Editing 2007 NPPL Huntington Beach Open

The '''2007 NPPL Huntington Beach Open''' opened the 2007 [[National Professional Paintball League|NPPL]] Super 7 season from 23–25 March in Huntington Beach, California. Oakland Blast won the professional division, defeating Edmonton Impact in the championship final.[1][2]

== Organisation ==
The event followed Pacific Paintball LLC's acquisition of the NPPL and XPSL earlier in 2007. Six artificial-turf fields were installed at the beach venue.[1]

The league made its live multi-camera webcast freely accessible, replacing the previous pay-per-view service.[1]

== Professional competition ==
Eighteen professional teams played in two preliminary groups before eight advanced to the quarter-final round-robin.[1]

Oakland Blast and Edmonton Impact reached the championship final. Blast won in two consecutive games. [[San Diego Dynasty]] defeated Stockholm Joy Division in two games for third place.[1]

== Results ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Final placings[2]
! Division !! First !! Second !! Third !! Fourth
|-
| Professional
| Oakland Blast
| Edmonton Impact
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| Stockholm Joy Division
|-
| Semi-professional
| SE X-Factor
| San Diego Aftermath
| Arsenal A
| Elite
|-
| Division I
| Synergy
| TCP Machine
| Dynasty Entourage
| Misfits
|-
| Division II
| Splat Kids
| Throttle
| Redz Organized Chaos
| 187 Crew
|-
| Division III
| Xclusive
| FYT
| Titan Paintball
| Island Breed Black
|-
| Young Guns
| The Academy JV
| Cutthroats
| LA Distraction YG
| Kolohe Kids Blue
|}

=== Divisional finals ===
SE X-Factor defeated San Diego Aftermath in two games. Synergy beat TCP Machine two games to one, while Xclusive defeated FYT by the same margin.[1]

Splat Kids won Division II against Throttle in a disputed deciding game. WARPIG reported that officials upheld the winning flag hang after a Splat Kids player's marker failed and he threw paintballs at the remaining opponent.[1]

== See also ==
* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[2006 NPPL Huntington Beach Open]]
* [[2007 NPPL Tampa Open]]

== References ==
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2007/hb/ WARPIG – NPPL Huntington Beach, 23–25 March 2007. Contemporary tournament report; photographs by Jeff Groesbeck.]
# [https://www.classicscores.com/static/data/tournament_data.json ClassicScores – Historical tournament results database, NPPL Huntington Beach 2007, event CS0081.]

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