Teams are seeded from points scored in the preliminaries, and the points are then cleared. The teams are split into divisions of four and play a round-robin format. The top team from novice and rookie divisions and the top two teams from professional and amateur go to the semi-finals.
Semi-finals: Seven-minute games with two minutes between games. Best of three format. Teams are seeded from points scored in the quarter-finals and the points are cleared. The first team plays the fourth team while the second and third teams play. The winning two teams go to the finals while the losers go to a playoff or consolation bracket.
Finals: Third and fourth playoff while first and second playoff. Best of three format in seven minute games. The first team plays the second team while the third team plays the fourth team.
Typical Prize Structure (Chicago NPPL Super 7 World Series 2003)
THE APL TOURNAMENT SERIES
The American Paintball League (www.paintball.apl.com (800) 541-9169) was founded in Johnson City, Tennessee. The APL has sponsored an eight-tournament series and established appropriate rules and venues for its operation. National Paintball Supply is one of the major presenting sponsors of the series, so all games use supplied Diablo tournament paintballs as the exclusive field paint.
Bob McGuire, who founded the APL in 1991, has since branched out into field insurance, a Paintball Training Institute and the tournament series. “We have wanted carefully planned timing for our tournaments,” Bob says, “so we schedule carefully, spend a whole lot of time coordinating tournament operations and make sure that all the prizes we advertise will actually be available. We are very player-friendly.”
APL Player Classification
First, no player less than 10 years of age is allowed in an APL tournament. So, all players from 10-up in age must be able to prove their age at registration or when the team enters the field.
APL classifies individual players as rookies, novices, amateurs or professionals according to the number of seasons they have competed in tournament paintball. Recreational playing time (running around in the woods with your buddies or shooting up your local field) is not included. But, after a player participates in his or her first tournament, their classification as an official APL “rookie” is established and it continues through December 31st of that year because typically, Bob McGuire says, paintball seasons – tournaments, point totals, standings – operate on a January 1 to December 31 calendar year.
Leaning into the shot.
A “professional ” is anyone who has played in a tournament on a pro team during the previous 12 months. A pro player may move back to a lower division by not playing as a pro for 12 consecutive months.
An “amateur” is a player with three or more seasons of tournament experience who has not played as a pro during the previous 12 months.
A “novice” is a player with fewer than three seasons of tournament experience who has not played as a pro or amateur during the previous 12 months.
A “rookie” is a player with less than one season of tournament experience who has never played as a novice, amateur or professional .
Such a rigid classification is designed to keep experienced players and teams from “sandbagging ” or dropping down into a less experienced division to give them a better chance of winning. All major tournament venues discourage such activity and may disqualify an individual or team that is discovered to engage in sandbagging. With the exception of the pro level, a player in an APL venue may play at higher levels without losing their status. For example, a rookie could play on a novice or amateur team during a season without losing his rookie classification. As soon as he plays on a pro team however, his classification changes to pro for a minimum of 12 months.
In collegiate arena league paintball, teams compete in fully enclosed thunderdomes. Shouting, screaming and yelling encouragement and directions is part of this game!
APL Team Classification
Just as it certifies individuals into different classifications to make sure play is fair and all players have an opportunity, the APL classifies registering teams.
A “pro team” is a team in which any member has competed in a tournament registered in the pro division.
Interestingly, an “amateur team” is allowed to field a pro player, but it is limited to a seven-person roster with a maximum of five players allowed on the field during a game. No substitutions are allowed for any reason.
A “novice team” may field one amateur but is limited to a seven-person roster, and it, too, is limited to five players on the field with no substitutions allowed.
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