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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 [[Paintball in New Zealand|New Zealand]]'s Hawke's Bay region. Contemporary reports document competition by 1999, while later forum records and photographs document editions in 2009 and 2010.[1][9][10]
'''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 ==


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


The Hawke's Bay Triples developed from an earlier recreational big-game event known as Fantasyland.
=== 1999 ===


The [[Mercenaries Star]] tournament calendar described Fantasyland as having been replaced by the Hawke's Bay Triples after participation in recreational big games declined.[3]
Eight teams entered the 1999 tournament. Games lasted six minutes, with an allowance of 100 paintballs per player. Amon Johnson led a training session before Sunday's competition.[1]


The surviving account does not establish Fantasyland's founding date or the precise year in which the Triples competition began.
House Steiner Blue led the preliminary round, while House Steiner Red and The Boys From The Black Stuff were tied for second. Red defeated Black Stuff in a deciding semi-final, then beat Blue by one elimination across a two-game final in which the teams played from both ends.[1]


=== 2000 tournament ===
{| class="wikitable"
 
|+ 1999 final placings
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]
! Place !! Team
 
|-
The event was presented by Paintball Hawke's Bay and the Hawke's Bay Paintball Club.
| 1 || [[House Steiner|House Steiner Red]]
 
|-
The published arrangements specified:
| 2 || [[House Steiner|House Steiner Blue]]
 
|-
* Three-player open-class competition.
| 3 || The Boys From The Black Stuff
* Limited paintball allowance of 100 rounds.
|}
* 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 organisers prohibited staining paintballs and identified several products that would not be accepted, including Evil, All Star, Ruby Red and Premium Gold.
The other entrants were The Bay Boys, Vipers, Kapiti Assassins, Commando Paintball Club and Warp Speed. Both House Steiner squads came from Wellington; the remaining teams represented Hawke's Bay, New Plymouth, Kāpiti, Taupō and Napier.[1]


Les Hall was named as the tournament contact.[1]
Rick Levick organised the tournament. The referees were Wayne Hilliam, Damon Goldsworthy, Richard Bell and Graham Nattress.[1]


The event's final results have not been recovered.
=== 2000 ===


=== 2001 tournament ===
The February 2000 tournament was advertised by [[Paintball Hawke's Bay]] and the Hawke's Bay Paintball Club at '''Pines Paintball Field''', State Highway 50, Roys Hill, near Hastings. Les Hall was the event contact.[3]


The following edition was advertised for '''3–4 February 2001''' at the same Pines Paintball Field.[2]
The announcement specified three-player open competition, a 100-round paint allowance and entry of NZ$30 per team. Squads could register up to five players.[3]


The tournament retained its three-player format but used centre-flag games under Australian Paintball Players League (APPL) rules.
[[Wellington Phoenix|Cannon Fodder]], which subsequently adopted the Wellington Phoenix name, entered two squads. Its contemporary news report and retrospective history give conflicting placings for those entries.[4][5]


The published arrangements included:
=== 2001 ===


* Three-player open-class competition.
The 2001 edition was advertised for '''3–4 February''' at Pines Paintball Field. Paintball Hawke's Bay again presented the tournament, with Les Hall as the contact. The announced format was three-player centre-flag competition under Australian Paintball Players League rules, with 100 rounds per player per end.[6]
* 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]
Fifteen teams competed, each playing fourteen preliminary games across two fields. A Wellington Phoenix report published on 5 February recorded House Steiner as the winner, Phoenix Red second and Phoenix Grey third. Phoenix Orange finished eighth.[4]
 
Partial results survive through the [[Valhalla National Rankings]], which recorded the competition as ''Hawkesbay Triples – Round 1 Open''.[4]
 
=== 2006 tournament reference ===
 
An archived [[NZ Paintball Message Boards]] index from February 2006 contains a discussion titled ''HB Triples''.[6]
 
The discussion had received 23 replies by 6 February 2006.
 
The contents of the discussion have not yet been recovered, and the index alone does not establish the event's dates, participants or results.
 
=== 2009 tournament ===
 
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]
 
The event was advertised through the NZ Paintball Message Boards on 24 January 2009.
 
The tournament used a three-player round-robin format with limited paintball allowances and peer refereeing.


