Bad Karma (New Zealand Paintball Team)

Bad Karma was a Rotorua-based New Zealand tournament paintball team documented competing between 2003 and 2005. The team also entered tournaments using the numbered squad names Bad Karma 1, Bad Karma 2 and Bad Karma #1. These were entries belonging to the same team rather than separate organisations.

History

2003 Auckland Super 5s

Bad Karma fielded two squads during the first half of the 2003 Auckland Super 5s season. The contemporary mid-year standings recorded five rounds from February to June.[1]

Bad Karma 1 accumulated 1,422 points, while Bad Karma 2 accumulated 1,248 points.[1] These were mid-year cumulative totals and should not be treated as final full-season placings.

Squad	February	March	April	May	June	Mid-year total
Bad Karma 1	156	415	389	462	0	1,422
Bad Karma 2	42	419	0	587	0	1,248

2003 Auckland Queen's Birthday Superball

At the 2003 Auckland Queen's Birthday Superball, Bad Karma competed as a single entry. The team scored 884 points during the preliminary stage, qualified for the four-team Cup final and finished fourth.[2]

Place	Team	Preliminary points
1	Phoenix	701
2	Raiders	809
3	Saints	1,076
4	Bad Karma	884

The preliminary scores in this table are not final-round scores and therefore do not determine the published finishing order.

2005 Auckland Queen's Birthday Superball

Bad Karma returned for the 2005 Auckland Queen's Birthday Superball at the Kumeu Showgrounds.[3] Contemporary forum discussion identifies Boog as the team's captain.[3]

Bad Karma qualified for the Plate stage but surrendered its finals position to Wellington Impact. The decision was described by Bad Karma members as intended to allow a developing team to contest the Plate final.[3] Bad Karma should therefore not be assigned Impact's subsequent Plate placing.

A player who filled in for Bad Karma identified teammates by the names or nicknames Pete, Boog, B, Reg and Seth.[3] These references do not establish a complete roster. Contributor identification associates Boog with Gavin Mumby and Pete with Peter Mumby. The identity of Reg remains uncertain; a possible identification as Reg Low has not been independently verified.

Documented players

Published name	Identification	Evidence
Boog	Gavin Mumby	Identified as Bad Karma captain in the 2005 forum discussion; full-name identification supplied by a project contributor.[3]
Pete	Peter Mumby	Named as a Bad Karma player in the 2005 forum discussion; full-name identification supplied by a project contributor.[3]
B	Unidentified	Named in the incomplete 2005 event list.[3]
Reg	Unconfirmed	Named in the incomplete 2005 event list. A possible identification as Reg Low remains unverified.[3]
Seth	Surname not recovered	Named in the incomplete 2005 event list.[3]

References