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Confirm Wayne Rolleston’s Phantom membership with contemporary 2002 reports; correct Northland Open participation to refereeing; add the 2002 Volcanic Cup result and Paintball West connection while preserving later history and distinguishing Menace.

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Admin: Created an article documenting New Zealand tournament team Phantom from 1998 to 2006. Covers the Phantom 5 and Phantom Five names, Black and Purple squads, the evolution into Phantom Menace, associated Phantom Red and Blue entries, selected results and documented management. Records Gavin Harrison and Matt Storey as recollected Phantom Menace associates and Wayne Rolleston as associated with Phantom, while noting that dated rosters have not been recovered. Distinguishes the later Menace team as

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Created an article documenting New Zealand tournament team Phantom from 1998 to 2006. Covers the Phantom 5 and Phantom Five names, Black and Purple squads, the evolution into Phantom Menace, associated Phantom Red and Blue entries, selected results and documented management. Records Gavin Harrison and Matt Storey as recollected Phantom Menace associates and Wayne Rolleston as associated with Phantom, while noting that dated rosters have not been recovered. Distinguishes the later Menace team as

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'''Phantom''', also recorded as '''Phantom 5''' and '''Phantom Five''', was a New Zealand tournament [[paintball]] team documented in competition from 1998 to 2006. The team placed second at the 2001 Northland Open and competed in national, regional and series events under several squad names.[1][5][7]

Contemporary records also contain the names Phantom 5 Black, Phantom 5 Purple, Phantom Menace, Phantom Red, Phantom Blue, Phantom Legion and Phantom Fury. Phantom 5 Black and Purple were documented squads of Phantom 5. The exact organisational relationships of the other named entries have not all been established.

== History ==

=== 1998 league ===

Phantom Five competed in the 1998 National Paintball League Second Division programme. A contemporary information page listed Todd Martin as the team's manager. The published league results placed Phantom Five third with 18 points, although the surviving page does not state when the table was last updated or establish that it was a final season classification.[1]

At the 1998 New Zealand Paintball Nationals, Phantom 5 finished ninth with 505 points.[2]

=== 1999 season ===

Phantom 5 entered two squads at the 1999 New Zealand Paintball Nationals. Phantom 5 Purple finished third overall with 820 points, behind Paint Contractors and Saints Gold. Phantom 5 Black finished twelfth with 390 points.[3]

The same report identifies Gary of Phantom Five and NeoTech in an event acknowledgement, but does not give his surname or establish a complete playing roster.[3]

=== 2000–2002 ===

Phantom 5 scored 659 points in the preliminary round of the 2000 New Zealand Paintball Nationals, where it was classified in Division One.[4]

The surviving 2001 Valhalla National Rankings record Phantom 5 at the Northland Open, RotoVegas tournament and New Zealand Nationals. The team accumulated 207.8 seven-player ranking points across the season, including 83.9 from the Northland Open.[5]

A contemporary Northland Open report placed Phantom second in 2001 with 755 points, behind Saints and ahead of Phoenix.[6]

On 27 January 2002, Phantom finished third at the Combat Zone 3-Man tournament at Ardmore, Papakura, with 510 points. Saints and GPS finished first and second.[7]

At the 2002 Northland Open, Phantom finished second in the First Division, behind Saints.[8]

=== Phantom Menace and other entries ===

Phantom Menace won the 2003 Hawke's Bay Triples at the Hawke's Bay A&P Showgrounds in Hastings. The published table gave the team 690 points, and the report recorded a 100–10 victory over Damage Red in the final.[9]

At the October 2003 Volcanic Rotorua tournament, the first-day pool tables listed three separate Phantom-named entries: Phantom Menace with 782 points, Phantom with 507 and Phantom Legion with 249.[10] Their simultaneous appearance means those names should not be treated as interchangeable entries for that event.

A separate 2003 discussion concerning a proposed ten-player tournament referred to Phantom 5 and Phantom Menace combining as a '''Phantoms''' entry. The surviving discussion records a proposal rather than confirmed participation, but it demonstrates a contemporary connection between the two groups.[11]

Participant recollections describe Phantom Menace as an evolution of Phantom. Contemporary results support a relationship between those names, but do not establish an exact changeover date or a complete transfer of players.

The later team [[Menace]] was a separate organisation formed by former Marksmen players, according to contributor clarification. Gavin Harrison and Matt Storey are also recalled as having been associated with Phantom Menace before Menace was established. No dated Phantom Menace roster confirming that association has yet been recovered. The similarity between the names Phantom Menace and Menace should not by itself be used to present Menace as a renaming or direct successor of Phantom.

=== Phantom Red and Phantom Blue ===

Phantom Blue and Phantom Red are both documented at the 2004 Hawke's Bay Triples. The preliminary table placed Phantom Blue first with 1,050 points and Phantom Red third with 760. Phantom Menace was also entered separately and scored 510.[12]

The published results identify Fusion as the tournament winner and Phantom Blue as runner-up. The accompanying narrative calls Fusion's final opponent '''Menace Blue''', creating a naming conflict within the same source. The explicit results table is followed here.[12]

Project contributor clarification identifies Phantom Blue and Phantom Red as associated with Phantom. The inspected documentary sources do not yet establish their exact rosters or whether they were permanent squads or event-specific entries. Their documented activity is presently limited to the 2004 Hawke's Bay Triples.

=== 2006 Super 5s ===

Phantom finished third in Division One of the 2006 Super 5s season with 3,823 points, behind Menace and XXX and ahead of Saints.[13] This is the latest confirmed Phantom result currently identified in the inspected New Zealand tournament record.

