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The '''1996 National Three-Man Centre Flag Competition''' was a three-player paintball tournament held in Invercargill, New Zealand. Organiser Ken Ryder's 1998 account recorded eleven participating teams.[1]

== Announcement and attendance ==
The event was advertised as the '''3-Man Centre Flag Open''' in the New Zealand tournament calendar published in ''[[Australian Paintballer]]''. Ken Ryder was named as the contact, and entries were described as limited.[2]

The calendar printed 15 June while also identifying the event with Queen's Birthday. Ryder's later account associated the competition with Queen's Birthday weekend but did not establish the exact dates of the 1996 edition.[1][2]

== See also ==
* [[National Three-Man Centre Flag Competition]]
* [[1994 Invercargill Three-Man Tournament]]

== References ==
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020812223935/http://www.paintball.co.nz/3manovr.htm Invercargill 3-man Results — Jun 98]. Ken Ryder, NZ Paintball Online, June 1998. Includes a retrospective account of the 1996 competition. Archived 12 August 2002.
# “New Zealand Tournament Calendar 1996”, ''[[Australian Paintballer]]'', April–June 1996, p. 70.

[[Category:Paintball tournaments in New Zealand]]
[[Category:Paintball in Southland]]
[[Category:1990s in New Zealand paintball]]

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Admin: Create the 1996 Invercargill competition article with the organiser’s eleven-team account, contemporary advertising and the unresolved advertised date discrepancy.