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<p>Expand cancelled 1993 NPPL San Diego Open with contemporary Great Western Open name, intended season-opening status, rain cancellation and remaining programme; add Action Pursuit Games and WARPIG sources.</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:53, 31 October 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''1993 NPPL San Diego Open''' was a planned [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL) [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paintball</del>]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] tournament in </del>San Diego<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, California, during </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">league</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inaugural </del>1993 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">season</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The event was cancelled because </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">flooding</del>.[1][<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2</del>]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The '''1993 NPPL San Diego Open'''<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, identified in contemporary reporting as the '''San Diego Great Western Open''', </ins>was a planned <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[paintball]] tournament in San Diego, California. It was intended to open the inaugural season of the </ins>[[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, but was cancelled following heavy rain and flooding.</ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1]</ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2</ins>]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Planned season opener ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>San Diego <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Great Western Open was the first event in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NPPL</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">original </ins>1993 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">programme</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A contemporary notice in the June 1993 issue </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Action Pursuit Games'' explicitly identified it as the league's intended inaugural tournament</ins>.[1]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The NPPL introduced a national structure in which independent promoters organised sanctioned tournaments under common league standards. WARPIG's later account of the original league describes a team-owned organisation that regulated tournament rules, prices and paint policies through its sanctioning arrangements.</ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3</ins>]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Cancellation ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Cancellation ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>San Diego <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was included in the NPPL's initial tournament programme, but the </del>event <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">did not take place</del>. Paintball Win Count's historical <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">event </del>index records <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it </del>as cancelled <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">due to </del>flooding.[1]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Action Pursuit Games'' reported that drought-ending rains had washed out the </ins>San Diego event. Paintball Win Count's historical index <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">likewise </ins>records <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the planned tournament </ins>as cancelled <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">because of </ins>flooding.[1<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">][2]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The cancellation prevented San Diego from becoming the first completed NPPL tournament. The league subsequently began competition with the [[1993 NPPL Dallas Open|Dallas Open]], held on 26–28 March 1993.[4</ins>]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A historical chronology reproduced on Automags</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">org also identifies </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">San Diego event as a washout preceding </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">league's first completed </del>tournament, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">held in Dallas on 26–28 March 1993</del>.[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2</del>]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The contemporary schedule notice stated that the five remaining events were proceeding as planned</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It listed Dallas, the Boston Cup, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chicago Cup, the World Cup and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Great Western Reno </ins>tournament, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with Reno scheduled for October</ins>.[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1</ins>]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See also ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== See also ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[National Professional Paintball League]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[National Professional Paintball League]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Great Western Series]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[1993 NPPL Dallas Open]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[1993 NPPL Dallas Open]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[1993 NPPL Reno Open]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== References ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== References ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># [https://www.paintballwincount.com/nppl-10-man <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“NPPL </del>10 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Man”</del>], Paintball Win Count, 1993 season event <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">index</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"># “National Professional Paintball League is Right On Schedule”, ''Action Pursuit Games'', June 1993, pp. 20–21. Contemporary report identifying the San Diego Great Western Open as the intended inaugural NPPL event and confirming its cancellation following rain.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># [https://www.automags.org/forums/forum/automag-owners-forums/paintball-talk/122630-history-of-paintball <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">“History </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paintball”</del>], Automags.org<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Historical chronology</del>, entry “March 26–28, 1993: After a San Diego Washout, the NPPL Hold First Event”.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># [https://www.paintballwincount.com/nppl-10-man <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NPPL </ins>10 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Man</ins>], Paintball Win Count, 1993 season <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">index. Records the San Diego </ins>event <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as cancelled because of flooding.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"># [https://warpig.com/paintball/articles/news/nppl_liquidation_02Nov08.shtml NPPL to be Liquidated], WARPIG, 2 December 2008. Retrospective account of the original NPPL's ownership and tournament-sanctioning structure</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div># [https://www.automags.org/forums/forum/automag-owners-forums/paintball-talk/122630-history-of-paintball <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">History </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paintball</ins>], <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">historical chronology reproduced on </ins>Automags.org, entry “March 26–28, 1993: After a San Diego Washout, the NPPL Hold First Event”.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:National Professional Paintball League events]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:National Professional Paintball League events]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Create article documenting the cancelled 1993 NPPL San Diego opener, with sourced flooding explanation and United States, California, year and decade categories.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The &#039;&#039;&#039;1993 NPPL San Diego Open&#039;&#039;&#039; was a planned [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL) [[paintball]] tournament in San Diego, California, during the league&#039;s inaugural 1993 season. The event was cancelled because of flooding.[1][2]<br /> <br /> == Cancellation ==<br /> San Diego was included in the NPPL&#039;s initial tournament programme, but the event did not take place. Paintball Win Count&#039;s historical event index records it as cancelled due to flooding.[1]<br /> <br /> A historical chronology reproduced on Automags.org also identifies the San Diego event as a washout preceding the league&#039;s first completed tournament, held in Dallas on 26–28 March 1993.[2]<br /> <br /> == See also ==<br /> * [[National Professional Paintball League]]<br /> * [[1993 NPPL Dallas Open]]<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> # [https://www.paintballwincount.com/nppl-10-man “NPPL 10 Man”], Paintball Win Count, 1993 season event index.<br /> # [https://www.automags.org/forums/forum/automag-owners-forums/paintball-talk/122630-history-of-paintball “History of Paintball”], Automags.org. Historical chronology, entry “March 26–28, 1993: After a San Diego Washout, the NPPL Hold First Event”.<br /> <br /> [[Category:National Professional Paintball League events]]<br /> [[Category:Paintball tournaments in the United States]]<br /> [[Category:Paintball in California]]<br /> [[Category:1990s in American paintball]]<br /> [[Category:1993 in paintball]]</div>

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