KC Damage (New Zealand Paintball Team)
KC Damage was a New Zealand tournament paintball team associated with the Kāpiti Coast. Earlier records identify the team as Damage and Team Damage. The later forms K.C. Damage and KCDamage are spelling variants of KC Damage.[1]
Team Damage finished fourth in the Second Division at the 2001 New Zealand Paintball Nationals. Competing as KC Damage, the team won the 2013 NZPPL Nationals at Asylum Paintball in Auckland.[3][7]
The team was separate from the Christchurch-based Damage Inc.
History
[edit]Team name and continuity
[edit]Contributor information supplied to WikiPaintball identifies Damage, Team Damage and KC Damage as names used by the same Kāpiti Coast team during different periods. It also identifies KC as referring to Kāpiti Coast and connects Jason Newport with both periods of the team.[1]
The date when the KC Damage name was adopted has not been established. The documented continuity does not imply that the playing roster remained unchanged.
2001 season
[edit]Team Damage competed in seven-, five- and three-player events during 2001.
The Valhalla National Rankings record Damage at RotoVegas, where it received a preliminary-round ranking contribution of 63.9 and a Second Division contribution of 73.3. These are normalised ranking figures rather than raw tournament scores.[4]
Damage also competed at the Hawke's Bay Triples. It received 62.9 ranking points and placed tenth in the published national three-player standings.[4]
At the Wellington Cup, a contemporary tournament report placed Team Damage seventh with 328 tournament points.[5] The Valhalla five-player standings assigned the result a normalised contribution of 46.9, placing Damage ninth in the published standings.[4]
Team Damage competed at the 2001 New Zealand Paintball Nationals at Actions Paintball in Auckland. Eighteen teams attended the seven-player, two-flag tournament.[3]
Damage advanced to the Second Division final and finished fourth with 117 final-round points, behind Tag and Training on 180, Damn Natives on 130 and Fusion on 120.[3]
Across the recorded seven-player events, Damage placed fourth in the October 2001 Valhalla standings with 236.5 ranking points.[4]
A contemporary newspaper report reproduced on the NZ Paintball forum described the team as Kāpiti paintballers and identified Jason Newport as its captain. The report stated that Damage won eleven games, played three games to time and lost three across its seventeen games at the Nationals.[2]
The newspaper text was posted on 8 November 2001 and attributed by its poster to the 1 November 2001 edition of the Horowhenua Mail. The surviving source is the archived forum reproduction.[2]
Junior development and location
[edit]In a forum reply dated 13 November 2001, Newport signed on behalf of Team Damage and discussed publicity supporting a newly formed junior club.[2]
The reproduced newspaper report stated that the club hoped to enter three teams, including a junior entry, at a future Hawke's Bay Triples tournament. This was a stated intention and does not confirm that the proposed entries subsequently competed.[2]
On 2 December 2001, the same forum account corrected a published team listing and stated that Damage was based on the Kāpiti Coast rather than Gisborne.[2]
A separate November 2001 team-contact discussion also associates Newport with the North Island Damage team.[10]
2013 NZPPL Super 5 Man Series
[edit]KC Damage competed in the three-event 2013 NZPPL Super 5 Man Series.[6]
At Event 1, held at El Rancho Holiday Park in Waikanae on 9–10 March, KC Damage finished fifth in the Plate classification, corresponding to eleventh overall.[6][8]
At Event 2, held at Adrenalin Paintball Sports in Paraparaumu on 1–2 June, the team finished second in the Cup, behind X-Fighter$ Fracture and ahead of Arachnidz.[6][9]
After the opening two events, KC Damage was sixth in the published intermediate series standings. The archived standings leave the third event blank and should not be treated as a completed season table.[6]
2013 NZPPL Nationals
[edit]KC Damage won the 2013 NZPPL Nationals, held at Asylum Paintball in Auckland on 26–27 October.[7][11]
The recorded leading placings were:[7]
| Position | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | KC Damage |
| 2 | Wellington Vendetta |
| 3 | X-Fighter$ Fracture |
KC Damage's Nationals victory was separate from the overall series championship. A contemporary media release identifies X-Fighter$ as the series winner following two event victories and third place at the final tournament.[7]
Documented personnel
[edit]| Period | Published team name | Person | Documented involvement |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Team Damage | Jason Newport | Identified as captain in a contemporary newspaper report and signed forum replies on behalf of the team.[2] |
| Later KC Damage period | KC Damage | Jason Newport | Identified as a player through contributor information connecting the earlier Damage team with KC Damage.[1] |
The available sources do not provide complete rosters for the 2001 and 2013 periods.
