Editing Red Lizards (Australian Paintball Team)

'''Red Lizards''' was an Australian tournament [[paintball]] team associated with the [[Victorian Paintball Players Association]]. The team finished second in the 1995 Southern Three-Man Open and the [[1996 Victorian Three-Man Series]].[1][3]

== History ==

=== Frankston Five-Man Tournament ===

Red Lizards competed at the [[Frankston Five-Man Tournament]] at Splatball Village in Frankston, Victoria. The competition required players to use rental SL-II pump markers with an 80-paintball limit.[2]

The team qualified for the four-team finals, advancing ahead of Terminal Velocity by 25 points. It won one of its three finals-round games and finished third, behind Blackwood Hunters and [[Challenge Raiders (Australian Paintball Team)|Challenge Raiders]].[2]

The report was published in January 1996 but does not establish the tournament's date.[2]

=== 1995 Southern Three-Man Open ===

Red Lizards competed in the Southern Three-Man Open at Challenge Paintball's Narbethong field in 1995. The published final standings identified the team with the Victorian Paintball Players Association.[3]

Five teams entered, each playing eight preliminary games. Red Lizards led the preliminary standings with 415 points, ahead of Combat Wombats on 365. The two teams advanced to a best-of-three final, which Combat Wombats won.[3]

=== 1996 Victorian Three-Man Series ===

Red Lizards finished second in the 1996 Victorian Three-Man Series with 960 points, behind [[Apparition (Australian Paintball Team)|Apparition]].[1]

At the third round, held at Paintball Action Games in Ballan, the team reached the final and finished runner-up to [[Rat Pack (Australian Paintball Team)|Rat Pak Bad]]. The series concluded after three completed rounds when the planned fourth tournament was cancelled.[1]

== Documented personnel ==

Mic Bradshaw identified himself as a Red Lizards player in his contemporary tournament reports. He received the best and fairest award at the second round of the 1996 Victorian Three-Man Series and was among the leading players in the overall series award.[1][2]

== Recorded results ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Competition
! Result
! Source
|-
| Not established
| [[Frankston Five-Man Tournament]]
| 3rd
| [2]
|-
| 1995
| Southern Three-Man Open
| 2nd; 415 preliminary points
| [3]
|-
| 1996
| Victorian Three-Man Series, round three
| 2nd
| [1]
|-
| 1996
| [[1996 Victorian Three-Man Series|Victorian Three-Man Series overall]]
| 2nd; 960 points
| [1]
|}

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/19990220102941/http://www.xsystems.com.au/wpaint/wpaint5/vic.html Three’s a Crowd]. Mic Bradshaw, ''Paint'', issue 5, March 1997.
# [https://web.archive.org/web/19990209054848/http://www.xsystems.com.au/wpaint/wpaint1/frank.htm Back to Basics]. Mic Bradshaw, ''War Paint'', issue 1, January 1996.
# Mic Bradshaw, “Southern 3-man Open”, ''Australian Paintballer'', December 1995–February 1996, p. 30.

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