Editing 2011 NPPL Chicago Open

The '''2011 NPPL Chicago Open''' was the second event of the 2011 [[National Professional Paintball League]] season. It took place from '''20–22 May 2011''' at '''CPX Sports''', also known as Challenge Park Extreme, near [[Joliet]], [[Illinois]]. [[San Diego Dynasty]] won the professional division, defeating [[Avalanche|St. Louis Avalanche]] in the final. [1][2]

The tournament shared its venue and weekend with '''[[Living Legends IV]]''', bringing national tournament competition and a major scenario paintball event together at CPX. [3][4]

== Venue and Living Legends ==

CPX provided both tournament fields and themed recreational playing areas. Living Legends was produced by [[Viper Scenarios]], while the NPPL competition occupied the tournament fields. [1]

Contemporary reporting from the venue described Living Legends as a two-day scenario game taking place alongside the professional tournament. [4]

The combined event was promoted to vendors as an opportunity to reach tournament, scenario and recreational players during the same weekend. A separate five-player scenario tournament, '''Defuse Bedlam''', was also advertised for 19–20 May, with entry included for paid Living Legends and NPPL participants. [3][5]

== Professional competition ==

Dynasty defeated Edmonton Impact in the semi-finals and then won two consecutive games against St. Louis Avalanche in the final. Portland Uprising defeated Impact for third place. [1]

The victory gave Dynasty consecutive wins at the opening two NPPL events of 2011, following the [[2011 NPPL Huntington Beach Open]]. Planet Eclipse's contemporary report also confirmed Dynasty's Chicago victory and Impact's fourth-place finish. [2][6]

== Results ==

The following table records the published top-four results. Division 2's disputed championship order is detailed separately below. [1][2]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! First !! Second !! Third !! Fourth
|-
| Professional seven-player
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| [[Avalanche|St. Louis Avalanche]]
| Portland Uprising
| [[Edmonton Impact]]
|-
| Division 1 seven-player
| Dynasty 2
| Texas Storm
| Impact Echo
| Critical Wrecking Crew
|-
| Division 2 seven-player
| colspan="2" | 3CT and LSD Savage — published order differs between sources
| Marine Team One
| Top Gun Evolution
|-
| Division 3 seven-player
| DBS Kidz 2
| TKO Blackout
| Boom II
| Raiders
|-
| Division 4 five-player
| Centermass Hawaii
| Asylum Ballerz
| Toxic
| University of Michigan
|-
| Pump five-player
| Total Greif
| Zero
| Milwaukee Throwback
| CPX Pro Stars
|}

=== Division 2 source discrepancy ===

WARPIG identifies LSD Savage as Division 2 winners, describing a victory over 3CT in the deciding third game. The contemporary ProPaintball results reproduced by PBHub instead list '''3CT first and LSD Savage second'''. ThisISPaintball's post-event report independently congratulated 3CT on winning Division 2. [1][2][3]

== Pump competition ==

Total Greif won the pump division without losing a game during the tournament, defeating Zero in two consecutive games in the final. [1]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[Living Legends IV]]
* [[2011 NPPL Huntington Beach Open]]
* [[2011 NPPL D.C. Challenge]]
* [[Paintball in the United States]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/uspl/2011/chicago/ WARPIG – NPPL Chicago Open, 20–22 May 2011: contemporary tournament report.]
# [https://pbhub.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55132 PBHub – “NPPL Chicago – Dynasty gewinnt erneut”, 23 May 2011, reproducing contemporary ProPaintball coverage and divisional results.]
# [https://thisispaintball.wordpress.com/ ThisISPaintball.ca – “NPPL Chicago Open Layout & Details”, 30 April 2011; “NPPL Chicago Open & Living Legends 4”, 26 May 2011.]
# [https://paintballpit.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/reporting-live-from-the-nppl-chicago/ Paintball Pit – “Reporting live from the NPPL Chicago”, 21 May 2011.]
# [https://hellionspaintball.blogspot.com/2011/04/ Press Releases from the Hellions SFG – “CPX Sports: Defuse Bedlam Scenario Tourney”, 29 April 2011, reproducing the event announcement.]
# [https://eclipsehq.blogspot.com/2011/05/1st-2nd-3rd-and-4th-nice.html Planet Eclipse HQ Blog – “1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.... NICE !!!!”, 24 May 2011.]

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