Editing 2002 Paintball World Cup

The '''2002 Paintball World Cup''' was an international [[paintball]] event held from 19 to 27 October 2002 in Florida, United States. Organised by [[Paintball Sports Promotions]] (PSP), it combined [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL) five-player and ten-player tournaments with professional, amateur and collegiate [[X-Ball]] competitions.[1][4]

[[Chicago Aftershock]] won professional ten-player, while Aftershock 2 won professional five-player. Strange won the professional X-Ball exhibition.[2][3][4]

== Tournament ==
The main site on Poinciana Boulevard in Kissimmee contained twelve conventional tournament fields and a separate X-Ball field, all using inflatable bunkers. Five-player games began on 20 October. Amateur ten-player competition ran separately, allowing Amateur teams to referee the remaining ten-player divisions.[1]

The concluding X-Ball exhibitions took place on 27 October on a field beside the parking area at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex.[4]

== Five-player results ==
Final-round points are taken from WARPIG's contemporary scoreboard. ClassicScores records the same placements.[2][6]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| rowspan="4" | Professional
| 1 || Aftershock 2 || 204
|-
| 2 || [[Team Strange|Strange]] || 194
|-
| 3 || Aftershock 1 || 138
|-
| 4 || [[Ground Zero]] || 90
|-
| rowspan="4" | Amateur
| 1 || Naughty Dogs 1 || 300
|-
| 2 || Naughty Dogs 2 || 200
|-
| 3 || Static DYE || 100
|-
| 4 || Warped Army || 0
|-
| rowspan="4" | Novice
| 1 || Chronic Platinum || 228
|-
| 2 || Fallout || 198
|-
| 3 || Cartel Works || 108
|-
| 4 || Team Wrecks || 56
|-
| rowspan="4" | Rookie
| 1 || Formula || 292
|-
| 2 || Asylum Factory Team || 176
|-
| 3 || Wisdom Audio Paintball || 102
|-
| 4 || Ho Style || 48
|}

Every Amateur final-round game finished 100–0. Naughty Dogs 1 won all three games, with sister team Naughty Dogs 2 finishing second.[2]

== Ten-player results ==
Final-round points are taken from WARPIG's contemporary scoreboard. ClassicScores records the same placements.[3][6]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| rowspan="4" | Professional
| 1 || [[Chicago Aftershock]] || 276
|-
| 2 || [[San Diego Dynasty]] || 206
|-
| 3 || [[Ironmen (Southern California)|Southern California Ironmen]] || 121
|-
| 4 || [[Bad Company (American paintball team)|Bad Company]] || 36
|-
| rowspan="4" | Amateur
| 1 || [[Baltimore Trauma|Trauma]] || 215
|-
| 2 || [[Naughty Dogs]] || 126
|-
| 3 || Shocktech || 125
|-
| 4 || Brass Eagle Allstars || 10
|-
| rowspan="4" | Novice
| 1 || Cartel || 214
|-
| 2 || [[KAPP Factory]] || 131
|-
| 3 || Templars || 108
|-
| 4 || Philadelphia Eclipse Black || 102
|-
| rowspan="4" | Rookie
| 1 || Momma's Boys || 203
|-
| 2 || Wild Geese || 201
|-
| 3 || Mayhem || 197
|-
| 4 || KAPP Kids || 32
|}

Aftershock won all three professional final-round games. Momma's Boys won Rookie by two points over Wild Geese, with Mayhem a further four points behind.[3]

=== Avalanche withdrawal ===
During Avalanche's preliminary game against Ground Zero Gold, Jeremy Salm was discovered outside the playing area following reports of shots striking Ground Zero players from behind. Avalanche forfeited the game and was withdrawn from the tournament; Salm received a suspension covering the 2003 NPPL/PSP season.[1]

== X-Ball ==
The professional and amateur competitions at Disney were single-elimination exhibitions played for trophies, without prizes. Match lengths and winning-score limits were reduced during the day as the programme ran late.[4]

=== Professional exhibition ===
Strange defeated the Ironmen 4–3 in the semi-final and All Americans 5–1 in the final.[4]

All Americans advanced past Dynasty through an agreed sudden-death point following a disputed scoreboard correction. Aftershock subsequently conceded its semi-final against All Americans to help the programme finish.[4]

=== Amateur exhibition ===
Naughty Dogs defeated Warped Kids 6–0, then beat Farside 6–3 in the final. Farside had defeated Trauma 4–2.[4]

=== Collegiate World Cup ===
Twelve college teams competed in four preliminary groups of three, with each group winner advancing to the semi-finals.[4]

Drexel defeated the University of Illinois 8–3. Purdue defeated Louisiana State in sudden-death overtime after regulation ended 4–4.[4]

Their final was scheduled for Disney on 27 October. Delays left players approaching their return-flight deadlines, and the match was not played. Drexel and Purdue agreed to share first place rather than have the title decided through a tie-break calculation.[4]

== NPPL season championships ==
The Southern California Ironmen and Dynasty shared the professional ten-player season championship with 229 ranking points each.[5]

{| class="wikitable"
! Division !! Season champion !! Ranking points
|-
| Professional || [[Ironmen (Southern California)|Southern California Ironmen]] and [[San Diego Dynasty]] || 229 each
|-
| Amateur || [[Baltimore Trauma|Trauma]] || 250
|-
| Novice || [[KAPP Factory]] || 225
|-
| Rookie || Static AKA || 125
|}

Trauma's World Cup victory completed wins at all five events in the 2002 series.[1][5]

== Exhibition and film premiere ==
The event included manufacturer displays and the premiere of [[Sunday Drivers]] at Sun On The Beach in Kissimmee.[1]

== See also ==
* [[Paintball World Cup]]
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[Paintball Sports Promotions]]
* [[X-Ball]]
* [[2001 NPPL World Cup]]
* [[2003 PSP World Cup]]

== References ==
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2002/worldcup/index.shtml PSP/NPPL World Cup 2002: Contemporary tournament report]. ''WARPIG'', October 2002.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2002/worldcup/5fin.shtml PSP/NPPL World Cup 2002: Five-player Semi-final and Final Scoreboards]. ''WARPIG'', October 2002.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2002/worldcup/10fin.shtml PSP/NPPL World Cup 2002: Ten-player Semi-final and Final Scoreboards]. ''WARPIG'', October 2002.
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/xball/2002/index.shtml Xball at World Cup 2002]. Bill Mills, ''WARPIG'', 2002.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2002/ranking/ranking.shtml NPPL Ranking 2002: Ten-player season standings]. ''WARPIG'', 2002.
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores historical tournament results], 2002 NPPL World Cup.

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