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The Northland Open is a New Zealand paintball tournament name documented in the National Paintball League programme of 1997 and subsequent event reports. Editions have been held in Whangārei, Auckland and Mangapai, using five-player and seven-player formats.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

History

Early competition

The Northland Open formed part of the National Paintball League's First Division programme in 1997, alongside the New Zealand Paintball Nationals and Queen's Birthday tournament.[1]

The 1998 Northland Open took place in Whangārei on 22 February. Five teams played five-a-side centre-flag games, with Saints winning overall. The event also served as the opening round of that year's Division One league.[2]

2000–2001

The 2000 and 2001 tournaments were held at Jubilee Park in Whangārei, using temporary fields constructed on a rugby ground. Both used seven-player, two-flag games. Eight teams competed in 2000 and ten in 2001.[3][4]

Brent of Strategy Tag organised the events. Paint Contractors supplied referees in 2000, followed by Crisis in 2001. Saints won both tournaments.[3][4]

2002

Organisation of the 2002 Northland Open passed to Wayne Rolleston of Paintball West after Brent Matthews was unable to run that year's event. Eight teams competed at Paintball West's Auckland site in a seven-player, two-flag format. Saints won Division One and Tag and Training won Division Two.[5]

2007

The 2007 Northland Open was held on 4 February at A Paintball Adventure, an indoor field in Papakura, Auckland. It used a five-player, unlimited-paint format with a round robin followed by finals.[6]

2011

The 2011 Northland Open took place on 6 March at Strategy Tag Paintball in Mangapai, near Whangārei. Eight teams competed. ADHD defeated Disposal Unit in the final, while TPC Blast and Gary Locks shared third place.[7]

