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{{Short description|New Zealand tournament paintball team}}

'''Smash''' was a New Zealand three-player competitive [[paintball]] team documented between 2002 and 2003. It competed at the January 2002 Gathering and the [[2002 Hawke’s Bay Triples]], before appearing as '''Smash (Phantom)''' at the [[2003 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].[1][2][3]

A contributor familiar with the New Zealand teams identifies the three records as the same team. The 2003 parenthetical styling documents an association with [[Phantom (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Phantom]], but the surviving sources do not establish whether Smash was a formal Phantom squad, a development team or an event-specific entry. Smash was distinct from the later [[Smash and Grab (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Smash and Grab]].

== Tournament history ==

=== 2002 ===

Smash competed at the Gathering held at Actions Paintball in Swanson on 26 January 2002. Ten teams played three-player hopper-ball centre-flag games. Smash recorded eight points in the published table.[1]

The source describes Saints 2 as the winner, three teams on sixteen points as equal second and Phantom on ten points as third. It does not assign a formal placing to Smash, so no position is inferred from the table.[1]

On 2–3 February, Smash competed at the 2002 Hawke’s Bay Triples at Stoney Creek Ranch in Hastings. Seventeen teams played three-player centre-flag games. Smash scored 1,000 points and finished sixth in the preliminary table. Only the two leading teams, GPS and Rush, contested the final.[2]

=== 2003 ===

At the 2003 Hawke’s Bay Triples on 8–9 February, the published results used the styling ''Smash (Phantom)''. The team scored 290 points and appeared sixth in the nine-team score table.[3]

The tournament report separately records a championship game between Phantom Menace and Damage Red. Smash did not participate in that final.[3]

== Tournament results ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date
! Tournament
! Recorded name
! Result
|-
| 26 January 2002
| The Gathering
| Smash
| 8 points; formal placing not stated[1]
|-
| 2–3 February 2002
| [[2002 Hawke’s Bay Triples]]
| Smash
| 6th in the preliminary table — 1,000 points[2]
|-
| 8–9 February 2003
| [[2003 Hawke’s Bay Triples]]
| Smash (Phantom)
| 6th in the published score table — 290 points[3]
|}

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020606121211/http://www.paintball.co.nz/gatheringa2k.htm The Gathering]. Dazz Marshall, ''paintball.co.nz'', January 2002. Contemporary event report and score table.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20021025162718/http://www.paintball.co.nz/hb3man2002.htm Hawkes Bay 3-Man 2002]. Dazz Marshall, ''paintball.co.nz'', February 2002. Contemporary preliminary standings and final result.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20051018151826/http://www.paintball.co.nz/articles/2003/hawkesbay.htm Hawkes Bay Triples]. Rob Maddox, ''paintball.co.nz'', February 2003. Contemporary score table and final result.

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