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'''Acme''', also styled '''ACME''' and '''Team Acme''', was an Australian tournament [[paintball]] team documented during the 1990s. The team reached the amateur finals of the 1996 [[Australian Masters]] and finished third in the amateur division of [[1999 APPL Round One]].[1][2]

== History ==

=== Three-player competition ===

In correspondence published in April–June 1996, captain Jonathan Bray described entering three squads in a three-player tournament at Dubbo. Team Acme finished second, Acme Inc third and Acme and Co fourth. Acme and Co also received the best and fairest award.[3]

Bray acknowledged support from Predator Paintball at Michelago and Value Rent-A-Car. The letter does not establish the tournament's exact date.[3]

=== 1996 competition ===

Acme finished third in the amateur division of the Starlight Foundation charity five-player tournament at Brayton Paintball on 14 January 1996. The Ambassadors won the division, followed by Black Widows, Acme and Them.[4]

Acme also reached the four-team amateur finals at the 1996 Australian Masters at Skirmish Adventures in Helensburgh, New South Wales. The report identifies Acme as a finalist but does not establish its final placing.[1]

=== 1998 Australian Seven-Player Championships ===

Acme competed in the amateur division of the [[1998 Australian Seven-Player Paintball Championships]] at Yarramundi, New South Wales.[5]

The team finished seventh in the amateur preliminary standings with 220 points and did not qualify for the four-team finals.[5]

=== 1999 APPL Round One ===

Acme was one of three amateur entries at the opening round of the 1999 [[Australasian Paintball Players League]] competition.[2]

The team scored 120 preliminary points. In the amateur finals, it lost to SWAT A and [[The Creed (Australian Paintball Team)|The Creed]], finishing third with 40 points.[2]

== Documented personnel ==

Jonathan Bray identified himself as Team Acme's captain in correspondence published in April–June 1996.[3]

== Recorded tournament results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Competition
! Recorded outcome
! Source
|-
| Not established
| Dubbo three-player tournament
| Team Acme 2nd; Acme Inc 3rd; Acme and Co 4th, according to the captain's account
| [3]
|-
| 1996
| Starlight Foundation charity tournament, Brayton Paintball
| 3rd, amateur division
| [4]
|-
| 1996
| Australian Masters
| Amateur finalist; final placing not established
| [1]
|-
| 1998
| [[1998 Australian Seven-Player Paintball Championships]]
| 7th in amateur preliminaries; 220 points
| [5]
|-
| 1999
| [[1999 APPL Round One]]
| 3rd, amateur division; 40 finals points
| [2]
|}

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/19981206035630/http://www.xsystems.com.au/wpaint/wpaint4/masters.html Australian Masters]. Kez Svanberg, ''War Paint'', issue 4, November 1996.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20000517090426/http://paintmagazine.com/wpaint11/appl_rnd1.shtml APPL Round One]. Simon Morrison, ''Paint'', issue 11, 1999.
# Jonathan Bray, correspondence concerning a Dubbo three-player tournament, ''Australian Paintballer'', April–June 1996, p. 5.
# Neil Carpenter, report on the Starlight Foundation charity tournament at Brayton Paintball, ''Australian Paintballer'', April–June 1996, p. 32.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/19981203101247/http://www.xsystems.com.au/wpaint/wpaint9/aus_7player.html 1998 Australian 7 Man]. Simon Morrison, ''Paint'', issue 9, September 1998.

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