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Extended Hawke's Bay Triples history through 2010 using L. M. Bennett's contemporary Flickr archive. Added the dated 2010 scoreboard, fourteen legible team names, prizegiving evidence and original photographic references while distinguishing the incomplete match scores from confirmed final results.
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'''Hawke's Bay Triples''' was a three-player paintball tournament held in New Zealand's Hawke's Bay region. Contemporary reports document editions from 1999 to 2005, while forum records and photographs preserve later events in 2009 and 2010.[1][7][8][9][10][11][13]
'''Hawke's Bay Triples''' (also advertised as the '''Hawkes Bay Triples Competition''' and '''Hawkesbay Triples''') was a three-player [[paintball]] tournament held in the [[Hawke's Bay]] region of [[New Zealand]].
 
Contemporary records document tournaments in 2000, 2001, 2009 and 2010, with additional discussions preserved from 2006.[1][2][6][7][8]
 
The early competitions were organised by '''Paintball Hawke's Bay''', with the '''Hawke's Bay Paintball Club''' also named in the 2000 announcement. These editions were hosted at Pines Paintball Field on State Highway 50 at Roys Hill, near Hastings.[1][2]
 
The tournament developed from an earlier recreational paintball event known as '''Fantasyland'''. According to the contemporary [[Mercenaries Star]] tournament calendar, Fantasyland was replaced by the Hawke's Bay Triples following declining attendance.[3]
 
The tournament subsequently continued at least into 2010. A photographic archive from that year preserves a competition scoreboard with 16 team entries, together with photographs of the event's prizegiving.[8][9]


== History ==
== History ==
The Mercenaries Star tournament calendar described the Triples as the successor to Fantasyland, a recreational paintball event whose attendance had declined.[2]


=== Origins ===
=== 1999 ===
 
''See [[1999 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''
The Hawke's Bay Triples developed from an earlier recreational big-game event known as Fantasyland.
 
The [[Mercenaries Star]] tournament calendar described Fantasyland as having been replaced by the Hawke's Bay Triples after participation in recreational big games declined.[3]


The surviving account does not establish Fantasyland's founding date or the precise year in which the Triples competition began.
Rick Levick organised the eight-team tournament. Games lasted up to six minutes, with an allowance of 100 paintballs per player. Amon Johnson led a training session before Sunday's competition.[1]


=== 2000 tournament ===
[[House Steiner|House Steiner Blue]] led the preliminary heats. House Steiner Red defeated The Boys From The Black Stuff in a deciding semi-final, then beat Blue by one elimination across a two-game final. Black Stuff finished third.[1]


The Hawke's Bay Triples was advertised for '''6–7 February 2000''' at Pines Paintball Field, State Highway 50, Roys Hill, Hawke's Bay.[1]
=== 2000 ===
''See [[2000 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''


The event was presented by Paintball Hawke's Bay and the Hawke's Bay Paintball Club.
Paintball Hawke's Bay and the Hawke's Bay Paintball Club presented the February tournament at Pines Paintball Field, State Highway 50, Roys Hill. Les Hall was the event contact. The announcement specified three-player competition with a 100-round paint allowance.[3]


The published arrangements specified:
Eleven teams attended. House Steiner Black won, followed by House Steiner Red and Vipers 1. The dedicated results page records [[Wellington Phoenix (paintball team)|Cannon Fodder B]] eighth and Cannon Fodder A ninth.[4]


* Three-player open-class competition.
=== 2001 ===
* Limited paintball allowance of 100 rounds.
''See [[2001 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''
* Standard tournament rules.
* Entry fee of NZ$30 per team.
* Paintballs priced at NZ$0.10 each.
* Field paint or approved privately supplied paintballs.
* Compressed air to be provided by players.