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Item
|+ Reported 2001 results
! Details
! Place !! Team
|-
|-
| Dates
| 1 || [[House Steiner]]
| 7–8 February 2009
|-
|-
| Venue
| 2 || [[Wellington Phoenix|Phoenix Red]]
| 75/77 Ngatarawa Road, Bridge Pa, Hastings
|-
|-
| Format
| 3 || [[Wellington Phoenix|Phoenix Grey]]
| Three-player round robin
|-
|-
| Game duration
| 8 || [[Wellington Phoenix|Phoenix Orange]]
| Five minutes
|}
 
==== Named squads ====
 
The event report identifies the following squads. Phoenix players' expanded names are supported by the team's contemporary roster.[4][7]
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Squad !! Players
|-
|-
| Paint allowance
| House Steiner || Willy Aull (captain), Marty Dannefaerd, Wayne Hilliam, Evan Lewis
| One additional pod per player per game
|-
|-
| Refereeing
| Phoenix Red || Peter Hamilton (RePete), Jeremy Hooper (Goat), Danny Connery
| Peer refereeing
|-
|-
| Entry fee
| Phoenix Grey || Ryan Pike (Rabbit), Mark Waddell (Ogre), Mark Candy (Candyman)
| NZ$50 per player
|-
|-
| Paintballs
| Phoenix Orange || Adon Upjohn, Glen Webber, Chris, Shane [R]
| 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.
These are event squads; the playing format remained three-a-side. The report does not give surnames for Orange's Chris or Shane [R].[4]


The entry deadline was 31 January 2009.[7]
==== Preliminary scores ====


==== Confirmation and photography ====
The [[Valhalla]] national rankings recorded the following normalised opening-round scores. These figures are preliminary scores, rather than the final tournament classification.[8]


Post-event messages published on 10 February 2009 confirmed that the tournament had taken place.
{| class="wikitable"
 
! Team !! Normalised score
On 22 February, Les Hall discussed arrangements for publishing photographs of the event.
|-
 
| House Steiner || 84.3
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
| Phoenix Red || 75.0
|-
|-
| DEA
| Phoenix Grey || 64.9
|-
|-
| Bush
| Tag n' Release GPS || 64.3
|-
|-
| Arachnids
| Damage || 62.9
|-
|-
| Adrenalin
| Total Kaos || 57.1
|-
|-
| Happymeal A
| Crossfire GBH || 52.1
|-
|-
| Happymeal B
| Phoenix Orange || 50.0
|-
|-
| Aces
| DamNatives Red || 46.4
|-
|-
| Skullz
| DaBayBoyz || 46.4
|-
|-
| Mole
| Crossfire BG || 43.0
|-
|-
| Assassinz
| Warp Speed || 37.1
|-
|-
| Hell Boys
| Brew Ha || 31.4
|-
|-
| Buccaneers
| DamNatives Black || 29.4
|-
|-
| Pirates
| Nutters || 26.8
|}
|}


Two additional handwritten team names are visible but cannot be transcribed reliably from the available photograph.
=== 2002 ===
 
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 '''2–3 February 2002''' tournament took place at '''Stoney Creek Ranch, Hastings''', organised by Les Hall. Seventeen teams competed in three-player centre-flag games, with 100 paintballs allowed per player per game.[11]


The 2010 scoreboard photograph preserves a grid of results, with fifteen numbered columns alongside the participating teams.[8]
Three playing fields were laid out on a rugby ground: two inflatable fields and a plywood field supplied by [[Tag n' Release]]. Accommodation and meals formed part of the event arrangements.[11]


However, most individual numerical scores and the totals at the right of the board are insufficiently legible to reproduce accurately.
GPS led the preliminary round and defeated RUSH '''100–10''' in the final. These were the only teams to contest the final.[11]
 
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"
{| class="wikitable"
! Period
|+ 2002 final
! Venue
! Place !! Team !! Final score
! Location
|-
|-
| 2000–2001
| 1 || GPS || 100
| Pines Paintball Field
| State Highway 50, Roys Hill, Hawke's Bay
|-
|-
| 2009
| 2 || RUSH || 10
| 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 event report published the following preliminary scores. Their order does not represent a separate full final-round classification.[11]


