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The '''1998 NPPL Portland Open''' was a [[National Professional Paintball League]] tournament held at Enchanted Acres Paintball Park in Scappoose, near Portland, Oregon, from 28 to 30 August 1998. Jointly produced by [[Bad Boyz Toyz]] and [[DYE Precision]], it replaced Atlanta on the NPPL schedule and attracted 26 teams. Competition was exclusively ten-man.[1][4]

[[Ground Zero]] won the professional division, Ground Zero Gold won Amateur A and Phantom Force won Amateur B.[2][3]

== Competition format ==

Each team played six preliminary games. Eight professional and eight Amateur A teams advanced to semi-finals, with two teams qualifying from each semi-final group. All four Amateur B entrants advanced directly to their final after the preliminary round.[1]

== Semi-final qualification dispute ==

Bushwackers challenged the Amateur A qualification procedure after scoring more points than one of the finalists. The team argued that the written rules required the four highest-scoring teams overall to advance, rather than two from each group.[1]

Ultimate judge Bill Cookston retained qualification by group, explaining that this maintained the procedure applied at earlier tournaments that season.[1]

== Equipment restrictions ==

Insurance requirements at Portland prohibited the Smart Parts Shocker's Turbo mode and the Automag RT's reactive trigger function. WARPIG's subsequent World Cup report confirmed these restrictions and identified Portland as the first NPPL event to prohibit cutting down protective masks.[5]

== Results ==

=== Professional final ===

Ground Zero won with 185 points, ahead of Bob Long's Ironmen, Lockout and Dave Youngblood's Ironmen.[2][3]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Ground Zero]] || 85 || 12 || 88 || 185
|-
| 2 || [[Bob Long's Ironmen]] || 14 || 94 || 32 || 140
|-
| 3 || [[Lockout]] || −5 || 88 || 14 || 97
|-
| 4 || [[Ironmen (Southern California)|Dave Youngblood's Ironmen]] || −4 || 13 || 17 || 26
|}

Scores follow WARPIG's contemporary scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][3]

=== Amateur A final ===

Ground Zero Gold won with 158 points, followed by Naughty Dogs, OBR and Team X-Treme.[2][3]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Ground Zero|Ground Zero Gold]] || 74 || −16 || 100 || 158
|-
| 2 || [[Naughty Dogs]] || 15 || 14 || 95 || 124
|-
| 3 || OBR || 9 || 97 || 10 || 116
|-
| 4 || Team X-Treme || 12 || 6 || 0 || 18
|}

Scores follow WARPIG's contemporary scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][3]

=== Amateur B final ===

Phantom Force won with 203 points, followed by Washington Reign Red. Washington Reign Black and Personal Vendetta II each recorded 39 points; the published results ranked them third and fourth respectively.[2][3]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Phantom Force || 14 || 95 || 94 || 203
|-
| 2 || [[Washington Reign|Washington Reign Red]] || 96 || 0 || 14 || 110
|-
| 3 || [[Washington Reign|Washington Reign Black]] || 12 || 10 || 17 || 39
|-
| 4 || Personal Vendetta II || 15 || 12 || 12 || 39
|}

Scores follow WARPIG's contemporary scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][3]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[1998 NPPL Chicago Open]]
* [[1998 NPPL World Cup]]
* [[1998 Great Western Series Portland]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/npplportland98/index.shtml 1998 Portland NPPL Tournament]. ''WARPIG'', 1998. Contemporary report documenting dates, organisers, competition format and the qualification dispute.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/npplportland98/prelim.shtml 1998 Portland Open NPPL — Preliminaries, Semi-Finals and Finals]. ''WARPIG'', 1998.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores]. “1998 NPPL — Portland Open, Portland, OR”. Professional, Amateur A and Amateur B ten-man placings.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/gws/1998/index.shtml Great Western Series Portland 1998]. ''WARPIG'', 1998. Identifies Enchanted Acres Paintball Park in Scappoose and describes preparations for the subsequent NPPL tournament.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/npplcup98/index.shtml World Cup 1998 — WARPIG Coverage]. ''WARPIG'', October 1998. Equipment standards section summarises restrictions introduced at Portland.

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