Editing 2025 Arena Paintball March Race


The '''2025 Arena Paintball March Race''' was a five-player [[paintball]] tournament held on 22–23 March 2025 at [[Arena Paintball]], 558 Kimbolton Road, Feilding, New Zealand. It was the opening round of the [[2025 Arena Paintball Race Events|2025 Arena Paintball Race Series]].[1][2]

== Format ==

The tournament was advertised as a two-day competition featuring round-robin matches followed by semi-finals and finals. The format specified ten-minute games, a four-point mercy rule and a hopper-and-four-pod ammunition limit. Separate Cup and Plate finals were planned.[1]

The organiser capped entries at fourteen teams.

== Teams and pools ==

On 20 March 2025, Arena Paintball published a draw consisting of twelve teams divided into two pools.[3]

{| class="wikitable"
! Pool A
! Pool B
|-
| Expendables
| Ballistics Unit
|-
| PBHQ
| BOP Blast
|-
| Reavers
| Surge
|-
| Chaos
| Crisis
|-
| KC Ripple
| Lumberjacks
|-
| KC Lycans
| Immortal Knights
|}

The organiser published a revised fixture list on 21 March to resolve a scheduling conflict.[4]

== Event ==

Following the tournament, Arena Paintball published a report on 23 March thanking participating teams and acknowledging the event's live broadcast. The organiser also announced that two further rounds were planned for the 2025 season.[5]

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

== See also ==

* [[2025 Arena Paintball Race Events]]
* [[2025 Arena Paintball King's Birthday Race]]
* [[2025 Arena Paintball Labour Weekend Race]]
* [[Arena Paintball]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20250115162148/https://paintballdirectnz.co.nz/2025-race-events/ Paintball Direct – 2025 Race Events, archived 15 January 2025].
# [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=950250103794611&type=3 Arena Paintball – 2025 tournament calendar, Facebook, 27 November 2024].
# [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1031241422362145&type=3 Arena Paintball – March tournament pools, Facebook, 20 March 2025].
# [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1031470515672569&type=3 Arena Paintball – Revised March tournament draw, Facebook, 21 March 2025].
# [https://www.facebook.com/ArenaPaintballNZ/posts/1033482528804701/ Arena Paintball – Post-tournament report, Facebook, 23 March 2025].

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[[Category:2020s in New Zealand paintball]]