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teoFAD

teoFAD

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I was wondering how come Eurosport never shows paintball. It shows every possible crap that it exists made by bored to death people in this planet and it doesn't show the most adrenaline-pumping sport.

For example take curling , it's this ice-skating moping thing, i mean who is going to watch three guys moping the floor? that's by far the most dumbest sport ever created and still they show it a week now for 3-4 hours continiously at prime time hours!

(It should be curling's fast paced action which thrills the spectator and have it on air so often) it can be explained by any other means!

Seriously now, why can paintball make it through tv, i know the common barriers (multiple angles to focus on etc etc ) but take for example toulouse 2k2 it's an excellent example of documentation

Especially the seperate games it has ,mulltiple cameras, detailed audio commentary, shows us that a paintball game is very close on becoming understood by a totally unknown to paintball spectator.

I'm upset watching curling instead of paintball on tv!!

Maybe all the paintball community should prepare a pettition and send it over to Eurosport HQ to meet our demands!
 
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I totally agree with what you are saying teo, but until paintball becomes a recognised sport there will be minimal 'sports' coverage on the game.

Whereas, Curling is now an olympic sport and I believe it has quite a following - I'll have to try it some time and see what all the excitement is about :rolleyes:
 
Graham-DV8

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I think the first thing is would be to get moere of the publics around the world to go paintballing and enjoy it.

That way in the event it ever did make it to the tv people would not say something like "whats paintball?" As ppl keep saying paintballs a new "sport" and its evolving very very fast and at the moment vedeo's in places such as HMV....etc. Would be the best bet to getting ppl to watch paintball.

Then if that takes of then you can think about tv :)
 
teoFAD

teoFAD

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monkey you're right, but, was curling such a well known sport before shown in TV? I think not , it took it's publicity right there from that box, and at the beginning viewers were wondering "what the hell is that"??

So i think paintball shouldn't be a problem presented in TV, if presented in the a nicely format, the viewer who doesn't know what paintball is can keep up with the action, as soon as he knows some of the essentials of the sport, which are:

team's goal is to get the flag.
a player is eliminated if he's hit in every part of his body or equipment.

If you have also audio commentary explaining analitically what is happening and why, (getting the viewer into more advanced and techincal information).
I don't find any argument why paintball shouldn't be on air .

Violent issues i don't think they exist, showing boxing and boxers getting beated to death is by far more violent...


We don't paintball to get mainstream in order to appear in TV

We want it to appear in TV in order to become more mainstream.
 
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ah, but curling has a big following and did before it was tellivised (Mainly in Canada etc..) and you can film a match with two cameras as it's pretty slow going, so it's cheap to produce.
Paintball is still an unknown quantity for TV, a bit of a shot in the dark for any production company (just look at X-fire, they aired half of the series before making the second half, to see if anyone watched it).
As for the public, paintball is still a difficult sport to get into, most first timers play and enjoy, but are scared off by the cash they have to spend "so are you coming back?" " maybe in two months when I save up" is a common response. Not many team sports are as expensive (initially anyway).
 
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