Full Boar (New Zealand Paintball Team)

Full Boar was a New Zealand tournament paintball team active during the early 2000s. Contemporary records also used the spellings Fullboar and Full Bore.[1][2]

The team reached the finals of the 2000 Wellington Cup, finished third in the Second Division at the 2001 Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament, and competed at the 2003 Rotorua tournament.[1][2][3]

History

2000 season

Full Boar competed in the five-player Wellington Cup in 2000. A contemporary Phoenix report identifies Phoenix as the winner and names Tag n' Release, Vipers and Fullboar as the other finalists. Tag n' Release separately recorded second place, but the surviving sources do not establish the final order of Vipers and Full Boar.[1][4]

The 2000 Valhalla National Rankings placed Full Boar equal twelfth among 37 published team and squad entries, with a ranking score of 66.5.[5]

2001 season

Full Boar entered the Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament at Rotorua International Stadium on 2–3 June 2001. The seven-player event used an open preliminary stage followed by separate First and Second Division finals.[2]

The team recorded 400 preliminary points and advanced to the Second Division final. It finished third with 135 final-round points, behind Team Damage on 220 and Damn Natives on 210, and ahead of Havoc on 20.[2]

The tournament report identifies the Full Boar captain only as Robert. Full Boar also received the event's award for the highest-scoring newcomer.[2]

The October 2001 Valhalla seven-player standings placed Full Boar fifteenth with 73.6 points. Its ranking contributions consisted of 28.6 from the RotoVegas preliminary round and 45 from the Second Division final.[6]

A contemporary team-contact discussion from November 2001 lists Rob Blitz as the contact for Full Boar.[7] The source does not explicitly establish that Robert, the captain named in the tournament report, and Rob Blitz were the same person, so the names are not merged in this article.

2003 Rotorua tournament

The team returned to Rotorua for the October 2003 tournament, where its name was printed as Full Bore. Eighteen teams competed in two seeded pools before advancing to Cup and Plate stages.[3]

Full Bore scored 248 points in Pool B. It subsequently lost to Damage in a Plate qualification game. The source does not provide a complete final placing for Full Boar.[3]

Documented personnel

Published name	Documented role	Context
Robert	Captain	2001 Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament; surname not supplied.[2]
Rob Blitz	Team contact	November 2001 team-contact discussion.[7]

These entries are retained separately because the surviving sources do not explicitly identify them as the same person.

Recorded tournament results

Year	Published spelling	Competition	Classification	Recorded result	Points	Source
2000	Fullboar	Wellington Cup	Open final	Finalist; exact placing not established	Not supplied	[1][4]
2001	Full Boar	Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament	Preliminary round	Advanced to Second Division final	400	[2]
2001	Full Boar	Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament	Second Division final	3rd	135	[2]
2003	Full Bore	Rotorua tournament	Pool B / Plate qualification	248 pool points; defeated by Damage in Plate qualifier	248	[3]

Preliminary and final-round scores are kept separate. No exact placing is assigned where the original report supplies only participation, pool results or finalist status.

National rankings

Season	Format	Position	Ranking total
2000	Combined	Equal 12th	66.5
2001	Seven-player	15th	73.6

The rankings were calculated by Valhalla and are distinct from raw tournament scores and individual event placings.[5][6][8]

See also

• Paintball in New Zealand
• Wellington Cup
• Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament
• Valhalla National Rankings

References

1. Phoenix — contemporary team news, including “The Wellington Cup is ours!”, 16 July 2000. Archived 20 October 2001.
2. Rob Maddox, Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament, Paintball.co.nz, 2–3 June 2001. Archived 11 August 2002.
3. Rob Maddox, Rotorua International Tournament, Paintball.co.nz, October 2003. Archived 18 December 2005.
4. Mercenaries Star — Tag n' Release team profile, including the 2000 Wellington Cup result, April 2001.
5. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla National Rankings, 2000.
6. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla National Rankings, October 2001.
7. Team Captain Contact Details, NZ Paintball forum, November 2001. Archived 2 January 2002.
8. Mercenaries Star — Valhalla National Team Rankings methodology.