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'''Saints''', also known as '''Team Saints''', was a New Zealand tournament [[paintball]] organisation active from at least 1995 into the 2000s. The team won the 1995 [[South Pacific Championships]] in Wellington and a seven-player tournament in Auckland later that year.[1][2]
'''Saints''', also known as '''Team Saints''', was a New Zealand tournament [[paintball]] organisation active from at least 1995 into the 2000s. It fielded squads including '''Saints Gold''', '''Saints Black''' and '''Saints Grey'''. Saints Gold led the independent [[Valhalla National Rankings]] in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and headed the published seven-player standings dated October 2001.[1][2][3][4]
 
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the organisation fielded several squads, including '''Saints Gold''', '''Saints Black''' and '''Saints Grey'''. Saints Gold led the independent [[Valhalla National Rankings]] in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and headed the published seven-player rankings in 2001.[5][6][7][8]
 
Saints also competed internationally, travelling to Australia in 1995 and the United States for the 2004 [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL) tournament at Huntington Beach, California.[3][12]


== History ==
== History ==
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=== 1995 season ===
=== 1995 season ===


==== South Pacific Championships ====
Saints won the 1995 New Zealand [[South Pacific Championships]], held in Wellington over the Easter weekend.[5]
 
Saints won the 1995 New Zealand [[South Pacific Championships]], held in Wellington over the Easter weekend.
 
The Australian team [[Sydney HEAT]] finished second.[1]
 
==== Australian South Pacific Championships ====
 
Later in 1995, Saints travelled to New South Wales to compete in the Australian South Pacific Paintball Championships at Adventure Quest Games near Windsor.
 
Seven ten-player teams entered the competition: [[Saints (New Zealand paintball team)|Saints]], [[Top Hat Jokers]], [[Sydney SWAT]], [[Black Reign]], Black Reign/No Fear, Hardline and United Newcastle.[3]
 
Saints did not advance to the four-team finals.
 
Top Hat Jokers won the tournament, followed by Black Reign, Sydney SWAT and Black Reign/No Fear.[3]


In the 1995 Australian team rankings published by ''Australian Paintballer'', Saints received 56.25 professional ranking points from its single Australian tournament appearance.[4]
Later that year, the team competed in the Australian South Pacific Paintball Championships at Adventure Quest Games near Windsor, New South Wales. Saints did not advance to the finals.[6]


==== Auckland seven-player tournament ====
On 21–22 October 1995, Saints won a seven-player tournament at Tactics, Bethells Beach, Auckland. The team won nine of its ten games and scored 910 points. The contemporary report identified [[Rik Goldsworthy]], recorded as Rick, as captain.[7]


Saints won a seven-player tournament held at Tactics, Bethells Beach, Auckland, on 21–22 October 1995.
=== 1997–2000 ===


Six teams competed in a double round-robin format.
Saints Black placed second in the 1997 Valhalla rankings with 79 points.[8]


Saints won nine of its ten games and finished with 910 points, ahead of [[X-Men (New Zealand paintball team)|X-Men]] and [[Katipo Paintball Team|Katipo]].[2]
Saints Gold led the rankings in 1998 with 92.5 points, followed by further first-place rankings in 1999 and 2000, both with 91 points. Saints Black and the separately listed Grey squad also appeared in the rankings during this period.[1][2][3]
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
! Points
|-
| 1
| Saints
| 910
|-
| 2
| X-Men
| 683
|-
| 3
| Katipo
| 628
|-
| 4
| Whangarei Paint Contractors
| 324
|-
| 5
| Dragons Claw Hell Patrol
| 293
|-
| 6
| Dragons Claw Sentinels
| −35
|}
 
The contemporary tournament report identified [[Rik Goldsworthy]], referred to as Rick, as the Saints captain.[2]
 
=== 1997 season ===
 
The April–June 1997 issue of ''Paintballer'' featured Saints on its cover under the headline "Warriors Still!", describing the team's efforts to regain its previous competitive standing.[11]
 
Saints Black finished second in the 1997 Valhalla National Rankings with 79 points, behind Katipo.
 
At the 1997 [[New Zealand Paintball Nationals]], Saints Black also finished second behind Katipo, recording 866 tournament points.[9]
 
=== 1998 season ===
 
Saints Gold led the 1998 Valhalla National Rankings with 92.5 points.
 
Saints Grey finished second with 78 points, while Saints Black placed fifth with 64 points.[5]
 
At the 1998 New Zealand Paintball Nationals, Saints Gold won the tournament with 1,290 points.
 