Tournament results
[edit]| Date or season | Published team name | Competition | Recorded result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Damage | RotoVegas | Participation in the preliminary round and Second Division recorded; exact placing not established.[4] |
| 2001 | Damage | Hawke's Bay Triples | 10th in the published national three-player standings; 62.9 ranking points.[4] |
| 2001 | Team Damage | Wellington Cup | 7th; 328 tournament points.[5] |
| 2001 | Damage / Team Damage | 2001 New Zealand Paintball Nationals | 4th in the Second Division; 117 final-round points.[2][3] |
| 9–10 March 2013 | KC Damage | 2013 NZPPL Super 5 Man Event 1 | 5th in the Plate classification; 11th overall.[6][8] |
| 1–2 June 2013 | KC Damage | 2013 NZPPL Super 5 Man Event 2 | 2nd in the Cup.[6][9] |
| 26–27 October 2013 | KC Damage | 2013 NZPPL Nationals | 1st.[7][11] |
National rankings
[edit]| Season | Format | Published entry | Position | Ranking total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Seven-player | Damage | 4th | 236.5 |
| 2001 | Five-player | Damage | 9th | 46.9 |
| 2001 | Three-player | Damage | 10th | 62.9 |
The Valhalla figures are normalised ranking contributions and should not be treated as raw tournament scores.[4]
Distinction from Damage Inc
[edit]Contemporary records distinguish the North Island Damage team from the South Island team Damage Inc.
Damage and Team Damage in the Kāpiti Coast and North Island records are treated as earlier names of KC Damage. The Christchurch-based Damage Inc was a separate organisation, and its players and results are not included in this article.[1][10]
See also
[edit]- Jason Newport
- New Zealand Paintball Nationals
- New Zealand Paintball Players League
- 2013 NZPPL Super 5 Man Event 1
- 2013 NZPPL Super 5 Man Event 2
- 2013 NZPPL Super 5 Man Event 3
- Damage Inc (New Zealand Paintball Team)
References
[edit]- Contributor information supplied to WikiPaintball, 25 October 2026. Identifies KC as Kāpiti Coast, confirms continuity between Team Damage and KC Damage, identifies Jason Newport with both periods and distinguishes the team from Christchurch Damage Inc.
- ‘Hitman’ fails to save Team Damage paintballers, newspaper report reproduced on the NZ Paintball forum on 8 November 2001 and attributed to the Horowhenua Mail, 1 November 2001; includes later replies from Jason Newport.
- Rob Maddox, The 2001 Two Day NZ Nationals Tournament, Paintball.co.nz.
- 2001 Valhalla National Rankings, Mercenaries Star.
- Martin Dannefaerd, The 2001 Wellington Cup, Paintball.co.nz.
- NZPPL, 2013 Series Rankings.
- Blacksheep Communications, Blacksheep Media Release – 2013 NZPPL Video, Scoop Independent News, 16 March 2014.
- NZPPL, 2013 Super 5 Man Event 1, 9–10 March 2013.
- NZPPL, 2013 Super 5 Man Event 2, 1–2 June 2013.
- Team Captain Contact Details, NZ Paintball forum, November 2001.
- NZPPL, Super 5 Man NZ Nationals – Auckland Event 3, 26–27 October 2013.