Editing 1999 NPPL Boston Open

The '''1999 NPPL Boston Open''' was a [[National Professional Paintball League]] ten-man tournament held at S.L.A.M. Paintball in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, from 27 to 29 August 1999. Promoted by [[Bad Boyz Toyz]] and [[DYE Precision]], it featured professional, Amateur A and Amateur B divisions.[1]

[[Team Image|Image]] won the professional competition, Ground Zero Gold won Amateur A and Saberwolves won Amateur B.[2][3]

== Venue and organisation ==

The Boston tournament replaced the Portland event on the NPPL schedule. Competition used a Hyperball field, a Sup'Air Ball field and two woodland fields.[1]

S.L.A.M. Paintball formed part of an entertainment complex that also offered activities including miniature golf, a driving range and batting cages. Spectators could watch Hyperball games from grandstands.[1]

[[Rage (paintball team)|Rage]] and [[Lockout]] refereed the tournament. WARPIG reported that limited referee numbers made covering the woodland games particularly demanding.[1]

== Competition ==

Preliminary games took place on Friday and Saturday. A shortage of carbon dioxide briefly delayed Friday morning's play before a delivery allowed the schedule to recover. Light rain affected the afternoon session.[1]

All professional entrants advanced to Sunday's semi-finals because of the size of the professional field.[1]

=== Professional final ===

Image won with 202 points. The All Americans finished second with 131, two points ahead of Ironmen. Bob Long's Ironmen finished fourth.[2]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Team Image|Image]] || 12 || 94 || 96 || 202
|-
| 2 || [[All Americans]] || 20 || 14 || 97 || 131
|-
| 3 || [[Ironmen (Southern California)|Ironmen]] || 78 || 43 || 8 || 129
|-
| 4 || [[Bob Long's Ironmen]] || 16 || 12 || 1 || 29
|}

Scores are from WARPIG's contemporary final scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][3]

=== Amateur A final ===

Ground Zero Gold won with 205 points, six ahead of Diggers. Shockwave finished third and OBR fourth.[2]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Ground Zero|Ground Zero Gold]] || 14 || 97 || 94 || 205
|-
| 2 || Diggers || 99 || 6 || 94 || 199
|-
| 3 || Shockwave || 93 || 14 || 7 || 114
|-
| 4 || OBR || 2 || 88 || 12 || 102
|}

Scores are from WARPIG's contemporary final scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][3]

=== Amateur B final ===

Saberwolves won with 181 points, followed by SOBs, Krusade and G-Force 2.[2]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Saberwolves || 82 || 2 || 97 || 181
|-
| 2 || SOBs || 97 || 13 || 6 || 116
|-
| 3 || Krusade || 6 || 16 || 90 || 112
|-
| 4 || G-Force 2 || 3 || 22 || 10 || 35
|}

Scores are from WARPIG's contemporary final scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][3]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[1999 NPPL Chicago Open]]
* [[1999 NPPL World Cup]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/boston99/index.shtml NPPL Boston 1999]. ''WARPIG'', August 1999. Contemporary report documenting dates, venue, promoters, playing fields, refereeing and preliminary rounds.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/boston99/final.shtml Boston NPPL 1999 — Finals]. ''WARPIG'', August 1999.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores]. “1999 NPPL — Boston”. Professional, Amateur A and Amateur B ten-man final placings.

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