The registration form permitted squads of up to five players.
The tournament took place on 3–4 February at Pines Paintball Field. The announcement specified centre-flag competition under Australian Paintball Players League rules, with 100 rounds per player per end.[5]


The organisers prohibited staining paintballs and identified several products that would not be accepted, including Evil, All Star, Ruby Red and Premium Gold.
Fifteen teams competed across two fields, each playing fourteen preliminary games. House Steiner defeated [[Wellington Phoenix (paintball team)|Phoenix Red]] in the final. Phoenix Grey finished third and Phoenix Orange eighth.[6]


Les Hall was named as the tournament contact.[1]
=== 2002 ===
''See [[2002 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''


The event's final results have not been recovered.
Les Hall organised the 2–3 February tournament at Stoney Creek Ranch, Hastings. Seventeen teams played three-player centre-flag games with 100 paintballs per player per game.[7]


=== 2001 tournament ===
Three fields were laid out on a rugby ground: two inflatable fields and a plywood field supplied by [[Tag n' Release]]. GPS and RUSH qualified for the final, which GPS won 100–10. Comic Relief received the Most Stand-Out Team award.[7]


The following edition was advertised for '''3–4 February 2001''' at the same Pines Paintball Field.[2]
=== 2003 ===
''See [[2003 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''


The tournament retained its three-player format but used centre-flag games under Australian Paintball Players League (APPL) rules.
Nine teams competed on 8–9 February at the Hawke's Bay A&P Showgrounds in Hastings, using an airball field. Phantom Menace recorded 690 points in the published team totals, followed by Damage Red on 550. Phantom Menace then defeated Damage Red 100–10 in the final.[10]


The published arrangements included:
=== 2004 ===
''See [[2004 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''


* Three-player open-class competition.
The tournament took place over Waitangi weekend. Les Hall organised the event at a new field developed in partnership with U Drive Dirt Cars. The triangular playing area used plastic panels and 44-gallon drums as barricades.[11][12]
* Centre-flag format.
* Limited paintball allowance of 100 rounds per end.
* Entry fee of NZ$30 per player.
* Privately supplied paintballs permitted.
* Carbon dioxide available at NZ$80 per G cylinder.
* Compressed-air arrangements remaining the players' responsibility.


Paintball Hawke's Bay again presented the tournament, with Les Hall named as the contact.[2]
Phantom Blue led the preliminary scores with 1,050 points, followed by Fusion on 830. The published final placings recorded Fusion first and Phantom Blue second. Brewha was listed as a no-show.[11]


Partial results survive through the [[Valhalla National Rankings]], which recorded the competition as ''Hawkesbay Triples – Round 1 Open''.[4]
=== 2005 ===
''See [[2005 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''


=== 2006 tournament reference ===
Nine teams competed over two days on a field beside a sprint-car track. Players had an allowance of 140 paintballs per game.[13]


An archived [[NZ Paintball Message Boards]] index from February 2006 contains a discussion titled ''HB Triples''.[6]
The report listed Rotorua 1 with 710 points and LSR with 600. Rotorua 1 defeated LSR in the final without losing a player. These published point totals were separate from the account of the final match.[13]


The discussion had received 23 replies by 6 February 2006.
=== 2009 ===
''See [[2009 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''


The contents of the discussion have not yet been recovered, and the index alone does not establish the event's dates, participants or results.
The event took place on 7–8 February at 75/77 Ngatarawa Road, Bridge Pa, Hastings. The announcement specified three-player round-robin competition, peer refereeing, five-minute games and one pod per player per game.[8]


=== 2009 tournament ===
Entry was NZ$50 per player, with catering provided and camping available. Post-event messages confirmed that the tournament had taken place, but the preserved discussion does not supply results.[8]


The Hawke's Bay Triples was held on '''7–8 February 2009''' at a paintball field located at '''75/77 Ngatarawa Road, Bridge Pa, Hastings'''.[7]
=== 2010 ===
''See [[2010 Hawke’s Bay Triples]].''


