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The '''2024 Arena Paintball King's Birthday Race''' was a [[paintball]] tournament scheduled for 1 and 2 June 2024 at [[Arena Paintball]] in Feilding, New Zealand. It was the second round of the [[2024 Arena Paintball Race Events|2024 Arena Paintball Race Series]].[1]<br />
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== Format ==<br />
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The tournament was advertised as a two-day race-format competition with round-robin matches followed by semi-finals and finals. The published rules specified ten-minute games, a three-point mercy rule and a hopper-and-four-pod ammunition limit.[1]<br />
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The series provided separate Cup and Plate finals.<br />
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== Teams and draw ==<br />
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On 13 May 2024, Arena Paintball published a revised King's Birthday draw identifying nine teams and one bye.[2]<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Team<br />
|-<br />
| Ballistics Unit<br />
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| Crisis<br />
|-<br />
| Deadbox Allstars<br />
|-<br />
| East Coast Defiance<br />
|-<br />
| Expendables<br />
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| Kaos Theory<br />
|-<br />
| PBHQ<br />
|-<br />
| Sydney SWAT<br />
|-<br />
| Titans<br />
|}<br />
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The revised draw replaced the team name Fatality with PBHQ. The organiser described this as a correction to the earlier published fixture list.[2]<br />
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The draw also contained a bye, which was not a competing team.<br />
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== Results ==<br />
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Complete tournament results, including the Cup and Plate finishing positions, have not been established from the available sources.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[2024 Arena Paintball Race Events]]<br />
* [[2024 Arena Paintball Easter Race]]<br />
* [[2024 Arena Paintball Labour Day Tournament]]<br />
* [[Arena Paintball]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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# [https://web.archive.org/web/20240814075618/https://paintballdirectnz.co.nz/2024-race-events-sold-out/ Paintball Direct - 2024 Race Events, archived 14 August 2024].<br />
# [https://www.facebook.com/ArenaPaintballNZ/posts/821079310045025/ Arena Paintball - Revised King's Birthday tournament draw, Facebook, 13 May 2024].<br />
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[[Category:Paintball tournaments in New Zealand]]<br />
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