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The '''2000 NPPL Los Angeles Open''' was the opening tournament of the 2000 [[National Professional Paintball League]] season, held at [[SC Village]] in Corona, California, from 10 to 12 March 2000. Produced by [[Dave Youngblood]] and [[DYE Precision]], it featured five-man and ten-man competition.[1]

[[Lockout]] won professional ten-man, [[Naughty Dogs]] won Amateur A ten-man and Liquid won Amateur B ten-man. C-Ya, Storm and Spider's Web won the amateur, novice and rookie five-man divisions respectively.[2][3][4]

== Venue and organisation ==

The tournament moved the NPPL season opener from Las Vegas to Southern California. SC Village's SC Arenas included Sup'Air, Hyperball and mound fields, with raised spectator walkways and screening.[1]

The inflatable fields used buried pipes to supply air to the bunkers. Tournament staging and trade-show tents occupied raised ground overlooking the fields.[1]

The Southern California Ironmen, Outta Control and Bad Company refereed the event.[1]

== Rules ==

WARPIG reported several changes for the 2000 season: barrels had to be removed in areas where goggles were not required; enhanced firing modes were prohibited; and team classification changes would take effect at the end of the season. Ten-man games were shortened to 15 minutes at tournaments played entirely on qualifying concept fields, excluding mound fields.[1]

== Ten-man results ==

All tables show final-round scores. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][4]

=== Professional ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Lockout]] || 21 || 92 || 21 || 134
|-
| 2 || [[Bob Long's Ironmen]] || 10 || 92 || 15 || 117
|-
| 3 || [[Avalanche]] || 82 || 16 || 14 || 112
|-
| 4 || [[Team Image|Image]] || −25 || 6 || 95 || 76
|}

=== Amateur A ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Naughty Dogs]] || 5 || 10 || 98 || 113
|-
| 2 || OBR || −1 || 95 || 16 || 110
|-
| 3 || Fusion || 87 || 18 || 4 || 109
|-
| 4 || [[Ground Zero|Ground Zero Gold]] || 15 || 18 || 19 || 52
|}

=== Amateur B ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Liquid || 91 || 95 || 7 || 193
|-
| 2 || [[Team Strange|Strange]] || 14 || 88 || 89 || 191
|-
| 3 || Exile || 18 || 10 || 22 || 50
|-
| 4 || Landslide || 23 || 10 || 12 || 45
|}

== Five-man results ==

All tables show final-round scores. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[3][4]

=== Amateur ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || C-Ya || 21 || 57 || 58 || 136
|-
| 2 || CP || 8 || 57 || 49 || 114
|-
| 3 || TC Factory || 59 || 6 || 12 || 77
|-
| 4 || Sharp Shooters || 2 || −9 || 4 || −3
|}

=== Novice ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Storm || 56 || 6 || 58 || 120
|-
| 2 || Rapid Fire || 59 || 12 || 3 || 74
|-
| 3 || Marine Team || 8 || −3 || 56 || 61
|-
| 4 || Resurrection || −8 || 59 || 4 || 55
|}

=== Rookie ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || Spider's Web || 59 || 60 || 9 || 128
|-
| 2 || Agent Orange || 2 || 59 || 56 || 117
|-
| 3 || LOS || 56 || 2 || 19 || 77
|-
| 4 || Hot Boyz || 8 || 0 || −2 || 6
|}

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[SC Village]]
* [[1999 NPPL Las Vegas Open]]
* [[2000 NPPL Pittsburgh Open]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/LA_open00/index.shtml DYE Precision LA Open 2000]. ''WARPIG'', March 2000. Contemporary report covering dates, venue, organisation, refereeing and rule changes.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/LA_open00/semi10.shtml LA Open NPPL 2000 — Ten-Man Semi-Finals and Finals]. ''WARPIG'', March 2000.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/LA_open00/semi5.shtml LA Open NPPL 2000 — Five-Man Semi-Finals and Finals]. ''WARPIG'', March 2000.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores]. “2000 NPPL — Los Angeles”. Ten-man and five-man final placings.

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Admin: Create the 2000 NPPL Los Angeles Open article using contemporary WARPIG coverage and ClassicScores; document six divisional finals, the move to SC Village, tournament facilities, refereeing and season rule changes.