The event was advertised through the NZ Paintball Message Boards on 24 January 2009.
L. M. Bennett's prizegiving photographs document the February 2010 tournament. The scoreboard, photographed on 7 February, lists sixteen teams and explicitly records six placings:[9]
 
The tournament used a three-player round-robin format with limited paintball allowances and peer refereeing.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Item
! Position !! Team !! Points
! Details
|-
|-
| Dates
| 1 || Arachnids || 1,300
| 7–8 February 2009
|-
|-
| Venue
| 2 || Aces || 1,250
| 75/77 Ngatarawa Road, Bridge Pa, Hastings
|-
|-
| Format
| 3 || Happymeal A || 1,190
| Three-player round robin
|-
|-
| Game duration
| 4 || GPS || 1,170
| Five minutes
|-
|-
| Paint allowance
| 5 || Pirates || 1,110
| One additional pod per player per game
|-
|-
| Refereeing
| 6 || Happymeal B || 1,010
| Peer refereeing
|-
| Entry fee
| NZ$50 per player
|-
| Paintballs
| NZ$80 per case
|-
| Gas cylinder hire
| NZ$20 per tank
|}
|}
The organisers advertised camping facilities and included meals and refreshments as part of the event arrangements.
The entry deadline was 31 January 2009.[7]
==== Confirmation and photography ====
Post-event messages published on 10 February 2009 confirmed that the tournament had taken place.
On 22 February, Les Hall discussed arrangements for publishing photographs of the event.
A link to a Flickr photography collection was subsequently shared on 23 February 2009.[7]
The final standings and complete list of participating teams have not been recovered.
=== 2010 tournament ===
The Hawke's Bay Triples continued into '''2010''', as confirmed by a contemporary photographic collection published on Flickr.[8][9]
The album, titled ''Hawkes Bay Triples 2010'', was published by photographer '''L. M. Bennett''' through the TempusFugit2008 account.
It contains 41 photographs documenting the event, including images of the competition scoreboard, prizegiving, participants, catering and equipment areas.[9]
The scoreboard photograph was taken on '''7 February 2010''' and uploaded on '''15 February 2010'''.[8]
The photographs establish that the tournament took place in 2010, although the full event dates and venue have not been independently established.
==== 2010 participating teams ====
The photographed scoreboard contains 16 team entries arranged alongside a grid of match records.[8]
Fourteen team names can be read with reasonable confidence:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Teams identified on the 2010 scoreboard
! Team
|-
| GPS
|-
| DEA
|-
| Bush
|-
| Arachnids
|-
| Adrenalin
|-
| Happymeal A
|-
| Happymeal B
|-
| Aces
|-
| Skullz
|-
| Mole
|-
| Assassinz
|-
| Hell Boys
|-
| Buccaneers
|-
| Pirates
|}
Two additional handwritten team names are visible but cannot be transcribed reliably from the available photograph.
The names above reproduce the readable scoreboard entries. Their ordering does not represent tournament placings.
The records do not establish whether teams sharing similar names with earlier New Zealand tournament organisations were the same squads.
==== 2010 scoreboard and results ====
The 2010 scoreboard photograph preserves a grid of results, with fifteen numbered columns alongside the participating teams.[8]
However, most individual numerical scores and the totals at the right of the board are insufficiently legible to reproduce accurately.
The photograph therefore provides evidence of team participation and the competition's scoring arrangements, but does not establish the final standings.
The winning team, runners-up and complete classification remain unverified.
==== Prizegiving ====
The 2010 Flickr album is described as a collection of prizegiving photographs.
It includes photographs specifically labelled with Les Hall's name, providing further evidence of his association with the event during this period.[9]
The album also contains photographs of participants and event facilities.
The identities of individual prize recipients and their awards have not been independently established from the available captions.
== Venues ==
The surviving historical sources identify two locations used by the competition.
{| class="wikitable"
! Period
! Venue
! Location
|-
| 2000–2001
| Pines Paintball Field
| State Highway 50, Roys Hill, Hawke's Bay
|-
| 2009
| Paintball field at Ngatarawa Road
| 75/77 Ngatarawa Road, Bridge Pa, Hastings
|}
The 2000 and 2001 announcements explicitly identified Pines Paintball Field as the venue.[1][2]
