Editing 2001 NPPL World Cup

The '''2001 NPPL World Cup''' was a [[paintball]] tournament held from 22 to 28 October 2001 in the Orlando area of Florida, United States. It concluded the [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL) season, with five-player and ten-player competitions.[1]

[[Chicago Aftershock]] won the professional five-player division, while [[San Diego Dynasty]] won the professional ten-player division.[2][3]

== Tournament ==
The venue contained ten fields: one [[Hyperball]] field and nine inflatable-bunker fields, arranged around central staging, air-fill and exhibition facilities. Exhibitors included DYE, National Paintball Supply, PMI, Smart Parts, JT, KAPP and Kingman/Raven.[1]

Five-player competition ran from 22 to 24 October, followed by a break on 25 October and ten-player competition from 26 to 28 October. Five-player scoring changed from a 60-point to a 100-point system.[1]

== Five-player results ==
Final-round totals are shown below. WARPIG's contemporary scoreboard and ClassicScores agree on the placements.[2][4]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| rowspan="4" | Professional
| 1 || [[Chicago Aftershock]] || 288
|-
| 2 || Ground Zero Chaos || 144
|-
| 3 || Ton Ton Flingueurs || 108
|-
| 4 || [[All Americans]] || 30
|-
| rowspan="4" | Amateur A
| 1 || Strange Red || 274
|-
| 2 || Strange Black || 166
|-
| 3 || Shocktech || 114
|-
| 4 || Naughty Dogs Black || 68
|-
| rowspan="4" | Amateur B
| 1 || Ravage || 238
|-
| 2 || Static || 198
|-
| 3 || Rebellion || 122
|-
| 4 || European Union 1 || 8
|-
| rowspan="4" | Novice
| 1 || Static AKA || 210
|-
| 2 || Hawaiian Homegrown || 188
|-
| 3 || Team NME || 110
|-
| 4 || Wrecks || 60
|}

Aftershock scored 94, 100 and 94 points in its three final-round games. Strange Red recorded two 100-point games before finishing with 74 points in its third game.[2]

== Ten-player results ==
Final-round totals are shown below. WARPIG's contemporary scoreboard and ClassicScores agree on the placements.[3][4]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| rowspan="4" | Professional
| 1 || [[San Diego Dynasty]] || 203
|-
| 2 || [[Chicago Aftershock]] || 193
|-
| 3 || Bob Long's Ironmen || 121
|-
| 4 || [[Bad Company (American paintball team)|Bad Company]] || 109
|-
| rowspan="4" | Amateur A
| 1 || Trauma || 209
|-
| 2 || Farside || 207
|-
| 3 || [[Naughty Dogs]] || 113
|-
| 4 || All Americans 2 || 34
|-
| rowspan="4" | Amateur B
| 1 || Warped Kids || 208
|-
| 2 || Outta Control || 201
|-
| 3 || Mox Nix || 117
|-
| 4 || Nemesis DYE || 105
|-
| rowspan="4" | Novice
| 1 || VIP || 133
|-
| 2 || Non Stop || 120
|-
| 3 || Mortadelos/Kaya || 119
|-
| 4 || Static AKA || 38
|}

Trauma won Amateur A by two points over Farside. Warped Kids finished seven points ahead of Outta Control in Amateur B, while VIP won the Novice division by 13 points.[3]

=== Professional final ruling ===
Aftershock's last player, Ronnie Simpkins, received a playing-on penalty against Dynasty. The signed scoresheet initially awarded Dynasty 92 points and Aftershock 16. Dynasty protested that an unserved one-for-one penalty required a points deduction. Before the score was posted, ultimate judge Bill Cookston applied a 12-point deduction, leaving Aftershock with four points from the game and ten fewer overall than Dynasty.[1][3]

== Season championships ==
Aftershock secured the professional season championship by reaching the ten-player finals. The NPPL season champions were:[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Classification !! Season champion
|-
| Professional || [[Chicago Aftershock]]
|-
| Amateur A || [[Team Strange]]
|-
| Amateur B || Warped Kids
|}

== See also ==
* [[Paintball World Cup]]
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[2000 NPPL World Cup]]

== References ==
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/worldcup/index.shtml NPPL World Cup 2001]. ''WARPIG'', contemporary coverage of 22–28 October 2001.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/worldcup/5fin.shtml NPPL World Cup 2001: Five-player Semi-finals and Finals]. ''WARPIG'', October 2001.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2001/worldcup/10fin.shtml NPPL World Cup 2001: Ten-player Semi-finals and Finals Scoreboard]. ''WARPIG'', October 2001.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores historical tournament results], 2001 NPPL World Cup, five-player and ten-player divisions.

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