Editing Help:Reconstructing tournament results (section)

== 4. Follow players, photographers and sponsors ==

A team's official account may not contain every historical result.

Individual players may publish their own tournament photographs or announcements, particularly after receiving medals or winning a division.

Photographers may preserve presentation ceremonies, team photographs and scoreboards long after the organiser's original results have disappeared.

Sponsors may congratulate teams on specific results, sometimes identifying placements omitted from team announcements.

For each known team, consider searching for:

* Team captains and publicly identified players.
* Event photographers.
* Field owners and tournament organisers.
* Team sponsors.
* Local paintball shops and clubs.
* Visiting international players.
* Players who competed as guests for other teams.

=== Track players separately from teams ===

A player may represent different teams at different tournaments.

Their participation in an event does not establish that their usual team was entered.

For example, a player whose social media profile identifies one team may have competed as a guest for another.

Record the player's documented event-specific team separately from their wider team history.

Do not reconstruct an entire roster from photographs or social media connections alone.