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Added the eight players recorded on Disposal Unit’s PBLeagues membership list: Chris Jones, Cuan Lategan, Daniel Renner, Ethan Bailey, Joshua Bailey, Kane Anderson, Mike Taylor and Tom Van Lierop, with links to their individual profiles. Removed the incorrect statement that no player names were available. Clarified that the PBLeagues membership list does not establish participation by every player at every event. Retained the distinction between confirmed results, participant-reported placings a
Corrected Disposal Unit’s player section, which previously contained the roster of the unrelated Wellington team Addicted. Replaced it with ten identified Disposal Unit members from the historical PBLeagues records. Preserved the team’s 2011 to 2016 tournament results, added the 2016 Auckland Paintball Cup standings and documented the April 2017 NZLS photographic record without assuming tournament participation.
 
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{{Short description|New Zealand tournament paintball team}}
{{Short description|New Zealand tournament paintball team}}


'''Disposal Unit''' was a New Zealand competitive [[paintball]] team based in Auckland and documented from 2011 to 2016. Its results included victory at a Rotorua tournament in 2011, second place in the 2014 [[South Auckland Paintball Club]] Open X-Ball season and the Division Two title at the [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]].[1][2][3]
'''Disposal Unit''', also abbreviated '''DU''', was a New Zealand competitive [[paintball]] team based in Auckland, with documented tournament activity between 2011 and 2016.
 
Its recorded achievements include winning a Rotorua tournament Cup competition in 2011, finishing second overall in the 2014 [[South Auckland Paintball Club]] (SAPC) Open X-Ball season and winning Division Two at the [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]].[1][2][3]
 
The team fielded multiple tournament entries, including squads identified as Disposal Unit and Disposal Unit #2.[4][7]


Disposal Unit was a predecessor of [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit]], according to a contributor familiar with the teams. The surviving tournament databases establish the chronology of the two teams but do not independently state the organisational relationship.
Contributor accounts identify Disposal Unit as a predecessor of [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Ballistics Unit]], although the precise organisational transition has not been independently established.


== Tournament history ==
== Tournament history ==
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=== 2011 Rotorua tournament ===
=== 2011 Rotorua tournament ===


Disposal Unit competed at a Rotorua tournament reported during Queen’s Birthday weekend in June 2011. The first-day table placed the team third with 672 points.[1]
Disposal Unit competed at a Rotorua tournament reported during Queen's Birthday weekend in June 2011.
 
The published first-day standings placed the team third with 672 points.[1]
 
The subsequent Cup results listed Disposal Unit first, ahead of Hybrid, Arachnids and The Expendables.
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Cup position
! Team
|-
| 1st
| Disposal Unit
|-
| 2nd
| Hybrid
|-
| 3rd
| Arachnids
|-
| 4th
| The Expendables
|}
 
The recovered discussion does not establish the tournament's formal name, so no additional title is assigned.
 
=== 2011 NZPPL Nationals ===
 
An October 2011 entry list for the NZPPL Nationals identified two intended Disposal Unit entries:[7]


The Cup results subsequently listed Disposal Unit first, ahead of Hybrid, Arachnids and The Expendables. A participant separately reproduced the same Cup order from memory. The recovered discussion does not provide the event’s formal title, so none is assigned here.[1]
* Disposal Unit
* Disposal Unit #2


An October entry list for the 2011 NZPPL Nationals named both '''Disposal Unit''' and '''Disposal Unit #2'''. The list establishes two intended entries but is not a result sheet and does not by itself confirm that both squads started the tournament.[7]
The list establishes pre-event registration rather than confirming that both squads competed or recording their final results.


=== 2012 NZPPL Auckland event ===
=== 2012 NZPPL Auckland event ===


Disposal Unit fielded two entries at the NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1, held at [[Lock N Load Paintball]] on 7–8 April 2012.[4]
Disposal Unit entered two squads at the NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1, held at [[Lock N Load Paintball]] on 7–8 April 2012.[4]


A participant’s post-event order abbreviated the entries to '''DU''' and '''DU 2''', placing DU second and DU 2 fifteenth among sixteen teams.[4]
A participant's post-event account listed DU second and DU 2 fifteenth among sixteen entries.


