Editing 1995 NPPL Chicago Open

The '''1995 NPPL Chicago Open''' was a [[paintball]] tournament in Illinois and the fourth event of the [[National Professional Paintball League]]'s 1995 season. Contemporary league advertising billed it as the third annual Chicago Open and advertised '''23–27 August 1995''' at Challenge Games Lake near Chicago.[1]

[[Rage (paintball team)|Rage]] won the professional ten-man competition, while the [[All Americans]] won the professional five-man competition.[2]

== Organisation and programme ==
The Chicago Open followed the [[1995 NPPL Pittsburgh Open]] and preceded the [[1995 NPPL World Cup]] on the published five-event schedule. League advertising announced more than US$50,000 in cash and prizes and named [[Aftershock]] as the scheduled refereeing team.[1]

The advertised programme allocated Wednesday and Thursday to five-man competition, followed by ten-man competition on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Competitors were permitted to bring their own paintballs.[1]

The published arrangements specified at least four referees on each five-man field and six on each ten-man field.[1]

=== Advertised entry fees ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Competition !! Team entry fee
|-
| Five-man || US$500
|-
| Amateur ten-man || US$1,500
|-
| Professional ten-man || US$2,000
|}
These were the fees stated in the contemporary league advertisement and event listing.[1]

== Professional results ==
The following professional victories are recorded in the historical chronology “81 Moments that Shaped Paintball”, published in ''Paintball 2Xtremes'' in June 2005.[2]

{| class="wikitable"
! Competition !! Winning team
|-
| Professional ten-man || [[Rage (paintball team)|Rage]]
|-
| Professional five-man || [[All Americans]]
|}

=== Ten-man competition ===
Rage's victory followed [[Bad Company (paintball team)|Bad Company]]'s win at Pittsburgh. The two successive results broke the earlier pattern in which Aftershock, the [[Ironmen]] and the All Americans had won every NPPL professional ten-man event through the opening two tournaments of 1995.[2]

=== Five-man competition ===
The All Americans' Chicago victory was included in the retrospective's list of the team's major five-man wins during 1994–1996. The same account records the All Americans as the 1995 NPPL five-man series champions.[2]

== See also ==
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[1995 NPPL Pittsburgh Open]]
* [[1995 NPPL World Cup]]
* [[Rage (paintball team)]]
* [[Paintball in the United States]]

== References ==
# NPPL “Time to Play” season advertisement and “Calendar of Events”, ''Paintball Sports'', April 1995. Contemporary notices advertising the third annual Chicago Open for 23–27 August at Challenge Games Lake, including the programme, scheduled referees, entry fees and prize fund.
# [https://www.automags.org/forums/forum/automag-owners-forums/paintball-talk/122630-history-of-paintball History of Paintball], Automags.org. Reproduction of “81 Moments that Shaped Paintball”, ''Paintball 2Xtremes'', June 2005. The 1995 chronology records Rage's Chicago victory; entry 53 lists the All Americans' Chicago five-man victory and 1995 five-man series championship.

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