Editing Junkyard Dogs (Australian Paintball Team)

'''Junkyard Dogs''', also recorded as '''Junk Yard Dogs''', '''JY Dogs''' and '''JYD''', was an Australian tournament [[paintball]] team. The team finished fourth in the professional division of [[1999 APPL Round One]] and later appeared in the five-player competition at the 2002 World Cup in Florida.[1][2][3][4]

== Tournament history ==

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

An entry named JY Dogs competed in the professional division of the [[1998 Australian Seven-Player Paintball Championships]] at Yarramundi, New South Wales.[1]

The team finished sixth in the eight-team professional preliminary standings with 530 points and did not qualify for the four-team finals.[1]

=== 1999 APPL Round One ===

Junk Yard Dogs competed in the professional division of the opening round of the 1999 [[Australasian Paintball Players League]] competition.[2]

The contemporary report records a preliminary victory over [[The Creed (Australian Paintball Team)|The Creed]] on the Demolition field. After losing players early, JYD recovered to eliminate its opponents and complete a maximum-scoring win.[2]

JYD finished fourth in the professional preliminary standings with 550 points and qualified for the finals. It finished fourth overall with 15 finals points, behind SWAT, [[Rat Pack (Australian Paintball Team)|Rat Pak]] and [[No Remorse (Australian Paintball Team)|No Remorse]].[2]

=== 2002 World Cup ===

WARPIG's schedules for the 2002 World Cup at Kissimmee, Florida, list Junkyard Dogs of Australia in the five-player competition.[3]

The published 2002 NPPL five-player novice rankings record the team with 17 ranking points from the World Cup. These are ranking points rather than a tournament placing.[4]

== Recorded results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Competition
! Division
! Recorded outcome
! Source
|-
| 1998
| [[1998 Australian Seven-Player Paintball Championships]]
| Professional
| 6th in preliminaries; 530 points; did not reach the finals
| [1]
|-
| 1999
| [[1999 APPL Round One]]
| Professional
| 4th; 15 finals points
| [2]
|-
| 2002
| World Cup, Kissimmee, Florida
| Five-player novice
| 17 NPPL ranking points; tournament placing not established
| [3][4]
|}

== References ==

# [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.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20000517090426/http://paintmagazine.com/wpaint11/appl_rnd1.shtml APPL Round One]. Simon Morrison, ''Paint'', issue 11, 1999.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2002/worldcup/5mansch.shtml World Cup 2002 — Five-Man Sunday Schedule]. WARPIG, October 2002.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2002/ranking/ranking.shtml NPPL Rankings 2002]. WARPIG, five-player novice standings, entry “Junkyard Dogs of Australia”.

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