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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''2011 NPPL Huntington Beach Open''', also promoted as the '''Surf City USA Open''', was the opening event of the 2011 [[National Professional Paintball League]] season. It took place from '''1–3 April 2011''' on the beach at [[Huntington Beach]], [[California]]. [[San Diego Dynasty]] won the professional division. [1][2]<br />
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== Event ==<br />
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The tournament continued the NPPL's Huntington Beach event tradition, which began in 2003. The competition included professional and amateur seven-player divisions, Division 4 five-player competition and five-player pump competition. [1][2][3]<br />
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WARPIG reported 16 professional teams, 76 amateur seven-player teams, 35 five-player teams and 15 pump teams. [1]<br />
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The event received live coverage through ESPN3. The league's advance publicity also advertised a public trade show, professional player appearances, grandstand seating and VIP tickets. [1][2]<br />
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== Professional competition ==<br />
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San Diego Dynasty won the professional tournament. Planet Eclipse's contemporary report confirmed Edmonton Impact's third-place finish. Chicago Legend finished fourth. [1][4][5]<br />
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Ryan Greenspan's published career record identifies the Huntington Beach victory as Dynasty's '''50th professional tournament win'''. [6]<br />
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== Results ==<br />
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=== Professional ===<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Place !! Team !! Source<br />
|-<br />
| 1<br />
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]<br />
| [1][4]<br />
|-<br />
| 3<br />
| [[Edmonton Impact]]<br />
| [4]<br />
|-<br />
| 4<br />
| Chicago Legend<br />
| [5]<br />
|}<br />
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=== Amateur divisions ===<br />
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The following results are reconstructed from the NPPL's archived championship and consolation brackets. [3]<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Division !! First !! Second !! Third !! Fourth<br />
|-<br />
| Division 1 seven-player<br />
| Seattle Siege<br />
| Warped Army<br />
| Critical Wrecking Crew<br />
| Impact Echo<br />
|-<br />
| Division 2 seven-player<br />
| Capital Edge Fuzion<br />
| Paintballgateway.com<br />
| UXP Tombstone<br />
| Marine Team One<br />
|-<br />
| Division 3 seven-player<br />
| DBSpaintball.com<br />
| TCP H8 Factory<br />
| Minions<br />
| Chicagoland Paintball<br />
|-<br />
| Division 4 five-player<br />
| Sacramento Royals<br />
| Obnoxious Nickles<br />
| Centermass Hawaii<br />
| RIT Tigers Orange<br />
|-<br />
| Pump five-player<br />
| LA Hitmen.com<br />
| Xandata<br />
| Total Greif<br />
| Blitz<br />
|}<br />
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The archived sheet incorrectly labels the losing championship finalists in Division 3 and Division 4 as fourth. Their positions as runners-up follow from the championship pairings and the first-place teams recorded in those brackets. Planet Eclipse independently confirmed Warped Army's second place in Division 1. [3][4]<br />
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== Additional competition ==<br />
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LA Hitmen's contemporary team blog reported that Derrick Obatake won the event's '''Spyder One-on-One Challenge'''. [7]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[National Professional Paintball League]]<br />
* [[2010 NPPL Huntington Beach Open]]<br />
* [[2011 NPPL Chicago Open]]<br />
* [[Paintball in the United States]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/uspl/2011/hb/ WARPIG – NPPL Huntington Beach, 1–3 April 2011.]<br />
# [https://paintballheadlines.com/tag/huntington-beach/ Paintball Headlines – contemporary NPPL Surf City Open announcements, January–March 2011.]<br />
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20110409090941/http://www.nppl.com/documents/Finalscores.pdf National Professional Paintball League – Huntington Beach divisional play-off and finals brackets, archived 9 April 2011.]<br />
# [https://eclipsehq.blogspot.com/2011/04/3-in-row-boooom-dynast-y.html Planet Eclipse HQ Blog – “3 In a Row..... BOOOOM !!! DYNAST . . . . . . .Y !”, 4 April 2011.]<br />
# [https://www.socialpaintball.com/2012-paintball-power-rankings/ Social Paintball – 2012 Preseason Paintball Power Rankings, reviewing Chicago Legend's 2011 results.]<br />
# [https://www.ryangreenspan.com/trophy-case Ryan Greenspan – The Trophy Case: 2011 tournament achievements.]<br />
# [https://lahitmen.blogspot.com/2011/05/nppl-huntington-beach-derrick-obatake.html LA Hitmen – “NPPL Huntington Beach Derrick Obatake wins the Spyder One on One Challenge”, 16 May 2011.]<br />
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