Editing 2007 NPPL season

The '''2007 NPPL season''' was the fifth season of the [[National Professional Paintball League]]'s [[NPPL Super 7|Super 7 World Series]]. Five United States tournaments offered seven-player competition in Professional, Semi-Pro and Divisions I–III.[1][2][3][4][5]

[[San Diego Dynasty]] won its fifth consecutive professional Super 7 series championship. A-Team won Semi-Pro, Dynasty Entourage won Division I, 187 cRew won Division II and Xclusive won Division III.[5]

== Organisation ==

The season began following the acquisition of the NPPL and [[XPSL]] by Pacific Paintball LLC. Shawn Walker became president of Pacific Paintball, overseeing both leagues.[1]

Professional remained an eighteen-team restricted division. Teams seeking professional status competed through Semi-Pro, while the lowest-ranked professional teams faced relegation.[1][5]

== United States calendar ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Round !! Event !! Dates !! Venue
|-
| 1
| [[2007 NPPL Huntington Beach Open|Huntington Beach Open]]
| 23–25 March 2007
| Huntington Beach, California
|-
| 2
| [[2007 NPPL Tampa Open|Tampa Open]]
| 11–13 May 2007
| Raymond James Stadium grounds, Tampa, Florida
|-
| 3
| [[2007 NPPL Boston Open|Boston Open]]
| 13–15 July 2007
| Gillette Stadium grounds, Foxborough, Massachusetts
|-
| 4
| [[2007 NPPL Kansas City Open|Kansas City Open]]
| 21–23 September 2007
| Kemper Arena complex, Kansas City, Missouri
|-
| 5
| [[2007 NPPL Commander's Cup|Commander's Cup]]
| 30 November–2 December 2007
| Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, California
|}

Sources: contemporary WARPIG event reports.[1][2][3][4][5]

== Event results ==

The table lists tournament winners. Kansas City's professional result incorporates the subsequent tie-breaker rather than the initially announced shared first place.[4][5]

{| class="wikitable"
! Event !! Professional !! Semi-Pro !! Division I !! Division II !! Division III
|-
| Huntington Beach
| Oakland Blast
| SE X-Factor
| Synergy
| Splat Kids
| Xclusive
|-
| Tampa
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| OC Bushwackers
| Dynasty Entourage
| Miami Rage D2
| Air Assault Factory
|-
| Boston
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| SA X-Factor
| Rock-It Kids
| SCP Epic
| FYT
|-
| Kansas City
| [[Los Angeles Ironmen]]
| SE X-Factor
| Dynasty Entourage
| Arsenal Kidz
| Go For Broke
|-
| Commander's Cup
| [[San Diego Dynasty]]
| A-Team
| Dynasty Entourage
| Arsenal Kidz
| Rockstar Factory Red
|}

Sources: WARPIG's event reports and ClassicScores. ClassicScores retains both Ironmen and Edmonton Impact in first place at Kansas City; the contemporary Commander's Cup report documents the later resolution.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

SE X-Factor and SA X-Factor are retained as separately recorded entrants.[3][4]

=== Kansas City professional final ===

Los Angeles Ironmen and Edmonton Impact each won one championship game, with the remaining game drawn. Both teams declined the prescribed one-on-one tie-breaker and agreed to share first place. A tied first-place result was announced at the tournament.[4]

The league subsequently required the tie to be resolved. A postponed one-on-one contest took place at the start of the Commander's Cup, which Ironmen won, establishing Ironmen first and Impact second for Kansas City.[5]

== Season champions ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Classification !! Champion
|-
| Professional || [[San Diego Dynasty]]
|-
| Semi-Pro || A-Team
|-
| Division I || Dynasty Entourage
|-
| Division II || 187 cRew
|-
| Division III || Xclusive
|}

Source: WARPIG's season-ending report.[5]

Dynasty won the Commander's Cup while Edmonton Impact finished fourth, securing Dynasty's professional championship. A-Team and Dynasty Entourage also won both their finale tournament and season titles.[5]

== Promotion and relegation ==

The season's promotion system offered professional places to leading Semi-Pro teams, with the bottom three professional teams moving down.[5]

Pasadena Bad Company, Las Vegas LTZ and Miami Rage occupied the relegation positions. Sacramento XSV retained its professional status.[5]

The following season's opening report identified OC Bushwackers, San Antonio X-Factor and Aftermath as new or returning professional entrants. Their participation is distinct from A-Team's documented 2007 Semi-Pro championship.[7]

== Competition developments ==

The 2007 rules required a flag hang to win a game in best-of-three rounds. A higher score based solely on surviving or eliminated players no longer constituted a win in those rounds; unresolved contests could proceed to one-on-one tie-breakers.[1]

The rules also added provisions for five-player and three-player formats, although the principal Super 7 competition remained seven-player.[1]

At Kansas City, the main competition field was placed inside Kemper Arena. The event attracted 129 teams.[4]

== See also ==

* [[National Professional Paintball League]]
* [[NPPL Super 7]]
* [[2006 NPPL season]]
* [[2008 NPPL season]]

== References ==

# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2007/hb/ “NPPL Huntington Beach”. WARPIG, 23–25 March 2007.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2007/tampa/ “NPPL — Tampa”. WARPIG, 11–13 May 2007.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2007/boston/ “NPPL — Boston”. WARPIG, 13–15 July 2007.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2007/kc/ “NPPL Kansas City Open”. WARPIG, 21–23 September 2007. Records the initially announced shared professional first place.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2007/sd/ Dawn Mills, “NPPL Commander's Cup”. WARPIG, 30 November–2 December 2007. Records season champions, relegations and the postponed Kansas City tie-breaker.]
# [https://www.classicscores.com/ ClassicScores. Historical 2007 NPPL seven-player results for Huntington Beach, Tampa, Boston, Kansas City and the Commander's Cup.]
# [https://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/nppl/2008/hb/index.shtml “NPPL Huntington Beach”. WARPIG, 28–30 March 2008. Documents the new and returning professional entrants.]

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