== Names and related teams ==

* '''Phantom''', '''Phantom 5''' and '''Phantom Five''' refer to the same team.
* '''Phantom 5 Purple''' and '''Phantom 5 Black''' were separate Phantom 5 squads at the 1999 Nationals.[3]
* '''Phantom Menace''' was a related evolution of Phantom documented from at least February 2003. Contemporary records also show Phantom and Phantom Menace entering the same event.[9][10]
* '''Phantom Legion''' appeared as a separate entry in the 2003 Rotorua pool table.[10]
* '''Phantom Red''' and '''Phantom Blue''' were associated Phantom entries at the 2004 Hawke's Bay Triples. Their exact roster structure has not been verified.[12]
* '''Phantom Fury''' appeared in 1999 tournament records, but no inspected source establishes that it belonged to the Phantom organisation.
* [[Menace]] was a separate team formed by former Marksmen players, according to contributor clarification. The inspected tournament sources do not establish that it was a renamed Phantom squad.

== Documented players and management ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Documented role
! Evidence limit
|-
| Todd Martin
| Listed manager of Phantom Five in the 1998 NPL Second Division information page
| Does not establish management in other seasons [1]
|-
| Wayne Rolleston
| Associated with Phantom in participant recollection
| No dated Phantom roster confirming the association has yet been recovered
|-
| Gavin Harrison
| Associated with Phantom Menace in participant recollection
| No dated Phantom Menace roster confirming the association has yet been recovered
|-
| Matt Storey
| Associated with Phantom Menace in participant recollection
| No dated Phantom Menace roster confirming the association has yet been recovered
|}

== Selected results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Event
! Published team name
! Result
|-
| 1998
| NPL Second Division
| Phantom Five
| 3rd in published league table [1]
|-
| 1998
| [[1998 New Zealand Paintball Nationals]]
| Phantom 5
| 9th [2]
|-
| 1999
| [[1999 New Zealand Paintball Nationals]]
| Phantom 5 Purple
| 3rd [3]
|-
| 1999
| [[1999 New Zealand Paintball Nationals]]
| Phantom 5 Black
| 12th [3]
|-
| 2001
| [[2001 Northland Open]]
| Phantom
| 2nd [6]
|-
| 2002
| [[2002 Combat Zone 3-Man]]
| Phantom
| 3rd [7]
|-
| 2002
| [[2002 Northland Open]]
| Phantom
| 2nd, Division One [8]
|-
| 2003
| [[2003 Hawke's Bay Triples]]
| Phantom Menace
| 1st [9]
|-
| 2004
| [[2004 Hawke's Bay Triples]]
| Phantom Blue
| 2nd [12]
|-
| 2006
| [[2006 Super 5s (New Zealand)]]
| Phantom
| 3rd, Division One [13]
|}

== See also ==

* [[Menace]]
* [[New Zealand Paintball Nationals]]
* [[Northland Open]]
* [[Super 5s (New Zealand)]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020606144228/http://www.paintball.co.nz/div298.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 1998 SplatMan Division 2 League'', Paintball.co.nz]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20020613121455/http://www.paintball.co.nz/npld298.htm ''The 1998 NPL Division 2 League Results'', Paintball.co.nz].
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020817071008/http://www.paintball.co.nz/nats98.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 1998 Two Day NZ Nationals Tournament'', Paintball.co.nz, October 1998.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020817070413/http://www.paintball.co.nz/nats99/ Rob Maddox, ''The 1999 Two Day NZ Nationals Tournament'', Paintball.co.nz, October 1999.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020613133336/http://www.paintball.co.nz/nats00.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 2000 Two Day NZ Nationals Tournament'', Paintball.co.nz, October 2000.]
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2001Hall.htm Mercenaries Star, ''2001 Valhalla National Rankings''.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20011217012758/http://www.paintball.co.nz/north2001.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 2001 Northland Paintball Open'', Paintball.co.nz, 2001.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020606114058/http://www.paintball.co.nz/cbtz.htm Dazz Marshall, ''Combat Zone 3-Man'', Paintball.co.nz, January 2002.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020806192035/http://www.paintball.co.nz/north2002.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 2002 Northland Paintball Open'', Paintball.co.nz, 2002.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20051018151826/http://www.paintball.co.nz/articles/2003/hawkesbay.htm Rob Maddox, ''Hawkes Bay Triples'', Paintball.co.nz, February 2003.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20051218184604/http://www.paintball.co.nz/articles/2003/volcanic.htm Rob Maddox, ''Rotorua International Tournament – Oct 03'', Paintball.co.nz, October 2003.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20041028072524/http://p069.ezboard.com/fnzpaintballfrm6.showMessage?topicID=118.topic Wayne Rolleston, ''Super 10s'', NZ Paintball Message Forum, 14 April–24 June 2003. Archived 28 October 2004.] The proposed 2003 event was not confirmed as having taken place.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20051218194442/http://www.paintball.co.nz/articles/2004/hb2004.htm Peter Mumby, ''The Hawkes Bay Triples 2004'', Paintball.co.nz, February 2004.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011071333/http://p069.ezboard.com/December-super-5s-scores/fnzpaintballfrm6.showMessage?topicID=360.topic ''December super 5's scores'', NZ Paintball Message Forum, 4 December 2006.]

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Phantom (New Zealand Paintball Team) - Revision history

Admin: Confirm Wayne Rolleston’s Phantom membership with contemporary 2002 reports; correct Northland Open participation to refereeing; add the 2002 Volcanic Cup result and Paintball West connection while preserving later history and distinguishing Menace.