The 2009 announcement supplied the Bridge Pa address but did not identify the location as Pines Paintball Field.[7]
{| class="wikitable"
 
|+ 2002 preliminary round
The available records do not establish when the tournament changed venues or whether both locations were operated by the same organisation.
! Position !! Team !! Points
 
|-
The exact location of the 2010 tournament has not been independently established.
| 1 || GPS || 1,530
 
|-
== 2001 tournament results ==
| 2 || RUSH || 1,230
 
=== 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]]
| 3 || Flict || 1,220
| 84.3
|-
|-
| [[Phoenix (Wellington paintball team)|Phoenix (WGN) Red]]
| 4 || DNA || 1,070
| 75.0
|-
|-
| [[Phoenix (Wellington paintball team)|Phoenix (WGN) Grey]]
| 5 || Phoenix Red || 1,010
| 64.9
|-
|-
| [[Tag n' Release|Tag n' Release GPS]]
| 6 || Smash || 1,000
| 64.3
|-
|-
| [[Damage (New Zealand paintball team)|Damage]]
| 7 || Bronco's || 920
| 62.9
|-
|-
| [[Total Kaos (paintball team)|Total Kaos]]
| 8 || Shock (W) || 902
| 57.1
|-
|-
| [[Crossfire (paintball team)|Crossfire GBH]]
| 9 || Fusion || 900
| 52.1
|-
|-
| [[Phoenix (Wellington paintball team)|Phoenix (WGN) Orange]]
| 10 || Phoenix Grey || 848
| 50.0
|-
|-
| [[DamNatives|DamNatives Red]]
| 11 || Menace || 770
| 46.4
|-
|-
| [[DaBayBoyz]]
| 12 || Your mama || 696
| 46.4
|-
|-
| [[Crossfire (paintball team)|Crossfire BG]]
| 13 || Shock (P) || 670
| 43.0
|-
|-
| [[Warp Speed (paintball team)|Warp Speed]]
| 14 || Brewha || 590
| 37.1
|-
|-
| [[Brew Ha]]
| 15 || Shock Tactics || 480
| 31.4
|-
|-
| [[DamNatives|DamNatives Black]]
| 16 || Kapiti (jnr) || 394
| 29.4
|-
|-
| [[Nutters (paintball team)|Nutters]]
| 17 || Comic Relief || −34
| 26.8
|}
|}


Source: Valhalla National Rankings, 2001.[4]
Comic Relief received the report's '''Most Stand-Out Team''' award.[11]
 
The teams are listed in descending order of their opening-round scores. The table does not establish the tournament's final classification.


=== Leading teams ===
=== 2009 ===


House Steiner recorded the highest surviving opening-round score, with 84.3.
The tournament was held on '''7–8 February 2009''' at '''75/77 Ngatarawa Road, Bridge Pa, Hastings'''. An announcement posted to the [[NZ Paintball Message Boards]] on 24 January specified three-player round-robin competition, five-minute games, one additional pod per player per game and peer refereeing.[9]


The Wellington Phoenix organisation entered three separately recorded squads: Red, Grey and Orange.
Entry cost NZ$50 per player, with paint advertised at NZ$80 per case and gas-cylinder hire at NZ$20 per tank. Camping, meals and refreshments were included in the advertised arrangements.[9]


Other organisations with multiple recorded entries included Crossfire and DamNatives.
Post-event messages on 10 February confirmed that the tournament had taken place. Les Hall discussed publishing photographs on 22 February, and a Flickr collection was linked the following day.[9]


The rankings also preserve evidence of participation by smaller teams including Total Kaos, DaBayBoyz, Warp Speed, Brew Ha and Nutters.
=== 2010 ===


=== Tag n' Release ===
Photographer '''L. M. Bennett''' documented the 2010 edition in a Flickr album titled ''Hawkes Bay Triples 2010''. The collection contains 41 photographs, including the scoreboard and prizegiving.[10]


A contemporary [[Tag n' Release]] team profile recorded the following performance at the 2001 Hawke's Bay Triples:[5]
The scoreboard photograph is dated '''7 February 2010''' and was uploaded on 15 February. It contains sixteen team entries; fourteen names are legible: GPS, DEA, Bush, Arachnids, Adrenalin, Happymeal A, Happymeal B, Aces, Skullz, Mole, Assassinz, Hell Boys, Buccaneers and Pirates. The photograph does not provide sufficiently legible totals to reproduce the final standings.[10]
 
* 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]]
* [[Hawke's Bay Paintball Club]]
* [[Valhalla National Rankings]]
* [[Tag n' Release]]
* [[Tag n' Release]]
* [[Northland Open]]
* [[Valhalla]]
* [[NZ Paintball Message Boards]]
* [[Mercenaries Star]]


