Editing Music City Open

The '''Music City Open''' was a recurring [[paintball]] tournament held in the Nashville, Tennessee, area and produced by [[Jim Lively]] and Sam Caldwell through [[Lively Productions]]. Documented editions included separate pump and open equipment classes in 1994 and a seven-player competition in 1998.[1][2]

== History ==
Contemporary coverage identified the 1994 tournament as the tenth annual Music City Open. Lively Productions organised it as a Nashville-based event alongside its larger [[International Masters]] tournament.[1]

In April 1998, Jim Lively returned to tournament production with another Music City Open at Nashville Paintball Sports.[2]

== 1994 tournament ==
The tenth annual Music City Open took place on 14–15 May 1994. Twenty-one teams representing nine states entered. Competition was divided by equipment rather than professional or amateur status: thirteen teams entered the Open class and eight entered the Pump class.[1]

Open-class teams could use constant-air semi-automatic markers, while the Pump class was restricted to pump-action markers.[1]

=== Pump class ===
The Pump class used a round-robin format, with aggregate points determining the winner. A thunderstorm interrupted play before the remaining games were completed.[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team !! State
|-
| 1 || Phantom Regiment || Alabama
|-
| 2 || Crow Warriors I || Ohio
|-
| 3 || Guns of Paradise || Michigan
|-
| 4 || Rad Busters || Tennessee
|}
Source: ''Action Pursuit Games''.[1]

=== Open class ===
The Open-class preliminary games had ten-minute time limits. Four teams advanced to a round-robin final, won by the Ridge Runners.[1]

{| class="wikitable"
! Place !! Team
|-
| 1 || Ridge Runners
|-
| 2 || Team Farside
|-
| 3 || Sasquatch
|-
| 4 || C.I.A. Widowmakers
|-
| 5 || Ruby Shooters
|-
| 6 || Phantom Regiment
|-
| 7 || Timber Wolves Gray
|-
| 8 || Deadly Assault Force
|-
| 9 || Timber Wolves Black
|-
| 10 || Bush Pilots
|-
| 11 || Tasmanian Devils
|-
| 12 || Wacky Warriors
|-
| 13 || Slam
|}
Source: ''Action Pursuit Games''.[1]

== 1998 tournament ==
The 1998 Music City Open took place at Nashville Paintball Sports from 17 to 19 April. Twenty-nine teams entered the seven-player centre-flag competition. The programme also included Top Gun, quick-draw and target-shooting competitions.[2]

Heavy rain affected the event, while staging tents sheltered players and equipment between games.[2]

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Seven-player finalists
! Place !! Team !! Final-round points
|-
| 1 || The Squad || 176
|-
| 2 || Benchmark Warriors || 150
|-
| 3 || Nemesis || 128
|-
| 4 || TAGG Team || 21
|}
Source: WARPIG, using scores supplied by Lively Productions.[2]

Team Speed received the sportsmanship award. Duncan LeFebre won the Top Gun competition, while George Matthews and Jonathan Morrell shared first place in target shooting.[2]

== See also ==
* [[Jim Lively]]
* [[Lively Productions]]
* [[International Masters]]

== References ==
# Andy Lahner, “The 10th Annual Music City Open”, ''[[Action Pursuit Games]]'', November 1994, pp. 37–40.
# [https://warpig.com/paintball/tournament/music98/index.shtml “1998 Music City Open”], [[WARPIG]], April 1998. Scores and photographs supplied by Lively Productions.

[[Category:Paintball tournaments in the United States]]
[[Category:Paintball in Tennessee]]
[[Category:1990s in American paintball]]
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[[Category:Lively Productions events]]