Editing Paintball League Middle East (section)

=== 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.