Admin: Create 2022 season overview linking all drafted event articles; consolidate verified regional results, add Lumberjacks’ Victorian round wins and season title, distinguish scheduled and completed events from the suspended national finals, and document unresolved dates and later finals participation.

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Create 2022 season overview linking all drafted event articles; consolidate verified regional results, add Lumberjacks’ Victorian round wins and season title, distinguish scheduled and completed events from the suspended national finals, and document unresolved dates and later finals participation.

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'''2022 NXL Australia''' was the 2022 season of [[NXL Australia]], an Australian tournament paintball league. Its early calendar advertised regional competitions in Victoria, Western Australia and ACT NSW, followed by national finals at [[Paintball Games Coldstream]]. The league subsequently suspended the season finals and associated prize pool because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, while allowing regional events to continue where possible.[1][2]

Verified results include [[Asylum (Australian Paintball Team)|Asylum]] winning Division 2 at ACT NSW Rounds 2 and 4, [[PBG (Australian Paintball Team)|PBG]] winning Division 3 at ACT NSW Round 4, and [[Nomads (Australian Paintball Team)|Nomads]] winning Division 2 at WA Round 1. [[Lumberjacks (Australian Paintball Team)|Lumberjacks]] records Division 2 victories at Victorian Rounds 2, 3 and 4 and the Victorian Division 2 season title.[5][6][10][11][12]

== Format and venues ==
The early league calendar advertised five-player competition at [[Paintball Games Coldstream]] in Victoria, [[WASP Paintball]] in Western Australia and [[Paintball Sports ACT]] for ACT NSW.[1]

Victoria and Western Australia advertised Divisions 1 and 2. ACT NSW advertised Divisions 2 and 3. The proposed national finals listed Divisions 1 and 2.[1]

== Events ==
The following table distinguishes advertised arrangements from evidence of completed competition. A completed round does not necessarily establish that every advertised division was contested.

{| class="wikitable"
! Event
! Date or scheduling record
! Venue
! Status and evidence
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia ACT NSW Round 1|ACT NSW Round 1]]
| Scheduled: 13 February 2022
| Paintball Sports ACT
| '''Unconfirmed.''' The league calendar documents scheduling; completion, cancellation and results remain unverified.[1]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia Victoria Round 1|Victoria Round 1]]
| Scheduled: 6 March 2022
| Paintball Games Coldstream
| '''Unconfirmed.''' Completion, cancellation and results remain unverified.[1]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia WA Round 1|WA Round 1]]
| 20 March 2022
| WASP Paintball
| '''Completed.''' The venue reported the opening round, and dated photography identifies Nomads as Division 2 winners.[4][5]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia ACT NSW Round 2|ACT NSW Round 2]]
| 24 April 2022
| Paintball Sports ACT
| '''Completed in Divisions 2 and 3.''' The venue published four placings in each division.[1][11]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia Victoria Round 2|Victoria Round 2]]
| Originally 15 May; later records give 28 and 29 May 2022
| Paintball Games Coldstream
| '''Completed in Division 2.''' Lumberjacks records victory and an eyewitness account identifies Chaos Inc. as runners-up. The exact date remains disputed.[1][3][8][9][10]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia ACT NSW Round 3|ACT NSW Round 3]]
| Scheduled: 5 June 2022
| Paintball Sports ACT
| '''Unconfirmed.''' Completion, cancellation and results remain unverified.[1]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia WA Round 2|WA Round 2]]
| Event listings survive for both 19 June and 14 August 2022, each labelled Round 2
| WASP Paintball
| '''Completed; exact date unresolved.''' Nomads reported a round victory, and a separate video description identifies the team's participation at WASP. The winning division is unspecified.[3][6][7]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia Victoria Round 3|Victoria Round 3]]
| Scheduled: 17 July 2022
| Paintball Games Coldstream
| '''Division 2 competition documented.''' Lumberjacks records a Round 3 victory. The result supports completion, but does not independently confirm the advertised date.[1][10]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia Victoria Round 4|Victoria Round 4]]
| Originally 11 September; RAW advertised 18 September; an eyewitness account gives 16 September 2022
| Paintball Games Coldstream
| '''Completed in Division 2.''' Lumberjacks records victory and Illicit's participation is documented. The exact date remains disputed.[1][8][9][10]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia ACT NSW Round 4|ACT NSW Round 4]]
| 2 October 2022
| Paintball Sports ACT
| '''Completed in Divisions 2 and 3.''' The venue published both divisional podiums; PBG independently confirmed the Division 3 first and second places.[1][12][13]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia WA Round 3|WA Round 3]]
| Later event listing: 23 October 2022
| WASP Paintball
| '''Scheduled; completion unconfirmed.''' The later listing supplies a full date, replacing the incomplete date field in the early league calendar. No results have been verified.[1][3]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia WA Round 4|WA Round 4]]
| No complete date recovered
| WASP Paintball
| '''Unconfirmed.''' The early calendar advertised this round, but no completion or cancellation has been established. It should not be equated with the October event explicitly listed as WA Round 3.[1][3]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia Finals|Finals]]
| Initially scheduled: 6 November 2022
| Initially advertised: Paintball Games Coldstream
| '''National finals and prize pool suspended.''' A November team report subsequently describes participation in “NXL Finals 2022”, but does not establish reinstatement of the advertised national championship or prize pool.[1][2][14]
|}

