Damage Inc (New Zealand Paintball Team)

Damage Inc was a Christchurch-based New Zealand paintball team documented in South Island competition during 2000 and 2001. It won the 2000 Dunedin City Challenge and finished second at the 2001 Invercargill Three-Man Tournament.[1][2]

Contemporary forum contributors explicitly distinguished the South Island Damage Inc from the North Island team using the name Damage.[3]

History

Dunedin City Challenge, 2000

Damage Inc competed at the 2000 Dunedin City Challenge, organised by The Ultimate Game Dunedin. The tournament used five-player teams with a limit of 200 paintballs per player per end. The report identifies Damage Inc as the Christchurch entry.[1]

Damage Inc scored 55 points in the morning round and 245 in the afternoon round, qualifying for the final against Southern Raiders.[1]

The team won the two-end final 55–40. Tony Witheridge of Paintball Supply NZ played as a guest for Damage Inc. This documents his participation at that event rather than permanent membership.[1]

The contemporary article index lists the tournament under November 2000, but the report does not supply a numerical playing date.[1][8]

Invercargill three-player tournament, 2001

Damage Inc entered the 2001 Invercargill three-player tournament, played over two days on the Hill and Moat fields. The other entries were Flashpoint, TeamX and Fear Factory.[2]

The report explicitly identifies TeamX as Damage Inc's second team. TeamX was therefore a secondary event entry associated with Damage Inc rather than a separately established permanent team. The report describes its line-up as one player with approximately three weeks' experience and two returning veterans, but does not name them.[2]

Damage Inc recorded 56 points on Saturday and 119 on Sunday, then lost the final to Flashpoint 4–49. The published daily totals represent the respective day's matches rather than cumulative weekend scores.[2]

The report is credited to Mark Abbott and includes a first-person account of Damage Inc's play. It does not provide a complete playing roster.[2]

Contemporary forum activity

In a November 2001 team-contact discussion, contributors identified Ric and JiNX as contacts for the South Island team. JiNX explicitly corrected its name to Damage Inc and signed as Mark. The discussion separately associated the North Island Damage team with Jason Newport.[3]

On 7 November 2001, a contributor using the name Noddy supplied ultimategame.co.nz as the team's website and signed with the Damage Inc name.[4]

In another discussion on 29 November 2001, JiNX, signing Mark and Team Damage Inc, described a field-development project and announced a planned construction journal on that website. The post does not establish that every proposed field was completed or define ownership of the business.[6]

Documented personnel

Published name	Date or context	Documented involvement
Tony Witheridge	2000 Dunedin City Challenge	Guest player[1]
Mark Abbott	2001 Invercargill tournament	Credited author of the report, including a first-person account of Damage Inc's play[2]
Ric	November 2001 contact discussion	South Island team contact[3]
JiNX / Mark	November 2001 forum discussions	Identified himself with Damage Inc and supplied team information[3][5][6]
Noddy	7 November 2001	Supplied the team website and signed as Damage Inc[4]

These records are not a complete roster. The available evidence does not establish surnames for Ric or Noddy, or conclusively identify JiNX/Mark as Mark Abbott. The contact discussion does not unambiguously identify a captain.[3]

Sponsorship and support

On 25 November 2001, JiNX described support received by Damage Inc:[5]

Southprint supplied the team's banner and vehicle graphics.
Badger supplied casualwear and printing on team shirts.
Paintball Supply N.Z. provided equipment pricing and marker tuning.

These are contemporary statements of support, not evidence of particular contract terms or sponsorship periods.[5]

Tournament results

Year	Tournament	Result	Final score
2000	2000 Dunedin City Challenge	1st; defeated Southern Raiders	55–40[1]
2001	2001 Invercargill Three-Man Tournament	2nd; defeated by Flashpoint	4–49[2]

TeamX's games are not combined with Damage Inc's tournament scores because it competed as a separate secondary entry at the 2001 event.[2]

Distinction from Team Damage

The contemporary team-contact discussion explicitly distinguishes Damage Inc in the South Island from Damage in the North Island.[3]

A separate newspaper report reproduced on the forum identifies Team Damage of the Kāpiti Coast, captained by Jason Newport, as fourth in Division Two at the 2001 Nationals. That result belongs to the separate Team Damage entry, later associated with the name KC Damage, and is not included in Damage Inc's tournament record.[7]

Unqualified records using only Damage should not be assigned to Damage Inc unless their event context identifies the Christchurch team.

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