Editing Paintball League Middle East (section)

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

=== 2016 season ===
The organiser marked all four rounds of the [[2016 PALM Iran season]] as completed and designated the fourth event “Leg 4 & Championships”.[4]

{| class="wikitable"
! Round
! Location
! Documented dates
|-
| [[2016 PALM Iran Round 1|Round 1]]
| Tehran
| Event coverage identifies 3–4 March 2016. The calendar lists 2–4 March.[4][21][22]
|-
| [[2016 PALM Iran Round 2|Round 2]]
| Mahmudabad, Mazandaran
| PALM Media identifies May 2016. The calendar lists 11–13 July. Exact playing dates remain unconfirmed.[4][23][24]
|-
| [[2016 PALM Iran Round 3|Round 3]]
| Tehran
| The calendar lists 27–29 September 2016. A contemporary field-layout post identifies September. Exact playing dates remain unconfirmed.[4][25]
|-
| [[2016 PALM Iran Round 4|Round 4 and championships]]
| Tehran
| Iran Akay advertised 22–23 December 2016. The calendar prints 1–3 February 2016, before the dates listed for the preceding rounds. Actual playing dates remain unconfirmed.[4][26]
|}

Shahab Paintball Park's account identifies a temporary field at the Tehran Javan complex in Tehranpars as the opening-round venue.[22]

A Sorena profile published in December 2020 records [[Sorena (Iran Paintball Team)|Sorena]] as third overall in PALM 2016. The profile leaves the division unspecified.[15] PALM also published posts labelled as 2016 rankings for Division 2 and Division 3. Their captions identify the season and divisions, with the placings presented separately from the caption text.[27][28]

=== 2017 season ===
The [[2017 PALM Iran season]] comprised four completed rounds in Tehran. The organiser designated the fourth event “Leg 4 & Championships”.[5]

{| class="wikitable"
! Round
! Organiser's calendar
! Announced competition dates
|-
| [[2017 PALM Iran Round 1|Round 1]]
| 9–11 May 2017
| Precise playing dates remain unverified
|-
| [[2017 PALM Iran Round 2|Round 2]]
| 12–14 July 2017
| 13–14 July 2017 [18]
|-
| [[2017 PALM Iran Round 3|Round 3]]
| 6–8 September 2017
| 7–8 September 2017 [19]
|-
| [[2017 PALM Iran Round 4|Round 4 and championships]]
| 6–8 December 2017
| 7–8 December 2017 [20]
|}

The announcements for rounds two and three named the Dokouheh Cultural and Sports Complex, also known as Dehkadeh-ye Moqavemat, as the venue.[18][19]

==== Documented round results ====
[[Datis (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis Tehran]] won Division 1 at each of the first three rounds. [[Datis (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis Shemiranat]] won Division 2 at the first two rounds and placed second at the third. Planet Eclipse's 31 July report explicitly identifies the second leg and names both winners.[7][17][29]

{| class="wikitable"
! Round
! Division 1
! Division 2
! Source
|-
| [[2017 PALM Iran Round 1|Round 1]]
| Datis Tehran, 1st
| Datis Shemiranat, 1st
| [17]
|-
| [[2017 PALM Iran Round 2|Round 2]]
| Datis Tehran, 1st
| Datis Shemiranat, 1st
| [29]
|-
| [[2017 PALM Iran Round 3|Round 3]]
| Datis Tehran, 1st
| Datis Shemiranat, 2nd
| [7]
|}

==== Documented overall placings ====
After the third round, Planet Eclipse reported that Datis Tehran led Division 1 and that Datis Shemiranat was close to securing the Division 2 title. The report preceded the final round.[7]

Tehran Paintball's retrospective account of 1396 recorded [[Tehran (Iran Paintball Team)|Tehran]] as the overall Division 1 runner-up and [[Sorena (Iran Paintball Team)|Sorena]] as third overall in Division 2. A later Sorena profile also records third overall in PALM 2017.[13][15] The overall champions and full points standings remain unverified.

