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The '''1996 NPPL World Cup''' was an international [[paintball]] tournament held from 23 to 27 October 1996 at Paintball World in Kissimmee, Florida, United States. Sanctioned by the [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL), the event featured professional and amateur five-player and ten-player competitions.[1]

[[Chicago Aftershock]] won the professional ten-player championship, finishing ahead of [[Bad Company (American paintball team)]]. The [[All Americans]] won the professional five-player championship.[2][3]

The tournament also featured Hyperball playing fields, representing the increasing use of artificial obstacles in competitive paintball.[1]

== Tournament ==

The World Cup was held at Paintball World in Kissimmee, near Orlando.

Competition took place over five days, beginning on 23 October and concluding on 27 October 1996.

The event incorporated separate five-player and ten-player competitions, with professional and amateur classifications.

Contemporary coverage was published by [[WARPIG]], which recorded preliminary standings, semifinal results and final placements.[1][2][3]

== Playing fields ==

The 1996 World Cup featured Hyperball fields using artificial obstacles.

Hyperball employed large plastic drainage pipes and similar structures to provide cover.

The introduction of these fields formed part of the wider development of artificial-bunker tournament paintball during the 1990s.[1]

== Results ==

=== Professional ten-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
|-
| 1
| [[Chicago Aftershock]]
|-
| 2
| [[Bad Company (American paintball team)]]
|-
| 3
| [[Washington Reign]]
|-
| 4
| Rage
|-
| 5
| [[UK Predators]]
|-
| 6
| [[All Americans]]
|-
| 7
| [[Jacksonville Warriors]]
|-
| 8
| GBD
|-
| 9
| Nam Wrecking Crew
|-
| 10
| [[Ironmen]]
|-
| 11
| Banzai Bandits
|-
| 12
| Adrenaline
|}

The placements are recorded in WARPIG's contemporary final-round report.[2]

=== Professional five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
|-
| 1
| [[All Americans]]
|-
| 2
| [[Avalanche]]
|-
| 3
| [[Jacksonville Warriors]]
|-
| 4
| Avalanche 1
|}

The professional five-player results were recorded in WARPIG's event coverage.[3]

=== Amateur ten-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
|-
| 1
| All Americans
|-
| 2
| Paraplegic Turtles
|-
| 3
| Bad Company
|-
| 4
| Enemy
|}

The amateur ten-player final-round results were recorded separately from the professional competition.[2]

== Historical significance ==

The 1996 NPPL World Cup provides a documented example of professional and amateur paintball competition during the transition from traditional woodland fields to artificial-bunker tournament formats.

Its surviving WARPIG archive includes contemporary competition results and reports on equipment exhibited at the event.

== See also ==

* [[Paintball World Cup]]
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[Chicago Aftershock]]
* [[All Americans]]
* [[Bad Company (American paintball team)]]
* [[Hyperball]]
* [[WARPIG]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc96/ WARPIG, "The 1996 National Professional Paintball League World Cup", October 1996. Event dates, venue, tournament coverage and Hyperball fields.]
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc96/sun.shtml WARPIG, "1996 NPPL World Cup: Sunday Results", 27 October 1996. Professional and amateur ten-player final placements.]
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc96/thur.shtml WARPIG, "1996 NPPL World Cup: Five-Man Competition", October 1996. Professional and amateur five-player results.]

== External links ==

* [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc96/ WARPIG 1996 World Cup archive]
* [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc96/sun.shtml Ten-player results]
* [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc96/thur.shtml Five-player results]

[[Category:Paintball tournaments]]
[[Category:Paintball tournament results]]
[[Category:Paintball World Cup]]
[[Category:1996 in paintball]]

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Admin: Expand the 1996 NPPL World Cup with contemporary WARPIG reporting, verified ten-man points and qualifying context, professional five-man winner, American Hyperball debut and equipment launches; clarify amateur entries and update categories.

Admin: Categorise the 1996 NPPL World Cup under United States tournaments, Florida and 1990s American paintball; streamline sourced coverage and remove unsupported five-player final placements.

Admin: Created article on the 1996 NPPL World Cup, documenting the October tournament in Kissimmee, Florida, Hyperball fields, professional championships won by Aftershock and All Americans, and contemporary WARPIG results.