Don't do what I did and form a team from a group of m8's who you work with.
Doing it this way will only lead to problems, for a start you will end up with different levels of comitment. This is due to the price of P8ntball. As you have come from a recball upbringing you will realise that you can spend in excess of £50 on a rec-day. Now take it to tournement level and if you are a front player you go through at least a case of paint (£45) become a backplayer and multiply it by loads. Most backs go out with 7 to 11 pods this equates to 1500 balls per game.
If you are going to take it really seriously you then have to take practicing into account. This also uses paint.
Now back to the friend issue. If you form a team from friends and one of them ain't cutting the grade, how do you tell them this, and should they not pick up thier game how do you cut them from the team?
The other problem is a lot of recballers say ' I want to play tournies and come out of the woods', but when the chance to do so comes. They say that they really do prefer woods games.
I've had all these problems and the only way to sort it out, was to leave the team and go it alone. Although if they do buck up thier ideas and form a proper tourney team, they always know where to find me.
I'm not trying to put you off the idea of forming a team, but my advise is to find a currently active team and join them.
