Editing 2013 NPPL Chicago Open

The '''2013 NPPL Chicago Open''', promoted as the '''Windy City Open''', was a [[National Professional Paintball League]] tournament held from 9–11 August 2013 at [[Paintball Explosion]] in Dundee, Illinois, United States. Organised by PB Promotions, it was the third major event of the 2013 NPPL season.[1][2]

Fort Wayne Outlaws won the professional division, ahead of [[New England Avalanche]], [[Portland Uprising]] and [[San Francisco Explicit]].[3]

== Title and venue ==
The NPPL's official event page used the title ''Windy City Open'', while its calendar described the tournament as the ''2013 NPPL Chicago Open''.[1][2]

The venue was Paintball Explosion in Dundee, rather than within Chicago. The official listing scheduled the event from 8 am on Friday, 9 August, until 5 pm on Sunday, 11 August.[1]

== Competition formats ==
Professional and semi-professional teams competed in seven-player S7 race-format competition. Divisions 2, 3 and 4 used traditional seven-player formats.[1]

The event also offered traditional five-player Division 4 competition and a three-player centre-flag Young Guns division for players aged 10–15. Both were scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.[1]

== Results ==
The following placings are derived from the Windy City Open event points in the NPPL's archived rankings, rather than the cumulative season order.[3]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! First !! Second !! Third !! Fourth
|-
| Professional seven-player S7
| Fort Wayne Outlaws
| New England Avalanche
| Portland Uprising
| San Francisco Explicit
|-
| Semi-professional seven-player S7
| TCP Machine
| TradeMyGun Effect
| Pekin Prestige
| TMG Albany Outlaws
|-
| Division 2 seven-player
| TradeMyGun Outlaws
| Orange County Flashpoint
| —
| —
|-
| Division 3 seven-player
| Capital Edge DMG White
| Miami Devious
| TMG Farside
| Raw Material
|-
| Division 4 seven-player
| Chicago Damage Inc. Black
| Chicago Bomb Squad
| Devious D4
| TMG Outlaw X
|-
| Division 4 five-player
| Colorado All-stars
| Bomb Squad Black
| O'Hare Nightmare
| Cen Cal Alliance
|-
| Young Guns three-player
| Chicago Voltage
| Groundfire Kids
| Project Mayhem
| Rotten Kids
|}

Only two teams received Windy City Open points in the archived Division 2 standings.[3]

== See also ==
* [[2013 NPPL Northeast Open]]
* [[2013 NPPL Las Vegas World Championships]]
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]

== References ==
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130918000313/http://nppl.com/event/windy-city-open/ National Professional Paintball League – “Windy City Open”, official event information, archived 18 September 2013.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924044603/http://nppl.com/events/past/ National Professional Paintball League – past events calendar, archived 24 September 2013. Identifies the Windy City Open as the “2013 NPPL Chicago Open”.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130901011034/http://nppl.com/rankings National Professional Paintball League – “Team Rankings”, archived 1 September 2013. Windy City Open points appear under “E3 WCO” in the individual division tabs.]

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