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Create the Diako (Iran Paintball Team) article using contemporary results and archived team records. Document the 2011 World Cup Asia Division 3 title, domestic second-division results, promotion and Datis association. Include the published 2011 player list, note the Daiko spelling variant and apply Iranian team, country and decade categories.

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'''Diako''' is an Iranian tournament [[paintball]] team associated with the [[Datis (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis]] organisation. It won Division 3 at the 2011 [[Paintball World Cup Asia]] in Langkawi, Malaysia, and subsequently won an Iranian national Division 2 competition, securing promotion to Division 1.[1][2]

Some contemporary English-language reporting spells the team's name '''Daiko'''. The Datis website's own results and player list use '''Diako'''.[1][3]

== History ==

=== World Cup Asia 2011 ===

Diako won Division 3 at World Cup Asia in Langkawi in November 2011. The published results placed Australia's Rogue Assassins second, the Philippines' Golden Dragons third and Australia's Tension fourth.[1]

The Datis website published the result on 18 November 2011 alongside separate player lists for Datis and Diako.[1]

A Bernama report reproduced by ''Villain Paintball'' independently recorded the Iranian Division 3 winner, using the spelling "Daiko".[3]

=== Iranian national competition ===

The [[Iran Paintball Association]] recorded Diako finishing first in the men's second division at the Babolsar national league event held from 14 to 16 December 2011. Soheil finished second and Tornado third.[4]

On 27 February 2012, [[Planet Eclipse]] reported that Diako had won Division 2 at an [[Iran National Paintball League|INPL]] event and secured promotion to Division 1 for the following season. The report explicitly identified Diako as a Datis team.[2]

The same report recorded the Datis first team securing the overall INPL championship and [[Datis Girls (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis Girls]] winning the women's championship for the Iranian calendar year 1390.[2]

== Players ==

A Datis website post dated 18 November 2011 listed the following Diako players. Spellings and numbers reproduce the published team list; it has not been independently established as the tournament's official registration roster.[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Player
! Number
! Note
|-
| Arash Kiani
| 96
| Captain
|-
| Pouya Ale ebrahim
| 33
|
|-
| Saeed Shirazi
| 23
|
|-
| Ahad Mosavi
| 171
|
|-
| Shahin Roozban
| 69
|
|-
| Maco Seeydi
| 3
|
|-
| Vahid Fattahi
| 07
|
|}

== Selected results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Date
! Competition
! Division
! Result
|-
| November 2011
| [[Paintball World Cup Asia]], Langkawi
| Division 3
| 1st [1][3]
|-
| 14–16 December 2011
| Iranian national league, Babolsar round
| Men's second division
| 1st [4]
|-
| Reported 27 February 2012
| [[Iran National Paintball League]]
| Division 2
| 1st; secured promotion to Division 1 [2]
|}

== See also ==

* [[Datis (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis]]
* [[Datis Girls (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis Girls]]
* [[Iranian paintball]]
* [[Paintball in Iran]]
* [[Iran National Paintball League]]
* [[Paintball World Cup Asia]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20120524032551/http://www.datispaintball.com:80/index.asp?offset=5 Datis Paintball, "Tournament Results — Langkawi 2011" and "Players", 18 November 2011, archived 24 May 2012.]
# [https://eclipsehq.blogspot.com/2012/02/datis-make-it-clean-sweep.html Planet Eclipse, "Datis make it a clean sweep!", 27 February 2012.]
# [https://villainpaintball.blogspot.com/2011/11/datis-wins-wca-2011.html Villain Paintball, "Datis wins WCA 2011!", reproducing Bernama reporting, 14 November 2011.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20120119102016/http://www.paintball.ir:80/اخبار/tabid/102/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/25/----1390.aspx Iran Paintball Association, national league results for Azar 1390, archived 19 January 2012. Persian.]

== External links ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120524032551/http://www.datispaintball.com:80/index.asp?offset=5 Archived Datis website report containing Diako's results and player list]

[[Category:Iranian paintball teams]]
[[Category:Paintball in Iran]]
[[Category:2010s in Iranian paintball]]

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