Paint Contractors finished second with 1,008 points, while Saints Grey placed third with 970.[5]
 
=== 1999 season ===
 
Saints Gold retained first place in the Valhalla National Rankings in 1999, recording 91 points.
 
Saints Grey finished fourth with 77 points.[6]
 
=== 2000 season ===
 
Saints Gold led the Valhalla rankings for a third consecutive season in 2000, recording 91 points.
 
The ranking compiler reported that the squad had averaged approximately 96 per cent of the available preliminary-round points during its tournament appearances.[7]
 
Saints Grey finished equal second with Team Crisis on 82.5 points.
 
Saints Black was also recorded in the standings, placing twenty-third with 50 points.[7]


=== 2001 season ===
=== 2001 season ===


The Valhalla rankings for 2001 recorded Saints Gold in seven-player, five-player and three-player competition.[8]
In the Valhalla standings dated October 2001, Saints Gold ranked first in seven-player competition with 400.5 cumulative points. Its recorded results came from the [[Northland Open]], RotoVegas and [[New Zealand Paintball Nationals]].[4]


In the seven-player rankings, Saints Gold finished first among 23 entries with 400.5 cumulative points.
Saints Gold also ranked second in five-player competition with 211 points and fourth in three-player competition with 152.5 points.[4]


The results incorporated the Northland Open, RotoVegas and New Zealand Nationals.
These were independent rankings compiled from tournament results, rather than placings at a single championship.[4][9]


{| class="wikitable"
=== 2004 Huntington Beach ===
! Competition stage
! Points
|-
| Northland Open
| 100
|-
| RotoVegas preliminary round
| 83.4
|-
| RotoVegas First Division round
| 73.3
|-
| Nationals preliminary round
| 87.5
|-
| Nationals First Division final
| 56.3
|-
| '''Total'''
| '''400.5'''
|}


Saints Gold finished second in the five-player rankings with 211 points, behind [[Tag n' Release]] on 214.5 points.
Saints competed at the opening round of the 2004 [[National Professional Paintball League]] Super 7 Series at Huntington Beach, California, on 19–21 March.[10]


The squad also placed fourth in the three-player rankings with 152.5 points.[8]
In an April 2004 interview with Rob Maddox for [[Paintball.co.nz]], captain Rik Goldsworthy reported that Saints won three of its eight games.[11]


=== 2004 NPPL Huntington Beach ===
A photographic collection published through Martin Dannefaerd's Flickr account documents Saints at the event.[12]


Saints travelled to California to compete in the opening round of the 2004 NPPL Super 7 Series at Huntington Beach, held from 19 to 21 March.
== Players ==


The tournament attracted approximately 160 teams from twelve countries.[12]
Rik Goldsworthy was identified as Saints captain in the contemporary report of the October 1995 Auckland tournament and in the April 2004 Huntington Beach interview.[7][11]


Saints captain [[Rik Goldsworthy]] discussed the team's participation in an April 2004 interview conducted by Rob Maddox for Paintball.co.nz.
An undated photograph captioned ''Saints, Auckland'', published by the [[House Steiner]] Facebook profile, contains tags identifying:[13]


Goldsworthy reported that Saints won three of its eight games.[13]
* Amon Johnson
* Kane Anderson
* Paul Adams


He also expressed an intention to return to Huntington Beach the following year, although a subsequent appearance has not been established from the available records.
A separate undated photograph captioned ''Saints Grey, Auckland (Lynx -Wellington)'' contains tags identifying:[14]


==== Photographic documentation ====
* Andrew Walbran
* Vanessa Page
* Wayne “Link” Hilliam


A contemporary photographic collection of Saints at Huntington Beach is preserved in a Flickr album titled ''Huntington Beach 2004''.[15]
Hilliam was known as “Link”; Lynx Custom was his airsmithing business.


The album contains 28 photographs and is described as documenting Saints at the opening round of the 2004 NPPL series.
The photographs were uploaded on 18 August 2011, but their original dates have not been established. The tags identify people in the photographs and do not establish complete season rosters.[13][14]


The photographs were published through the account of [[Martin Dannefaerd]], who was involved in operating a New Zealand paintball website at the time.
== Recorded rankings ==
 
Dannefaerd was not a member of Saints.
 
Historical participant identification associates [[Rik Goldsworthy]], [[Kane Anderson]], [[Pete Hamilton|Peter Hamilton]] and a player known as Stat with the team depicted in the photographs.
 
The jerseys do not display player names, so these identifications are based on participant recollections rather than uniform lettering.
 
The collection provides additional contemporary documentation of Saints' international tournament participation.
 
