Editing 1996 NPPL Las Vegas Open

The '''1996 NPPL Las Vegas Open''' was a [[paintball]] tournament held in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the [[National Professional Paintball League]]'s 1996 season. It featured professional and amateur ten-man competition and professional five-man competition.[1]

The [[All Americans]] won both professional formats, while Enemy won the amateur ten-man competition.[1] Contemporary reporting in ''Paintball Games International'' also identified Las Vegas among the All Americans' tournament victories that year.[2]

== Competition ==
=== Professional ten-man ===
The All Americans finished first ahead of GBD, the [[Ironmen]] and Phantom Force. ClassicScores records eight professional ten-man placings.[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || [[All Americans]]
|-
| 2 || GBD
|-
| 3 || [[Ironmen]]
|-
| 4 || Phantom Force
|-
| 5 || [[Team Image|Image]]
|-
| 6 || [[Aftershock]]
|-
| 7 || [[Avalanche]]
|-
| 8 || [[Palm Beach Predators]]
|}

=== Amateur ten-man ===
Enemy won the amateur ten-man competition, followed by X-men and Team X-treme.[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Enemy
|-
| 2 || X-men
|-
| 3 || Team X-treme
|-
| 4 || Nobodys
|-
| 5 || OBR
|-
| 6 || [[Marine Team One|Marine Team 1]]
|-
| 7 || Personal Vendetta
|-
| 8 || Thunderstruck
|}

=== Professional five-man ===
All Americans 1 won the professional five-man competition ahead of [[Rage (paintball team)|Rage]], the Palm Beach Predators and All Americans 2.[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || [[All Americans|All Americans 1]]
|-
| 2 || [[Rage (paintball team)|Rage]]
|-
| 3 || [[Palm Beach Predators]]
|-
| 4 || All Americans 2
|}

The All Americans' five-man victory is also recorded in the historical chronology “81 Moments that Shaped Paintball”, published in ''Paintball 2Xtremes'' in June 2005.[3]

== Contemporary coverage ==
A July 1996 news item in ''Paintball Games International'', announcing the All Americans' participation in the Mayhem European Masters, listed Las Vegas among the team's victories earlier that year. The item did not distinguish between the Las Vegas competition formats.[2]

== See also ==
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[All Americans]]
* [[1996 NPPL Pittsburgh Open]]
* [[Paintball in the United States]]

== References ==
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores]. Select 1996, National Professional Paintball League, Las Vegas Open, Las Vegas, Nevada. Historical results recording eight professional ten-man placings, eight amateur ten-man placings and four professional five-man placings.
# “All Americans to play Mayhem”, ''Paintball Games International'', July 1996, p. 9. Contemporary news item identifying Las Vegas among the All Americans' victories that year.
# [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; entry 53 lists the All Americans' 1996 NPPL Las Vegas five-man victory.

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