Editing Nutters (New Zealand Paintball Team)

'''Nutters''' was a Rotorua-based New Zealand tournament [[paintball]] team documented during 2001 and 2002. The team competed in both five-player and three-player events.[1][2]

== History ==

A New Zealand paintball forum discussion from 12 June 2001 identified Nutters and [[Tag n' Release]] as Rotorua teams. The discussion concerned prospective practice with the Auckland team Insane and does not establish a tournament result or the date on which Nutters was formed.[1]

The 2001 [[Valhalla National Rankings]] recorded Nutters in two competitions. The team appeared in the preliminary stage of the [[2001 South Pacific Championships]] and at the [[2001 Hawke’s Bay Triples]]. Nutters was placed twelfth in the published five-player national rankings and twenty-fifth in the three-player rankings.[2]

The figures in the Valhalla tables were normalised ranking scores rather than the teams' raw tournament points. They therefore do not establish Nutters' exact placing at either event.[2]

On 26 January 2002, Nutters competed in the opening round of the [[2002 Paintball West 3-Man League]] at Actions Paintball in Swanson. The contemporary report explicitly listed the team as '''Nutters (Rotorua)''' and recorded a score of −1 point. The report did not explain the negative score.[3]

A later cumulative league table used the separate name '''Rotorua 4''' for an entry credited with one point in January. The available sources do not establish that Rotorua 4 was Nutters, and the two names should not be treated as interchangeable.[3]

No complete Nutters roster or later tournament appearance has been identified.

== Recorded competition ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Tournament
! Format
! Recorded information
|-
| 2001
| [[2001 Hawke’s Bay Triples]]
| Three-player
| Participation recorded in the Valhalla rankings
|-
| 14–15 April 2001
| [[2001 South Pacific Championships]]
| Five-player
| Preliminary-stage participation recorded
|-
| 26 January 2002
| [[2002 Paintball West 3-Man League]], opening round
| Three-player
| −1 point, as published
|}

== See also ==

* [[Paintball in New Zealand]]
* [[Valhalla National Rankings]]
* [[2002 Paintball West 3-Man League]]
* [[Tag n' Release]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020108131746/http://pub73.ezboard.com:80/fnzpaintballfrm2.showMessage?topicID=14.topic NZ Paintball Message Forum, ''Wanna practise with/help train us?'', 12 June 2001.]
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2001Hall.htm Mercenaries Star, ''2001 Valhalla National Rankings''.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020606121211/http://www.paintball.co.nz/gatheringa2k.htm Dazz Marshall, ''The Gathering'', Paintball.co.nz, January 2002.]

[[Category:New Zealand paintball teams]]
[[Category:Paintball teams]]
[[Category:Rotorua]]