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'''The 1997 Paintball World Cup''', also known as the '''1997 NPPL World Cup''', was a tournament [[paintball]] event held from 21 to 26 October 1997 at Paintball World in Kissimmee, Florida, United States. Promoted by [[Jerry Braun]] and conducted as part of the [[National Professional Paintball League]] season, it featured five-player and ten-player competitions for professional and amateur teams.[1][2]
The '''1997 Paintball World Cup''', also known as the '''1997 NPPL World Cup''', was an international [[paintball]] tournament held from 21 to 26 October 1997 at Paintball World in Kissimmee, Florida, United States. Promoted by [[Jerry Braun]] as part of the [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL), it featured five-player and ten-player competition.[1]


[[Jacksonville Warriors]] won the professional five-player competition, while the Fighters won the amateur division. [[Team Image]] won the professional ten-player competition and Lockout won the amateur division.[1][3][4]
[[Jacksonville Warriors]] won the professional five-player competition, while [[Team Image]] won the professional ten-player championship. Fighters and Lockout won the respective amateur competitions.[2][3]
 
The tournament included the World Cup debut of [[Sup'AirBall]], an inflatable-bunker format developed in France. Sup'AirBall appeared alongside woodland and [[Hyperball]] fields, reflecting the increasing use of spectator-oriented artificial playing fields in tournament paintball during the late 1990s.[1][5][6]


== Tournament ==
== Tournament ==


Competition began on Tuesday, 21 October, with the five-player preliminary rounds. The five-player finals were held on Thursday, 23 October. Ten-player preliminary competition began on Friday, with the finals concluding the event on Sunday, 26 October.[1]
Professional and amateur teams competed together during the preliminary rounds before progressing to separate competitions. Five-player preliminary games took place on 21–22 October, followed by the semi-finals and finals on 23 October. The ten-player competition concluded on 26 October.[1][2][3]


The tournament was organised by Jerry Braun at Paintball World, a multi-field paintball facility in Kissimmee. Both the five-player and ten-player competitions were divided into professional and amateur classifications.[1][2]
A five-player novice competition was introduced during the tournament to give lower-placed teams another opportunity to compete for trophies. Bizzaro won this division.[2]


== Playing fields ==
== Playing fields ==


The World Cup used a mixture of traditional woodland or jungle fields and artificial tournament fields.[1][5] These included:
The venue combined wooded playing fields with artificial-bunker fields. The woodland fields included natural cover and wooden bunkers.[4]


* woodland and jungle-style fields;
A [[Hyperball]] field was used for ten-player competition. An inflatable-bunker field, described in contemporary WARPIG coverage as “Superball”, featured cylinders and cones. The report noted that paintballs could rebound from its flexible bunkers.[4]
* Hyperball fields constructed using corrugated plastic piping; and
* a Sup'AirBall field using inflatable bunkers.


Hyperball had made its American World Cup debut at the 1996 event. Sup'AirBall was added in 1997, providing a more open playing area that improved visibility for spectators. Contemporary coverage also noted that the flexible inflatable bunkers could cause paintballs to rebound rather than break.[1]
== Results ==
 
== Competition format ==
 
=== Five-player competition ===
 
The five-player preliminary round consisted of ten divisions containing nine or ten teams each. Each division generally included one or two professional teams, with the remaining places filled by amateur teams. The highest-scoring professional and amateur teams from each preliminary division advanced.[1]
 
A separate novice competition had not originally been scheduled. During the event, Braun adopted a proposal attributed to J. J. Brookshire of [[Brass Eagle]], under which the three lowest-scoring teams from each preliminary division were placed into novice semi-finals. The resulting novice classification therefore operated as a consolation competition drawn from the five-player preliminary field.[1]


=== Ten-player competition ===
=== Five-player ===


The ten-player competition was divided into professional and amateur classifications. Preliminary games began on 24 October, followed by the finals on 26 October.[1][2]
The following final placements were recorded by WARPIG.[2]
 
== Results ==
 
=== Five-player results ===


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Jacksonville Warriors finished the professional final with 106 points, ahead of All Americans 1 on 85. The Fighters won the amateur final with 137 points.[3]
=== Ten-player ===


=== Ten-player results ===
The following placements and final-round points were recorded by WARPIG. Amateur team names are reproduced as listed in that report.[3]


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Position
! Professional
! Professional
! Score
! Points
! Amateur
! Amateur
! Score
! Points
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|-
| 1
| 1
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| [[Chicago Aftershock|Aftershock]]
| [[Chicago Aftershock|Aftershock]]
| 215
| 215
| [[Black Reign|Ohio Black Reign]]
| OBR
| 193
| 193
|-
|-
| 3
| 3
| [[Ironmen (paintball team)|Ironmen]]
| Ironmen
| 130
| 130
| [[Marine Team One|Marine Team 1]]
| Marine Team
| 133
| 133
|-
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The scores shown are the cumulative totals from the respective final rounds.[4]
== Equipment and media coverage ==
 
== Equipment exhibition ==
 
The World Cup also included a paintball industry exhibition. Products reported or demonstrated at the event included the [[Smart Parts Shocker|Shocker Sport 4x4]], the PneuVentures Cyber 9000, the [[Brass Eagle Rainmaker]] and the [[ViewLoader Revolution]].[1]