The 2009 announcement supplied the Bridge Pa address but did not identify the location as Pines Paintball Field.[7]
The available records do not establish when the tournament changed venues or whether both locations were operated by the same organisation.
The exact location of the 2010 tournament has not been independently established.
== 2001 tournament results ==
=== Valhalla records ===
The [[Valhalla National Rankings]] incorporated results from the 2001 Hawke's Bay Triples into its national three-player rankings.[4]
The surviving table contains fifteen team entries with non-zero values in the ''Hawkesbay Triples – Round 1 Open'' column.
These values represent normalised opening-round scores rather than confirmed final tournament placings.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Hawke's Bay Triples 2001 – Recorded opening-round scores
! Team
! Normalised score
|-
| [[House Steiner]]
| 84.3
|-
| [[Phoenix (Wellington paintball team)|Phoenix (WGN) Red]]
| 75.0
|-
| [[Phoenix (Wellington paintball team)|Phoenix (WGN) Grey]]
| 64.9
|-
| [[Tag n' Release|Tag n' Release GPS]]
| 64.3
|-
| [[Damage (New Zealand paintball team)|Damage]]
| 62.9
|-
| [[Total Kaos (paintball team)|Total Kaos]]
| 57.1
|-
| [[Crossfire (paintball team)|Crossfire GBH]]
| 52.1
|-
| [[Phoenix (Wellington paintball team)|Phoenix (WGN) Orange]]
| 50.0
|-
| [[DamNatives|DamNatives Red]]
| 46.4
|-
| [[DaBayBoyz]]
| 46.4
|-
| [[Crossfire (paintball team)|Crossfire BG]]
| 43.0
|-
| [[Warp Speed (paintball team)|Warp Speed]]
| 37.1
|-
| [[Brew Ha]]
| 31.4
|-
| [[DamNatives|DamNatives Black]]
| 29.4
|-
| [[Nutters (paintball team)|Nutters]]
| 26.8
|}
Source: Valhalla National Rankings, 2001.[4]
The teams are listed in descending order of their opening-round scores. The table does not establish the tournament's final classification.
=== Leading teams ===
House Steiner recorded the highest surviving opening-round score, with 84.3.
The Wellington Phoenix organisation entered three separately recorded squads: Red, Grey and Orange.
Other organisations with multiple recorded entries included Crossfire and DamNatives.
The rankings also preserve evidence of participation by smaller teams including Total Kaos, DaBayBoyz, Warp Speed, Brew Ha and Nutters.
=== Tag n' Release ===
A contemporary [[Tag n' Release]] team profile recorded the following performance at the 2001 Hawke's Bay Triples:[5]
* Competition: Round 1 Open.
* Placing: Fourth.
* Points earned: 900.
* Points available: 1,400.
The recorded score corresponds to approximately 64.3 per cent of the available points, matching the team's normalised value of 64.3 in the Valhalla rankings.
The profile therefore corroborates the opening-round ranking entry.
It does not independently establish the team's final tournament placing.
== Relationship with national rankings ==
The [[Valhalla National Rankings]] maintained separate standings for different tournament formats.
In 2001, its three-player rankings incorporated results from the Hawke's Bay Triples alongside other competitions, including the Indoor Three-Man Open, National Three-Man Centre Flag Championships and Combat Zone Three-Mans.[4]
The published national rankings were headed by DamNatives Red with 226.4 points, followed by Insane with 181.7 and Tag n' Release GPS with 159.3.
These totals combined performances across multiple tournaments and do not represent the final standings of the Hawke's Bay Triples.
== Historical records ==
The principal surviving sources for the Hawke's Bay Triples include the original 2000 and 2001 tournament announcements, the Mercenaries Star tournament calendar, the Valhalla National Rankings, and archived discussions from the NZ Paintball Message Boards.
The 2009 and 2010 photographic records extend the documented history of the tournament beyond the early editions.
The 2010 scoreboard is particularly useful because it preserves names of participating teams that are otherwise absent from the earlier records.
Complete final standings for the documented editions have not been recovered.
The available sources do not establish whether the competition was held every year between 2001 and 2010, or when the tournament ceased operating.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Paintball in New Zealand]]
* [[Paintball in New Zealand]]
* [[Paintball in Hawke's Bay]]
* [[House Steiner]]
* [[Paintball Hawke's Bay]]
* [[Wellington Phoenix (paintball team)]]
* [[Hawke's Bay Paintball Club]]
* [[Valhalla National Rankings]]
* [[Tag n' Release]]
* [[Tag n' Release]]
* [[Northland Open]]
* [[NZ Paintball Message Boards]]
* [[Mercenaries Star]]


