Admin: Created individual article for the 2024 Easter Race, documenting the ten-team draw, tournament format, corrected PBHQ entry and post-event organiser report.

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Created individual article for the 2024 Easter Race, documenting the ten-team draw, tournament format, corrected PBHQ entry and post-event organiser report.

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The '''2024 Arena Paintball Easter Race''' was a [[paintball]] tournament held on 30 and 31 March 2024 at [[Arena Paintball]], 558 Kimbolton Road, Feilding, New Zealand. It was the opening round of the [[2024 Arena Paintball Race Events|2024 Arena Paintball Race Series]].[1][2]

== Format ==

The tournament was advertised as a two-day competition comprising round-robin matches, semi-finals and finals. The published format specified ten-minute games, a three-point mercy rule and a hopper-and-four-pod ammunition limit.[1]

Separate Cup and Plate finals were planned, with entries initially capped at ten teams.

== Teams ==

Arena Paintball published a revised tournament draw on 5 March 2024 identifying ten teams.[2]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Team
|-
| Ballistics Unit
|-
| Carcharodons
|-
| Crisis
|-
| CZ Factory
|-
| East Coast Defiance
|-
| Expendables
|-
| Kaos
|-
| Kaos Theory
|-
| PBHQ
|-
| Titans
|}

The revised draw corrected an earlier entry listed as Fatality to PBHQ.[2]

== Event ==

Following the Easter tournament, Arena Paintball published a post-event announcement describing the event as successful and confirming that registration remained open for the King's Birthday and Labour Day rounds.[3]

The organiser also announced plans to improve its camera and webcasting systems following the Easter event.[3]

== Results ==

Complete Cup and Plate finishing positions have not been established from the available contemporary records.

== See also ==

* [[2024 Arena Paintball Race Events]]
* [[2024 Arena Paintball King's Birthday Race]]
* [[2024 Arena Paintball Labour Day Tournament]]
* [[Arena Paintball]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20240814075618/https://paintballdirectnz.co.nz/2024-race-events-sold-out/ Paintball Direct - 2024 Race Events, archived 14 August 2024].
# [https://www.facebook.com/ArenaPaintballNZ/posts/780010460818577/ Arena Paintball - Revised Easter tournament draw, Facebook, 5 March 2024].
# [https://www.facebook.com/ArenaPaintballNZ/posts/800640992088857/ Arena Paintball - Easter tournament follow-up and remaining 2024 registrations, Facebook, April 2024].

[[Category:Paintball tournaments in New Zealand]]
[[Category:2020s in New Zealand paintball]]

2024 Arena Paintball Easter Race - Revision history

Admin: Created individual article for the 2024 Easter Race, documenting the ten-team draw, tournament format, corrected PBHQ entry and post-event organiser report.