Paintball Furture

[Dazzer13]

Hi
What do you think paintball well be like in 10 years time?

Well it be baned coz people make replica guns or sniper rifles for paintball which would then make police uneasy Y make them in the first place i play p8ntball to have fun at tournaments not to pretend that the guns are real and ur at war, so sad.

Ne 1 views on the matter

Dazzer13

 

[KingAl]

i agree if you want to go out and pretend your rambo then join the army, who makes replica guns? i ain't seen any that look very similar, most i've seen are pretty wacky bright colours, with the exception of a few black solid metal looking ones most don't look like real guns,
from the way the style of paintball is going i think bright colours and funky anodizing is what is to come, more people liike to think of paintball as a sport as opposed to an excuse to be G.I Jimmy in the woods.
but thats just my opinion anyhoo

 

[IanC]

Future of Paintball

There are some manufacturers that produce guns which do look like the real thing, M16's, MP5's etc. These are mostly restricted to the Hardcore rec-ball and scenario gamer in the states, I don't know of anyone importing them into europe.

As for the future of paintball i'm not sure that it will change that much over the next ten years. X-ball will probably become larger if it fullfills its promise to attract TV time and non-player spectators. Should it be successfull in this aspect then you will likely see an elite of "Super Ballers" akin to pro footballers earning high salaries for playing.

Other than this I think paintball at the lower levels may grow but not necesarily change from the way it is today. We may see more walk-on players in the UK and perhaps a growth in the rental market following the current trend but I don't think everybody will be playing tourney ball. If they do then the industry will collapse anyway since the majority of paint sales is to sites, not teams, and most people are introduced to paintball through rental or rec-ball games.

there's my 2p's worth.

Laterz

Ian

 

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[Dark Warrior]

I'm sure i've read somewhere that someone is taking Tippmann to court over the fact that they where selling the markers in the New York area, where any replica gun, paintball marker or the like must be visible different, especially in colouring from the real thing. I also believe Kingman have fallen foul of the same ruling.

 

[Dazzer13]

Thanx for the response

i agree that nearly all markers have funky anodizing which is wicked and what i go for but there are still guns that maybe arn't here in europe but in the states that are based on real guns, which is stupid, and i aslo would agree that paintball wont change much with games and rec ball but more and more pl are getting interested, i mean look at me i only started paintball 6 months ago and i am 16 so many more ppl are going to be interested and like you said we'll have super stars soon

Thanx

Dazzer13

 

[fordanaldino]

What i would love to see which i think is starting over in the states (i may be wrong) is paintball tv. Now we have had tv shows like mission paintball on bravo which i thought floped and probably didnt encourage anyone to take the sport up. Then their was x-fire. What a great show that was - not. From the corny accents to the slowest markers ive seen didnt help us out either. What i would like to see is either a channel devoted to paintball or broadcast live games on channels such as sky sports. How much would you love to wake up on a saturday morning and bang, paintball tv.
Now i know that paintball is an extremly hard sport to film as shown by mission paintball and x-fire. But websites such as fon and pig tv have done a great job. Now with a bit of commentating their could be no beeter tv around. Well thats what i think anyway.

 

[KingAl]

I think we are a LONG way off a paintball tv show and even further off dedicated channel to paintball, if we're lucky late on a tuesday night at around 3a.m on channel 5 there it will be NXL X-ball live YEY!!!!
while i was out in the states I went along to the NPPL Las Vegas Super 7's tournament and i must say,
"paintball is without a doubt the single greatest spectator sport i've even seen"
even my uncle who's not exactly an avid paintballer (never seen it before in his life) thought exactly the same as me. lasting a mere 3 mins at most it seemed a display of skill, talent and large inflatable objects paintball has now split 3-ways in the states into 3 pro paintball leagues (NPPL,NXL&PSP) all of which consist of large inflatable bunkers, and angry americans screaming "LOCK AND LOAD!!!" only joking, almost all of the athletes who i had the pleasure to watch ranging from Novice to Pro all performed excelently! with full seriousness,

but if paintball ever made it onto normal television (even at least sky) if it was promoted properly and people didn't get hufty about it promoting violence and what-not. I believe from watching it at the highest level live in person in a very professional environment, ballers and non-ballers alike would enjoy watching the spectacle of 14 men (and ladies!) running flat out at each other flinging paint at each other without a single non pretty brightly anodised marker anywhere, no replicas in tourny play from what i saw, chunk the bottom rifle looks nasty i'd be crapping myself on the field with that pointing at me,

even though i am yet to play a tourney game myself, i have played rec-ball at a local field lots of times and have finally invested in a marker to call my own, and i believe that tourney paly is the way forward so that people or go for rental matches can see what the next level looks like and see it for the sport that it really is, on this subject anyone know a newbie team in south wales looking for an extra man? or the best way to join a team? well thats my 2 cents or "Euros" as i should aparently be saying, Adios (damn Spanish GCSE o how i'm gonna fail *sigh* i got my oral speaking exam tomorrow wish me luck) tara

 

[KingAl]

sorry it's so long i can't be bothered to go to bed, and i feel like saying something, all the best Alex

 

[Dazzer13]

Lol thanx for that ur doing ur GCSE as well Same here u 16 KingAl

i have justed join a novice team, HHEHEHE

Dazzer13