== References ==
== References ==
 
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020606140335/http://www.paintball.co.nz/hbtrip99.htm Rick Levick, ''1999 Hawkes Bay Triples'', Paintball.co.nz. Archived 6 June 2002.]
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Calendar/HB3/NextHB3M.html Hawkes Bay Triples Competition – February 2000]. ''Mercenaries Star''. Contemporary tournament announcement identifying the dates, venue, organisers, entry fees and playing format.
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Events/EventsIndex.htm Mercenaries Star, ''Annual Tournament Events'', 2001. Preserved by OoCities.]
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Events/HB3M.htm Hawkes Bay Triples – February 2001]. ''Mercenaries Star''. Contemporary tournament announcement identifying the dates, centre-flag format, APPL rules and equipment arrangements.
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Calendar/HB3/NextHB3M.html ''Hawkes Bay Triples Competition'', Mercenaries Star, February 2000 tournament announcement. Preserved by OoCities.]
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Events/EventsIndex.htm Annual Tournament Events, 2001]. ''Mercenaries Star''. Tournament calendar describing the development of the Hawke's Bay Triples from Fantasyland.
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Calendar/HB3/2000HB3M.html ''Hawkes Bay Triples 2000 Results'', Mercenaries Star. Preserved by OoCities.]
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2001Hall.htm Valhalla Hall of Heroes – 2001]. ''Mercenaries Star''. National three-player rankings containing Hawke's Bay Triples opening-round results.
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Events/HB3M.htm ''Hawkes Bay Triples Competition'', Mercenaries Star, announcement for 3–4 February 2001. Preserved by OoCities.]
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Links/TagNRelease.htm Tag n' Release Team Profile]. Russell Clement, April 2001. Contemporary record of the team's Hawke's Bay Triples opening-round result.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20011020080141fw_/http://www.blacksun.co.nz/phoenix/news.htm Wellington Phoenix, ''News'', “Hawkes Bay Triples”, 5 February 2001. Archived 20 October 2001.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20060207135644/http://p069.ezboard.com/fnzpaintballfrm6 NZ Paintball Message Forum – Other Tourney Events, archived 7 February 2006]. Forum index containing an HB Triples discussion.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20021025162718/http://www.paintball.co.nz/hb3man2002.htm Dazz Marshall, ''Hawkes Bay 3-Man 2002'', Paintball.co.nz, February 2002. Archived 25 October 2002.]
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20090818150024/http://nzpaintball.yuku.com/topic/4330/t/HB-Triples-2009.html NZ Paintball Message Boards – HB Triples 2009, archived 18 August 2009]. Contemporary tournament announcement, post-event discussion and photography references.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20090818150024/http://nzpaintball.yuku.com/topic/4330/t/HB-Triples-2009.html ''HB Triples 2009'', NZ Paintball Message Boards, January–March 2009. Archived 18 August 2009.]
# [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tempusfugitphotos/4359484389/in/album-72157623441196994 HBT2010 – Scoreboard]. L. M. Bennett, Flickr. Photograph taken 7 February 2010 and uploaded 15 February 2010.
# [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tempusfugitphotos/4359484389/in/album-72157623441196994 L. M. Bennett, ''HBT2010 – Scoreboard'', Flickr. Photographed 7 February 2010; uploaded 15 February 2010.]
# [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tempusfugitphotos/albums/72157623441196994 Hawkes Bay Triples 2010]. L. M. Bennett, Flickr. Collection of 41 photographs documenting the 2010 competition and prizegiving.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20051018151826/http://www.paintball.co.nz/articles/2003/hawkesbay.htm Rob Maddox, ''Hawkes Bay Triples'', NZ Paintball Online, February 2003. Archived 18 October 2005.]
 
