Paintball

Paint ball –The Sport

Paintball is a sport which has hooked many players and spectators recently. This sport is safer than other sports like tennis, golf and bowling. Insurance statistics indicates that the paintball is the safest sport. Rules designed for this sport ensures that each and every participant as well as spectator is safe when the game is played.

This is the sport where the participants eliminate opponent team members from the play by hitting a liquid filled gelatin paintballs which are breakable when hitting. This gelatin paint balls are shot from a compressed gas powered gun called Paintball marker.

Sporting Goods Manufacturer’s Association indicates that about 5 million people out of which 1.9 million plays at least 15 times a year in the United States.

Paintball is played in various forms and among them most popular are woodsball, scenarioball and speedball. It can be played either indoors or outdoors. This sport requires extensive equipments

Two opposing teams play to eliminate the opponent team players and have some objective like retrieving the flag. The game duration depends on the style of paintball played and last from seconds to days. Some typical games like woodsball have five to thirty minutes duration.

Based on basic rules, different variations of Paintball are played. The variations are referred as “game types”. The most popular game types are woodsball, speedball and scenarioball.

In commercial fields smaller scale variations are played and other variations, were the rules are complex and questionable are played as private games.

Tournament Paintball

Organized paintball competition way backs in 1983 where regional tournaments held at National Survival Game locations. Canadian team “The unknown rebels” from London have won the National Survival Game Championship. The rise in the popularity of teams such as Team Dynasty in the late 1990 paved a standard competitive format than...