Admin: Created an evidence-based article for Fear Factory’s documented appearance at the 2001 Invercargill three-player tournament, identified in the Valhalla records as the National Three-Man Centre Flag Championships. Added all six published match scores, distinguished the separate Saturday and Sunday totals, recorded that Fear Factory did not advance to the final and added its 20.2-point contribution and twenty-seventh-place national three-player ranking. Excluded unrelated overseas PBLeagues teams

2026-10-27T13:55:36Z

Created an evidence-based article for Fear Factory’s documented appearance at the 2001 Invercargill three-player tournament, identified in the Valhalla records as the National Three-Man Centre Flag Championships. Added all six published match scores, distinguished the separate Saturday and Sunday totals, recorded that Fear Factory did not advance to the final and added its 20.2-point contribution and twenty-seventh-place national three-player ranking. Excluded unrelated overseas PBLeagues teams

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{{Short description|New Zealand tournament paintball team}}

'''Fear Factory''' was a New Zealand tournament [[paintball]] team documented at the 2001 Invercargill three-player tournament. The event is identified in the [[Valhalla National Rankings]] as the National Three-Man Centre Flag Championships.[1][2]

The available sources do not provide the team’s home area, captain or playing roster.

== Tournament history ==

Fear Factory was one of four teams at the 2001 Invercargill three-player tournament. The other entries were Flashpoint, Damage Inc and TeamX, with TeamX identified as Damage Inc’s second entry.[1]

The tournament was played over two days. Saturday’s games took place on the Hill Field, while Sunday’s games were played on the Moat Field.[1]

=== Saturday ===

Fear Factory recorded the following results on the Hill Field:[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Opponent
! Fear Factory score
! Opponent’s score
|-
| Damage Inc
| 25
| 25
|-
| TeamX
| 27
| 5
|-
| Flashpoint
| 4
| 49
|}

Fear Factory finished Saturday with 56 points, level with Damage Inc and behind Flashpoint on 111.[1]

=== Sunday ===

Fear Factory recorded the following results on the Moat Field:[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Opponent
! Fear Factory score
! Opponent’s score
|-
| Damage Inc
| −5
| 47
|-
| TeamX
| 42
| −4
|-
| Flashpoint
| 4
| 59
|}

Fear Factory’s published Sunday total was 41 points. The figure represents Sunday’s games rather than a cumulative weekend score.[1]

Flashpoint and Damage Inc advanced to the final, which Flashpoint won 49–4. Fear Factory did not qualify for the final. The report does not publish a formal overall placing for Fear Factory.[1]

== Valhalla ranking ==

The 2001 Valhalla three-player table identifies the Invercargill competition as the National Three-Man Centre Flag Championships. Fear Factory received a normalised ranking contribution of 20.2 from the preliminary stage.[2]

Fear Factory placed twenty-seventh in the published 2001 national three-player standings with a total of 20.2 ranking points.[2]

The Valhalla figure is a normalised ranking value and is not the same as Fear Factory’s raw tournament scores.

== Recorded tournament result ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Published event names
! Result
|-
| 2001
| Invercargill three-player tournament / National Three-Man Centre Flag Championships
| Participated in the round-robin competition; did not advance to the final. Recorded 56 points on Saturday and 41 on Sunday; received 20.2 Valhalla ranking points.[1][2]
|}

No later New Zealand result has been securely connected with this Fear Factory team. PBLeagues records for overseas teams using the same name are not included.

== See also ==

* [[Damage Inc (New Zealand Paintball Team)]]
* [[Flashpoint (New Zealand Paintball Team)]]
* [[Paintball in New Zealand]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020814203254/http://www.paintball.co.nz/inv2001.htm Mark Abbott, ''The 2001 Invercargil 3-man'', Paintball.co.nz.]
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2001Hall.htm ''2001 Valhalla National Rankings'', Mercenaries Star.]

[[Category:New Zealand paintball teams]]
[[Category:Paintball in Southland]]
[[Category:2000s in New Zealand paintball]]

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