Datis (Iran Paintball Team)
Datis, also known as Team Datis or Datis Paintball, is an Iranian tournament paintball team associated with Tehran. It won Division 1 at Paintball World Cup Asia in 2006, 2010 and 2011, and the overall Paintball Asia League Series (PALS) championship in 2006, 2007 and 2010.[1][2][3][4]
The wider Datis organisation has fielded several teams, including Datis Girls. Datis also competed in the Iran National Paintball League (INPL) and Iranian PALM events.[5][6]
History
Early development
An archived team index from December 2010 describes Datis as "Since 2004".[7]
In a March 2010 interview originally published by ProPaintball.com, Aco Amir identified Babak Esmaeily and Reza Badrian as teammates involved in creating Datis. He described having played with the team for six years.[8]
The team's website preserved player profiles, competition reports, photographs and links to a discussion forum and Yahoo group.[9][10]
Asian championships, 2006–2007
At World Cup Asia in Kuala Lumpur in December 2006, Datis won Division 1 and the overall PALS season championship.[1]
Datis retained the overall PALS title in 2007. At that year's World Cup Asia, it finished second in Division 1 behind South Africa's Reaper.[2]
Competition in 2009–2010
In March 2009, Datis finished second behind the American Ironmen at the Golden Palm tournament at Kish Olympic Stadium, Iran. Mehr News Agency reported nine foreign and twenty Iranian teams at the event.[11]
In July, Datis finished third at the Asian Paintball Invitational Tournament in Taiwan, behind Germany's Ramstein Instinct and Australia's SWAT.[12]
The March 2010 ProPaintball.com interview reported that Datis had won all four events of the preceding Iranian league season, defeating Persian Legend at the final tournament.[8]
At World Cup Asia in November 2010, Datis won Division 1 ahead of France's Bad Elements, Australia's STK and Malaysia's MacDev Ronin. The team also secured the overall 2010 PALS championship.[3][13]
World Cup Asia 2011
Datis successfully defended its World Cup Asia Division 1 title in Langkawi in November 2011.
A contemporary Bernama report identified Babak Datis Esmaily as the team's leader. Datis defeated Malaysia's Demon 4–0 in the quarter-final and Australia's STK 3–2 in the semi-final before beating Reaper 4–1 in the final. The team received US$50,000 and the championship trophy.[4]
Datis also finished third in the accompanying Intercontinental Cup, behind France's Toulouse TonTons and the American Ironmen.[14]
Iranian national competition
The Iran Paintball Association's results for the Babolsar event of 14–16 December 2011 placed Datis first in the men's first division, followed by Hype and Persian Legend Two.[15]
The team's archived February 2012 news identified Datis as the overall INPL champion for the Iranian calendar year 1390 and named Hype as its opponent in the final.[16]
Planet Eclipse independently reported the championship on 27 February 2012. Its account also recorded Diako winning Division 2 and securing promotion, while Datis Girls won the women's cup and the women's 1390 title.[5]
An association report preserved in November 2014 described a seven-round premier league involving eight teams. It named Datis as champion, followed by Ariaman and Griffin.[17]
Later international results
Datis finished third in Division 1 at the 2013 NAZA World Cup Asia, behind Johannesburg Dynamix and Raskal Malaysia.[18]
PBLeagues records another third-place World Cup Asia finish in 2014 and fourth place in the overall PALS Division 1 standings that year.[19][20]
The same competition database records Datis finishing ninth of sixteen Division 1 teams at World Cup Asia in 2015 and second of eleven in 2016. It also records third place in Open X-Ball at the Melaka International XBall Cup in April 2018.[19]
PALM competition
On 8 October 2017, Planet Eclipse reported that Tehran Datis had won Division 1 at the penultimate Iranian PALM event. Shemiranat Datis finished second in Division 2 at the same event.[6]
The report described both teams as being in contention for their respective season titles; those statements preceded the final round and were not final championship results.[6]
Players
The team's main player page, archived on 30 April 2007, listed the following players. Names, positions and numbers reproduce the spellings and descriptions on that page rather than an event-specific roster.[9]
| Player | Listed position | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Amirhossein Dousthaghighi | Front | 777 |
| Reza Badrian | Front | 03 |
| Babak Esmaeily | Back; captain | 1 |
