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Tournament Promoter Jim Lively

1998 Music City Open Scores and Photos courtesy Lively Productions

Tournament staff (l-r): Team coordinator-Tad Taylor, producer - Sam Caldwell, promoter - Jim Lively, operations - Chip Herbert

April 17-19, 1998 Jim Lively returned as a tournament producer with the Music City Open.  This event features a Top Gun competition with 60 competitors, a quick draw competition, and a 7 player center flag tournament which drew 29 teams to Nashville Paintball Sports.  Paintballers weren't the only thing to come though - so did the winds.  Class five tornadoes ripped through Nashville and its surrounding areas, fortunately none touched down at the game site.  More than 4 inches of rain fell in less than 12 hours on the 18th.  The staging tents kept players and their gear protected between games.  The weather broke on Saturday night to partly cloudy skies for the 7 player finals.

Sponsorhip by Zap Paintballs, Scott USA, Worr Games Products, Tippmann Pneumatics, Paintball News, PCRI, Viewloader, National Paintball Supply, ADCO International, Palmer's Pursuit Products, Pro Team Products, Paintball 2 Xtremes, Unique Pro Gear, Air America, AirGun Designs, National Paintball Association, Kingman International, J&J Performance Products, Action Pursuit Games and Indian Creek Design helped make the event possible and provided the prizes.

Nashville Paintball Sports will also be home to the Zap International Masters in October.  Watch WARPIG for on-scene event coverage.
 

1998 Zap Music City Open - 7 Man Tournament

Team	Captain	Hometown	Prelim	Semis	Finals	Rank
The Squad	Paul Cummings	Madison, AL	670	148	176	1st
Benchmark Warriors	Paul Bollenback	Palm Coast, FL	520	160	150	2nd
Nemesis	Ronnie Howell	Sunrise, FL	620	200	128	3rd
Tagg Team	Mike Hollowell	Elizabeth City, NC	581	200	21	4th
Riptide	Scott Brown	Cookeville, TN	602	116		5th
Team Stingers	Mark Henderson	Louisville, KY	538	100		6th
Dixie Recon	Jeff Dicks	Nashville, TN	514	48		7th
No Quarter	Jody Davis	Dallas, GA	516	40		8th
Wildfire	Josh Gil	Loranger, LA	504	88		9th
Maximum Impact	Hal Smedley	Apison, TN	470			10th
Crush	Steven Hawtsinger	TN, GA, AL	464			11th
Instagators	Joe Killion	Indianapolis, IN	438			12th
Phantom Regiment	Roy Hatch	Birmingham, AL	430			13th
Paint Busters	Thompson Harris	Lafayette, GA	425			14th
NY Dogs	Al Pennino	Huntington, NY	364			15th
Surge	Tom Boyer	Orleans, TN	344			16th
TNT	Rodney Roberts	Blaine, KY	340			17th
Roadkill	Will Grainger	Franklin, TN	308			18th
Rebel Warriors	Perry Chiveira	Maryville, TN	292			19th
Thunderbirds	George Matthews	Mt. Juliet, TN	288			20th
Nervous Rex	Dan Martin	Memphis, TN	288			21st
Challenger Warriors	John Kingery	Collinsville, MS	286			22nd
4F Squad	Toby Gilbreath	Mountain Home, NC	284			23rd
Semiconscious	Ken Barrett	Travelers Rest, SC	220			24th
Tribe	David Robinson	Cookeville, TN	212			25th
Alley Cats	Benny Baggott	Nashville, TN	156			26th
Aggression	Ty Kiser	Conyers, GA	128			27th
War Wizards	Dwayne Mardis	Dexter, KY	120			28th
Team Speed Recipients of the Sportsmanship award	Skeeter Mathis	Hendersonville, TN	38			29th

Target Shoot

George Matthews	1st
Jonathan Morrell	1st (tie)
Eric Dearman	2nd

Top Gun

Duncan LeFebre	1st
Paul Bollenback	2nd
Cha Cha	3rd