== References ==
== References ==


# [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://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/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/Events/EventsIndex.htm Mercenaries Star, ''Annual Tournament Events'', 2001; 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/NextHB3M.html ''Hawkes Bay Triples Competition – February 2000'', tournament announcement; 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://web.archive.org/web/20011020080141fw_/http://www.blacksun.co.nz/phoenix/news.htm Wellington Phoenix, ''News'', February 2000 and 5 February 2001 entries; archived 20 October 2001.]
# [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/20011217030354fw_/http://www.blacksun.co.nz/phoenix/history.htm Wellington Phoenix, ''History''; archived 17 December 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://www.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/Events/HB3M.htm ''Hawkes Bay Triples – February 2001'', tournament announcement; preserved by OoCities.]
# [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/20020206094854fw_/http://www.blacksun.co.nz/phoenix/roster.htm Wellington Phoenix, ''Roster''; archived 6 February 2002.]
# [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.oocities.org/mercstar_nz/VALHALLA/2001Hall.htm ''Valhalla Hall of Heroes – 2001'', three-player opening-round rankings; preserved by OoCities.]
# [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/20090818150024/http://nzpaintball.yuku.com/topic/4330/t/HB-Triples-2009.html NZ Paintball Message Boards, ''HB Triples 2009'', January–February 2009; archived 18 August 2009.]
 
# [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tempusfugitphotos/albums/72157623441196994 L. M. Bennett, ''Hawkes Bay Triples 2010'', Flickr photographic album], including [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tempusfugitphotos/4359484389/in/album-72157623441196994 ''HBT2010 – Scoreboard'', photographed 7 February 2010, uploaded 15 February 2010].
== External links ==
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20021025162718/http://www.paintball.co.nz/hb3man2002.htm Dazz Marshall, ''Hawkes Bay 3-Man 2002'', Paintball.co.nz; archived 25 October 2002.]
 
* [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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Hawke's Bay Triples was a three-player paintball tournament held in New Zealand's Hawke's Bay region. Contemporary reports document competition by 1999, while later forum records and photographs document editions in 2009 and 2010.[1][9][10]

History

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

1999

Eight teams entered the 1999 tournament. Games lasted 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 round, while House Steiner Red and The Boys From The Black Stuff were tied for second. Red defeated Black Stuff in a deciding semi-final, then beat Blue by one elimination across a two-game final in which the teams played from both ends.[1]

1999 final placings
Place Team
1 House Steiner Red
2 House Steiner Blue
3 The Boys From The Black Stuff

The other entrants were The Bay Boys, Vipers, Kapiti Assassins, Commando Paintball Club and Warp Speed. Both House Steiner squads came from Wellington; the remaining teams represented Hawke's Bay, New Plymouth, Kāpiti, Taupō and Napier.[1]

Rick Levick organised the tournament. The referees were Wayne Hilliam, Damon Goldsworthy, Richard Bell and Graham Nattress.[1]

2000

The February 2000 tournament was advertised by Paintball Hawke's Bay and the Hawke's Bay Paintball Club at Pines Paintball Field, State Highway 50, Roys Hill, near Hastings. Les Hall was the event contact.[3]

The announcement specified three-player open competition, a 100-round paint allowance and entry of NZ$30 per team. Squads could register up to five players.[3]

Cannon Fodder, which subsequently adopted the Wellington Phoenix name, entered two squads. Its contemporary news report and retrospective history give conflicting placings for those entries.[4][5]

2001

The 2001 edition was advertised for 3–4 February at Pines Paintball Field. Paintball Hawke's Bay again presented the tournament, with Les Hall as the contact. The announced format was three-player centre-flag competition under Australian Paintball Players League rules, with 100 rounds per player per end.[6]

Fifteen teams competed, each playing fourteen preliminary games across two fields. A Wellington Phoenix report published on 5 February recorded House Steiner as the winner, Phoenix Red second and Phoenix Grey third. Phoenix Orange finished eighth.[4]

Reported 2001 results
Place Team
1 House Steiner
2 Phoenix Red
3 Phoenix Grey
8 Phoenix Orange

Named squads

The event report identifies the following squads. Phoenix players' expanded names are supported by the team's contemporary roster.[4][7]