=== 2018 season ===
The [[2018 PALM Iran season]] was the third PALM Iran series. The organiser's calendar marks four rounds as completed in Tehran.[6]

{| class="wikitable"
! Round
! Dates
! Location
|-
| [[2018 PALM Iran Round 1|Round 1]]
| 10–11 May 2018
| Tehran. The announced venue was the Dokouheh Cultural and Sports Complex.[9][10]
|-
| [[2018 PALM Iran Round 2|Round 2]]
| 12–13 July 2018
| Dehkadeh Moghavemat, Tehran.[3][11]
|-
| [[2018 PALM Iran Round 3|Round 3]]
| Calendar lists 29–31 August 2018. Exact playing dates remain unverified.
| Tehran, according to the organiser's calendar.[6]
|-
| [[2018 PALM Iran Round 4|Round 4]]
| 22–23 November 2018
| Tehran.[12]
|}

The organiser's calendar lists the opening round in March. Its event announcement and video description give 10–11 May. The July and November calendar entries span three days, while the event descriptions identify two playing days.[6][9][10][11][12]

==== Opening round ====
PALM Media reported 21 teams across three divisions. Datis Tehran won Division 1, Sorena won Division 2, and the entry listed as Hamed Ashouri finished first in Division 3.[10]

==== Second round ====
An association report preserved in the [[Paintball for All (PFA)|PFA Paintball League]] channel recorded nineteen teams across three divisions. They represented Tehran, Alborz, Qazvin, Semnan, Mazandaran, Khorasan Razavi, Kerman and Isfahan provinces.[3]

PALM Media's Division 1 final description reported 21 teams. The two reports agree on the dates and the Division 1 podium.[3][11]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Division 1 (electronic)
! Division 2 (electronic)
! Division 3 (mechanical)
|-
| 1st
| [[Datis (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis Shemiranat]]
| [[Spad (Iran Paintball Team)|Spad Hakhamaneshi]]
| [[Datam (Iran Paintball Team)|Datam]]
|-
| 2nd
| [[Tehran (Iran Paintball Team)|Tehran]]
| [[Datam (Iran Paintball Team)|Datam]]
| [[Shahab (Iran Paintball Team)|Shahab One]]
|-
| 3rd
| [[Datis (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis]]
| [[Sorena (Iran Paintball Team)|Sorena]]
| [[Shahab (Iran Paintball Team)|Shahab Two]]
|}

Source for the three podiums: Iran Paintball Association report preserved in the PFA channel.[3]

==== Third and fourth rounds ====
A report published by Hamshahri Online on 16 December 2018, citing the Sport for All Federation, published separate classifications for rounds three and four and the national championships. Its third-round section listed Tehran, Datis Shemiranat and Persian Gulf in Division 1, and Sorena, Spad and Datam in Division 2.[14]

PALM Media reported ten teams across two divisions at the fourth round, held on 1–2 Azar 1397 (22–23 November 2018).[12] The federation-attributed report gave the following fourth-round podiums.[14]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position
! Division 1 (electronic)
! Division 2 (electronic)
|-
| 1st
| [[Tehran (Iran Paintball Team)|Tehran]]
| [[Spad (Iran Paintball Team)|Spad]]
|-
| 2nd
| [[Sari (Iran Paintball Team)|Sari]]
| [[Sorena (Iran Paintball Team)|Sorena]]
|-
| 3rd
| [[Persian Gulf (Iran Paintball Team)|Persian Gulf]]
| [[Ronin (Iran Paintball Team)|Ronin]]
|}

The federation-attributed report described PALM competition and the accompanying national championships as a four-day programme in Tehran.[14]

==== Overall champions ====
Tehran Paintball's review of Iranian year 1397 identifies both overall champions. A later Sorena profile also records Sorena's 2018 overall title.[13][15]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division
! Overall champion
|-
| Division 1
| [[Tehran (Iran Paintball Team)|Tehran]]
|-
| Division 2
| [[Sorena (Iran Paintball Team)|Sorena]]
|}

PALM's November results post distinguished fourth-round placings, national championship results and overall series classifications.[16]

=== National-team selection ===
The July 2018 association report stated that PALM and the [[Iran Paintball Association]] had agreed to select leading league competitors for a national-team training camp, subject to assessment by the technical commission.[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]