Editing Wasp (Australian Paintball Team)

'''Wasp''', also styled '''WASP''' and identified as '''West Australia Skirmish Professionals''', was an Australian tournament [[paintball]] team. It finished fourth in the amateur division of the [[1998 Australian Seven-Player Paintball Championships]] and competed in the professional division of [[1999 APPL Round One]].[1][2]

== Tournament history ==

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

Wasp competed among eight amateur teams at the 1998 Australian Seven-Player Paintball Championships at Yarramundi, New South Wales.[1]

The team finished second in the amateur preliminary standings with 525 points, qualifying for the four-team finals.[1]

In the finals, Wasp defeated [[Onslaught]] but lost to [[Tomcats (Australian Paintball Team)|Tomcats]] and [[Katipo Paintball Team|Katipo]]. It finished fourth with 115 points.[1]

=== 1999 APPL Round One ===

WASP competed in the professional division of the opening round of the 1999 [[Australasian Paintball Players League]] competition. The contemporary report expanded its name as West Australia Skirmish Professionals.[2]

The team finished sixth in the seven-team professional preliminary standings with 290 points and did not qualify for the four-team finals.[2]

The report also describes a preliminary game against [[The Creed (Australian Paintball Team)|The Creed]] on the Mayhem field, which The Creed won with a maximum score.[2]

== Recorded results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Competition
! Division
! Recorded outcome
! Source
|-
| 1998
| [[1998 Australian Seven-Player Paintball Championships]]
| Amateur
| 4th; 115 finals points
| [1]
|-
| 1999
| [[1999 APPL Round One]]
| Professional
| 6th in preliminaries; 290 points; did not reach the finals
| [2]
|}

== 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.

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