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paintballimpact.com / Paintball Leagues / APPA
APPA
The APPA is also known as the American Paintball Players Association. Their website is a resource for paintball enthusiasts to learn about paintball team rosters, tournament series, and upcoming events that will soon be taking place around the country. This website is also a tool for paintball teams to register for tournament series leagues such as the Polar Bear Circuit Rush Paintball, or the PBC 3-man Series. The APPA website is a great national resource that has a huge database of individual players and teams, and their records from tens of thousands of tournament games played. Each player involved in one of the APPA's tournament leagues gets their own ID number which is used to keep track of their divisional status so that they are playing in the appropriate games when they compete in various events. One of the biggest concerns about players and teams in all tournament events that include prizes is sandbagging. Sandbagging is when more experienced players drop down to games in a lower divisional or experience level to pick on the competition or to pick up cash or product prizes from a tournament.
To make all APPA games fair, the APPA tracks each player from year to year based on the number of years played in APPA tournament series, how many events each year they participated in, what divisional games they played in, and what their record was in those games. In the lower divisions, players can advance in rank from year to year simply by participating in a certain number of tournament matches. In some tournament circuits, teams and individuals can become professionals simply by playing in their first professional events. Once a professional, some individual players may retain their professional status simply by playing in a certain number of tournaments every playing season. In most tournament series, a playing season or series is 1 year long, from January 31st to the end of the calendar year at December 31st. In some tournament series, teams and players must have a tournament series, teams and players must has a certain level of success for them to retain their professional status. In some of the biggest tournament circuits, there are 9-25 teams in a professional and semi-professional division, and teams can go up and down in divisional status at the end of the season. In some leagues, teams are ranked for a season based their performance in all of their championship events, and the top three teams in the semi-pro rankings go up to professional for the next season and the bottom three pro teams go down in ranking in the next season. Some prominent leagues associated with the APPA include the Sup'AIR Bowl and Rodents Events.
The APPA website, paintball-players.org makes it easy for players and teams to register for upcoming events and to make official changes to their roster online. Some of the most prominent paintball teams include the Seattle Naughty Dogs, Ultimate and X-Factor. The X-Factor play in the NXL X-Ball division, and will compete in the 2007 Chicago Open.
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