The Cyber 9000 was described as an electronically controlled marker with an LCD display, selectable semi-automatic, fully automatic and burst modes, and functions recording shot count, elapsed time and the velocity of individual shots.[1]
The tournament included an industry exhibition. WARPIG's [[PigTV]] coverage featured interviews and demonstrations concerning products including the [[Brass Eagle Rainmaker]], Shocker Sport 4x4, Cyber 9000 and [[ViewLoader Revolution]]. Its online archive also included competition scores, photographs and playing-field reports.[1]
 
== Media coverage ==
 
Contemporary reporting appeared in ''[[Action Pursuit Games]]'', including Bill Mills's illustrated tournament report, “Where the Best Meet to Compete: The 1997 World Cup”.[1]
 
Online coverage was provided by [[WARPIG]], including reports, scores, field descriptions, photographs and [[PigTV]] video segments covering tournament play and equipment displayed at the event.[2][3][4][5]


== See also ==
== See also ==
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* [[Paintball World Cup]]
* [[Paintball World Cup]]
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[1997 in paintball]]
* [[1996 NPPL World Cup]]
* [[Hyperball]]
* [[Sup'AirBall]]
* [[Sup'AirBall]]
* [[Hyperball]]


== References ==
== References ==


# Bill Mills, “Where the Best Meet to Compete: The 1997 World Cup”, ''Action Pursuit Games'', Vol. 12, No. 3, March 1998, pp. 71–75.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/index.shtml WARPIG, ''World Cup 1997'', October 1997.]
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/index.shtml WARPIG – 1997 National Professional Paintball League World Cup coverage]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/finals5man.shtml WARPIG, ''5 Man Semi-Finals and Final Scores'', 23 October 1997.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/finals5man.shtml WARPIG – 1997 World Cup five-player finals]
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/finals10man.shtml WARPIG, ''10 Man Semi-Finals and Final Scores'', 26 October 1997.]
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/finals10man.shtml WARPIG – 1997 World Cup ten-player finals]
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/fields.shtml WARPIG, ''World Cup Fields'', October 1997.]
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/fields.shtml WARPIG – 1997 World Cup playing fields]
# [https://www.supairball.com/history.html Sup'AirBall – History]


[[Category:Paintball tournaments]]
== External links ==
 
* [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/wc97/index.shtml WARPIG tournament coverage archive]
 
[[Category:Paintball tournaments in the United States]]
[[Category:Paintball in Florida]]
[[Category:1990s in American paintball]]
[[Category:Paintball tournament results]]
[[Category:Paintball tournament results]]
[[Category:National Professional Paintball League events]]
[[Category:National Professional Paintball League events]]
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[[Category:1997 in paintball]]
[[Category:1997 in paintball]]
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Revision as of 06:40, 31 October 2026

The 1997 Paintball World Cup, also known as the 1997 NPPL World Cup, was an international paintball tournament held from 21 to 26 October 1997 at Paintball World in Kissimmee, Florida, United States. Promoted by Jerry Braun as part of the National Professional Paintball League (NPPL), it featured five-player and ten-player competition.[1]

Jacksonville Warriors won the professional five-player competition, while Team Image won the professional ten-player championship. Fighters and Lockout won the respective amateur competitions.[2][3]

Tournament

Professional and amateur teams competed together during the preliminary rounds before progressing to separate competitions. Five-player preliminary games took place on 21–22 October, followed by the semi-finals and finals on 23 October. The ten-player competition concluded on 26 October.[1][2][3]

A five-player novice competition was introduced during the tournament to give lower-placed teams another opportunity to compete for trophies. Bizzaro won this division.[2]

Playing fields

The venue combined wooded playing fields with artificial-bunker fields. The woodland fields included natural cover and wooden bunkers.[4]

A Hyperball field was used for ten-player competition. An inflatable-bunker field, described in contemporary WARPIG coverage as “Superball”, featured cylinders and cones. The report noted that paintballs could rebound from its flexible bunkers.[4]

Results

Five-player

The following final placements were recorded by WARPIG.[2]

Position Professional Amateur Novice
1 Jacksonville Warriors Fighters Bizzaro
2 All Americans 1 Farside Chameleons
3 Rage Shockwave CA Bad Karma White
4 All Americans 2 Canadian Express Nemesis Jr.

Ten-player

The following placements and final-round points were recorded by WARPIG. Amateur team names are reproduced as listed in that report.[3]

Position Professional Points Amateur Points
1 Team Image 300 Lockout 218
2 Aftershock 215 OBR 193
3 Ironmen 130 Marine Team 133
4 All Americans 2 31 Nemesis 40

Equipment and media coverage

The tournament included an industry exhibition. WARPIG's PigTV coverage featured interviews and demonstrations concerning products including the Brass Eagle Rainmaker, Shocker Sport 4x4, Cyber 9000 and ViewLoader Revolution. Its online archive also included competition scores, photographs and playing-field reports.[1]

See also

References

  1. WARPIG, World Cup 1997, October 1997.
  2. WARPIG, 5 Man Semi-Finals and Final Scores, 23 October 1997.
  3. WARPIG, 10 Man Semi-Finals and Final Scores, 26 October 1997.
  4. WARPIG, World Cup Fields, October 1997.
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