The author qualified the order with “If I am not mistaken”, and no official final table has been recovered. The placings are therefore presented as a participant-reported result rather than an official classification.[4]
The author qualified the ordering as a recollection rather than an official result. No complete independently verified results table has been recovered.[4]


=== 2014 SAPC season ===
=== 2014 SAPC Race Series ===


PBLeagues records Disposal Unit competing in all four rounds of the 2014 SAPC Open X-Ball series.[2][5]
Disposal Unit competed in all four rounds of the 2014 SAPC Open X-Ball Race Series.[2][5]


{| class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Disposal Unit – 2014 SAPC Open X-Ball results
|+ 2014 SAPC Open X-Ball results
! Tournament
! Event
! Dates
! Dates
! Position
! Position
! Ranking points
! Ranking points
|-
|-
| SAPC February Race #1
| February Race #1
| 8–9 February 2014
| 8–9 February
| 2nd of 6
| 2nd of 6
| 82
| 82
|-
|-
| SAPC May Race #2
| May Race #2
| 3–4 May 2014
| 3–4 May
| 2nd of 8
| 2nd of 8
| 85
| 85
|-
|-
| SAPC July Race #3
| July Race #3
| 12–13 July 2014
| 12–13 July
| 3rd of 7
| 3rd of 7
| 70
| 70
|-
|-
| SAPC September Race #4
| September Race #4
| 27–28 September 2014
| 27–28 September
| 2nd of 5
| 2nd of 5
| 77.5
| 77.5
|-
! colspan="3" | Season total
! 314.5
|}
|}


The combined standings placed Disposal Unit second for the season with 314.5 ranking points.[5]
The official season standings placed Disposal Unit second with 314.5 ranking points, behind ADHD and ahead of Tempest.[5]


=== 2016 Auckland Paintball Cup ===
=== 2016 Auckland Paintball Cup ===


Disposal Unit won Division Two X-Ball at the [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]], held on 16–17 April. PBLeagues placed the team first among eight competitors with 100 ranking points.[3]
Disposal Unit won Division Two X-Ball at the [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]], held on 16–17 April 2016.


This is the latest competition recorded on the team’s recovered PBLeagues profile. The absence of later entries does not establish an exact dissolution or transition date.
PBLeagues recorded the following final placings:[3]


== Identity and succession ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Team
|-
| 1st
| '''Disposal Unit'''
|-
| 2nd
| Expendables
|-
| 3rd
| ADHD
|-
| 4th
| BC Rift
|-
| 5th
| CamoMeat
|-
| 6th
| BOP Requiem
|-
| 7th
| Phoenix Tahiti
|-
| 8th
| Low Jinx
|}


In this New Zealand tournament context, '''DU''' is the accepted abbreviation for Disposal Unit. Contributor clarification identifies '''DU 2''' and '''Disposal Unit #2''' as the team’s second squad.
Disposal Unit received 100 ranking points for its victory.[3]


The full second-squad form appears in a 2011 Nationals entry list, while the abbreviated form appears in the participant-reported 2012 result.[4][7] Results for the two entries are retained separately wherever the source records them as distinct tournament entries.
This is the latest tournament appearance recorded in the team's recovered PBLeagues event history.


Contributor clarification identifies Disposal Unit as a predecessor of Ballistics Unit. PBLeagues records Disposal Unit as an Auckland team and documents competition through April 2016, while Ballistics Unit’s separate Auckland profile has a database registration date of 2 July 2017.[2][6]
=== 2017 NZLS photographic record ===


These dates support the documented sequence but do not independently establish the precise date or nature of the transition.
On 13 April 2017, the team's Facebook page shared photographs from [[2017 NZLS Round 2]] at [[Lock N Load Adventures]].[8]


== Documented players ==
The original 50-photograph album was published by MilRad Media NZ and identified Christopher Waters in its tagging information.[9]


PBLeagues lists the following players as members of Disposal Unit:[2]
The post documents continued use of the Disposal Unit team identity in connection with New Zealand paintball during 2017.
 
It does not independently establish that Disposal Unit entered the tournament as a competing squad.
 
== Players ==
 
=== PBLeagues member records ===
 
The historical PBLeagues team records identify thirteen players associated with Disposal Unit. The following ten names have been recovered from the previously recorded membership information:[2]


{| class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Player
! Player
! PBLeagues profile
|-
|-
| Chris Jones
| Anton Glassie
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/NnTTui3WJc82j6cX Profile]
|-
|-
| Cuan Lategan
| Ash Lewis
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/9Vwlza0mm4obbPLO Profile]
|-
|-
| Daniel Renner
| Chris Waters
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/JGyzkSGDa9WLBNV9 Profile]
|-
|-
| Ethan Bailey
| Dave Phillips
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/zbj8TP5KGxtBrQ6f Profile]
|-
|-
| Joshua Bailey
| Gareth Appleby
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/Bkp9z6T2KhCmLM0h Profile]
|-
|-
| Kane Anderson
| Jason Cleeton
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/AI4AEU07bGLHZVge Profile]
|-
|-
| Mike Taylor
| Joel Thomas
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/T4lt8tv4XnyDpN2B Profile]
|-
|-
| Tom Van Lierop
| Leighton Lipsham
| [https://pbleagues.com/profile/639I5ib0lzyqDRIp Profile]
|-
| Luke Williams
|-
| Martin Cheung
|}
|}


The PBLeagues membership list documents association with Disposal Unit but does not establish that every listed player appeared at every tournament recorded in the team’s history.
The remaining three names have not been established from the available extracted membership information.
 