| Aco Amir Sh.E | Middle | 69 |
| Shahin Tabary | Back | 10 |
Babak Esmaeily and Aco Amir also appear in subsequent contemporary reporting about the team's international and domestic competition.[4][8]
Associated teams
Contemporary reporting describes Datis as an organisation with several teams. Planet Eclipse's February 2012 report explicitly associated Diako with Datis and identified Datis Girls as its women's team.[5]
Datis Girls competed in World Cup Asia Division 3 in 2012 and 2013, finishing 44th of 46 and 25th of 54 respectively.[21]
The 2017 PALM report separately identified Tehran Datis and Shemiranat Datis in different divisions.[6]
Sponsorship
The archived Datis website identified Behrooz Food Industries and DYE as sponsors in its account of the 2006 PALS championship.[22]
Datis was identified as Planet Eclipse sponsored in a November 2008 report. In his March 2010 interview, Aco Amir also named DYE and JT as equipment supporters.[2][8]
In 2017, Planet Eclipse reported that the organisation had received custom Datis CS1.5 markers through One4One Paintball.[6]
Selected tournament results
| Year | Tournament or series | Division or category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Paintball World Cup Asia | Division 1 | 1st [1] |
| 2006 | Paintball Asia League Series | Overall season championship | 1st [1] |
| 2007 | Paintball World Cup Asia | Division 1 | 2nd [2] |
| 2007 | Paintball Asia League Series | Overall season championship | 1st [2] |
| 2009 | Golden Palm tournament, Kish | Team competition | 2nd [11] |
| 2009 | Asian Paintball Invitational Tournament, Taiwan | Team competition | 3rd [12] |
| 2010 | Paintball World Cup Asia | Division 1 | 1st [13] |
| 2010 | Paintball Asia League Series | Overall season championship | 1st [3] |
| 2011 | Paintball World Cup Asia | Division 1 | 1st [4] |
| 2011 | Intercontinental Cup, Langkawi | Team competition | 3rd [14] |
| 1390 (2011–2012) | Iran National Paintball League | First division, overall season championship | 1st [5][16] |
| 2013 | NAZA Paintball World Cup Asia | Division 1 | 3rd [18] |
| 2014 | Paintball World Cup Asia | Division 1 | 3rd [19] |
| 2014 | Paintball Asia League Series | Division 1 season standings | 4th [20] |
| 2015 | Paintball World Cup Asia | Division 1 | 9th of 16 [19] |
| 2016 | Paintball World Cup Asia | Division 1 | 2nd of 11 [19] |
| 2017 | Iranian PALM penultimate event | Division 1, Tehran Datis | 1st [6] |
| 2018 | Melaka International XBall Cup | Open X-Ball | 3rd of 9 [19] |
See also
- Datis Girls
- Iranian paintball
- Women's paintball in Iran
- Paintball in Iran
- Iran National Paintball League
- Paintball League Middle East
- Paintball Asia League Series
- Paintball World Cup Asia
References
- Life's Happenings, "Paintball – World Cup Asia 2006", 19 December 2006.
- Paintball in Singapore 101, "Top Asia Paintball Teams!", 8 November 2008.
- Villain Paintball, World Cup Asia results and overall PALS championship report, November 2010.
- Villain Paintball, "Datis wins WCA 2011!", reproducing Bernama's 13 November report, 14 November 2011.
- Planet Eclipse, "Datis make it a clean sweep!", 27 February 2012.
- Planet Eclipse, "Datis 1st and 2nd: Palm Series, Iran", 8 October 2017.
- Datis Paintball, team index describing Datis as "Since 2004", archived 25 December 2010.
- ProPaintball.com, "Player of the Week: Aco Amir", Brandon Mason, 9 March 2010; reproduced by JR Dominguez 32 Paintball on 10 March 2010.
- Datis Paintball, main player profiles, archived 30 April 2007.
- Datis Paintball, links page, archived 28 April 2007.
- Mehr News Agency, "U.S. wins Golden Palm Paintball Tournament", 7 March 2009.
- Paintball in Singapore 101, Asian Paintball Invitational Tournament results, July 2009.
- Team 3nity Paintball, "World Cup Asia 2010 Results", 1 December 2010.
- Jahang River Paintball, World Cup Asia and Intercontinental Cup results, November 2011.
- Iran Paintball Association, national league results for Azar 1390, archived 19 January 2012. Persian.
- Datis Paintball, February 2012 INPL championship report, archived 8 April 2012.
- Iran Paintball Association, premier league and national-team report, archived 15 November 2014. Persian.
- Israel L., "2013 PALS/NAZA World Cup Asia Video, Results, and Photo Gallery", Social Paintball, 25 November 2013.
- PBLeagues, DATIS historical tournament results.
- PBLeagues, Paintball Asia League Series, 2014 season rankings.
- PBLeagues, Datis Girls team profile and tournament history.
- Datis Paintball, home page and 2006 PALS championship account, archived 23 February 2007.