2026 Arena Paintball Easter Race

The 2026 Arena Paintball Easter Race was a paintball event at Arena Paintball in Feilding, New Zealand, scheduled for 4–5 April 2026 as the first round of the venue’s five-player race series.[1] The organiser published a fourteen-team draw, preliminary score photographs and subsequent Arena Cup series points after Event 1.[2][3][4][5]

Teams and pools

The published draw divided fourteen entries into two pools:[2]

Pool A	Pool B
Ballistics Unit 2	Ballistics Unit 1
Expendables	BOP Blast
Lycans	Chaos
Misfits	Cult
Reavers	Immortal Knights
Surge	Lumberjacks
SWAT	Manawatu Titans

Preliminary play

On 4 April, the organiser published photographs of the score sheets for both pools. These recorded incomplete preliminary play, with games remaining, and did not establish final tournament placings.[3][4]

Series points after Event 1

On 23 June 2026, Arena Paintball published the following Arena Cup series points after Event 1. Positions and team names below follow that post; the figures are series points rather than match scores.[5]

Published position	Team	Series points
1	Titans	200
2	Sydney S.W.A.T.	186
3	Expendables Paintball	173
4	Lumberjacks Paintball	161
5	CULT Paintball Team	150
6	Reavers	140
7	SUЯGE Paintball Team – Hawkes Bay	130
8	Ballistics Unit 1	121
9 equal	Ballistics Unit 2	112
9 equal	Blast	112
10 equal	Misfits	104
10 equal	Immortal Knights	104
11 equal	Team Lycan Paintball South Waikato	96
11 equal	Chaos	96

References

1. Arena Paintball — Events, 2026 tournament calendar.
2. Arena Paintball — Easter pools and draw, Facebook, 23 March 2026.
3. Arena Paintball — Round 1 Pool A interim scores, Facebook, 4 April 2026.
4. Arena Paintball — Round 1 Pool B interim scores, Facebook, 4 April 2026.
5. Arena Paintball — Arena Cup series points after Event 1, Facebook, 23 June 2026.