Full Boar (New Zealand Paintball Team)
Full Boar was a New Zealand tournament paintball team active during the 2000s. Contemporary records also used the spellings Fullboar and Full Bore.[1][2][3] A former participant has confirmed that these names and the team's later activity refer to the same team.
Full Boar reached the finals of the 2000 Wellington Cup, finished third in the Second Division at the 2001 Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament and competed at the 2003 Rotorua tournament.[1][2][3]
History
[edit]2000 season
[edit]Full Boar competed in the five-player 2000 Wellington Cup in 2000. A contemporary Phoenix report identifies Phoenix as the winner and names Tag n' Release, Vipers and Fullboar as the other finalists. Tag n' Release separately recorded second place, but the surviving sources do not establish the finishing order of Vipers and Full Boar.[1][4]
The 2000 Valhalla National Rankings placed Full Boar equal twelfth among 37 published team and squad entries, with a ranking score of 66.5.[5]
2001 season
[edit]Full Boar entered the 2001 Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament at Rotorua International Stadium on 2–3 June 2001. The seven-player event used an open preliminary stage followed by separate First and Second Division finals.[2]
The team recorded 400 preliminary points and advanced to the Second Division final. It finished third with 135 final-round points, behind Team Damage on 220 and Damn Natives on 210, and ahead of Havoc on 20.[2]
The tournament report identifies the Full Boar captain only as Robert. A former participant has identified him as Rob Blitz. Full Boar also received the tournament's highest-scoring newcomer award.[2]
The October 2001 Valhalla seven-player standings placed Full Boar fifteenth with 73.6 points. Its ranking contributions consisted of 28.6 points from the RotoVegas preliminary round and 45 from the Second Division final.[6]
A contemporary team-contact discussion from November 2001 lists Rob Blitz as the contact for Full Boar.[7] This independently supports his documented association with the team, although the forum post does not itself state that Blitz was the captain called Robert in the tournament report.
2003 Rotorua tournament
[edit]The team returned to Rotorua for the October 2003 tournament, where its name was printed as Full Bore. A former participant has confirmed that this was the same team as Full Boar. Eighteen teams competed in two seeded pools before progressing into Cup and Plate stages.[3]
Full Bore recorded 248 points in Pool B. The team subsequently lost to Damage in a Plate qualification game. The source does not provide a complete final placing for Full Boar.[3]
Later activity
[edit]A former participant has recalled that Full Boar competed again in 2008 as a continuation of the earlier team. A corresponding tournament record has not yet been recovered, so no event, placing or roster is attributed to that appearance.
Documented personnel
[edit]| Published name | Documented association | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Rob Blitz | Team contact; identified by a former participant as captain | Listed as Full Boar's contact in a November 2001 team-contact discussion.[7] The 2001 Volcanic report identifies the captain only as Robert.[2] |
No complete tournament roster has been recovered from the inspected sources.
Recorded tournament results
[edit]| Year | Published spelling | Tournament | Classification | Recorded result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Fullboar | 2000 Wellington Cup | Open final | Finalist; exact placing not established | Not supplied |
| 2001 | Full Boar | 2001 Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament | Preliminary round | Advanced to the Second Division final | 400 |
| 2001 | Full Boar | 2001 Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament | Second Division final | 3rd | 135 |
| 2003 | Full Bore | Rotorua tournament | Pool B and Plate qualification | 248 pool points; defeated by Damage in a Plate qualifier | 248 |
Preliminary and final-round scores are recorded separately. No exact placing is assigned where the original report supplies only pool results, qualification results or finalist status.
National rankings
[edit]| Season | Format | Position | Ranking score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Combined | Equal 12th | 66.5 |
| 2001 | Seven-player | 15th | 73.6 |
The Valhalla figures are season ranking calculations rather than raw tournament scores or individual event placings.[5][6][8]
See also
[edit]- Paintball in New Zealand
- Wellington Cup
- Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament
- Valhalla National Rankings
References
[edit]- Phoenix contemporary team news. Entry headed “The Wellington Cup is ours!”, 2000. Archived 20 October 2001.
- Rob Maddox, The 2001 Rotorua Volcanic Paintball Tournament. Paintball.co.nz, 2–3 June 2001. Archived 11 August 2002.
- Rob Maddox, Rotorua International Tournament. Paintball.co.nz, October 2003. Archived 18 December 2005.
- Tag n' Release team profile. Mercenaries Star, including the 2000 Wellington Cup result.
- Valhalla National Rankings, 2000. Mercenaries Star.
- Valhalla National Rankings, October 2001. Mercenaries Star.
- Team Captain Contact Details. NZ Paintball Message Forum, November 2001. Archived 2 January 2002.
- Valhalla National Team Rankings methodology. Mercenaries Star.