I like paintball markers to look like...well paintball markers, and not purposely styled to resemble military weapons ......in my head, paintball is a serious sport and not an opportunity to live out some Rambo fantasy.
But I do acknowledge that both formats (rec and tourney) are essentially cowboys and Indians, it's just that I think we as tourney ballers can take ourselves a little more seriously than when you daub the cammo paint on yer face and go into 'sniper' mode (wussy-ball) pretending you are in some Vietnamese undergrowth in the heart of suburban Chicago woodland.