Outside companies making paintball goods

[Minibaker]

Weren't Dynasty Sponsored buy Intel at one point? did that help them in anyway???

 

[Dark Warrior]

Just think, I could be the Tiger Woods of paintball...

Gemma been chasing you with a golf club, has she!!

 

[Buddha 3]

haha. well i was thinking a couple years ago? no?

Buddha. you mentioned skateboarding. i used to be seriously into it. and i know like 5years ago Nike had no interest or power in skating. Now they are one of the biggest shoe companies in the sport.

Exactly! (I know a thing or two about skateboarding too, used to work in a skateboarding store...) Just think what happened to skateboarding over the last few years. Skateboarders became cool after they were featured on MTV and a massively succesful series of videogames was released.
Cue Nike storming in for a piece of the pie...

Unfortunately, no video games based on paintball have been anywhere near succesful enough to drag us out of the weekend warrior corner.

 

[Bolter]

haha. well i was thinking a couple years ago? no?

Buddha. you mentioned skateboarding. i used to be seriously into it. and i know like 5years ago Nike had no interest or power in skating. Now they are one of the biggest shoe companies in the sport.

i can imagine Nike or any well know sports company would look at paintball as a market they can cash in on only in soft goods though. and yeah teams like Vicious and Impact wearing the new Nike NX pants (for example) or the Nike Procore padding and travel gear would be a huge boost for paintball well only in the top events PSP,NPPL etc etc. and lets say Nike did sponsor the PSP funded Live footage be it webcast or anything else. that kinda money behind paintball would see it in the olympics for sure!

paintball has become a bigger market now (surely) has anyone approached these kinda sporting companies with even a pitch in the last 3 years?

Your living in a dream world mate, and I dont mean that offensively. The paintball market has been on the decline for the last few years in the US. Sure, the players look cool, we all talk the talk, but there are just a small handful of really professional teams, that are themselves only just scratching the surface of the professionalism needed to make it in any sport. We all kid ourselves really. Nike would be in it for the money, nothing else. If they cant make that money (because essentially its still a weekend hobby and not a sport) then they wont even entertain it. And why should they.