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 1 won the Cup, with Manawatu Titans finishing second and Cult third. Expendables won the Plate competition, followed by Blast and Surge.[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 additional pods per game, and teams could register up to eight players.[1]
The programme provided for round-robin play followed by semi-finals and finals, with separate Cup and Plate competitions.
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 final Cup and Plate placings were reported by Ralph Tsing in a Facebook comment on a post published by Phoenix Tahiti Paintball following the tournament.[5]
Cup
| Position | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ballistics Unit 1 |
| 2 | Manawatu Titans |
| 3 | Cult |
| 4 | Reavers |
Tsing's report identifies the winning squad as Ballistic Unit 1 and the runner-up as Titans. The names are standardised here to match the teams' established WikiPaintball article titles.[5]
The result confirms which of the two Ballistics Unit squads won the Cup.
Plate
| Position | Team |
|---|---|
| 1 | Expendables |
| 2 | Blast |
| 3 | Surge |
| 4 | Ballistics Unit 2 |
Expendables won the Plate, with Blast second, Surge third and Ballistics Unit 2 fourth.[5]
A photograph supplied by Ralph Tsing documents a first-place trophy engraved Arena Plate Labour Day 2026. The tournament result independently identifies Expendables as the Plate winner.[5][6]
The results above represent the Cup and Plate classifications. They should not be interpreted as a single overall ranking of all eleven entries.
Day-one standings
The organiser published the following standings after play on 24 October 2026. 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 |
The day-one results demonstrate the difference between preliminary standings and final tournament placings. Ballistics Unit 1 subsequently won the Cup despite being sixth in the published interim table.[3][5]
Historical records
The tournament is documented through the original event announcement, published fixture sheet, organiser's day-one standings and a subsequent report of the final placings.[1][2][3][5]
The final results were supplied by Ralph Tsing in a comment on Phoenix Tahiti Paintball's Facebook post concerning the event. The original discussion remains publicly accessible.[5]
A photograph of the Plate first-place trophy was also supplied by Tsing.[6]
See also
- Arena Paintball
- Ballistics Unit (New Zealand Paintball Team)
- Manawatu Titans (New Zealand Paintball Team)
- Paintball in New Zealand
References
- Paintball Direct NZ – 2026 Race Events. Tournament dates, venue, format, rules and advertised Cup and Plate competitions.
- Labour Day Draw 2026. Event fixture sheet supplied to WikiPaintball by a contributor. Records eleven entries and 44 scheduled fixtures.
- Arena Paintball. "Scores end of day 1". Facebook, 24 October 2026. Photograph of the interim standings spreadsheet supplied to WikiPaintball by a contributor.
- Arena Paintball. "Please ignore games to be played column on previous post". Facebook, 24 October 2026. Organiser's clarification supplied to WikiPaintball by a contributor.
- Phoenix Tahiti Paintball – Sunday podium and photographs, Arena Paintball. Facebook, October 2026. Comment by Ralph Tsing identifying the first four teams in the Cup and Plate finals.
- Ralph Tsing. Photograph of the Arena Plate Labour Day 2026 first-place trophy, supplied to WikiPaintball, October 2026.