Editions

References

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-'''Northland Open''' is the name of a New Zealand paintball tournament documented in the [[National Paintball League (New Zealand)|National Paintball League]] programme of 1997 and in subsequent tournament reports. Early editions took place in Whangārei, while later events bearing the name were held in Auckland and Northland.[1][2][7][9][11]
+The '''Northland Open''' is a New Zealand paintball tournament name documented in the [[National Paintball League (New Zealand)|National Paintball League]] programme of 1997 and subsequent event reports. Editions have been held in Whangārei, Auckland and Mangapai, using five-player and seven-player formats.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
 == History ==
+=== Early competition ===
-=== National Paintball League ===
 The Northland Open formed part of the National Paintball League's First Division programme in 1997, alongside the [[New Zealand Paintball Nationals]] and Queen's Birthday tournament.[1]
-The league was developed during 1996 by [[Ian Southern]] and [[Dave Pellet]], with support from Splatman, Strategy Tag and [[Actions Paintball]].[1]
+The [[1998 Northland Open]] took place in Whangārei on 22 February. Five teams played five-a-side centre-flag games, with [[Saints (New Zealand paintball team)|Saints]] winning overall. The event also served as the opening round of that year's Division One league.[2]
-=== 2000 ===
-The 2000 tournament took place in Whangārei on a rugby ground converted into a temporary speedball field. The contemporary Mercenaries Star calendar noted that earlier editions had used different venues.[2]
-=== 2001 ===
-The 2001 Northland Open was held on '''25 February at Jubilee Park, Whangārei'''. Ten teams played seven-a-side, two-flag games on a rugby ground. Rob Maddox's event report credited Brent of Strategy Tag with organising the tournament and Team Crisis with refereeing.[3]
-The advance announcement named Brent and Cindy Mathews as contacts. It advertised Australian Paintball Players League rules, entry of NZ$70 per team, and arrangements requiring teams to supply their own paintballs and gas.[4]
-==== Results ====
-Saints finished first in the combined results, followed by Phantom and Wellington Phoenix. [[Tag n' Release]] won the '''Division Two award''', finishing fifth in the combined table.[3]
-{| class="wikitable"
-|+ 2001 combined results
-! Place !! Team !! Points
-|-
-| 1 || [[Saints (New Zealand paintball team)|Saints]] || 900
-|-
-| 2 || Phantom || 755
-|-
-| 3 || [[Wellington Phoenix (paintball team)|Phoenix]] || 730
-|-
-| 4 || Extreme X || 595
-|-
-| 5 || [[Tag n' Release|Tag & Release]] || 585
-|-
-| 6 || [[Katipo Paintball Team|Katipo]] || 558
-|-
-| 7 || Warp Speed || 295
-|-
-| 8 || Havoc || 250
-|-
-| 9 || Solidaire || 220
-|-
-| 10 || [[Team Insane|Insane]] || 60
-|}
-The event also contributed to the 2001 [[Valhalla National Rankings]]. Those rankings expressed performances as normalised scores rather than the raw points shown above. They listed some entries under different names, including Saints Gold, Phantom 5 and Black Dragon.[5]
-==== Named players ====
-Phoenix's contemporary account describes an eight-player rotation. Its roster and Maddox's identification of guest player Willy Aull establish the following event squad:[3][6][12]
-{| class="wikitable"
+=== 2000–2001 ===
-! Team !! 2001 event squad
+The [[2000 Northland Open|2000]] and [[2001 Northland Open|2001 tournaments]] were held at Jubilee Park in Whangārei, using temporary fields constructed on a rugby ground. Both used seven-player, two-flag games. Eight teams competed in 2000 and ten in 2001.[3][4]
-|-
-| [[Wellington Phoenix (paintball team)|Wellington Phoenix]] || Peter Hamilton, Mark Candy, Adon Upjohn, Jeremy Hooper, Evan Lewis, Willy Aull, Mark Waddell, Ryan Pike
-|}
-Maddox also named '''Ange of Havoc''' as Player of the Match for the Havoc–Tag & Release game.[3]
+Brent of Strategy Tag organised the events. Paint Contractors supplied referees in 2000, followed by Crisis in 2001. Saints won both tournaments.[3][4]
 === 2002 ===
+Organisation of the [[2002 Northland Open]] passed to Wayne Rolleston of Paintball West after Brent Matthews was unable to run that year's event. Eight teams competed at Paintball West's Auckland site in a seven-player, two-flag format. Saints won Division One and [[Tag and Training]] won Division Two.[5]
-Organisation of the 2002 tournament passed to '''Wayne Rolleston of Paintball West''' after Brent Matthews was unable to run that year's event. Eight teams played seven-a-side, two-flag games under New Zealand Paintball Players Association rules. [[Kamo Karzi]] and Phantom supplied referees.[7]
-An advance forum announcement advertised '''16 March at Kumeu Showgrounds''', Auckland, with unlimited paint and entry of NZ$100 per team.[8]
-==== Results ====
-Saints won Division One and [[Tag and Training]] won Division Two. Tag and Training also finished second in the combined score table.[7]
-{| class="wikitable"
-|+ 2002 combined results
-! Place !! Team !! Points !! Division
-|-
-| 1 || [[Saints (New Zealand paintball team)|Saints]] || 666 || Division One winner
-|-
-| 2 || [[Tag and Training]] || 503 || Division Two winner
-|-
-| 3 || Havoc || 430 || Division Two
-|-
-| 4 || [[Tag n' Release|Tag and Release]] || 410 || Division One
-|-
-| 5 || Titans || 403 || Division One
-|-
-| 6 || Goblins || 235 || Division Two
-|-
-| 7 || [[Katipo Paintball Team|Katipo]] || 118 || Division One
-|-
-| 8 || Marksmen || 57 || Division Two
-|}
-==== Named players and captains ====
-The event report identifies '''Rik Goldsworthy''' as Saints captain and '''Reg''' as Katipo captain. '''Lurch''' accepted Tag and Training's divisional trophy. Havoc included guest players from [[Team Insane|Insane]], although the report does not name them.[7]
-'''Adam Pinfold of Goblins''' received the award described in the report as Player of the Match.[7]
 === 2007 ===