Squad Players
House Steiner Willy Aull (captain), Marty Dannefaerd, Wayne Hilliam, Evan Lewis
Phoenix Red Peter Hamilton (RePete), Jeremy Hooper (Goat), Danny Connery
Phoenix Grey Ryan Pike (Rabbit), Mark Waddell (Ogre), Mark Candy (Candyman)
Phoenix Orange Adon Upjohn, Glen Webber, Chris, Shane [R]

These are event squads; the playing format remained three-a-side. The report does not give surnames for Orange's Chris or Shane [R].[4]

Preliminary scores

The Valhalla national rankings recorded the following normalised opening-round scores. These figures are preliminary scores, rather than the final tournament classification.[8]

Team Normalised score
House Steiner 84.3
Phoenix Red 75.0
Phoenix Grey 64.9
Tag n' Release GPS 64.3
Damage 62.9
Total Kaos 57.1
Crossfire GBH 52.1
Phoenix Orange 50.0
DamNatives Red 46.4
DaBayBoyz 46.4
Crossfire BG 43.0
Warp Speed 37.1
Brew Ha 31.4
DamNatives Black 29.4
Nutters 26.8

2002

The 2–3 February 2002 tournament took place at Stoney Creek Ranch, Hastings, organised by Les Hall. Seventeen teams competed in three-player centre-flag games, with 100 paintballs allowed per player per game.[11]

Three playing fields were laid out on a rugby ground: two inflatable fields and a plywood field supplied by Tag n' Release. Accommodation and meals formed part of the event arrangements.[11]

GPS led the preliminary round and defeated RUSH 100–10 in the final. These were the only teams to contest the final.[11]

2002 final
Place Team Final score
1 GPS 100
2 RUSH 10

The event report published the following preliminary scores. Their order does not represent a separate full final-round classification.[11]

2002 preliminary round
Position Team Points
1 GPS 1,530
2 RUSH 1,230
3 Flict 1,220
4 DNA 1,070
5 Phoenix Red 1,010
6 Smash 1,000
7 Bronco's 920
8 Shock (W) 902
9 Fusion 900
10 Phoenix Grey 848
11 Menace 770
12 Your mama 696
13 Shock (P) 670
14 Brewha 590
15 Shock Tactics 480
16 Kapiti (jnr) 394
17 Comic Relief −34

Comic Relief received the report's Most Stand-Out Team award.[11]

2009

The tournament was held on 7–8 February 2009 at 75/77 Ngatarawa Road, Bridge Pa, Hastings. An announcement posted to the NZ Paintball Message Boards on 24 January specified three-player round-robin competition, five-minute games, one additional pod per player per game and peer refereeing.[9]

Entry cost NZ$50 per player, with paint advertised at NZ$80 per case and gas-cylinder hire at NZ$20 per tank. Camping, meals and refreshments were included in the advertised arrangements.[9]

Post-event messages on 10 February confirmed that the tournament had taken place. Les Hall discussed publishing photographs on 22 February, and a Flickr collection was linked the following day.[9]

2010

Photographer L. M. Bennett documented the 2010 edition in a Flickr album titled Hawkes Bay Triples 2010. The collection contains 41 photographs, including the scoreboard and prizegiving.[10]

The scoreboard photograph is dated 7 February 2010 and was uploaded on 15 February. It contains sixteen team entries; fourteen names are legible: GPS, DEA, Bush, Arachnids, Adrenalin, Happymeal A, Happymeal B, Aces, Skullz, Mole, Assassinz, Hell Boys, Buccaneers and Pirates. The photograph does not provide sufficiently legible totals to reproduce the final standings.[10]

See also

References

  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 – February 2000, tournament announcement; preserved by OoCities.
  4. Wellington Phoenix, News, February 2000 and 5 February 2001 entries; archived 20 October 2001.
  5. Wellington Phoenix, History; archived 17 December 2001.
  6. Hawkes Bay Triples – February 2001, tournament announcement; preserved by OoCities.
  7. Wellington Phoenix, Roster; archived 6 February 2002.
  8. Valhalla Hall of Heroes – 2001, three-player opening-round rankings; preserved by OoCities.
  9. NZ Paintball Message Boards, HB Triples 2009, January–February 2009; archived 18 August 2009.
  10. L. M. Bennett, Hawkes Bay Triples 2010, Flickr photographic album, including HBT2010 – Scoreboard, photographed 7 February 2010, uploaded 15 February 2010.
  11. Dazz Marshall, Hawkes Bay 3-Man 2002, Paintball.co.nz; archived 25 October 2002.
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