== Team structure ==
 
=== Saints Gold ===
 
Saints Gold was the organisation's principal competitive squad during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
 
The squad led the Valhalla rankings in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and finished first in the published seven-player standings in 2001.[5][6][7][8]
 
=== Saints Black ===
 
Saints Black competed as a separately ranked squad.
 
The team finished second in the 1997 Valhalla rankings and at the 1997 New Zealand Paintball Nationals.
 
It placed fifth in the 1998 national rankings and appeared again in the 2000 standings.[5][7][9]
 
=== Saints Grey ===
 
Saints Grey was another squad associated with the wider Saints organisation.
 
The team appeared as Grey in several Valhalla ranking tables, while the 1998 New Zealand Nationals results identified it as Saints Grey.[5]
 
The squad placed fifth in the 1997 rankings, second in 1998, fourth in 1999 and equal second in 2000.[5][6][7][9]
 
The Valhalla rankings treated separately named squads as individual competitive entries rather than combining their results under one organisation.[14]
 
== Notable players ==
 
=== Rik Goldsworthy ===
 
[[Rik Goldsworthy]], also recorded as Rick Goldsworthy, was a Saints player and captain.
 
A contemporary report from the October 1995 Auckland seven-player tournament identified him as captain under the name Rick.[2]
 
Goldsworthy continued to be associated with Saints during the 2000s and captained the team at the 2004 NPPL Huntington Beach tournament.[13]
 
=== Kane Anderson ===
 
[[Kane Anderson]] has been identified through historical participant recollections as a member of the Saints team photographed at the 2004 NPPL Huntington Beach tournament.[15]
 
His complete tournament record with Saints has not yet been established.
 
=== Peter Hamilton ===
 
[[Pete Hamilton|Peter Hamilton]] has been identified as a member of the Saints team appearing in the 2004 Huntington Beach photographic collection.[15]
 
Hamilton was subsequently associated with [[Wellington Hybrid]], appearing in photographs from the team's 2005 Australian X-Ball League campaign.
 
=== Stat ===
 
'''Stat''' was a Saints player identified by nickname in historical photographs of the 2004 Huntington Beach team.[15]
 
His full name has not yet been established.
 
== Selected tournament results ==
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Tournament
! Squad
! Result
|-
| 1995
| [[South Pacific Championships]]
| Saints
| 1st
|-
| 1995
| Australian South Pacific Paintball Championships
| Saints
| Did not reach finals
|-
| 1995
| Auckland seven-player tournament
| Saints
| 1st
|-
| 1997
| [[New Zealand Paintball Nationals]]
| Saints Black
| 2nd
|-
| 1998
| New Zealand Paintball Nationals
| Saints Gold
| 1st
|-
| 1998
| New Zealand Paintball Nationals
| Saints Grey
| 3rd
|-
| 2004
| NPPL Huntington Beach
| Saints
| Three wins from eight games
|}
 
== National ranking record ==


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Season
! Squad
! Published entry
! Format
! Format
! Position
! Position
! Score
! Ranking score
|-
|-
| 1997
| 1997 || Saints Black || Combined || 2nd || 79
| Saints Black
| Combined
| 2nd
| 79
|-
|-
| 1997
| 1997 || Grey || Combined || 5th || 71
| Grey
| Combined
| 5th
| 71
|-
|-
| 1998
| 1998 || Saints Gold || Combined || 1st || 92.5
| Saints Gold
| Combined
| 1st
| 92.5
|-
|-
| 1998
| 1998 || Grey || Combined || 2nd || 78
| Grey
| Combined
| 2nd
| 78
|-
|-
| 1998
| 1998 || Saints Black || Combined || 5th || 64
| Saints Black
| Combined
| 5th
| 64
|-
|-
| 1999
| 1999 || Saints Gold || Combined || 1st || 91
| Saints Gold
| Combined
| 1st
| 91
|-
|-
| 1999
| 1999 || Grey || Combined || 4th || 77
| Grey
| Combined
| 4th
| 77
|-
|-
| 2000
| 2000 || Saints Gold || Combined || 1st || 91
| Saints Gold
| Combined
| 1st
| 91
|-
|-
| 2000
| 2000 || Grey || Combined || Equal 2nd || 82.5
| Grey
| Combined
| Equal 2nd
| 82.5
|-
|-
| 2000
| 2000 || Saints Black || Combined || 23rd || 50
| Saints Black
| Combined
| 23rd
| 50
|-
|-
| 2001
| 2001* || Saints Gold || Seven-player || 1st || 400.5
| Saints Gold
| Seven-player
| 1st
| 400.5
|-
|-
| 2001
| 2001* || Saints Gold || Five-player || 2nd || 211
| Saints Gold
| Five-player
| 2nd
| 211
|-
|-
| 2001
| 2001* || Saints Gold || Three-player || 4th || 152.5
| Saints Gold
| Three-player
| 4th
| 152.5
|}
|}