Membership records do not establish which players appeared at each individual tournament, and the list should not be treated as a complete roster for every season.
 
=== Multiple squads ===
 
Contemporary records establish the use of several forms of the team name:
 
* Disposal Unit
* Disposal Unit #2
* DU
* DU 2
 
The numbered and abbreviated forms identify separate squad entries where multiple Disposal Unit teams were registered for the same competition.
 
The 2011 Nationals entry list and 2012 Auckland event reports document this practice.[4][7]
 
== Team identity ==
 
PBLeagues records Disposal Unit as an Auckland team, with its registration dated 1 February 2014.[2]
 
This is a database registration date rather than the team's founding date. Contemporary tournament records establish activity by 2011.
 
Contributor information describes Disposal Unit as a predecessor of Ballistics Unit. The two organisations have separate PBLeagues profiles, with Disposal Unit's latest recorded tournament appearance in April 2016 and Ballistics Unit's registration dated 2 July 2017.[2][6]
 
The available records do not establish the exact date or formal circumstances of any transition between the two team identities.


== Selected tournament results ==
== Selected tournament results ==


{| class="wikitable sortable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Date
! Year
! Competition
! Competition
! Published entry
! Entry
! Result
! Result
|-
|-
| June 2011
| 2011
| Rotorua tournament
| Rotorua tournament
| Disposal Unit
| Disposal Unit
| Cup winner.[1]
| Cup winner.[1]
|-
|-
| October 2011
| 2011
| NZPPL Nationals
| NZPPL Nationals
| Disposal Unit
| Disposal Unit
| Listed before the event; participation and result not established.[7]
| Pre-event entry recorded; result unverified.[7]
|-
|-
| October 2011
| 2011
| NZPPL Nationals
| NZPPL Nationals
| Disposal Unit #2
| Disposal Unit #2
| Listed before the event; participation and result not established.[7]
| Pre-event entry recorded; result unverified.[7]
|-
|-
| 7–8 April 2012
| 2012
| NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1
| NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1
| DU
| DU
| Participant-reported 2nd of 16.[4]
| Participant-reported 2nd of 16.[4]
|-
|-
| 7–8 April 2012
| 2012
| NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1
| NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1
| DU 2
| DU 2
| Participant-reported 15th of 16.[4]
| Participant-reported 15th of 16.[4]
|-
|-
| 2014 season
| 2014
| SAPC Open X-Ball series
| SAPC Open X-Ball Race Series
| Disposal Unit
| Disposal Unit
| 2nd; 314.5 ranking points.[5]
| 2nd overall; 314.5 ranking points.[5]
|-
|-
| 16–17 April 2016
| 2016
| [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]]
| [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]]
| Disposal Unit
| Disposal Unit
| 1st of 8 in Division Two.[3]
| 1st of 8, Division Two.[3]
|}
|}


The 2011 Nationals entries are included as registration evidence and are not treated as confirmed participation.
The 2017 NZLS photographic record is not included as a tournament result because the source does not establish a Disposal Unit competition entry or placing.


== See also ==
== See also ==
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* [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)]]
* [[Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)]]
* [[South Auckland Paintball Club]]
* [[South Auckland Paintball Club]]
* [[Lock N Load Paintball]]
* [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]]
* [[2016 Auckland Paintball Cup]]
* [[Paintball in New Zealand]]
* [[2017 NZLS Round 2]]
* [[Lock N Load Adventures]]
* [[History of paintball in New Zealand]]


