Editing Kyn Jackson (section)

== Tournament playing career ==

=== Saints ===

By February 1998, Jackson was a member of [[Saints (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Saints]].

His contemporary New Zealand Paintball player profile identified him as both a Saints player and an operator of Actions Paintball.[2]

In the same profile, Jackson named the Automag as his preferred paintball marker and expressed support for more international and inter-city competition in New Zealand.[2]

=== Black Dragon ===

A contemporary announcement for the 2001 New Zealand Paintball Nationals identified Jackson as the tournament organiser and listed his team as '''Black Dragon'''.[5]

The announcement was preserved in an August 2001 Internet Archive capture of Paintball.co.nz. It identified Jackson as a member of Black Dragon before the tournament and separately advertised the participation of Australia's Jetts.[5]

The available records do not establish an organisational relationship between Black Dragon and the earlier Dragons Claw team.

=== Jetts and the 2001 Volcanic Rotorua tournament ===

Jackson was involved with the Australian tournament team '''Jetts''' during its participation in New Zealand competitions in 2001.

A contemporary report by [[Rob Maddox]] on the [[2001 Volcanic Rotorua Paintball Tournament]] specifically identified Jackson of Actions Paintball as assisting Jetts.[6]

The tournament took place on 2-3 June 2001 at Rotorua International Stadium.

Jetts won Division One with 290 final-round points, followed by Saints on 220 and Katipo A on 145.[6]

The report documents Jackson's involvement with the Australian team, although it does not provide an individual match roster identifying every game in which he played.

=== Jetts at the 2001 New Zealand Nationals ===

Jackson also played for Jetts at the [[2001 New Zealand Paintball Nationals]], held at Actions Paintball during Labour Weekend in October.[7]

Maddox's contemporary tournament report explicitly identified Jackson as both the event organiser and a Jetts player.

The Australian team supplemented its roster with Black Dragon players after the collapse of Ansett disrupted the travel arrangements of some of its members.[7]

Jetts reached the First Division final stage and finished third with 160 points, behind Saints on 225 and Katipo on 165.

An initial scoring error resulted in Jetts receiving the second-place trophy. The placings were corrected following a countback.[7]

Jackson's involvement with both Black Dragon and Jetts in 2001 should therefore be understood in the context of team affiliations and tournament-specific guest playing.

=== Team Kiwi and Malaysia ===

Jackson was subsequently involved with [[Team Kiwi]], a name used by New Zealand tournament groups assembled for international competition.

Photographic evidence places him in Kuala Lumpur during the December 2004 Nation Cup. A photograph uploaded by Martin Dannefaerd on 5 January 2005 identifies Jackson in its caption alongside the tournament's airport banner.[8]

The photograph was taken on 8 December 2004 and forms part of Dannefaerd's ''Malaysia 2k4'' album, which documents the [[2004 Nation Cup]] organised by Xtion Paintball.[8]

Jackson was also associated with a later Team Kiwi delegation organised for competition in Malaysia. Complete event-specific rosters and results for the later trip have not been recovered.