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'''Shockwave''' was an Australian tournament [[paintball]] team captained by Roger Wood. The team competed in the [[1995 Australian Three-Man Speedball Championships]] and won an amateur Fireball Fives tournament during the 1996 Australia Day weekend.[1][2]

== Tournament history ==

=== 1995 Australian Three-Man Speedball Championships ===

Shockwave entered the amateur division of the Australian Three-Man Speedball Championships at Heartbreak Ridge Paintball in Sydney on 5 November 1995.[1]

The contemporary report lists the team's participation but does not establish its final placing.[1]

=== 1996 Fireball Fives ===

In an account published in ''Australian Paintballer'', captain Roger Wood described Shockwave's victory at the Australia Day weekend Fireball Fives tournament in 1996.[2]

Wood stated that the team had finished seventh at its previous Fireball tournament and had subsequently undertaken a more demanding training programme.[2]

At the Australia Day event, Shockwave recorded maximum-scoring victories in all four games described in Wood's report. Its opponents included Firefight, a Campbelltown team and the Rough Riders. Wood identified the result as Shockwave's first tournament victory.[2]

== Leadership and league representation ==

Roger Wood was identified as Shockwave's captain in his Fireball tournament account.[2]

In 1996, Wood was also listed as secretary of the [[Australasian Paintball Players League]], with Shockwave given as his team affiliation.[3]

== Recorded tournament results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Competition
! Recorded outcome
! Source
|-
| Not established
| Earlier Fireball tournament
| 7th, according to the captain's account
| [2]
|-
| 1995
| [[1995 Australian Three-Man Speedball Championships]]
| Amateur entry; final placing not established
| [1]
|-
| 1996
| Australia Day weekend Fireball Fives
| 1st, amateur competition
| [2]
|}

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/19981205023709/http://www.xsystems.com.au/wpaint/wpaint1/3man.htm 3 Man Speedball Championships]. ''War Paint'', issue 1, January 1996.
# Roger Wood, “Shockwave Hits Fireball”, ''Australian Paintballer'', April–June 1996, p. 31.
# “APPL — Australasian Paintball Players League”, ''Australian Paintballer'', April–June 1996, p. 24.

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