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'''Bad Company''' was an Australian tournament [[paintball]] team based in Sydney, New South Wales. The team won the amateur division of the [[1995 Rebel Tour]] and supplied referees for the 1996 [[Australian Masters]]. A later account of former player Troy Charlesworth's career credits Bad Company with the 1997 APPL amateur championship.[1][2][3]

== History ==

=== 1995 competition ===

Bad Company entered the amateur division of the [[1995 Australian Three-Man Speedball Championships]] at Heartbreak Ridge Paintball in Sydney on 5 November 1995. The contemporary report lists its participation but does not establish its final placing.[4]

The team subsequently competed in the amateur division of the 1995 Rebel Tour at Skirmish Adventures in Helensburgh on 2–3 December.[1]

Bad Company qualified for the four-team amateur finals with 265 preliminary points. Scott Anderson was identified as captain, while Steve Ballas played with the team as a guest.[1]

The team secured the amateur championship following its concluding game against Bulljoes. A maximum score initially appeared to give Bad Company victory, before a chronograph penalty temporarily placed Bulljoes ahead. A subsequent penalty against Bulljoes restored Bad Company's championship win.[1]

The contemporary report described the result as Bad Company's first seven-player tournament victory.[1]

In ''Australian Paintballer'''s national amateur rankings for the 1995 season, Bad Company placed second with 69.50 ranking points from four tournaments.[5]

=== 1996 competition and refereeing ===

Bad Company competed in the amateur division of the Starlight Foundation charity five-player tournament at Brayton Paintball on 14 January 1996. It did not reach the four-team amateur finals.[6]

Bad Company Australia and [[Sydney SWAT|SWAT]] supplied the refereeing staff for the 1996 Australian Masters at Skirmish Adventures, Helensburgh. Fourteen teams attended from Australia, New Zealand and the United States.[2]

=== 1997 APPL championship ===

Valhalla Paintball's account of Troy Charlesworth's playing career records that Mike Whybrew introduced him to Bad Company, which it identifies as a Sydney team. According to that account, Charlesworth won the [[Australasian Paintball Players League]] amateur division with Bad Company in 1997 before joining [[Apparition (Australian Paintball Team)|Apparition]] in 1998.[3]

== Documented personnel ==

* Scott Anderson — captain at the 1995 Rebel Tour.[1]
* Steve Ballas — guest player at the 1995 Rebel Tour.[1]
* Troy Charlesworth — member of the 1997 team, according to his later career account.[3]

== Recorded results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Competition
! Result
! Source
|-
| 1995
| [[1995 Rebel Tour]]
| 1st, amateur seven-player division
| [1]
|-
| 1995
| Australian Paintballer national amateur rankings
| 2nd; 69.50 ranking points from four tournaments
| [5]
|-
| 1996
| Starlight Foundation charity tournament, Brayton Paintball
| Did not reach the amateur finals
| [6]
|-
| 1997
| APPL amateur championship
| 1st, according to Troy Charlesworth's later career account
| [3]
|}

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/19981202005647/http://www.xsystems.com.au/wpaint/wpaint2/rebel.htm Rebel Yell!]. Rod Lewis and Gavin Costello, ''War Paint'', issue 2, May 1996.
# [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://www.valhallapaintball.com.au/about.html About Us]. Valhalla Paintball, account of Troy Charlesworth's playing career, undated.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/19981205023709/http://www.xsystems.com.au/wpaint/wpaint1/3man.htm 3 Man Speedball Championships]. ''War Paint'', issue 1, January 1996.
# “1995 Australian Team Rankings”, ''Australian Paintballer'', April–June 1996, p. 29.
# Neil Carpenter, report on the Starlight Foundation charity tournament at Brayton Paintball, ''Australian Paintballer'', April–June 1996, p. 32.

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