What happens when you tell someone that you play paintball?

[cheese]

Haha
Yeah, with my mates its either (sp?) footy, cricket and any major sporting events.
Anything else and they either switch off or take the mick

 

[Demonic69]

Could anyone follow PB if they saw it on TV? I seriously doubt it.
Half the players don't even know the full and varying rules. Just one reason why it won't be televised on a grand scale.
Give punters something they can get though...

 

[Tom37]

Could anyone follow PB if they saw it on TV? I seriously doubt it.

i agree on both points. one4one once did an almost birds eye view of the field on one of their videos, or was that espn? anyways, thats definitly the way forward... even if its just a small box in the top corner of the screen, you need to be able to see whats going on.

Half the players don't even know the full and varying rules. Just one reason why it won't be televised on a grand scale.

simple solution here... have one set of universal rules, if you want it televised anyways, or make the rules very clear and the differences clearer.

personally, i'd love to be able to sit down on a saturday afternoon and watch the paintball on the tv with a cold beer... hope it happens soon

 

[Buddha 3]

I wonder about that though...

NFL football: Succesful
NCAA football: Succesful
XFL football: Succesful

And they all use a different rulebook.

It's not the differing rules that keep us off TV...

 

[Demonic69]

But tbh American football has been around a lot longer than Paintball and initially there were probably only one set of main-stream rules.
People can't get into Paintball, it's not accessible like other sports

 

[ChiZZerS]

''wheres the sight?''
(while scratchign there head and piking there arse like a monkey trying to get food out of a cage)

 

[Lucky]

If you have a flash mobile phone, use the camcorder and video your gun ramping at 15bps, then as soon as you've told someone,show them the video explain that the other team are shooting back at the same speed, and you'll generally find that the person goes quiet and tries to leave thinking that your a dangerous nutter .....................job done, no more explaining

 

[Buddha 3]

But tbh American football has been around a lot longer than Paintball and initially there were probably only one set of main-stream rules.
People can't get into Paintball, it's not accessible like other sports

I knew somebody was gonna bring that up, but the amount of time it's been around is not the issue. The issue is that it's really easy to bring the game to the screen, as there are only so many places the ball can go. It's pretty much keep your eye on the quarterback and watch who he gives or passes the ball to. All the other players do something centered around the guy with the ball. Pretty much the same as for most sports. The different sets of rules don't affect this.
Paintball on the other hand has not got that. It's basically 10-14 guys all working on their own and as a spectator it's just too easy to miss the action if you happen to be watching the wrong guy.
There are just too many variable to make the sport worth watching for the avarage joe...

 

[Matski]

When non-players watch paintball they see a guy standing behind something, shooting somewhere, then getting shot from somewhere (who knows?) and walking off.

For lay audiences paintball at the moment is only really good to watch after a lot of editing. It's just hard to appreciate what is going on without playing yourself... Like Bog Snorkling, but I hear that's going olympic before paintball.

 

[Mike XS]

people generally wont listen to what you are saying because most havent played and wont know the excitement of it. When I tell people I play you get the general questions like doesnt it hurt,etc.. but what ive found is that girls who havent played take more of an interest in what you are saying than guys because usually they just think its piss easy to do and theirs no skill involved.