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Created article for the 1997 Great Western Series San Francisco tournament, with four divisions of recorded placings, a source discrepancy note and verified United States, California, decade and tournament-results categories.

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'''1997 Great Western Series San Francisco''' was a [[Great Western Series]] [[paintball]] tournament held at Mare Island, California, in 1997. It included amateur and novice competitions in five-player and ten-player formats. [1][2]

== Results ==

The following placings agree with WARPIG's results summaries and ClassicScores. [1][2]

=== Amateur ten-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Hostile Takeover
|-
| 2 || Outta Control
|-
| 3 || Marine Team Gold
|-
| 4 || Ironmen II
|}

=== Novice ten-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Lofty II
|-
| 2 || Ground Zero
|-
| 3 || Hostile Takeover II
|-
| 4 || Tsunami
|}

=== Amateur five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Marine Team Gold
|-
| 2 || Marine Team Red
|-
| 3 || Marine Team Black
|-
| 4 || Who's Next
|}

WARPIG's detailed amateur five-player scoreboard conflicts with its summary: it lists Marine Team Red with more final-round points than Marine Team Gold. The placings above follow the summary and ClassicScores. [1][2]

=== Novice five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Hostile Takeover 3
|-
| 2 || Hammerheads
|-
| 3 || Shockwave 3
|-
| 4 || Ground Zero
|}

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/gws/1997/gws.sf97.shtml WARPIG — The 1997 Great Western San Francisco Results], contemporary report and scoreboards. [https://web.archive.org/web/19990911002228/http://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/gws/1997/gws.sf97.shtml Archived 11 September 1999].
# [https://www.classicscores.com/static/data/tournament_data.json ClassicScores — public tournament dataset: 1997, GWS, San Francisco, California]. Accessed 31 October 2026.

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Admin: Created article for the 1997 Great Western Series San Francisco tournament, with four divisions of recorded placings, a source discrepancy note and verified United States, California, decade and tournament-results categories.