Admin: Created the 2016 PALM Iran season recap with links to all four rounds, verified locations, opening-round playing dates and documented date discrepancies. Included Sorena's recorded third-place overall finish without assigning an unverified division. Linked surviving divisional ranking posts and media coverage, and added established Iranian tournament, provincial and historical categories.

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Created the 2016 PALM Iran season recap with links to all four rounds, verified locations, opening-round playing dates and documented date discrepancies. Included Sorena's recorded third-place overall finish without assigning an unverified division. Linked surviving divisional ranking posts and media coverage, and added established Iranian tournament, provincial and historical categories.

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The '''2016 PALM Iran season''' comprised four rounds of the Iranian [[Paintball League Middle East|PALM]] series. The organiser's calendar marks all four events as completed, with three listed in Tehran and one in Mazandaran. The final event was designated “Leg 4 & Championships”.[1]

A later [[Sorena (Iran Paintball Team)|Sorena]] team profile records third place overall in PALM 2016, although its text does not specify the division.[8]

== Calendar ==
The surviving calendar and event-specific records contain differing dates. The following table distinguishes their published information.

{| class="wikitable"
! Round
! Location
! Documented dates
! Sources
|-
| [[2016 PALM Iran Round 1|Round 1]]
| Tehran
| Event coverage identifies 3–4 March 2016; calendar lists 2–4 March.
| [1][2][3]
|-
| [[2016 PALM Iran Round 2|Round 2]]
| Mahmudabad, Mazandaran
| PALM Media identifies May 2016; calendar lists 11–13 July. Exact playing dates remain unconfirmed.
| [1][4][5]
|-
| [[2016 PALM Iran Round 3|Round 3]]
| Tehran
| Calendar lists 27–29 September 2016. A contemporary field-layout post identifies the third round as September 2016; exact playing dates remain unconfirmed.
| [1][6]
|-
| [[2016 PALM Iran Round 4|Round 4 and championships]]
| Tehran
| Advertised for 22–23 December 2016. The calendar instead prints an inconsistent February 2016 entry.
| [1][7]
|}

== Season review ==
=== Opening round ===
PALM Media's opening-round video description identifies the competition dates as 3–4 March 2016.[2] Shahab Paintball Park's account gives the corresponding dates, 13–14 Esfand 1394, and identifies a temporary field at the Tehran Javan complex in Tehranpars as the venue.[3]

=== Second round ===
PALM Media's second-round video post identifies Mahmudabad, Mazandaran, and May 2016.[4] The organiser's Instagram account also published material tagged “leg2”, “may” and “2016” on 17 May.[5] These records differ from the July dates in the surviving calendar.[1]

=== Third round ===
PALM published the third-round field layout on 21 September 2016, explicitly identifying it as the layout for the September 2016 PALM Iran event.[6] The season calendar places the round in Tehran and marks it as completed.[1]

=== Fourth round ===
Iran Akay published a fourth-round field-layout announcement on 13 December 2016, advertising competition in Tehran on 2–3 Dey 1395 (22–23 December 2016).[7]

The organiser's calendar marks the fourth round and championships as completed, but prints “1-2-3 February/2016” for the event. This is inconsistent with the sequence of the preceding rounds and does not establish the actual playing dates.[1]

== Documented overall placing ==
A Sorena profile published by coach.paintball.ir in December 2020 lists third place overall in PALM 2016 among the team's achievements.[8]

{| class="wikitable"
! Team
! Recorded overall position
! Division
! Source
|-
| [[Sorena (Iran Paintball Team)|Sorena]]
| 3rd
| Not specified in the profile
| [8]
|}

This record does not establish a complete final classification or aggregate points table.

PALM also published posts explicitly labelled as 2016 rankings for Division 2 and Division 3.[9][10] Their captions identify the season and divisions but do not transcribe the placings.

== Media coverage ==
Surviving PALM Media coverage includes an opening-round video identifying the March competition dates and a second-round video identifying Mahmudabad.[2][4] Contemporary field-layout posts survive for the third and fourth rounds.[6][7]

== See also ==
* [[Paintball League Middle East]]
* [[2017 PALM Iran season]]
* [[Paintball in Iran]]

== References ==
# [https://palmseries.com/palmiran-2016/ PALM — PALM Iran 2016 calendar and completed rounds].
# [https://www.aparat.com/v/3XfTL?amp PALM Media — opening-round video, instalment 02; description identifies “PALM-IRAN LEG1” and 3–4 March 2016].
# [https://telegram.me/s/shahabpaintballpark?before=704 Shahab Paintball Park — public Telegram archive, opening-round video description identifying 13–14 Esfand 1394 and the temporary field at Tehran Javan, Tehranpars] (Persian and English).
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/BKmJSFuBZhs/ PALM Media — “PALM IRAN-2nd Leg, May2016.Mahmudabad, Mazandaran”, video coverage, 2016].
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/BFhd9eQkwzs/ PALM Series — post tagged PALM Iran, Leg 2, May 2016, published 17 May 2016].
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/BKomnxPgqNv/ PALM Series — “Field layout 3rd Leg PALM-IRAN September 2016”, 21 September 2016].
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/BN9_juJh_2g/ Iran Akay — fourth-round PALM field-layout announcement, 13 December 2016] (Persian).
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/CJLC6tmhVU5/ coach.paintball.ir — Sorena team profile and historical overall placings, December 2020] (Persian).
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/BP54Vm3DkB2/ PALM Series — “Palm IRAN Ranking 2016, Division 2”, 30 January 2017].
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/BS1wlQ6FbmN/ PALM Series — “Palm IRAN Ranking 2016, Division 3”, 13 April 2017].

[[Category:Paintball tournaments in Iran]]
[[Category:Paintball in Tehran Province]]
[[Category:Paintball in Mazandaran Province]]
[[Category:2010s in Iranian paintball]]

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