Editing Paintball World Cup (section)

=== NPPL era ===

During the 1990s, the World Cup became one of the principal events of the National Professional Paintball League.

The tournament featured professional and amateur competition, generally using five-player and 10-player formats.

At the 1996 NPPL World Cup, [[Chicago Aftershock]] won the professional 10-player competition.

The tournament also featured the American debut of [[Hyperball]], a field format using large corrugated plastic pipes as artificial bunkers.[7]

The 1997 World Cup included the American debut of the inflatable [[Sup'AirBall]] field system.

By the 1999 World Cup, the tournament had expanded to a larger site near Kissimmee. Chicago Aftershock won the professional 10-player competition, while Lockout won the professional five-player division.[8]

In 2000, the [[Ironmen]] won the professional 10-player division and the [[All Americans]] won the professional five-player competition.[9]

By this stage, the tournament was being played entirely on constructed concept fields rather than traditional woodland layouts.