournament.[9]

The report stated that the competition had not been played to completion. It does not establish the full results or identify which matches remained outstanding.[9]

==== Round 3 ====
Surge documented the third round in July through a 59-photograph tournament album. The record identifies the round and month but does not provide complete standings.[10]

==== Final round and championship ====
The final round was held at Asylum Paintball in Auckland. [[Bay of Plenty Paintball Club]] reported entering two squads, with its leading team finishing second at the event and second overall in the North Island series. Its report, published on 14 November, described heavy rain during the tournament.[11]

Ballistics Unit identified itself as the 2018 NZLS series champion in an announcement published on 28 January 2019.[12]

Crisis Paintball Northland's retrospective history also records its return to tournament competition at NZLS Round 4 in 2018.[13]

=== 2019 season ===
==== Round 1 ====
The opening round was held at Asylum Paintball in March. [[Kaos Theory (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Kaos Theory]] won, with two Ballistics Unit squads finishing second and third. Ballistics Unit confirmed these placings in a report published on 9 March.[16]

==== Round 2 ====
The second round was held in May. Ballistics Unit reported winning with Ballistics Unit 1, while Ballistics Unit 2 finished third. Its report credited Expendables with supplying the inflatable bunkers and assisting with field preparation.[17]

==== Hāwera event ====
An NZLS tournament took place in Hāwera during October. In a report published on 27 October, Ballistics Unit stated that it had won the round-robin stage and secured the series championship with one round remaining.[18]

The report also identified Chris Waters as the winner of the event's one-on-one competition for a second consecutive year. Winning the round robin is distinguished from winning the entire event, as the account does not establish final tournament placings.[18]

==== Championship ====
Ballistics Unit confirmed its 2019 championship in a retrospective published on 1 December, describing consecutive NZLS titles in 2018 and 2019.[14]

Crisis Paintball Northland separately reported finishing third in the 2019 series. This placing comes from the team's retrospective history and has not been independently verified against a complete championship table.[13]

=== End of the series ===
On 8 February 2020, the newly established [[East Coast Paintball League]] (ECPL) announced that it intended to fill a gap in the regional competition calendar because NZLS was no longer operating.[15]

The announcement described a programme intended to encourage participation and new players, and referred to adopting X-Ball following the example of the [[New Zealand Race Series]]. It does not establish an exact NZLS closure date or a formal organisational relationship between NZLS and ECPL.[15]