Editing 2023 Arena Paintball King's Birthday Race


The '''2023 Arena Paintball King's Birthday Race''' was a five-player [[paintball]] tournament held on 3–4 June 2023 at [[Arena Paintball]] in Feilding, New Zealand. It was the second round of the [[2023 Arena 5 Man Race Series]].[1][2]

[[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]] won the event, with [[Crisis Paintball Northland]] finishing second in the Cup competition.[3][4]

== Tournament format ==

The 2023 series used a five-player race format, with a four-point mercy rule, a firing-rate limit of 10.5 balls per second and a hopper-and-four-pod ammunition limit advertised in the organiser's calendar.[1]

Arena Paintball published the King's Birthday tournament draw in May 2023.[2]

== Teams ==

The surviving draw identified the following teams:[2]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Team
|-
| [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit]]
|-
| [[Carcharodons (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Carcharodons]]
|-
| [[Crisis Paintball Northland]]
|-
| Defiance
|-
| [[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]]
|-
| Fatality
|}

These are the entries identified in the surviving draw record. The list does not independently establish a complete final attendance record.

== Results ==

=== Cup ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
! Evidence
|-
| 1st
| [[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]]
| Ralph Tsing's Round 2 victory announcement.[4]
|-
| 2nd
| [[Crisis Paintball Northland]]
| Contemporary team announcement.[3]
|}

On 5 June 2023, Crisis Paintball Northland announced that it had finished second in the Cup final at the King's Birthday event.[3]

On 12 September 2023, player [[Ralph Tsing]] published an Instagram post identifying Expendables as the winners of Round 2 of the 2023 New Zealand Race Series.[4]

The September publication date is the date of Tsing's announcement, not an independently established change to the tournament's scheduled June date.

Remaining Cup placings and any Plate competition results have not been established from the available records.

== See also ==

* [[2023 Arena 5 Man Race Series]]
* [[2023 Arena Paintball Easter Race]]
* [[2023 Arena Paintball Labour Day Tournament]]
* [[Arena Paintball]]

== References ==

# [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=515284927291133&type=3 Arena Paintball – 2023 tournament calendar, Facebook, December 2022].
# [https://www.facebook.com/ArenaPaintballNZ/posts/623041429848815/ Arena Paintball – King's Birthday tournament draw, Facebook, 28 May 2023].
# [https://www.facebook.com/groups/aucklandpaintballclub/posts/2592438174245440/ Crisis Paintball Northland – Second place in the 2023 King's Birthday Cup final, Facebook, 5 June 2023].
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/CxHSDmHL7FU/ Ralph Tsing – Expendables first-place announcement for Round 2 of the 2023 New Zealand Race Series, Instagram, 12 September 2023].

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