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20051218194442/http://www.paintball.co.nz/articles/2004/hb2004.htm Peter Mumby, ''The Hawkes Bay Triples 2004'', NZ Paintball Online, February 2004. Archived 18 December 2005.]
== External links ==
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20041206015710/http://www.paintball.co.nz/news.htm ''Hawkes Bay Triples'', NZ Paintball Online, 9 February 2004. Archived 6 December 2004.]
 
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20051218195019/http://www.paintball.co.nz/articles/2005/hbtrip2k5.htm Paul “Spider” McKay, ''Hawkes Bay Triples 2005'', NZ Paintball Online, February 2005. Archived 18 December 2005.]
* [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Calendar/HB3/NextHB3M.html Original 2000 tournament announcement]
* [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Events/HB3M.htm Original 2001 tournament announcement]
* [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2001Hall.htm 2001 Valhalla rankings]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090818150024/http://nzpaintball.yuku.com/topic/4330/t/HB-Triples-2009.html Archived 2009 tournament discussion]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tempusfugitphotos/4359484389/in/album-72157623441196994 2010 Hawke's Bay Triples scoreboard photograph]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tempusfugitphotos/albums/72157623441196994 2010 Hawke's Bay Triples photographic album]


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Latest revision as of 13:10, 25 October 2026

Hawke's Bay Triples was a three-player paintball tournament held in New Zealand's Hawke's Bay region. Contemporary reports document editions from 1999 to 2005, while forum records and photographs preserve later events in 2009 and 2010.[1][7][8][9][10][11][13]

History

[edit]

The Mercenaries Star tournament calendar described the Triples as the successor to Fantasyland, a recreational paintball event whose attendance had declined.[2]

1999

[edit]

See 1999 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

Rick Levick organised the eight-team tournament. Games lasted up to six minutes, with an allowance of 100 paintballs per player. Amon Johnson led a training session before Sunday's competition.[1]

House Steiner Blue led the preliminary heats. House Steiner Red defeated The Boys From The Black Stuff in a deciding semi-final, then beat Blue by one elimination across a two-game final. Black Stuff finished third.[1]

2000

[edit]

See 2000 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

Paintball Hawke's Bay and the Hawke's Bay Paintball Club presented the February tournament at Pines Paintball Field, State Highway 50, Roys Hill. Les Hall was the event contact. The announcement specified three-player competition with a 100-round paint allowance.[3]

Eleven teams attended. House Steiner Black won, followed by House Steiner Red and Vipers 1. The dedicated results page records Cannon Fodder B eighth and Cannon Fodder A ninth.[4]

2001

[edit]

See 2001 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

The tournament took place on 3–4 February at Pines Paintball Field. The announcement specified centre-flag competition under Australian Paintball Players League rules, with 100 rounds per player per end.[5]

Fifteen teams competed across two fields, each playing fourteen preliminary games. House Steiner defeated Phoenix Red in the final. Phoenix Grey finished third and Phoenix Orange eighth.[6]

2002

[edit]

