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Updated 2026 Arena Paintball Labour Day Cup with complete Cup and Plate top-four results supplied by Ralph Tsing. Confirmed Ballistics Unit 1 as Cup winner and Expendables as Plate winner, added original Facebook source and trophy photograph, and retained separate day-one standings. |
Add verified semifinal scores from the official livestream: Ballistics Unit 1 beat CULT 4–0 and Expendables beat Surge 4–0. Include timestamped citations and preserve existing finals scores, placings and preliminary standings. |
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'''2026 Arena Paintball Labour Day Cup''' was a five-player [[paintball]] tournament held on 24–25 October 2026 at [[Arena Paintball]] in Feilding, New Zealand. It was the third event in the venue's 2026 race-format tournament series.[1] | '''2026 Arena Paintball Labour Day Cup''' was a five-player [[paintball]] tournament held on 24–25 October 2026 at [[Arena Paintball]] in Feilding, New Zealand. It was the third event in the venue's 2026 race-format tournament series.[1] | ||
[[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 1]] won the Cup, | [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 1]] won the Cup, defeating [[Manawatu Titans (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Manawatu Titans]] 3–2 in the final. [[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]] won the Plate with a 5–1 victory over [[BOP Blast (New Zealand Paintball Team)|BOP Blast]].[8][9] | ||
== Venue and format == | == Venue and format == | ||
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The advertised format used ten-minute matches with a four-point mercy rule. Players were limited to a hopper and four additional pods per game, and teams could register up to eight players.[1] | The advertised format used ten-minute matches with a four-point mercy rule. Players were limited to a hopper and four additional pods per game, and teams could register up to eight players.[1] | ||
The programme provided for round-robin play followed by semi-finals and finals, with separate Cup and Plate competitions. | The programme provided for round-robin play followed by semi-finals and finals, with separate Cup and Plate competitions.[1] | ||
The published draw contained 11 entries representing ten teams, with Ballistics Unit entering two squads. It listed 44 fixtures arranged in 22 sets.[2] | The published draw contained 11 entries representing ten teams, with Ballistics Unit entering two squads. It listed 44 fixtures arranged in 22 sets.[2] | ||
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== Final results == | == Final results == | ||
The final Cup and Plate placings were reported by [[Ralph Tsing]] in a Facebook comment on a post published by Phoenix Tahiti Paintball following the tournament.[5] | The final Cup and Plate placings were reported by [[Ralph Tsing]] in a Facebook comment on a post published by Phoenix Tahiti Paintball following the tournament. The organiser's day-two livestream records additional match results.[5][8][9][10][11][12] | ||
=== Cup === | === Cup === | ||
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| 3 | | 3 | ||
| | | CULT | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 4 | | 4 | ||
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Source: reported final placings.[5] | |||
Tsing's report identifies the winning squad as ''Ballistic Unit 1'' and the runner-up as ''Titans''.[5] | |||
Ballistics Unit 1 defeated CULT 4–0 in its semifinal, reaching the four-point mercy margin with 2:17 remaining.[11] | |||
In the Cup final, Ballistics Unit 1 defeated Manawatu Titans 3–2. The livestream's closing scoreboard shows the score with the game clock at 00:00.[8] | |||
CULT defeated Reavers 4–0 in the third-place match, reaching the mercy margin with 3:32 remaining.[10] | |||
=== Plate === | === Plate === | ||
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|- | |- | ||
| 1 | | 1 | ||
| '''Expendables''' | | '''[[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]]''' | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2 | | 2 | ||
| Blast | | [[BOP Blast (New Zealand Paintball Team)|BOP Blast]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 3 | | 3 | ||
| Surge | | [[Surge (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Surge]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 4 | | 4 | ||
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|} | |} | ||
Expendables | Source: reported final placings.[5] | ||
Expendables defeated Surge 4–0 in its semifinal, reaching the four-point mercy margin with 1:53 remaining.[12] | |||
Expendables subsequently defeated BOP Blast 5–1 in the Plate final, reaching the mercy margin with 32 seconds remaining.[9] | |||
Team Lycan Paintball South Waikato corroborated Blast's second-place finish in a report published on 25 October 2026, identifying the team with Bay of Plenty Paintball Club.[7] | |||
The results above represent | A photograph supplied by Ralph Tsing documents a first-place trophy engraved ''Arena Plate Labour Day 2026''. The reported results and livestream identify Expendables as the Plate winner.[5][6][9] | ||
