Editing 2001 NPPL Los Angeles Open

The '''2001 NPPL Los Angeles Open''' was the opening tournament of the 2001 [[National Professional Paintball League]] season, held at [[SC Arenas]], part of [[SC Village]] in Corona, California, in March 2001. It included professional and amateur ten-man competition and amateur, novice and rookie five-man divisions.[1][5]

[[Ground Zero]] won professional ten-man, [[Team Strange]] won Amateur A and Warped Kids won Amateur B. Sinister, Full Breach II and American Heat II won the five-man divisions.[2][3][4]

== Organisation and conditions ==

Heavy rain before the tournament left muddy parking and staging areas. Five-man competition began on Tuesday and concluded on Wednesday; ten-man preliminaries started on Friday, followed by semi-finals and finals on Sunday.[1]

Field layouts were modified before the event, including changes to inflatable bunkers and the addition of Ultimate Airball obstacles to Hyperball fields.[1]

Bob Long's Ironmen helped referee five-man competition. The Southern California Ironmen, The Family and Fury refereed ten-man.[1]

== Professional debut ==

[[San Diego Dynasty|Dynasty]] made its NPPL professional debut, reached the final and finished third.[1][2]

== Ten-man results ==

Ground Zero won the professional final with 281 points, ahead of Lockout, Dynasty and Aftershock.[2]

All tables show final-round scores. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][4]

=== Professional ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Ground Zero]] || 94 || 92 || 95 || 281
|-
| 2 || [[Lockout]] || 12 || 16 || 95 || 123
|-
| 3 || [[San Diego Dynasty|Dynasty]] || 87 || 16 || 10 || 113
|-
| 4 || [[Chicago Aftershock|Aftershock]] || 16 || 19 || 10 || 45
|}

=== Amateur A ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Team Strange]] || 95 || 97 || 14 || 206
|-
| 2 || Addicted || 92 || −10 || 91 || 173
|-
| 3 || [[Bushwackers (paintball team)|Bushwackers]] || 10 || 17 || 18 || 45
|-
| 4 || [[Naughty Dogs]] || 8 || 14 || 12 || 34
|}

=== Amateur B ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Warped Kids || 97 || 95 || 94 || 286
|-
| 2 || Exile || 6 || 91 || 94 || 191
|-
| 3 || Check It || 98 || 18 || 12 || 128
|-
| 4 || Sharp Shooters || 4 || 10 || 12 || 26
|}

== Five-man results ==

There was no professional five-man division at this event. Thirty teams competed across the amateur, novice and rookie classifications.[1]

All tables show final-round scores. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[3][4]

=== Amateur ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Sinister || 56 || 54 || 8 || 118
|-
| 2 || Dragoons || 49 || 8 || 56 || 113
|-
| 3 || Worr Team || 12 || 8 || 60 || 80
|-
| 4 || TC Factory Team || 8 || 56 || 0 || 64
|}

=== Novice ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Full Breach II || 4 || 49 || 57 || 110
|-
| 2 || Carnival Clowns || 12 || 4 || 59 || 75
|-
| 3 || Tropical Illusion || 23 || 49 || 2 || 74
|-
| 4 || X-Static || 2 || 58 || 6 || 66
|}

=== Rookie ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || American Heat II || 59 || 56 || 60 || 175
|-
| 2 || Team One || 18 || 8 || 59 || 85
|-
| 3 || Impact || 41 || 16 || 0 || 57
|-
| 4 || FBI || 2 || 47 || 2 || 51
|}

== Equipment preview ==

DYE-sponsored teams were given a preview of the company's forthcoming Invision goggle system and an opportunity to provide feedback.[6]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[2000 NPPL Los Angeles Open]]
* [[2001 NPPL Gettysburg Open]]
* [[SC Arenas]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/laopen/index.shtml Los Angeles Open NPPL 2001]. ''WARPIG'', March 2001. Contemporary report covering organisation, conditions, schedule, refereeing and Dynasty's professional debut.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/laopen/10pre.shtml LA Open NPPL — Ten-Man Scoreboard]. ''WARPIG'', March 2001. Includes preliminary, semi-final and final results.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/laopen/5pre.shtml LA Open NPPL 2001 — Five-Man Scoreboard]. ''WARPIG'', March 2001. Includes preliminary, semi-final and final results.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores]. “2001 NPPL — Los Angeles”. Ten-man and five-man final placings.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/pictures/tournament/index.shtml Tournament Photo Galleries]. ''WARPIG''. Lists the 2001 NPPL Los Angeles Open under March 2001.
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/technical/goggles/invision/index.shtml DYE Invision Preview]. ''WARPIG'', Bill Mills, March 2001.

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