== References ==
== References ==


# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207161019/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3517 ''Scores from Rotorua'', NZ P8NT, June 2011.] First-day scores and Cup and Plate results.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207161019/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3517 ''Scores from Rotorua'', NZ P8NT, June 2011]. First-day scores and reported Cup standings.
# [https://pbleagues.com/team/q2Uqu9wEI8ifA5PZ ''Disposal Unit – team profile and tournament history'', PBLeagues.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/team/q2Uqu9wEI8ifA5PZ Disposal Unit – Team profile and tournament history, PBLeagues]. Auckland registration and recorded tournament appearances.
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/4588/rankings ''Auckland Paintball Cup 2016 – final rankings'', PBLeagues.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/event/4588/rankings Auckland Paintball Cup 2016 – Final rankings, PBLeagues]. Division Two X-Ball standings, 16–17 April 2016.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130206050213/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4203&start=10 ''NZPPL Event (1) 2012 Auckland “Lock n Load”'', NZ P8NT, April 2012.] Participant-reported final order.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130206050213/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4203&start=10 ''NZPPL Event (1) 2012 Auckland Lock N Load'', NZ P8NT, April 2012]. Participant-reported placings.
# [https://pbleagues.com/league/262/seasonRankings/2014 ''South Auckland Paintball Club – 2014 season rankings'', PBLeagues.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/league/262/seasonRankings/2014 South Auckland Paintball Club – 2014 season rankings, PBLeagues]. Complete Open X-Ball season results.
# [https://pbleagues.com/team/5UYjjOgIYqtuuRM9 ''Ballistics Unit – team profile and tournament history'', PBLeagues.]
# [https://pbleagues.com/team/5UYjjOgIYqtuuRM9 Ballistics Unit – Team profile and tournament history, PBLeagues].
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207150546/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4021 ''2011 NZPPL Nationals – teams attending'', NZ P8NT, 15 October 2011.] Final pre-event count naming Disposal Unit and Disposal Unit #2; not a result sheet.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/20130207150546/http://paintball.net.nz/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4021 ''2011 NZPPL Nationals – Teams attending'', NZ P8NT, 15 October 2011]. Pre-event entries.
# [https://www.facebook.com/DisposalUnitPaintball/posts/1160887460703435/ Disposal Unit – NZLS Round 2 photographs at Lock N Load Adventures, Facebook, 13 April 2017].
# [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=blacksheepmedianz&set=a.1585011074842837 MilRad Media NZ – ''NZLS 2017 Round 2'', 50-photograph Facebook album, April 2017].


== External links ==
== External links ==


* [https://pbleagues.com/team/q2Uqu9wEI8ifA5PZ Disposal Unit – PBLeagues profile]
* [https://pbleagues.com/team/q2Uqu9wEI8ifA5PZ Disposal Unit – PBLeagues team profile]
* [https://www.facebook.com/DisposalUnitPaintball/ Disposal Unit historical Facebook page]


[[Category:New Zealand paintball teams]]
[[Category:New Zealand paintball teams]]
[[Category:Paintball in Auckland]]
[[Category:Paintball in Auckland]]
[[Category:2010s in New Zealand paintball]]
[[Category:2010s in New Zealand paintball]]

Latest revision as of 16:39, 31 October 2026

Disposal Unit, also abbreviated DU, was a New Zealand competitive paintball team based in Auckland, with documented tournament activity between 2011 and 2016.

Its recorded achievements include winning a Rotorua tournament Cup competition in 2011, finishing second overall in the 2014 South Auckland Paintball Club (SAPC) Open X-Ball season and winning Division Two at the 2016 Auckland Paintball Cup.[1][2][3]

The team fielded multiple tournament entries, including squads identified as Disposal Unit and Disposal Unit #2.[4][7]

Contributor accounts identify Disposal Unit as a predecessor of Ballistics Unit, although the precise organisational transition has not been independently established.

Tournament history

[edit]

2011 Rotorua tournament

[edit]

Disposal Unit competed at a Rotorua tournament reported during Queen's Birthday weekend in June 2011.

The published first-day standings placed the team third with 672 points.[1]

The subsequent Cup results listed Disposal Unit first, ahead of Hybrid, Arachnids and The Expendables.

Cup position Team
1st Disposal Unit
2nd Hybrid
3rd Arachnids
4th The Expendables

The recovered discussion does not establish the tournament's formal name, so no additional title is assigned.

2011 NZPPL Nationals

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An October 2011 entry list for the NZPPL Nationals identified two intended Disposal Unit entries:[7]

  • Disposal Unit
  • Disposal Unit #2

The list establishes pre-event registration rather than confirming that both squads competed or recording their final results.

2012 NZPPL Auckland event

[edit]

Disposal Unit entered two squads at the NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1, held at Lock N Load Paintball on 7–8 April 2012.[4]

A participant's post-event account listed DU second and DU 2 fifteenth among sixteen entries.