The results above represent separate Cup and Plate classifications, rather than a single overall ranking of all eleven entries. | |||
=== Recorded knockout match scores === | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Competition | |||
! Stage | |||
! Winner | |||
! Score | |||
! Opponent | |||
! Source | |||
|- | |||
| Cup | |||
| Semifinal | |||
| [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 1]] | |||
| 4–0 | |||
| CULT | |||
| [11] | |||
|- | |||
| Cup | |||
| Third-place match | |||
| CULT | |||
| 4–0 | |||
| Reavers | |||
| [10] | |||
|- | |||
| Cup | |||
| Final | |||
| [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 1]] | |||
| 3–2 | |||
| [[Manawatu Titans (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Manawatu Titans]] | |||
| [8] | |||
|- | |||
| Plate | |||
| Semifinal | |||
| [[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]] | |||
| 4–0 | |||
| [[Surge (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Surge]] | |||
| [12] | |||
|- | |||
| Plate | |||
| Final | |||
| [[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]] | |||
| 5–1 | |||
| [[BOP Blast (New Zealand Paintball Team)|BOP Blast]] | |||
| [9] | |||
|} | |||
== Day-one standings == | == Day-one standings == | ||
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! Games played | ! Games played | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | | CULT | ||
| 5.5 | | 5.5 | ||
| 6 | | 6 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Manawatu Titans | | [[Manawatu Titans (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Manawatu Titans]] | ||
| 4 | | 4 | ||
| 5 | | 5 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Ballistics Unit 2 | | [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 2]] | ||
| 4 | | 4 | ||
| 5 | | 5 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Expendables | | [[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]] | ||
| 3.5 | | 3.5 | ||
| 5 | | 5 | ||
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| 5 | | 5 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Ballistics Unit 1 | | [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit 1]] | ||
| 2.5 | | 2.5 | ||
| 5 | | 5 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Blast | | [[BOP Blast (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Blast]] | ||
| 2 | | 2 | ||
| 4 | | 4 | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Surge | | [[Surge (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Surge]] | ||
| 2 | | 2 | ||
| 6 | | 6 | ||
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|} | |} | ||
Ballistics Unit 1 subsequently won the Cup after appearing sixth in the published day-one table.[3][5] | |||
== Historical records == | == Historical records == | ||
The tournament is documented through the original event announcement, published fixture sheet, organiser's day-one standings | The tournament is documented through the original event announcement, published fixture sheet, organiser's day-one standings, reported final placings and official livestreams.[1][2][3][5][8][9][10][11][12] | ||
The final | The final placings were supplied by Ralph Tsing in a comment on Phoenix Tahiti Paintball's Facebook post concerning the event. A photograph of the Plate first-place trophy was also supplied by Tsing.[5][6] | ||
Team Lycan Paintball South Waikato's contemporary report provides an additional source for BOP Blast's Plate runner-up result.[7] | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
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* [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)]] | * [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)]] | ||
* [[Manawatu Titans (New Zealand Paintball Team)]] | * [[Manawatu Titans (New Zealand Paintball Team)]] | ||
* [[BOP Blast (New Zealand Paintball Team)]] | |||
* [[Paintball in New Zealand]] | * [[Paintball in New Zealand]] | ||
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# [https://www.facebook.com/phoenixauthority/posts/sunday-podium-and-random-photos-arena-paintball-hk-army-mrh-what-a-crazy-weekend/1987915845476136/ Phoenix Tahiti Paintball – Sunday podium and photographs, Arena Paintball]. Facebook, October 2026. Comment by Ralph Tsing identifying the first four teams in the Cup and Plate finals. | # [https://www.facebook.com/phoenixauthority/posts/sunday-podium-and-random-photos-arena-paintball-hk-army-mrh-what-a-crazy-weekend/1987915845476136/ Phoenix Tahiti Paintball – Sunday podium and photographs, Arena Paintball]. Facebook, October 2026. Comment by Ralph Tsing identifying the first four teams in the Cup and Plate finals. | ||
# Ralph Tsing. Photograph of the Arena Plate Labour Day 2026 first-place trophy, supplied to WikiPaintball, October 2026. | # Ralph Tsing. Photograph of the Arena Plate Labour Day 2026 first-place trophy, supplied to WikiPaintball, October 2026. | ||
# [https://www.facebook.com/61564720802176/posts/another-great-tournament-at-arena-paintball-congratulations-to-bay-of-plenty-pai/122223487766490693/ Team Lycan Paintball South Waikato – Arena tournament report]. Facebook, 25 October 2026. Identifies Blast with Bay of Plenty Paintball Club and confirms second place in the Plate. | |||
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvq6Q8McP0&t=27714s Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Cup final closing scoreboard]. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, 7:41:54. Ballistics Unit 1 defeats Titans 3–2 with the game clock at 00:00. | |||
