2026 Arena Paintball Labour Day Cup
2026 Arena Paintball Labour Day Cup was a five-player paintball tournament held on 24–25 October 2026 at Arena Paintball in Feilding, New Zealand. It was the third event in the venue's 2026 race-format tournament series.[1]
Ballistics Unit finished first, followed by Manawatu Titans in second place and Cult in third.[5]
Venue and format
The tournament took place at Arena Paintball, 558 Kimbolton Road, Feilding. The advertised format used ten-minute matches with a four-point mercy rule. Players were limited to a hopper and four pods per game, and teams could register up to eight players. The programme provided for round-robin play followed by semi-finals and finals, with Cup and Plate competitions.[1]
The published draw contained 11 entries representing ten teams, with Ballistics Unit entering two squads. It listed 44 fixtures arranged in 22 sets.[2]
Final results
The following final placings were reported by Ralph Tsing in a Facebook comment following the tournament.[5]
| Position | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ballistics Unit |
| 2 | Manawatu Titans |
| 3 | Cult |
The available report does not identify which of the two Ballistics Unit squads took first place.
Day-one standings
The organiser published the following standings after play on 24 October. These are interim scores, not final tournament placings.[3] A subsequent clarification instructed readers to disregard the spreadsheet's "Games To Be Played" column, which is omitted here.[4]
| Team | Recorded score | Games played |
|---|---|---|
| Cult | 5.5 | 6 |
| Manawatu Titans | 4 | 5 |
| Ballistics Unit 2 | 4 | 5 |
| Expendables | 3.5 | 5 |
| Reavers | 3.5 | 5 |
| Ballistics Unit 1 | 2.5 | 5 |
| Blast | 2 | 4 |
| Surge | 2 | 6 |
| Sharks | 1 | 5 |
| Chaos | 0 | 6 |
| Misfits | 0 | 4 |
References
- Paintball Direct NZ – 2026 Race Events.
- Labour Day Draw 2026. Event fixture sheet supplied by a contributor.
- Arena Paintball. "Scores end of day 1". Facebook, 24 October 2026. Photograph of the standings spreadsheet; screenshot supplied by a contributor.
- Arena Paintball. "Please ignore games to be played column on previous post". Facebook, 24 October 2026. Organiser's clarification; screenshot supplied by a contributor.
- Ralph Tsing, Facebook comment reporting the final tournament placings, October 2026. Results supplied by a contributor; original comment not independently retrieved.