The author qualified the ordering as a recollection rather than an official result. No complete independently verified results table has been recovered.[4]

2014 SAPC Race Series

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Disposal Unit competed in all four rounds of the 2014 SAPC Open X-Ball Race Series.[2][5]

2014 SAPC Open X-Ball results
Event Dates Position Ranking points
February Race #1 8–9 February 2nd of 6 82
May Race #2 3–4 May 2nd of 8 85
July Race #3 12–13 July 3rd of 7 70
September Race #4 27–28 September 2nd of 5 77.5

The official season standings placed Disposal Unit second with 314.5 ranking points, behind ADHD and ahead of Tempest.[5]

2016 Auckland Paintball Cup

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Disposal Unit won Division Two X-Ball at the 2016 Auckland Paintball Cup, held on 16–17 April 2016.

PBLeagues recorded the following final placings:[3]

Position Team
1st Disposal Unit
2nd Expendables
3rd ADHD
4th BC Rift
5th CamoMeat
6th BOP Requiem
7th Phoenix Tahiti
8th Low Jinx

Disposal Unit received 100 ranking points for its victory.[3]

This is the latest tournament appearance recorded in the team's recovered PBLeagues event history.

2017 NZLS photographic record

[edit]

On 13 April 2017, the team's Facebook page shared photographs from 2017 NZLS Round 2 at Lock N Load Adventures.[8]

The original 50-photograph album was published by MilRad Media NZ and identified Christopher Waters in its tagging information.[9]

The post documents continued use of the Disposal Unit team identity in connection with New Zealand paintball during 2017.

It does not independently establish that Disposal Unit entered the tournament as a competing squad.

Players

[edit]

PBLeagues member records

[edit]

The historical PBLeagues team records identify thirteen players associated with Disposal Unit. The following ten names have been recovered from the previously recorded membership information:[2]

Player
Anton Glassie
Ash Lewis
Chris Waters
Dave Phillips
Gareth Appleby
Jason Cleeton
Joel Thomas
Leighton Lipsham
Luke Williams
Martin Cheung

The remaining three names have not been established from the available extracted membership information.

Membership records do not establish which players appeared at each individual tournament, and the list should not be treated as a complete roster for every season.

Multiple squads

[edit]

Contemporary records establish the use of several forms of the team name:

  • Disposal Unit
  • Disposal Unit #2
  • DU
  • DU 2

The numbered and abbreviated forms identify separate squad entries where multiple Disposal Unit teams were registered for the same competition.

The 2011 Nationals entry list and 2012 Auckland event reports document this practice.[4][7]

Team identity

[edit]

PBLeagues records Disposal Unit as an Auckland team, with its registration dated 1 February 2014.[2]

This is a database registration date rather than the team's founding date. Contemporary tournament records establish activity by 2011.

Contributor information describes Disposal Unit as a predecessor of Ballistics Unit. The two organisations have separate PBLeagues profiles, with Disposal Unit's latest recorded tournament appearance in April 2016 and Ballistics Unit's registration dated 2 July 2017.[2][6]

The available records do not establish the exact date or formal circumstances of any transition between the two team identities.

Selected tournament results

[edit]
Year Competition Entry Result
2011 Rotorua tournament Disposal Unit Cup winner.[1]
2011 NZPPL Nationals Disposal Unit Pre-event entry recorded; result unverified.[7]
2011 NZPPL Nationals Disposal Unit #2 Pre-event entry recorded; result unverified.[7]
2012 NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1 DU Participant-reported 2nd of 16.[4]
2012 NZPPL Super 5 Man Auckland Event 1 DU 2 Participant-reported 15th of 16.[4]
2014 SAPC Open X-Ball Race Series Disposal Unit 2nd overall; 314.5 ranking points.[5]
2016 2016 Auckland Paintball Cup Disposal Unit 1st of 8, Division Two.[3]

The 2017 NZLS photographic record is not included as a tournament result because the source does not establish a Disposal Unit competition entry or placing.

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. Scores from Rotorua, NZ P8NT, June 2011. First-day scores and reported Cup standings.
  2. Disposal Unit – Team profile and tournament history, PBLeagues. Auckland registration and recorded tournament appearances.
  3. Auckland Paintball Cup 2016 – Final rankings, PBLeagues. Division Two X-Ball standings, 16–17 April 2016.
  4. NZPPL Event (1) 2012 Auckland Lock N Load, NZ P8NT, April 2012. Participant-reported placings.
  5. South Auckland Paintball Club – 2014 season rankings, PBLeagues. Complete Open X-Ball season results.
  6. Ballistics Unit – Team profile and tournament history, PBLeagues.
  7. 2011 NZPPL Nationals – Teams attending, NZ P8NT, 15 October 2011. Pre-event entries.
  8. Disposal Unit – NZLS Round 2 photographs at Lock N Load Adventures, Facebook, 13 April 2017.
  9. MilRad Media NZ – NZLS 2017 Round 2, 50-photograph Facebook album, April 2017.
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