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvq6Q8McP0&t=25695s Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Plate final closing scoreboard]. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, 7:08:15. Expendables defeats Blast 5–1 under the four-point mercy rule. | |||
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvq6Q8McP0&t=25247s Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Cup third-place closing scoreboard]. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, approximately 7:00:47. CULT defeats Reavers 4–0 under the four-point mercy rule, with 3:32 remaining. | |||
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvq6Q8McP0&t=22733s Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Ballistics Unit 1–CULT semifinal closing scoreboard]. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, 6:18:53. Ballistics Unit 1 wins 4–0 under the four-point mercy rule, with 2:17 remaining. | |||
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvq6Q8McP0&t=21064s Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Expendables–Surge semifinal closing scoreboard]. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, 5:51:04. Expendables wins 4–0 under the four-point mercy rule, with 1:53 remaining. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn-RHKJl1cc Arena Paintball – Official day-one livestream] | |||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTvq6Q8McP0 Arena Paintball – Official day-two livestream] | |||
* [https://www.facebook.com/phoenixauthority/posts/sunday-podium-and-random-photos-arena-paintball-hk-army-mrh-what-a-crazy-weekend/1987915845476136/ Phoenix Tahiti Paintball – Tournament podium photographs and results discussion] | * [https://www.facebook.com/phoenixauthority/posts/sunday-podium-and-random-photos-arena-paintball-hk-army-mrh-what-a-crazy-weekend/1987915845476136/ Phoenix Tahiti Paintball – Tournament podium photographs and results discussion] | ||
[[Category:Paintball tournaments in New Zealand]] | [[Category:Paintball tournaments in New Zealand]] | ||
[[Category:Paintball tournament results]] | [[Category:Paintball tournament results]] | ||
Latest revision as of 06:47, 1 November 2026
2026 Arena Paintball Labour Day Cup was a five-player paintball tournament held on 24–25 October 2026 at Arena Paintball in Feilding, New Zealand. It was the third event in the venue's 2026 race-format tournament series.[1]
Ballistics Unit 1 won the Cup, defeating Manawatu Titans 3–2 in the final. Expendables won the Plate with a 5–1 victory over BOP Blast.[8][9]
Venue and format
[edit]The tournament took place at Arena Paintball, 558 Kimbolton Road, Feilding.
The advertised format used ten-minute matches with a four-point mercy rule. Players were limited to a hopper and four additional pods per game, and teams could register up to eight players.[1]
The programme provided for round-robin play followed by semi-finals and finals, with separate Cup and Plate competitions.[1]
The published draw contained 11 entries representing ten teams, with Ballistics Unit entering two squads. It listed 44 fixtures arranged in 22 sets.[2]
Final results
[edit]The final Cup and Plate placings were reported by Ralph Tsing in a Facebook comment on a post published by Phoenix Tahiti Paintball following the tournament. The organiser's day-two livestream records additional match results.[5][8][9][10][11][12]
Cup
[edit]| Position | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ballistics Unit 1 |
| 2 | Manawatu Titans |
| 3 | CULT |
| 4 | Reavers |
Source: reported final placings.[5]
Tsing's report identifies the winning squad as Ballistic Unit 1 and the runner-up as Titans.[5]
Ballistics Unit 1 defeated CULT 4–0 in its semifinal, reaching the four-point mercy margin with 2:17 remaining.[11]
In the Cup final, Ballistics Unit 1 defeated Manawatu Titans 3–2. The livestream's closing scoreboard shows the score with the game clock at 00:00.[8]
CULT defeated Reavers 4–0 in the third-place match, reaching the mercy margin with 3:32 remaining.[10]
Plate
[edit]| Position | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Expendables |
| 2 | BOP Blast |
| 3 | Surge |
| 4 | Ballistics Unit 2 |
Source: reported final placings.[5]
Expendables defeated Surge 4–0 in its semifinal, reaching the four-point mercy margin with 1:53 remaining.[12]
Expendables subsequently defeated BOP Blast 5–1 in the Plate final, reaching the mercy margin with 32 seconds remaining.[9]
Team Lycan Paintball South Waikato corroborated Blast's second-place finish in a report published on 25 October 2026, identifying the team with Bay of Plenty Paintball Club.[7]
A photograph supplied by Ralph Tsing documents a first-place trophy engraved Arena Plate Labour Day 2026. The reported results and livestream identify Expendables as the Plate winner.[5][6][9]
The results above represent separate Cup and Plate classifications, rather than a single overall ranking of all eleven entries.
