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The '''1999 NPPL Chicago Open''' was a [[National Professional Paintball League]] tournament held at [[Badlandz Paintball Field|The Badlandz]] in Illinois in June 1999. Produced by [[Bad Boyz Toyz]], it included five-man competition and professional, Amateur A and Amateur B ten-man divisions.[1]

[[Team Image|Image]] won the professional ten-man competition, [[Jacksonville Warriors]] won Amateur A and [[Team Strange]] won Amateur B. Phantom Jesters won the five-man competition.[2][3][4]

== Organisation and schedule ==

Five-man preliminary games took place on Wednesday, followed by the semi-finals and finals on Thursday. Ten-man preliminaries began on Friday and concluded on Saturday, with semi-finals and finals on Sunday. WARPIG's closing update was published on 27 June.[1]

The tournament used woodland, Sup'Air and Hyperball fields. Aftershock, Avalanche and SOB's refereed the games.[1]

== Ten-man competition ==

Image entered the semi-finals eighth in the professional preliminary rankings, progressed to the final and won the tournament.[1]

=== Professional final ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| 1 || [[Team Image|Image]] || 156
|-
| 2 || [[Rage (paintball team)|Rage]] || 116
|-
| 3 || [[Bob Long's Ironmen]] || 100
|-
| 4 || [[Ground Zero]] || 26
|}

WARPIG records the scores; ClassicScores corroborates the placings. Ground Zero's published total is 26, although its three listed game scores of 16, 4 and 16 sum to 36.[2][4]

=== Amateur A final ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Jacksonville Warriors]] || 98 || 92 || 96 || 286
|-
| 2 || [[Ground Zero|Ground Zero Gold]] || −1 || 94 || 93 || 186
|-
| 3 || Fusion || 91 || 2 || 7 || 100
|-
| 4 || Shockwave || 18 || 16 || 14 || 48
|}

Scores are from WARPIG's contemporary final scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][4]

=== Amateur B final ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Team Strange]] || 96 || 95 || 97 || 288
|-
| 2 || Aces Wild || 85 || 89 || 6 || 180
|-
| 3 || Landslide || 8 || 12 || 97 || 117
|-
| 4 || X-Men || 10 || 10 || 6 || 26
|}

Scores are from WARPIG's contemporary final scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][4]

== Five-man competition ==

Phantom Jesters and Absolute Carnage entered their last final-round games level on points. Absolute Carnage's game ended in a stalemate. WARPIG reported that Thomas Osterhoff eliminated three remaining opponents and hung the flag to secure the Jesters' victory.[1]

=== Final results ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Phantom Jesters || 60 || 4 || 46 || 110
|-
| 2 || Absolute Carnage || 60 || 4 || 18 || 82
|-
| 3 || Body Count || 0 || 58 || 13 || 71
|-
| 4 || Brass Eagle || 0 || 47 || 14 || 61
|}

Scores are from WARPIG's contemporary final scoreboard. ClassicScores corroborates the placings but records the five-man classification as unknown.[3][4]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[1998 NPPL Chicago Open]]
* [[1999 NPPL Dallas Open]]
* [[1999 NPPL Boston Open]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/chicago99/index.shtml 1999 NPPL Chicago Open]. ''WARPIG'', updated 27 June 1999. Contemporary report covering organisation, schedule, fields and tournament action.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/chicago99/10fin.shtml Chicago NPPL 1999 — 10 Man Finals]. ''WARPIG'', June 1999.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/chicago99/5fin.shtml Chicago NPPL 1999 — 5 Man Finals]. ''WARPIG'', June 1999.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores]. “1999 NPPL — Chicago, IL”. Ten-man and five-man final placings.

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Admin: Create the 1999 NPPL Chicago Open article using contemporary WARPIG coverage and ClassicScores; document four finals, tournament schedule, fields and the five-man deciding game, with a note on Ground Zero's inconsistent published score.