Editing 2022 Arena 5 Man Race Round 3


The '''2022 Arena 5 Man Race Round 3''' was a five-player [[paintball]] tournament held over Labour Weekend, 22–23 October 2022, at [[Arena Paintball]] in Feilding, New Zealand. It was the third scheduled round of the [[2022 Arena 5 Man Race Series]].[1][2]

== Format ==

The tournament was advertised as a two-day event using a five-player race format with a four-point mercy rule.

The organiser's published programme limited entries to ten teams and specified an entry fee of NZ$500 per team, with field paint required.[1]

== Event ==

[[Phoenix Tahiti (French Polynesia Paintball Team)|Phoenix Tahiti]] published photographs of the tournament in October 2022 under the album title ''2022 New Zealand Race Series – Round 3 Labour Day''.[2][3]

The photographs and accompanying comments document participation by players associated with New Zealand teams and visiting players from French Polynesia.

=== Expendables participation ===

In comments on Phoenix Tahiti's tournament photographs, Brendon Spain confirmed playing alongside [[Ralph Tsing]] with [[Expendables (New Zealand Paintball Team)|Expendables]].[2]

[[Crisis Paintball Northland]] separately stated that two of its players, identified as Russell and Brendon, had played with Tsing and Expendables during the tournament.[3]

These accounts document guest-player participation but do not establish Expendables' final tournament placing.

== Results ==

Complete final tournament placings have not been established from the available contemporary records.

== See also ==

* [[2022 Arena 5 Man Race Series]]
* [[2022 Arena 5 Man Race Round 1]]
* [[2022 Arena 5 Man Race Round 2]]
* [[Arena Paintball]]
* [[Phoenix Tahiti (French Polynesia Paintball Team)|Phoenix Tahiti]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20220119221029/https://www.arenapaintball.co.nz/events Arena Paintball – 2022 event calendar and Round 3 registration details, archived 19 January 2022].
# [https://www.facebook.com/phoenixauthority/posts/964381077829623/ Phoenix Tahiti Paintball – Arena Paintball 2022 Round 3 Saturday preliminary games, Facebook, 24 October 2022. Includes comments concerning Expendables participation].
# [https://www.facebook.com/phoenixauthority/posts/968919574042440/ Phoenix Tahiti Paintball – 2022 New Zealand Race Series Round 3 Labour Day photographs and participant comments, Facebook, 30 October 2022].

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