Recorded knockout match scores
[edit]| Competition | Stage | Winner | Score | Opponent | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cup | Semifinal | Ballistics Unit 1 | 4–0 | CULT | [11] |
| Cup | Third-place match | CULT | 4–0 | Reavers | [10] |
| Cup | Final | Ballistics Unit 1 | 3–2 | Manawatu Titans | [8] |
| Plate | Semifinal | Expendables | 4–0 | Surge | [12] |
| Plate | Final | Expendables | 5–1 | BOP Blast | [9] |
Day-one standings
[edit]The organiser published the following standings after play on 24 October 2026. These are interim scores, not final tournament placings.[3]
A subsequent clarification instructed readers to disregard the spreadsheet's Games To Be Played column, which is omitted here.[4]
| Team | Recorded score | Games played |
|---|---|---|
| CULT | 5.5 | 6 |
| Manawatu Titans | 4 | 5 |
| Ballistics Unit 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Expendables | 3.5 | 5 |
| Reavers | 3.5 | 5 |
| Ballistics Unit 1 | 2.5 | 5 |
| Blast | 2 | 4 |
| Surge | 2 | 6 |
| Sharks | 1 | 5 |
| Chaos | 0 | 6 |
| Misfits | 0 | 4 |
Ballistics Unit 1 subsequently won the Cup after appearing sixth in the published day-one table.[3][5]
Historical records
[edit]The tournament is documented through the original event announcement, published fixture sheet, organiser's day-one standings, reported final placings and official livestreams.[1][2][3][5][8][9][10][11][12]
The final placings were supplied by Ralph Tsing in a comment on Phoenix Tahiti Paintball's Facebook post concerning the event. A photograph of the Plate first-place trophy was also supplied by Tsing.[5][6]
Team Lycan Paintball South Waikato's contemporary report provides an additional source for BOP Blast's Plate runner-up result.[7]
See also
[edit]- Arena Paintball
- Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)
- Manawatu Titans (New Zealand Paintball Team)
- BOP Blast (New Zealand Paintball Team)
- Paintball in New Zealand
References
[edit]- Paintball Direct NZ – 2026 Race Events. Tournament dates, venue, format, rules and advertised Cup and Plate competitions.
- Labour Day Draw 2026. Event fixture sheet supplied to WikiPaintball by a contributor. Records eleven entries and 44 scheduled fixtures.
- Arena Paintball. "Scores end of day 1". Facebook, 24 October 2026. Photograph of the interim standings spreadsheet supplied to WikiPaintball by a contributor.
- Arena Paintball. "Please ignore games to be played column on previous post". Facebook, 24 October 2026. Organiser's clarification supplied to WikiPaintball by a contributor.
- Phoenix Tahiti Paintball – Sunday podium and photographs, Arena Paintball. Facebook, October 2026. Comment by Ralph Tsing identifying the first four teams in the Cup and Plate finals.
- Ralph Tsing. Photograph of the Arena Plate Labour Day 2026 first-place trophy, supplied to WikiPaintball, October 2026.
- Team Lycan Paintball South Waikato – Arena tournament report. Facebook, 25 October 2026. Identifies Blast with Bay of Plenty Paintball Club and confirms second place in the Plate.
- Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Cup final closing scoreboard. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, 7:41:54. Ballistics Unit 1 defeats Titans 3–2 with the game clock at 00:00.
- Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Plate final closing scoreboard. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, 7:08:15. Expendables defeats Blast 5–1 under the four-point mercy rule.
- Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Cup third-place closing scoreboard. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, approximately 7:00:47. CULT defeats Reavers 4–0 under the four-point mercy rule, with 3:32 remaining.
- Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Ballistics Unit 1–CULT semifinal closing scoreboard. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, 6:18:53. Ballistics Unit 1 wins 4–0 under the four-point mercy rule, with 2:17 remaining.
- Arena Paintball – Event 3 Labour Day Cup, Day 2: Expendables–Surge semifinal closing scoreboard. YouTube livestream, 25 October 2026, 5:51:04. Expendables wins 4–0 under the four-point mercy rule, with 1:53 remaining.