Editing 2011 NPPL Huntington Beach Open

The '''2011 NPPL Huntington Beach Open''', also promoted as the '''Surf City USA Open''', was the opening event of the 2011 [[National Professional Paintball League]] season. It took place from '''1–3 April 2011''' on the beach at [[Huntington Beach]], [[California]]. [[San Diego Dynasty]] won the professional division. [1][2]

== Event ==

The tournament continued the NPPL's Huntington Beach event tradition, which began in 2003. The competition included professional and amateur seven-player divisions, Division 4 five-player competition and five-player pump competition. [1][2][3]

WARPIG reported 16 professional teams, 76 amateur seven-player teams, 35 five-player teams and 15 pump teams. [1]

The event received live coverage through ESPN3. The league's advance publicity also advertised a public trade show, professional player appearances, grandstand seating and VIP tickets. [1][2]

== Professional competition ==

San Diego Dynasty won the professional tournament. Planet Eclipse's contemporary report confirmed Edmonton Impact's third-place finish. Chicago Legend finished fourth. [1][4][5]

Ryan Greenspan's published career record identifies the Huntington Beach victory as Dynasty's '''50th professional tournament win'''. [6]

== Results ==

=== Professional ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team !! Source
|-
| 1
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| [1][4]
|-
| 3
| [[Edmonton Impact]]
| [4]
|-
| 4
| Chicago Legend
| [5]
|}

=== Amateur divisions ===

The following results are reconstructed from the NPPL's archived championship and consolation brackets. [3]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! First !! Second !! Third !! Fourth
|-
| Division 1 seven-player
| Seattle Siege
| Warped Army
| Critical Wrecking Crew
| Impact Echo
|-
| Division 2 seven-player
| Capital Edge Fuzion
| Paintballgateway.com
| UXP Tombstone
| Marine Team One
|-
| Division 3 seven-player
| DBSpaintball.com
| TCP H8 Factory
| Minions
| Chicagoland Paintball
|-
| Division 4 five-player
| Sacramento Royals
| Obnoxious Nickles
| Centermass Hawaii
| RIT Tigers Orange
|-
| Pump five-player
| LA Hitmen.com
| Xandata
| Total Greif
| Blitz
|}

The archived sheet incorrectly labels the losing championship finalists in Division 3 and Division 4 as fourth. Their positions as runners-up follow from the championship pairings and the first-place teams recorded in those brackets. Planet Eclipse independently confirmed Warped Army's second place in Division 1. [3][4]

== Additional competition ==

LA Hitmen's contemporary team blog reported that Derrick Obatake won the event's '''Spyder One-on-One Challenge'''. [7]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[2010 NPPL Huntington Beach Open]]
* [[2011 NPPL Chicago Open]]
* [[Paintball in the United States]]

== References ==

# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/uspl/2011/hb/ WARPIG – NPPL Huntington Beach, 1–3 April 2011.]
# [https://paintballheadlines.com/tag/huntington-beach/ Paintball Headlines – contemporary NPPL Surf City Open announcements, January–March 2011.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20110409090941/http://www.nppl.com/documents/Finalscores.pdf National Professional Paintball League – Huntington Beach divisional play-off and finals brackets, archived 9 April 2011.]
# [https://eclipsehq.blogspot.com/2011/04/3-in-row-boooom-dynast-y.html Planet Eclipse HQ Blog – “3 In a Row..... BOOOOM !!! DYNAST . . . . . . .Y !”, 4 April 2011.]
# [https://www.socialpaintball.com/2012-paintball-power-rankings/ Social Paintball – 2012 Preseason Paintball Power Rankings, reviewing Chicago Legend's 2011 results.]
# [https://www.ryangreenspan.com/trophy-case Ryan Greenspan – The Trophy Case: 2011 tournament achievements.]
# [https://lahitmen.blogspot.com/2011/05/nppl-huntington-beach-derrick-obatake.html LA Hitmen – “NPPL Huntington Beach Derrick Obatake wins the Spyder One on One Challenge”, 16 May 2011.]

[[Category:National Professional Paintball League events]]
[[Category:Paintball tournaments in the United States]]
[[Category:Paintball tournament results]]
[[Category:Paintball in California]]
[[Category:2010s in American paintball]]
[[Category:2011 in paintball]]