Editing 2000 NPPL Pittsburgh Open

The '''2000 NPPL Pittsburgh Open''' was a [[National Professional Paintball League]] tournament held at Urban Assault in the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania on 5–6 May 2000. Produced by [[Smart Parts]], it included five-man and ten-man competition.[1]

[[Lockout]] won professional ten-man, Bushwackers won Amateur A ten-man and [[Team Strange|Strange]] won Amateur B ten-man. [[Navarone]] won the five-man competition.[2][3][4]

== Venue and organisation ==

Smart Parts returned its tournament to Pittsburgh after staging the 1999 event in Dallas. Playing areas included woodland, a mound field and a Sup'Air field on grass.[1]

The All Americans and OBR refereed the event. Despite forecasts of thunderstorms, the weather remained clear, with heat and humidity during the weekend.[1]

There were 54 ten-man teams and 30 five-man teams. All five-man games took place on one Sup'Air field separated from the ten-man playing areas by woodland.[1]

== Equipment and rules ==

Enhanced firing modes, prohibited at the preceding Los Angeles Open, were permitted again at Pittsburgh with a reported limit of nine shots per second.[1]

Products displayed included the Smart Parts Impulse marker and Brass Eagle's muzzle-mounted chronograph.[1]

== Ten-man results ==

Lockout's professional victory followed its win at the season-opening Los Angeles tournament.[1]

All tables show final-round scores. ClassicScores corroborates the placings.[2][4]

=== Professional ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Lockout]] || 96 || 92 || 14 || 202
|-
| 2 || [[Avalanche]] || 8 || 71 || 95 || 174
|-
| 3 || [[Rage (paintball team)|Rage]] || 20 || 38 || 95 || 153
|-
| 4 || [[Ground Zero]] || 20 || 16 || 10 || 46
|}

=== Amateur A ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Bushwackers (paintball team)|Bushwackers]] || 92 || 17 || 44 || 153
|-
| 2 || [[KAPP Factory]] || 19 || 98 || 12 || 129
|-
| 3 || [[Naughty Dogs]] || 9 || 14 || 94 || 117
|-
| 4 || [[Ground Zero|Ground Zero Gold]] || 16 || 4 || 12 || 32
|}

=== Amateur B ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Team Strange|Strange]] || 98 || 95 || 18 || 211
|-
| 2 || Exile || 4 || 95 || 100 || 199
|-
| 3 || Last Word || 85 || 10 || −2 || 93
|-
| 4 || Sonic Rage || 4 || 10 || 0 || 14
|}

== Five-man results ==

Navarone won with 121 points, ahead of Highlanders, Philadelphia Eclipse and Elite Force.[3][4]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team !! Game 1 !! Game 2 !! Game 3 !! Total
|-
| 1 || [[Navarone]] || 18 || 48 || 55 || 121
|-
| 2 || Highlanders || 58 || 9 || 4 || 71
|-
| 3 || Philadelphia Eclipse || 8 || 6 || 53 || 67
|-
| 4 || Elite Force || 4 || 57 || 0 || 61
|}

The contemporary final scoreboard does not specify a professional or amateur classification for the five-man competition. ClassicScores records its classification as unknown.[3][4]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[1998 NPPL Pittsburgh Open]]
* [[2000 NPPL Los Angeles Open]]
* [[2000 NPPL Chicago Open]]

== References ==

# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl_pitt_00/index.shtml Smart Parts NPPL Pittsburgh 2000]. ''WARPIG'', May 2000. Contemporary report covering dates, venue, attendance, fields, refereeing, equipment and rules.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl_pitt_00/10mansemi.shtml NPPL Pittsburgh 2000 — Ten-Player Semi-Finals and Finals Scoreboard]. ''WARPIG'', May 2000.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl_pitt_00/5mansemi.shtml NPPL Pittsburgh 2000 — Five-Player Semi-Finals and Finals Scoreboard]. ''WARPIG'', May 2000.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores]. “2000 NPPL — Pittsburgh”. Ten-man and five-man final placings.

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