Editing PaintNet InterBBS Challenge

The '''PaintNet InterBBS Challenge''' was an amateur [[Stock-class paintball|stock-class paintball]] competition organised by [[PaintNet (New Zealand)|PaintNet]] and [[Kamo Karzi]] for bulletin-board users and internet correspondents. Events were generally held in Auckland, New Zealand. Surviving results document three tournaments in 1995 and 1996.[1]

== History and format ==

The organisers traced the competition to a friendly challenge between the operators of Mordor and Nexus bulletin-board systems. Their account describes that earlier game as also contributing to the formation of Kamo Karzi and PaintNet.[1]

The competition was described as taking place every six months. Stock-class markers were provided to players who needed them. Members of established teams, including the [[Saints (New Zealand paintball team)|Saints]] and Kamo Karzi, could represent different bulletin-board systems.[1]

A report by Rob Maddox in ''[[Australian Paintballer]]'', published in December 1995–February 1996, described an InterBBS event as a four-player stock-class tournament. It credited assistance from Kamo Karzi members, Saints players, newcomers and [[Commando One Paintball]] operator [[Rob Tapper]].[2]

== Recorded results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Tournament !! Venue !! First !! Second !! Third
|-
| August 1995 || [[Commando One Paintball|Commando One]] || Mordor BBS || Nexus || Purgatory One
|-
| February 1996 || APSA || Nexus BBS || Mordor || Purgatory One
|-
| August 1996 || APSA || Mordor BBS || Purgatory One || Nexus
|}

These are the top-three placings recorded in the organisers' account.[1]

== See also ==

* [[Early online paintball in New Zealand]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/19990129020329/http://shell.ihug.co.nz/%7Emaddox/pnibbs.htm The PaintNet InterBBS Challenge]. ''New Zealand Paintball'', archived 29 January 1999.
# Rob Maddox, “Using the Net to Catch New Players”, ''Australian Paintballer'', December 1995–February 1996, p. 22.

[[Category:Paintball in New Zealand]]
[[Category:Paintball tournaments]]