The 2001 figures are cumulative tournament-round totals and are not directly comparable with the ranking scores used in previous seasons.[8]
Sources: Mercenaries Star's Valhalla tables.[1][2][3][4][8]
 
== See also ==


* [[South Pacific Championships]]
* The 2001 tables are dated October 2001. Their cumulative scores are not directly comparable with the averaged scores used in earlier seasons.[4][9]
* [[New Zealand Paintball Nationals]]
* [[National Paintball League (New Zealand)]]
* [[Northland Open]]
* [[Katipo Paintball Team]]
* [[Tag n' Release]]
* [[Valhalla National Rankings]]
* [[Rik Goldsworthy]]
* [[Wellington Hybrid]]
* [[Paintball in New Zealand]]


== References ==
== References ==


# Australian Paintballer, June–July 1995, "Sydney HEAT Make Friends in High Places".
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/1998Hall.htm Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 1998]. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
# Australian Paintballer, December 1995–February 1996, report on the Auckland seven-player tournament at Tactics, Bethells Beach.
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/1999Hall.htm Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 1999]. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
# Australian Paintballer, December 1995–February 1996, "South Pacific Extravaganza".
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2000Hall.htm Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 2000]. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
# Australian Paintballer, April–June 1996, "1995 Australian Team Rankings".
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2001Hall.htm Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 2001]. Standings dated October 2001. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
# Valhalla Hall of Heroes, 1998, Mercenaries Star historical archive.
# ''Australian Paintballer'', June–July 1995, “Sydney HEAT Make Friends in High Places”.
# Valhalla Hall of Heroes, 1999, Mercenaries Star historical archive.
# ''Australian Paintballer'', December 1995–February 1996, “South Pacific Extravaganza”.
# Valhalla Hall of Heroes, 2000, Mercenaries Star historical archive.
# ''Australian Paintballer'', December 1995–February 1996, report on the Auckland seven-player tournament at Tactics, Bethells Beach.
# Valhalla Hall of Heroes, 2001, Mercenaries Star historical archive.
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/1997Hall.htm Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 1997]. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
# Valhalla Hall of Heroes, 1997, Mercenaries Star historical archive.
# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/RankIndex.htm Mercenaries Star — Valhalla National Team Rankings: methodology]. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
# Australian Paintballer, December 1995–February 1996, report on the Saints' Australian tournament appearance.
# WARPIG, ''NPPL Huntington Beach 2004'', contemporary tournament coverage.
# Paintballer, issue 16, April–June 1997, "Warriors Still! The Saints Determined to Regain Feared Status!".
# Rob Maddox, “Interview: Rik Goldsworthy”, Paintball.co.nz, April 2004.
# WARPIG, NPPL Huntington Beach 2004, contemporary tournament coverage.
# [https://www.flickr.com/photos/whatever/albums/86811/ Martin Dannefaerd — Huntington Beach 2004]. Flickr photographic collection.
# Rob Maddox, "Interview: Rik Goldsworthy", Paintball.co.nz, April 2004. Archived interview; direct URL requires recovery.
# [https://www.facebook.com/house.steiner.3 House Steiner — “Saints, Auckland” photograph]. Facebook, uploaded 18 August 2011; original photograph undated. Caption and identification tags preserved in the supplied screenshot.
# Valhalla National Team Ranking Methodology, Mercenaries Star historical archive.
# [https://www.facebook.com/house.steiner.3 House Steiner — “Saints Grey, Auckland (Lynx -Wellington)” photograph]. Facebook, uploaded 18 August 2011; original photograph undated. Caption and identification tags preserved in the supplied screenshot.
# [https://www.flickr.com/photos/whatever/albums/86811/ Martin Dannefaerd, "Huntington Beach 2004", Flickr. Collection of 28 photographs documenting Saints at the opening round of the 2004 NPPL series.]