+The [[2007 Northland Open]] was held on 4 February at [[A Paintball Adventure]], an indoor field in Papakura, Auckland. It used a five-player, unlimited-paint format with a round robin followed by finals.[6]
-A tournament advertised as the '''2007 Northland Open''' took place on '''4 February''' at '''A Paintball Adventure, 80b Hunua Road, Papakura'''. The announcement specified five-player, unlimited-paint competition, with a round robin followed by finals.[9]
-Eight teams attended. The results published on 5 February recorded separate professional and amateur divisions.[10]
-{| class="wikitable"
-|+ 2007 divisional results
-! Place !! Professional division !! Amateur division
-|-
-| 1 || Menace || Sinista
-|-
-| 2 || XXX || Nemisis / Cut-throats
-|-
-| 3 || Legion || Pirates
-|-
-| 4 || Foundation || Punx
-|}
-''Nemisis / Cut-throats'' reproduces the wording of the results post.[10]
-'''Vota of XXX''' received Player of the Day. '''Johnny of Pirates''' received Move of the Day for advancing downfield without paint.[10]
 === 2011 ===
+The [[2011 Northland Open]] took place on 6 March at Strategy Tag Paintball in Mangapai, near Whangārei. Eight teams competed. [[ADHD (paintball team)|ADHD]] defeated Disposal Unit in the final, while TPC Blast and Gary Locks shared third place.[7]
-{{Main|2011 Northland Open}}
+== Editions ==
+* [[1998 Northland Open]]
-The '''2011 Northland Open''' was held on '''6 March''' at '''Strategy Tag Paintball, Mangapai''', near Whangārei. Eight teams competed in the five-player tournament.[11][13]
+* [[1999 Northland Open]]
+* [[2000 Northland Open]]
-Auckland's [[ADHD (paintball team)|ADHD]] defeated Disposal Unit in the final. TPC Blast and Gary Locks shared third place. Contemporary footage of the tournament was published in March 2011.[11][13]
+* [[2001 Northland Open]]
+* [[2002 Northland Open]]
-== See also ==
+* [[2007 Northland Open]]
+* [[2011 Northland Open]]
-* [[Paintball in New Zealand]]
-* [[National Paintball League (New Zealand)]]
-* [[New Zealand Paintball Nationals]]
-* [[Valhalla National Rankings]]
 == References ==
+# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Rules/Leagues/NPLIntro.htm Mercenaries Star, ''The Rise and Fall of the New Zealand National Paintball League'', preserved by OoCities.]
-# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Rules/Leagues/NPLIntro.htm Mercenaries Star, ''The Rise and Fall of the New Zealand National Paintball League''; preserved by OoCities.]
+# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020817070759/http://www.paintball.co.nz/north98.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 1998 Northland Paintball Open'', NZ Paintball Online, archived 17 August 2002.]
-# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Events/EventsIndex.htm Mercenaries Star, ''Annual Tournament Events'', 2001; preserved by OoCities.]
+# [https://web.archive.org/web/20010114131600/http://www.paintball.co.nz/north2000.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 2000 Northland Paintball Open'', NZ Paintball Online, archived 14 January 2001.]
-# [https://web.archive.org/web/20011217012758/http://www.paintball.co.nz/north2001.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 2001 Northland Paintball Open'', Paintball.co.nz; archived 17 December 2001.]
+# [https://web.archive.org/web/20010302154631/http://www.paintball.co.nz/north2001.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 2001 Northland Paintball Open'', NZ Paintball Online, archived 2 March 2001.]
-# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Events/NorthlandOpen.htm Mercenaries Star, ''Northland Open 2001'', contemporary tournament announcement; preserved by OoCities.]
+# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020806192035/http://www.paintball.co.nz/north2002.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 2002 Northland Paintball Open'', NZ Paintball Online, archived 6 August 2002.]
-# [https://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2001Hall.htm Mercenaries Star, ''Valhalla Hall of Heroes – 2001'', seven-player rankings; preserved by OoCities.]
+# [https://web.archive.org/web/20080320053722/http://p069.ezboard.com/2007-Northland-Open/fnzpaintballfrm6.showMessage?topicID=362.topic ''2007 Northland Open'', NZ Paintball Message Boards, January 2007, archived 20 March 2008.]
-# [https://web.archive.org/web/20011020080141fw_/http://www.blacksun.co.nz/phoenix/news.htm Wellington Phoenix, ''News'', Northland Open account dated 27 February 2001; archived 20 October 2001.]
-# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020806192035/http://www.paintball.co.nz/north2002.htm Rob Maddox, ''The 2002 Northland Paintball Open'', Paintball.co.nz; archived 6 August 2002.]
-# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020115005115/http://pub73.ezboard.com:80/fnzpaintballfrm6.showMessage?topicID=30.topic NZ Paintball Message Forum, ''24 th Feb Rotorua and Northland open date'', 30 December 2001–3 January 2002; archived 15 January 2002.]
-# [https://web.archive.org/web/20080320053722/http://p069.ezboard.com/2007-Northland-Open/fnzpaintballfrm6.showMessage?topicID=362.topic NZ Paintball Message Boards, ''2007 Northland Open'', tournament announcement; archived 20 March 2008.]
-# [https://web.archive.org/web/20080320053722/http://p069.ezboard.com/Northland-scores/fnzpaintballfrm6.showMessage?topicID=364.topic NZ Paintball Message Boards, ''Northland scores'', results posted 5 February 2007; archived 20 March 2008.]
 # [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/paintball-teams-splattered-in-northland-open/KDEZTS2NANHGDVDEOTLZHF7TIY/ ''Paintball teams splattered in Northland Open'', Northern Advocate, 8 March 2011.]
-# [https://web.archive.org/web/20020206094854fw_/http://www.blacksun.co.nz/phoenix/roster.htm Wellington Phoenix, ''Roster''; archived 6 February 2002.]
-# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9YNoGmWKI ''Northland Open 6/3/11'', YouTube, published 7 March 2011.]
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