Editing 2004 NPPL Huntington Beach Open

The '''2004 NPPL Huntington Beach Open''' was a seven-player [[paintball]] tournament held from 19 to 21 March 2004 in Huntington Beach, California, United States. Produced by [[Pure Promotions]], it opened the second season of the [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL) [[NPPL Super 7|Super 7]] series.[1]

== Tournament ==
Artificial turf covered the beach playing surfaces. The former Amateur, Novice and Rookie classifications were renamed Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3.[1]

Teams played eight preliminary games. Twelve Professional teams advanced to quarter-finals, producing three group winners and a wild-card semi-finalist. Each other open division advanced sixteen teams, with four quarter-final group winners progressing.[1]

== New Zealand entry ==
An organiser's paid-entry list published by Camille Baker on 24 February 2004 included [[Saints (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Saints]], listed as ''Team Saints – New Zealand'', in Division II.[3]

== Results ==
The following top-four placings are recorded by WARPIG and ClassicScores.[1][2]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Professional !! Division 1 !! Division 2 !! Division 3
|-
| 1
| [[San Diego Dynasty|Dynasty]]
| Bonebrake Factory
| STP Severe
| Organized Chaos
|-
| 2
| [[Avalanche]]
| Naughty Dogs Am
| Mox Nix
| Stormfront
|-
| 3
| [[Naughty Dogs]]
| Function
| ACI Splat Factory
| Just Paintball
|-
| 4
| Arsenal
| Arsenal A
| Arsenal Kidz
| Shooters & Looters
|}

=== Professional ===
Dynasty defeated Naughty Dogs in three semi-final games, while Avalanche defeated Arsenal in two. Dynasty won the championship games against Avalanche 99–3 and 98–6. Naughty Dogs defeated Arsenal in three games for third.[1]

=== Division 1 ===
Bonebrake Factory defeated Naughty Dogs Am 95–14 and 22–15 in the championship games.[1]

== Collegiate competition ==
Eight collegiate teams played a seven-game round robin. Illini Orange, representing the University of Illinois, finished first, followed by Louisiana State University and the University of Georgia.[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Position !! Team
|-
| 1 || Illini Orange — University of Illinois
|-
| 2 || Louisiana State University Tigers
|-
| 3 || University of Georgia Bulldogs
|}

== References ==
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2004/hb/index.shtml WARPIG — Huntington Beach, 19–21 March 2004. Contemporary report covering the venue, competition format, results and collegiate tournament.]
# [https://www.classicscores.com/static/data/tournament_data.json ClassicScores — Historical tournament results dataset. 2004 NPPL Huntington Beach, California: Professional, Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3 seven-player placings.]
# [https://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=426296 Camille Baker, “Updated Team List for NPPL Huntington Beach”, PbNation, 24 February 2004.] Organiser's list of paid entries, including Team Saints – New Zealand in Division II.

== External links ==
* [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2004/hb/index.shtml WARPIG contemporary tournament coverage]

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