The surviving event directory also advertises an NXL Queensland M800 Round 3 at Townsville Paintball on 23 July 2022. That listing establishes scheduling, but does not supply results or confirm completion.[3]

== Results ==
=== ACT NSW ===
The following placings were published by Paintball Sports ACT.[11][12]

{| class="wikitable"
! Event
! Division
! 1st
! 2nd
! 3rd
! 4th
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[2022 NXL Australia ACT NSW Round 2|Round 2]]
| Division 2
| [[Asylum (Australian Paintball Team)|Asylum]]
| [[Wicked Assassins (Australian Paintball Team)|Wicked Assassins]]
| [[CBR Mafia (Australian Paintball Team)|CBR Mafia]]
| [[CBR Damage (Australian Paintball Team)|CBR Damage]]
|-
| Division 3
| [[Asylum (Australian Paintball Team)|Asylum 2]]
| [[PBG (Australian Paintball Team)|PBG Bin Chooks]]
| [[CBR Reapers (Australian Paintball Team)|CBR Reapers]]
| [[Anarchy (Australian Paintball Team)|Anarchy]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[2022 NXL Australia ACT NSW Round 4|Round 4]]
| Division 2
| [[Asylum (Australian Paintball Team)|Asylum]]
| [[Lumberjacks (Australian Paintball Team)|Lumberjacks]]
| Mafia
| Not established
|-
| Division 3
| [[PBG (Australian Paintball Team)|PBG]]
| [[Anomali (Australian Paintball Team)|PBG Anomali]]
| Reapers
| Not established
|}

For Round 4, the venue abbreviated the third-placed teams' names to Mafia and Reapers and listed the Division 3 runners-up as Anomali. PBG's report identifies the second-placed squad as PBG Anomali and confirms the club's first and second places in that division.[12][13]

=== Victoria ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Event
! Division
! Place
! Team
! Evidence
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[2022 NXL Australia Victoria Round 2|Round 2]]
| rowspan="2" | Division 2
| 1st
| [[Lumberjacks (Australian Paintball Team)|Lumberjacks]]
| Team's published competition record.[10]
|-
| 2nd
| [[Chaos Inc. (Australian Paintball Team)|Chaos Inc.]]
| Eyewitness report in ''Paint Magazine''.[8]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia Victoria Round 3|Round 3]]
| Division 2
| 1st
| [[Lumberjacks (Australian Paintball Team)|Lumberjacks]]
| Team's published competition record.[10]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia Victoria Round 4|Round 4]]
| Division 2
| 1st
| [[Lumberjacks (Australian Paintball Team)|Lumberjacks]]
| Team's published competition record.[10]
|}

Lumberjacks also records the 2022 Victorian Division 2 season title. This regional title does not establish a national championship result.[10]

''Paint Magazine'' identifies [[Illicit (Australian Paintball Team)|Illicit]] as a Division 2 participant at Round 4, but does not give its placing.[8] Further Victorian placings and Division 1 results have not been verified.

