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The 2006 Three Rivers Paintball Festival was a paintball tournament and recreational festival at Three Rivers Paintball in Pennsylvania, United States. Its advertised dates were 27–30 July 2006. Produced by Team Effort Events, it was the renamed 2006 edition of the International Amateur Open and returned the event to Three Rivers after its period at the Big Butler Fairgrounds.[1][2]

Background

The organisers adopted the festival name while shifting their emphasis towards novice, rookie and Young Guns players. The return to Three Rivers also provided woodland playing areas for scenario games and tournament competition.[1]

Three grass airball fields were prepared for the festival. Unlike previous editions, the 2006 programme did not include the International Amateur Open's industry conference.[1]

Programme

The advertised competitions included five-player, three-player open, Young Guns and retro woodsball divisions. The wider programme included professional-player clinics, a trade show and a players' party.[1]

Blackcat Productions and Team Effort Events announced a scenario game with a Team America storyline.[1]

Subsequent history

In a 2011 interview, organiser Debra Krischke confirmed that 2006 was the final year of the International Amateur Open. She attributed its conclusion to organisational demands, changes in the paintball industry and the difficulty of sustaining the expanded event.[2]

The Paintball Festival and Business Conference announced for Three Rivers in August 2011 was presented as a new, smaller event.[2]

