Editing 1998 Actions Paintball August Tournament


'''1998 Actions Paintball August Tournament''' is the descriptive title for a New Zealand [[paintball]] competition recorded on a surviving [[Actions Paintball]] trophy shield from August 1998. The shield identifies [[Black Dragon (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Black Dragon]] as the Division Two winner.[1]

== Tournament record ==

The surviving trophy shield is headed ''Actions Paintball 1998 Division 1 & 2'' and contains separate engraved plates identifying teams associated with competitions held throughout the year.[1]

The Division Two plate for August reads:

:''AUGUST''
:''BLACK DRAGON''

A contemporary report on the Actions Paintball tournament held on 31 May 1998 confirms that a shield was intended to record the Division One and Division Two winners of successive competitions.[2]

The August engraving therefore provides physical evidence of Black Dragon's recorded divisional victory.

{| class="wikitable"
! Division
! Recorded winner
|-
| Division One
| Not established
|-
| Division Two
| [[Black Dragon (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Black Dragon]]
|}

The precise event date, venue, competing teams and scores have not been established from the surviving records.

== Relationship to the National Paintball League ==

Black Dragon also finished first in the published [[1998 National Paintball League season|1998 National Paintball League]] Division Two standings with 24 league points.[3]

The August tournament result and the season-long league championship are separately recorded achievements. The available documentation does not establish whether the August result contributed directly to the league standings.

== Historical evidence ==

The 1998 Actions Paintball shield was photographed by Vitaly Miheev at Actions Paintball and supplied to WikiPaintball on 30 October 2026.[1]

The photograph documents the August Division Two inscription. The corresponding Division One plate cannot be conclusively read from the available photograph.

== See also ==

* [[Actions Paintball]]
* [[Black Dragon (New Zealand Paintball Team)]]
* [[1998 National Paintball League season]]
* [[1998 Actions Queen's Birthday Tournament]]
* [[1998 New Zealand Paintball Nationals]]

== References ==

# Vitaly Miheev. Photograph of the 1998 Actions Paintball Division One and Two shield, taken at Actions Paintball and supplied to WikiPaintball, 30 October 2026. Records Black Dragon under the August Division Two heading.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020817065120/http://www.paintball.co.nz/t310598.htm Actions Paintball Tournament, 31 May 1998]. ''NZ Paintball Online''. Contemporary report explaining the purpose of the divisional winners' shield.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020613121455/http://www.paintball.co.nz/npld298.htm The 1998 NPL Division 2 League Results]. ''NZ Paintball Online''. Published season standings identifying Black Dragon in first place.

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