Editing 2011 NPPL season

The '''2011 NPPL season''' was the four-event United States tournament season of the [[National Professional Paintball League]]. Competition included professional and amateur seven-player divisions, five-player competition and pump play.[1][2][3][4]

[[San Diego Dynasty]] won the professional season championship with 67 ranking points, ahead of [[Edmonton Impact]] on 57 and [[Chicago Aftershock]] on 55. Dynasty won the opening two tournaments, Chicago Legend won the D.C. Challenge and Aftershock won the Las Vegas finale.[5]

== Calendar ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Round !! Event !! Dates !! Venue
|-
| 1
| [[2011 NPPL Huntington Beach Open|Huntington Beach Open]]
| 1–3 April 2011
| Huntington Beach, California
|-
| 2
| [[2011 NPPL Chicago Open|Chicago Open]]
| 20–22 May 2011
| CPX Sports, near Joliet, Illinois
|-
| 3
| [[2011 NPPL D.C. Challenge|D.C. Challenge]]
| 16–18 September 2011
| Pev's Paintball Park, Aldie, Virginia
|-
| 4
| [[2011 NPPL Las Vegas World Championships|Las Vegas World Paintball Championships]]
| 11–13 November 2011
| Riviera Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
|}

Sources: contemporary tournament reports and the league's Las Vegas event information.[1][2][3][4]

Chicago shared its venue and weekend with [[Living Legends|Living Legends IV]], combining the NPPL tournament with Viper Scenarios' scenario event.[2]

== Professional results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Event !! Winner !! Runner-up
|-
| Huntington Beach
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| [[Sacramento XSV]]
|-
| Chicago
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| St. Louis Avalanche
|-
| D.C. Challenge
| Chicago Legend
| DC Arsenal
|-
| Las Vegas
| [[Chicago Aftershock]]
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
|}

Sources: contemporary reporting and the final official ranking table.[1][2][3][5]

Dynasty defeated Avalanche in two consecutive championship games at Chicago. Legend won the D.C. Challenge against Arsenal in an overtime decider.[2][3]

Aftershock's Las Vegas tournament victory was separate from Dynasty's professional season championship.[5]

== Divisional results ==

The following table records the teams awarded first-place ranking points for each event in the league's final season table. Some entries differ from contemporary tournament reports and brackets, as noted below.[5]

{| class="wikitable"
! Event !! Division 1 seven-player !! Division 2 seven-player !! Division 3 seven-player !! Division 4 five-player !! Pump
|-
| Huntington Beach
| Critical Wrecking Crew
| UXP Tombstone
| DBS Paintball
| Sacramento Royals
| Total Greif
|-
| Chicago
| Dynasty 2
| 3CT
| DBS Paintball
| Centermass Hawaii
| Total Greif
|-
| D.C. Challenge
| Impact Echo
| TCP Machine
| Blackout
| Haze
| Total Greif
|-
| Las Vegas
| Dynasty 2
| Top Gun Evolution
| Good For Nothing
| Centermass Hawaii
| FrontKick2theSternum
|}

=== Differences between records ===

The archived Huntington Beach championship brackets identify Seattle Siege as Division 1 winners, Capital Edge Fuzion as Division 2 winners and LA Hitmen.com as pump winners. These differ from the first-place ranking allocations in the final season table.[5][6]

At Chicago, WARPIG identifies LSD Savage as Division 2 winners, whereas the final official season table awards first-place points to 3CT and second-place points to LSD Savage.[2][5]

These records are retained as distinct evidence rather than treating the final ranking allocations as an uncontested reconstruction of every tournament result.

== Season champions ==

The league's final official rankings identify the following series champions.[5]

{| class="wikitable"
! Classification !! Champion !! Ranking points
|-
| Professional seven-player
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| 67
|-
| Division 1 seven-player
| Impact Echo
| 179
|-
| Division 2 seven-player
| Top Gun Evolution
| 169
|-
| Division 3 seven-player
| Blackout
| 148
|-
| Division 4 five-player
| Centermass Hawaii
| 182
|-
| Pump five-player
| Total Greif
| 193
|}

The official table spells the pump team's name “Total Grief”; contemporary WARPIG coverage uses “Total Greif”.[2][5]

Dynasty 2 won the Division 1 tournament in Las Vegas, while Impact Echo secured that division's season championship. Similarly, Blackout won the Division 3 season title despite finishing second at the finale.[5]

== Rules and competition formats ==

Seven-player competition remained central to the 2011 programme. Events also included Division 4 five-player and pump competition.[1][3]

A contemporary review of the 2011 rulebook recorded the introduction of a 15-balls-per-second firing-rate limit alongside the existing semi-automatic marker requirement.[7]

The same review described classification provisions under which players generally retained their previous season's rank, while members of divisional championship rosters moved up a classification, except at Division 1 and in open pump competition.[7]

The season should be distinguished from the seven-player RaceTo programme documented in 2012. Contemporary 2011 reports describe preliminary game-score totals and best-of-three contests, including games decided on points when time expired.[2][8]

== Broadcasting ==

Huntington Beach received live ESPN network coverage. WARPIG reported sixteen professional teams, 76 amateur seven-player teams, 35 five-player teams and fifteen pump teams at the opening event.[1]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[2010 NPPL season]]
* [[2012 NPPL season]]
* [[Living Legends]]

== References ==

# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/uspl/2011/hb/ “NPPL Huntington Beach”. WARPIG, 1–3 April 2011.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/uspl/2011/chicago/ “NPPL Chicago Open”. WARPIG, 20–22 May 2011.]
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/uspl/2011/dc/ “NPPL DC Challenge”. WARPIG, September 2011.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20111030031053/http://www.nppl.com/news/286 National Professional Paintball League, “2011 Las Vegas Paintball Championship”. Official player information, archived 30 October 2011.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20111205024438/http://www.nppl.com/rankings National Professional Paintball League, “Rankings”. Final 2011 season standings, archived 5 December 2011.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20110409090941/http://www.nppl.com/documents/Finalscores.pdf National Professional Paintball League, Huntington Beach divisional championship and consolation brackets. Archived 9 April 2011.]
# [https://viewfromthedeadbox.blogspot.com/2011/02/nppl-2011-rulebook-reviewed.html?m=0 “NPPL 2011 Rulebook Reviewed”. View from the Deadbox, 22 February 2011.]
# [https://www.socialpaintball.com/2012/03/31/nppl-surf-city-usa-open-friday-coverage-and-photos/ Bea Paxson, “NPPL Surf City USA Open — Friday Coverage and Photos”. Social Paintball, 31 March 2012. Documents the subsequent seven-player RaceTo formats.]

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