References

External links

WARPIG contemporary festival preview

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-The '''2006 Three Rivers Paintball Festival''' was an amateur [[paintball]] tournament and recreational festival held at Three Rivers Paintball Park in New Sewickley Township, Pennsylvania, United States. The principal competition took place from 27 to 30 July 2006, preceded by a professional-player clinic on 26 July.[1][2]
+The '''2006 Three Rivers Paintball Festival''' was a [[paintball]] tournament and recreational festival at [[Three Rivers Paintball]] in Pennsylvania, United States. Its advertised dates were 27–30 July 2006. Produced by Team Effort Events, it was the renamed 2006 edition of the [[International Amateur Open]] and returned the event to Three Rivers after its period at the Big Butler Fairgrounds.[1][2]
-Produced by Team Effort Events, the festival was the renamed 2006 edition of the [[International Amateur Open]]. It returned the tournament to its original venue after four years at the Big Butler Fairgrounds and combined arena competition with [[woodsball]], youth competition, a trade show and a large [[scenario paintball]] game.[1][2]
 == Background ==
-Debra Dion Krischke established the National Amateur Open in 1990. The competition became the International Amateur Open in 1991 and developed into a major annual amateur tournament and paintball-industry gathering.[2]
+The organisers adopted the festival name while shifting their emphasis towards novice, rookie and Young Guns players. The return to Three Rivers also provided woodland playing areas for scenario games and tournament competition.[1]
-The event was held at Three Rivers Paintball during its first eleven years before moving to the Big Butler Fairgrounds in 2002. The larger fairgrounds accommodated commercial displays and inflatable tournament fields, but separated the event from the woodland setting associated with its earlier editions.[2]
-For 2006, Team Effort Events returned the competition to Three Rivers Paintball and adopted the name Three Rivers Paintball Festival. Contemporary promotional coverage described the change as a return to the event's roots, with greater emphasis on rookie, youth, recreational and woodland play.[2]
-The 2006 edition was billed as the sixteenth annual event.[1][3]
-== Festival ==
-The festival programme ran for five days. A clinic on 26 July was conducted by Jason Trosen, Tim Montressor and Spesh Robinson of the Philadelphia Americans. Tournament competition subsequently included three-player, five-player Rookie, Young Guns and retro woodsball divisions.[1]
-The Young Guns division was open to players aged between 10 and 14. The retro woodsball competition used a five-player, two-flag format and prohibited battery-powered equipment.[1]
-Three grass arena fields were constructed for the event. The venue also added parking and camping areas, woodland fields and trails for scenario vehicles. Approximately 40 of the park's 70 acres were allocated to the scenario game.[1]
-Contemporary reporting estimated that approximately 1,500 competitors attended from across North America and Hawaii. More than 3.2 million paintballs were reportedly fired during the four days of competition.[3]
-Other activities included a trade show, equipment demonstrations, a children's low-impact paintball area, a screening of ''Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story'' and an ISAS Skins cash competition. Travis Dusek and Julio Zamarripa were reported as the winners of the Skins competition.[1]
-== Tournament results ==
-{| class="wikitable"
-! Division
-! First
-! Second
-! Third
-! Fourth
-|-
-| Three-player
-| Groundfire
-| Island Warrior Red
-| Prodigy Blue
-| Hot Potato 5
-|-
-| Five-player Rookie
-| Groundfire
-| Rogue Kidz
-| Unlimited
-| Island Warriors Hawaii
-|-
-| Young Guns
-| Groundfire Kids
-| Asylum
-| The Other White Meat
-| Judgment Day
-|-
-| Retro woodsball
-| Misfit Old School
-| AMOK
-| Mighty Men of Valor
-| Judgment Day
-|}
-JNJ Delta Dogs and MEDFAST placed fifth and sixth respectively in the retro woodsball competition.[1]
-Island Warriors Red received the three-player sportsmanship award, while Virginia Raiders received the five-player Rookie sportsmanship award. Dave Zinkham was named Ultimate Judge.[1]
-Groundfire, associated with Action Park Paintball near Osceola, Florida, won the three-player and five-player Rookie divisions, while Groundfire Kids won the Young Guns competition.[1]
+Three grass airball fields were prepared for the festival. Unlike previous editions, the 2006 programme did not include the International Amateur Open's industry conference.[1]
-== Team America scenario game ==
+== Programme ==
-Black Cat Productions organised a two-day scenario game titled ''Team America''. More than 300 players participated across the park's woodland fields.[1][3]
+The advertised competitions included five-player, three-player open, Young Guns and retro woodsball divisions. The wider programme included professional-player clinics, a trade show and a players' party.[1]
-The opposing factions were the USA Police, commanded by Dean Purcell, and the Terrorists, commanded by Kelly Schmidt. The game incorporated missions, night play, props and two paintball tanks. USA Police accumulated the higher score and won the scenario.[1]
+Blackcat Productions and Team Effort Events announced a scenario game with a ''Team America'' storyline.[1]
-== Legacy ==
+== Subsequent history ==
-The Three Rivers Paintball Festival was the last edition of the International Amateur Open tournament lineage. In a 2011 interview, Debra Dion Krischke attributed the decision to end the event to the organisational demands of the expanded tournament, division within the paintball industry and changes in the economics of large independent events.[4]
+In a 2011 interview, organiser Debra Krischke confirmed that 2006 was the final year of the International Amateur Open. She attributed its conclusion to organisational demands, changes in the paintball industry and the difficulty of sustaining the expanded event.[2]
-Team Effort Events organised a separate Paintball Festival and Business Conference at Three Rivers Paintball in 2011. Contemporary coverage described the later gathering as a new, smaller event rather than another edition of the International Amateur Open.[4]
+The Paintball Festival and Business Conference announced for Three Rivers in August 2011 was presented as a new, smaller event.[2]
 == See also ==
 * [[International Amateur Open]]
-* [[Woodsball]]
+* [[2005 International Amateur Open]]
+* [[Three Rivers Paintball]]
 * [[Scenario paintball]]
-* [[Paintball tournament results]]
 == References ==
-# Bambi Bullard, “Three Rivers Paintball Festival!”, ''Action Pursuit Games'', February 2007, pp. 98–103.
+# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/threeriverspaintballfestival/index.shtml Dawn Mills, ''IAO Goes Retro'', WARPIG, June 2006.]
-# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/threeriverspaintballfestival/index.shtml WARPIG – “IAO Goes Retro”, Dawn Mills, June 2006]
+# [https://warpig.com/paintball/articles/hotseat/debrak_2011/index2.shtml Bill Mills, ''Debra Krischke — In the Hot Seat'', WARPIG, July 2011, page 2.]
-# [https://www.post-gazette.com/neighborhoods-west/2006/08/10/Potshot-hotshots/stories/200608100271 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – “Potshot hotshots”, John Vivirito Jr., 10 August 2006]
-# [https://warpig.com/paintball/articles/hotseat/debrak_2011/index2.shtml WARPIG – “Debra Krischke in the Hot Seat”, Bill Mills, July 2011, page 2]
+== External links ==
+* [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/threeriverspaintballfestival/index.shtml WARPIG contemporary festival preview]
-[[Category:Paintball tournaments]]
+[[Category:Paintball tournaments in the United States]]
+[[Category:Paintball in Pennsylvania]]
+[[Category:2000s in American paintball]]
+[[Category:International Amateur Open]]
 [[Category:2006 in paintball]]

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