House Steiner (New Zealand Paintball Team)

House Steiner was a New Zealand tournament paintball team associated with Wellington, Palmerston North and Wanganui. Retrospective team photograph captions identify participation in tournaments during the 1990s, including an event dated 1991, while surviving Valhalla National Rankings document the team from 1998 to 2001.[1][2][3][4][6]

History

Early competition

A photograph published by the House Steiner Facebook profile on 23 August 2011 identifies the team as representing Palmerston North and Wellington at a 1991 T-Ball tournament. Its caption describes a ten-player format with 30-minute halves. This is a retrospective identification and does not establish the team's founding date.[6]

Other photographs identify House Steiner at the T-Ball South Pacific Open in Lower Hutt. A caption published on 23 August 2011 tentatively dates one photograph to 1996. Another identifies the venue as Thunderball Adventure Games at Manor Park, Lower Hutt, and similarly gives the year as uncertain.[7]

An additional photograph identifies House Steiner at an Actions tournament near Auckland. Comments identify the location as Helensville, with another comment specifying Parakai; the photograph's caption does not give a tournament year.[8]

A photograph caption also records participation in a seven-player tournament in Wanganui. William Aull subsequently recalled a first-place finish in a comment, although the screenshot does not establish the tournament's date or provide contemporary results.[9]

Late 1990s

House Steiner appears in the surviving Valhalla standings for the 1998 season, listed sixth with a ranking score of 51. In the 1999 standings, the team was listed eleventh with a score of 57.[1][2]

A separate photograph published by the team profile on 11 March 2012 identifies House Steiner in Wellington during the late 1990s.[10]

2000 season

The 2000 Valhalla table recorded two House Steiner squads. House Steiner Red was listed sixth with 80.5 ranking points, while House Steiner Black was listed fifteenth with 65.[3]

Valhalla treated separately named squads as individual entries rather than combining their results into a single team score.[5]

2001 season

House Steiner appeared in both the five-player and three-player Valhalla tables dated October 2001.[4]

In the five-player standings, the team was ranked third with 93.4 points. Its recorded contribution came from the opening round of the Wellington Cup, where it had the highest ranking score among the teams listed for that event.[4]

In the three-player standings, House Steiner was ranked sixth with 84.3 points, drawn from the opening round of the Hawkes Bay Triples.[4]

Players

Historical photographs published by the House Steiner Facebook profile contain tags identifying the following people. These identifications span several photographs and do not constitute a complete roster for any single season.[6][8][9][10][11][12]

• Aaron Jay
• Adon Upjohn
• Andrew Walbran
• Chris McDonald
• Damon Goldsworthy
• David Aull
• Duncan McCloud
• Gareth Morgan
• James Keenan
• Jason Pointon
• Kane Anderson
• Marcel Ensing
• Mark Anderson
• Matt Wong
• Mita Warbrick
• Nick Gee
• Rob Taylor
• William Aull

The photograph retrospectively dated to the 1991 T-Ball tournament identifies William Aull, David Aull and Nick Gee. The photograph captioned as a Wanganui seven-player tournament identifies William Aull, David Aull, Mark Anderson and Marcel Ensing.[6][9]

Sponsorship

Historical team photographs show a House Steiner banner bearing the wording Sponsored by Bullseye Paintballs. A group photograph uploaded on 18 August 2011 also shows most of those pictured wearing matching Bullseye Paintballs shirts.[10][11]

The photographs establish the sponsorship association but do not establish its precise starting date or duration.

Recorded rankings

Season	Entry	Ranking category	Position	Ranking score
1998	House Steiner	Combined	6th	51
1999	House Steiner	Combined	11th	57
2000	House Steiner Red	Combined	6th	80.5
2000	House Steiner Black	Combined	15th	65
2001*	House Steiner	Five-player	3rd	93.4
2001*	House Steiner	Three-player	6th	84.3

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

• The 2001 tables are dated October 2001. These positions are rankings across the recorded events, rather than placings at individual tournaments. The 2001 tables present accumulated round scores, whereas the earlier ranking methodology averaged calculated round scores.[4][5]

See also

• Valhalla National Rankings
• Mercenaries Star

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. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla National Team Rankings: methodology. Archived GeoCities page preserved by OoCities.
6. House Steiner — photograph captioned “House Steiner (Palmy/Wellington) T-Ball Tourney 1991”. Facebook, 23 August 2011. Caption specifies a ten-player format with 30-minute halves; tags identify William Aull, David Aull and Nick Gee. Caption and tags preserved in a screenshot supplied for this article.
7. House Steiner — South Pacific Open photographs. Facebook, 18 and 23 August 2011. Captions identify Thunderball Adventure Games, Manor Park, Lower Hutt, and tentatively date the photographs to 1996. Captions preserved in screenshots supplied for this article.
8. House Steiner — photograph captioned “House Steiner, Wellington @ Actions Tourney”. Facebook, 18 August 2011. Tags identify Matt Wong, Kane Anderson, Aaron Jay, Mita Warbrick, Jason Pointon and Adon Upjohn. Caption, tags and location comments preserved in a screenshot supplied for this article.
9. House Steiner — photograph captioned “House Steiner, Wanganui Tourney. 7-man format”. Facebook, 23 August 2011. Tags identify William Aull, David Aull, Mark Anderson and Marcel Ensing; a later comment by William Aull recalls first place. Caption, tags and comment preserved in a screenshot supplied for this article.
10. House Steiner — photograph captioned “House Steiner late 1990's Wellington, New Zealand”. Facebook, 11 March 2012. Tags identify Kane Anderson, William Aull, Jason Pointon and Adon Upjohn. Photograph shows the Bullseye Paintballs sponsorship banner. Caption and tags preserved in a screenshot supplied for this article.
11. House Steiner — team photograph and identification tags. Facebook, uploaded 18 August 2011. Shows the Bullseye Paintballs sponsorship banner and matching shirts.
12. House Steiner — additional tagged team photograph. Facebook, 23 August 2011. Tags identify William Aull, David Aull, Gareth Morgan and Andrew Walbran. Tags preserved in a screenshot supplied for this article.

External links

• House Steiner on Facebook — historical photographs, captions and recollections.