This weekend saw the first event of the Iran National Paintball League in Tehran the Capital city of Iran.
The Event which was hyped up to be a big battle turned out great with the 8 division 1 teams battling it out for the first place position!
The First day was an intense one, DATIS won all their Preliminary matches Against Daataam, Tigers and Statira, and Persian Legends showed their true colors beating Swat and Ariana taking them to the top of their group.
Semi Finals would show Datis Playing Ariana and Persian Legends against Daataam, Datis was Victorious against Ariana Beating them 4-0.
Daataam Took two straight points of Persian Legend in their match but Persian legend put up a fight and came back to win the match 4-2.

The Finals was a close game, with Each team winning alternative points, When the game was 8-6 to Datis, a Controversial call was made in favor of Datis, After extensive Arguing by the Persian Legend Team, with only 1:24 left on the clock, Persian Legend took the field with only one player in protest against the Controversial Call, this led to Datis taking the final point and winning the Match.

Apart from the Controversial calls in the Finals, The Event ran extremely smoothly thanks to the Organization of the INPL.
Division 2 finals will be held at the next leg of INPL which will show Zhoobin and Persian Legend 2 playing for First Place and Proshut and Titian for 3rd.

Click here to view pictures from the event

International Pro Paintball Player Parham Nazari plays for team Persian Legend in Iran now. The team is sponsored by Angel and coached by Pro Player Maximus Lundqvist in the tournaments. Parham is without a doubt the best Paintball player is Asia now. Everybody enjoys watching him when he is playing. He is extremely quick, maintains great field awareness and not to mention a phenomenal player!

Name: Parham Nazari

Age: 18

Hometown: Tehran

Any hobbies other than paintball: Football

Previous teams: Datis
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Team DATIS, one of the most well known teams in the Middle East and Asia regions recently won the final leg of Iran National Paintball League.
By winning this leg they also managed to grasp the Title and win the series for the 2009-2010 Series.
Below are the final score boards.

Please look out in the next couple of days for more information on the event!

Aco Amir, A player of team DATIS from Iran has recently been noted as propaintball.com’s Player of the week.
this is great exposure for the DATIS player who is currently living in Malaysia, and its also very well deserved.

Read the interview by Nima Razavi here