See 2002 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

Les Hall organised the 2–3 February tournament at Stoney Creek Ranch, Hastings. Seventeen teams played three-player centre-flag games with 100 paintballs per player per game.[7]

Three fields were laid out on a rugby ground: two inflatable fields and a plywood field supplied by Tag n' Release. GPS and RUSH qualified for the final, which GPS won 100–10. Comic Relief received the Most Stand-Out Team award.[7]

2003

[edit]

See 2003 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

Nine teams competed on 8–9 February at the Hawke's Bay A&P Showgrounds in Hastings, using an airball field. Phantom Menace recorded 690 points in the published team totals, followed by Damage Red on 550. Phantom Menace then defeated Damage Red 100–10 in the final.[10]

2004

[edit]

See 2004 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

The tournament took place over Waitangi weekend. Les Hall organised the event at a new field developed in partnership with U Drive Dirt Cars. The triangular playing area used plastic panels and 44-gallon drums as barricades.[11][12]

Phantom Blue led the preliminary scores with 1,050 points, followed by Fusion on 830. The published final placings recorded Fusion first and Phantom Blue second. Brewha was listed as a no-show.[11]

2005

[edit]

See 2005 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

Nine teams competed over two days on a field beside a sprint-car track. Players had an allowance of 140 paintballs per game.[13]

The report listed Rotorua 1 with 710 points and LSR with 600. Rotorua 1 defeated LSR in the final without losing a player. These published point totals were separate from the account of the final match.[13]

2009

[edit]

See 2009 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

The event took place on 7–8 February at 75/77 Ngatarawa Road, Bridge Pa, Hastings. The announcement specified three-player round-robin competition, peer refereeing, five-minute games and one pod per player per game.[8]

Entry was NZ$50 per player, with catering provided and camping available. Post-event messages confirmed that the tournament had taken place, but the preserved discussion does not supply results.[8]

2010

[edit]

See 2010 Hawke’s Bay Triples.

L. M. Bennett's prizegiving photographs document the February 2010 tournament. The scoreboard, photographed on 7 February, lists sixteen teams and explicitly records six placings:[9]

Position Team Points
1 Arachnids 1,300
2 Aces 1,250
3 Happymeal A 1,190
4 GPS 1,170
5 Pirates 1,110
6 Happymeal B 1,010

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. Rick Levick, 1999 Hawkes Bay Triples, Paintball.co.nz. Archived 6 June 2002.
  2. Mercenaries Star, Annual Tournament Events, 2001. Preserved by OoCities.
  3. Hawkes Bay Triples Competition, Mercenaries Star, February 2000 tournament announcement. Preserved by OoCities.
  4. Hawkes Bay Triples 2000 Results, Mercenaries Star. Preserved by OoCities.
  5. Hawkes Bay Triples Competition, Mercenaries Star, announcement for 3–4 February 2001. Preserved by OoCities.
  6. Wellington Phoenix, News, “Hawkes Bay Triples”, 5 February 2001. Archived 20 October 2001.
  7. Dazz Marshall, Hawkes Bay 3-Man 2002, Paintball.co.nz, February 2002. Archived 25 October 2002.
  8. HB Triples 2009, NZ Paintball Message Boards, January–March 2009. Archived 18 August 2009.
  9. L. M. Bennett, HBT2010 – Scoreboard, Flickr. Photographed 7 February 2010; uploaded 15 February 2010.
  10. Rob Maddox, Hawkes Bay Triples, NZ Paintball Online, February 2003. Archived 18 October 2005.
  11. Peter Mumby, The Hawkes Bay Triples 2004, NZ Paintball Online, February 2004. Archived 18 December 2005.
  12. Hawkes Bay Triples, NZ Paintball Online, 9 February 2004. Archived 6 December 2004.
  13. Paul “Spider” McKay, Hawkes Bay Triples 2005, NZ Paintball Online, February 2005. Archived 18 December 2005.
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