=== Western Australia ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Event
! Division
! Place
! Team
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia WA Round 1|Round 1]]
| Division 2
| 1st
| [[Nomads (Australian Paintball Team)|Nomads]][5]
|-
| [[2022 NXL Australia WA Round 2|Round 2]]
| Unspecified
| 1st
| [[Nomads (Australian Paintball Team)|Nomads]][6]
|}

The Round 1 result is supported by a photograph caption explicitly dated 20 March 2022. Nomads' Round 2 victory was reported in a September post, but the post's publication date does not establish the tournament date.[5][6]

No complete Western Australian divisional standings or season points table have been verified.

== COVID-19 impact and finals ==
The league's terms and conditions, preserved on 13 August 2022, explicitly state that the 2022 season finals and associated prize pool had been suspended because of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The notice allowed events to continue at host venues where possible and within government guidelines.[2]

The league left open the possibility of holding finals following a later decision by NXL Australia and its host venues. This suspension therefore applied to the finals and prize pool rather than establishing cancellation of every regional event.[2]

A contemporary Order 66 team report published in November describes participation in “NXL Finals 2022”. It establishes that an event using that description took place, but does not identify a national winner or establish that the previously suspended national championship and prize arrangements were reinstated.[14]

No verified national finals standings or overall Australian championship result have been established.

== Records and limitations ==
The surviving sources distinguish several different kinds of evidence: advertised calendars, later event listings, contemporary results reports and teams' published competition records. Scheduled dates are not automatically dates of completed play.

Some dates changed during the season, while other records conflict. In particular, the two WA listings labelled Round 2 and the conflicting Victorian Round 2 and Round 4 dates remain unresolved.[3][8][9]

Match scores have not been verified for the results summarised above.

== See also ==
* [[NXL Australia]]
* [[2021 NXL Australia]]
* [[Paintball in Australia]]

== References ==
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20220302011028/https://nxlaustralia.com.au/events/ NXL Australia — Events: early 2022 programme, venues and divisions, archived 2 March 2022.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20220813033722/https://nxlaustralia.com.au/about/terms-and-conditions/ NXL Australia — Terms and Conditions: suspension of the 2022 season finals and prize pool, archived 13 August 2022.]
# [https://allevents.in/org/nxl-australia/13365275 AllEvents — NXL Australia organiser directory: surviving 2022 event listings for Western Australia, Melbourne and Townsville.]
# [https://www.facebook.com/wasppaintball/posts/10158556526190736 WASP Paintball — “Perth NXL Round 1 2022”, contemporary event report and photographs, March 2022.]
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/CbmECiaJyX3/ S (@triple_s.96) — Photograph captioned “20-03-2022”, identifying Nomads as Division 2 winners, published March 2022.]
# [https://www.instagram.com/reel/CifYWh1BU-e/ Nomads Paintball — “WA NXL round 2 champs”, Instagram caption, September 2022.]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGoYD8tj_Kc NXL WA Round 2 2022 Planet Eclipse Speedball POV — YouTube description identifying Nomads' participation at WASP Paintball.]
# [https://paintmagazine.com/gallery/nxl-round-2-4-montage-melbourne-2022/ Paint Magazine — “2022 NXL Round 2 & 4 Melbourne”: eyewitness accounts, Chaos Inc.'s second place and Illicit's participation.]
# [https://www.facebook.com/RAWPaintball/ RAW Paintball — Publicly indexed announcements changing Round 2 to 29 May and Round 4 to 18 September 2022.]
# [https://www.instagram.com/lumberjackspaintballteam/ Lumberjacks Paintball Team — Published profile recording 2022 Victorian Division 2 victories at Rounds 2, 3 and 4 and the season title.]
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc1s4w_vsMx/ Paintball Sports ACT — ACT NSW Round 2 Division 2 and Division 3 results, April 2022.]
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/CjRVLlsJD9C/ Paintball Sports ACT — ACT NSW Round 4 Division 2 and Division 3 results, October 2022.]
# [https://www.instagram.com/p/CjOjE6qvEaq/ PBG Paintball Team — Round 4 Division 3 report confirming PBG and PBG Anomali's first and second places, October 2022.]
# [https://www.facebook.com/Order66PaintballTeam/posts/617517553498970 Order 66 Paintball Team — Report describing participation in “NXL Finals 2022”, November 2022.]

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