Paintball League Middle East

Paintball League Middle East (PALM) is a paintball competition organisation whose documented activities include the PALM Iran tournament series. Its published records include Iranian competition calendars, divisional rankings, photographs and video coverage.[1][2]

PALM is distinct from the Paintball Asia League Series (PALS). Its Iranian events have included separate electronic-marker and mechanical-marker divisions.[3]

Organisation

PALM's website identifies the organisation as PALM Group and gives a Tehran contact address. Its stated objectives include organising regional tournaments, developing players and referees, supporting paintball academies and assisting local paintball organisations.[1][2]

These are the organisation's stated aims; individual events and programmes require their own supporting records.

PALM Iran

Published calendars

The organiser's website preserves PALM Iran calendars for 2016, 2017 and 2018. The 2016 calendar lists events in Tehran and Mazandaran, while the 2017 and 2018 calendars list four rounds in Tehran.[4][5][6]

Some printed dates are inconsistent. The 2016 calendar places its fourth round in February 2016 despite listing earlier rounds in March, July and September of that year. The published calendar therefore does not establish a reliable date for that final round.[4]

Competition in 2017

On 8 October 2017, Planet Eclipse reported that Tehran Datis had won Division 1 at the penultimate PALM event in Iran. Shemiranat Datis finished second in Division 2.[7]

The report described Tehran Datis as leading its series standings and Shemiranat Datis as being close to its division's season title. These statements preceded the final round and were not final championship results.[7]

Second round, 2018

A contemporary report preserved in the PFA Paintball League channel records the second PALM Iran round on 21–22 Tir 1397 (12–13 July 2018) at Dehkadeh Moghavemat in Tehran.[3]

Nineteen teams competed across three divisions, representing Tehran, Alborz, Qazvin, Semnan, Mazandaran, Khorasan Razavi, Kerman and Isfahan provinces.[3]

The reported podiums were:

Position	Division 1: electronic	Division 2: electronic	Division 3: mechanical
1st	Datis Shemiranat	Spad Hakhamaneshi	Datam
2nd	Tehran	Datam	Shahab One
3rd	Datis	Sorena	Shahab Two

The report lists Tehran and Datis as separate Division 1 entries. These are round results rather than overall season standings.[3]

National-team selection

The July 2018 report stated that PALM and the Iran Paintball Association had agreed that players would be selected from leading league competitors for a national-team training camp, subject to the technical commission's assessment.[3]

Cancelled programmes

The organiser's events page marks the scheduled PALM Iran rounds for 2020 and 2021 as cancelled because of COVID-19.[8]

These calendar notices document the cancellation of the listed programmes; they do not establish that PALM ceased operating.

Competition formats

The July 2018 results distinguish two electronic-marker divisions and a third division using mechanical markers.[3]

Published calendars describe a multi-round series culminating in a championship event. Individual round placings and overall series rankings are separate results.[5][6]

Media

PALM maintained a website with calendars, ranking pages, galleries and video material. Contemporary July 2018 announcements advertised live coverage through the PALM website and Instagram account.[2][3]

References

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