== External links ==
== External links ==


* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/whatever/albums/86811/ Saints at NPPL Huntington Beach 2004, photographic archive]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/whatever/albums/86811/ Saints at Huntington Beach 2004 — photographs]
* [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/ Mercenaries Star historical New Zealand paintball archive]


[[Category:New Zealand paintball teams]]
[[Category:New Zealand paintball teams]]

Revision as of 06:28, 24 October 2026

Saints, also known as Team Saints, was a New Zealand tournament paintball organisation active from at least 1995 into the 2000s. It fielded squads including Saints Gold, Saints Black and Saints Grey. Saints Gold led the independent Valhalla National Rankings in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and headed the published seven-player standings dated October 2001.[1][2][3][4]

History

1995 season

Saints won the 1995 New Zealand South Pacific Championships, held in Wellington over the Easter weekend.[5]

Later that year, the team competed in the Australian South Pacific Paintball Championships at Adventure Quest Games near Windsor, New South Wales. Saints did not advance to the finals.[6]

On 21–22 October 1995, Saints won a seven-player tournament at Tactics, Bethells Beach, Auckland. The team won nine of its ten games and scored 910 points. The contemporary report identified Rik Goldsworthy, recorded as Rick, as captain.[7]

1997–2000

Saints Black placed second in the 1997 Valhalla rankings with 79 points.[8]

Saints Gold led the rankings in 1998 with 92.5 points, followed by further first-place rankings in 1999 and 2000, both with 91 points. Saints Black and the separately listed Grey squad also appeared in the rankings during this period.[1][2][3]

2001 season

In the Valhalla standings dated October 2001, Saints Gold ranked first in seven-player competition with 400.5 cumulative points. Its recorded results came from the Northland Open, RotoVegas and New Zealand Paintball Nationals.[4]

Saints Gold also ranked second in five-player competition with 211 points and fourth in three-player competition with 152.5 points.[4]

These were independent rankings compiled from tournament results, rather than placings at a single championship.[4][9]

2004 Huntington Beach

Saints competed at the opening round of the 2004 National Professional Paintball League Super 7 Series at Huntington Beach, California, on 19–21 March.[10]

In an April 2004 interview with Rob Maddox for Paintball.co.nz, captain Rik Goldsworthy reported that Saints won three of its eight games.[11]

A photographic collection published through Martin Dannefaerd's Flickr account documents Saints at the event.[12]

Players

Rik Goldsworthy was identified as Saints captain in the contemporary report of the October 1995 Auckland tournament and in the April 2004 Huntington Beach interview.[7][11]

An undated photograph captioned Saints, Auckland, published by the House Steiner Facebook profile, contains tags identifying:[13]

  • Amon Johnson
  • Kane Anderson
  • Paul Adams

A separate undated photograph captioned Saints Grey, Auckland (Lynx -Wellington) contains tags identifying:[14]

  • Andrew Walbran
  • Vanessa Page
  • Wayne “Link” Hilliam

Hilliam was known as “Link”; Lynx Custom was his airsmithing business.

The photographs were uploaded on 18 August 2011, but their original dates have not been established. The tags identify people in the photographs and do not establish complete season rosters.[13][14]

Recorded rankings

Season Published entry Format Position Ranking score
1997 Saints Black Combined 2nd 79
1997 Grey Combined 5th 71
1998 Saints Gold Combined 1st 92.5
1998 Grey Combined 2nd 78
1998 Saints Black Combined 5th 64
1999 Saints Gold Combined 1st 91
1999 Grey Combined 4th 77
2000 Saints Gold Combined 1st 91
2000 Grey Combined Equal 2nd 82.5
2000 Saints Black Combined 23rd 50
2001* Saints Gold Seven-player 1st 400.5
2001* Saints Gold Five-player 2nd 211
2001* Saints Gold Three-player 4th 152.5

Sources: Mercenaries Star's Valhalla tables.[1][2][3][4][8]

  • The 2001 tables are dated October 2001. Their cumulative scores are not directly comparable with the averaged scores used in earlier seasons.[4][9]

References

  1. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 1998. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
  2. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 1999. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
  3. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 2000. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
  4. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 2001. Standings dated October 2001. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
  5. Australian Paintballer, June–July 1995, “Sydney HEAT Make Friends in High Places”.
  6. Australian Paintballer, December 1995–February 1996, “South Pacific Extravaganza”.
  7. Australian Paintballer, December 1995–February 1996, report on the Auckland seven-player tournament at Tactics, Bethells Beach.
  8. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla Hall of Heros: 1997. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
  9. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla National Team Rankings: methodology. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
  10. WARPIG, NPPL Huntington Beach 2004, contemporary tournament coverage.
  11. Rob Maddox, “Interview: Rik Goldsworthy”, Paintball.co.nz, April 2004.
  12. Martin Dannefaerd — Huntington Beach 2004. Flickr photographic collection.
  13. House Steiner — “Saints, Auckland” photograph. Facebook, uploaded 18 August 2011; original photograph undated. Caption and identification tags preserved in the supplied screenshot.
  14. House Steiner — “Saints Grey, Auckland (Lynx -Wellington)” photograph. Facebook, uploaded 18 August 2011; original photograph undated. Caption and identification tags preserved in the supplied screenshot.
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