Editing 1997 Great Western Series Portland

'''1997 Great Western Series Portland''' was a [[paintball]] tournament held at Enchanted Acres in Scappoose, near Portland, Oregon, over the 1997 Labor Day weekend. Part of the [[Great Western Series]], it included amateur and novice five-player and ten-player competitions. Planet Paintball hosted the event. [1]

== Competition ==

The Saturday ten-player competition was delayed by a shortage of compressed air for refilling players' tanks. Organisers shortened games and limited players to 300 paintballs per game, allowing the programme to finish before darkness. Planet Paintball owner [[Dan Bonebrake]] refunded ten-player entry fees and offered to reimburse travelling teams' airfares; some teams declined the offer. [1]

== Results ==

The following final placings and final-round points are recorded by [[WARPIG]]. ClassicScores corroborates the placings in all four divisions. [2][3][4]

=== Amateur ten-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| 1 || Marine Team || 124
|-
| 2 || Outrage I || 64
|-
| 3 || Outta Control || 36
|}

=== Novice ten-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| 1 || Lofty II || 200
|-
| 2 || Naughty Dogs || 111
|-
| 3 || Phantom Force III || 32
|}

=== Amateur five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| 1 || Marine Team Gold || 228
|-
| 2 || [[Navarone]] || 214
|-
| 3 || Shockwave II || 190
|-
| 4 || Shockwave I || 56
|}

=== Novice five-player ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| 1 || Hammerheads || 234
|-
| 2 || NIB I || 148
|-
| 3 || Lofty II || 116
|-
| 4 || Naughty Dogs || 34
|}

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/gws/1997/portland97.shtml WARPIG — The 1997 Great Western Portland Tournament], contemporary event report. [https://web.archive.org/web/19990911010132/http://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/gws/1997/portland97.shtml Archived 11 September 1999].
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/gws/1997/gws97.port.10.shtml WARPIG — The 1997 GWS Portland 10 Man], preliminary and final results.
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/gws/1997/gws97.port.5.shtml WARPIG — The 1997 GWS Portland 5 Man], preliminary, semi-final and final results.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/static/data/tournament_data.json ClassicScores — public tournament dataset: 1997, GWS, Portland, Oregon]. Accessed 31 October 2026.

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