thats the question im askin... will it ever go mainstream, and if it does will it be in the next say, five years?
whadda ya think guys/gals?
whadda ya think guys/gals?
will paintball ever go mainstream?
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well personally......
i dont want it to go mainstream, because then im no like the only person bar one in my school that actually does it!i know of about 15 tourny players max in my whole town which also rules, i mean, its good if it does go mainstream because stuff will be alot cheaper, but i do like having something special to my name, i mean, how often can someone say, oh im going to a paintball tournament this weekend, or to really shock them you go, oh im going to a paintball tournament in Amsterdam/take your pic of millenium series etc....
i dont want it to go mainstream, because then im no like the only person bar one in my school that actually does it!i know of about 15 tourny players max in my whole town which also rules, i mean, its good if it does go mainstream because stuff will be alot cheaper, but i do like having something special to my name, i mean, how often can someone say, oh im going to a paintball tournament this weekend, or to really shock them you go, oh im going to a paintball tournament in Amsterdam/take your pic of millenium series etc....
I dunno whether I'd want it to or not coz on the upside paintballing is big and a lot of people will earn well deserved money and everythings cheaper but if it got really big it wouldn't sound as cool as it does now when you say "I'm going paintballing tommorow" it wouldn't be as unique either it would just be like going to kick a footy around. So I'm undecided
i dont think it will, mainstream has its upsides and its downsides, they balance out in the end I think...
I think promoting the sport is a good idea, media attention and more people is good, but thats different from mainstream...
its a far too fiddly sport with far too many things to go wrong during a game, can be cheated at alot more easily at than other mainstream sports so I dont think it will catch on as much as some people hoped..
I think promoting the sport is a good idea, media attention and more people is good, but thats different from mainstream...
its a far too fiddly sport with far too many things to go wrong during a game, can be cheated at alot more easily at than other mainstream sports so I dont think it will catch on as much as some people hoped..
i agree i think paintball will reach the same sort of level as other extreme sports like skateboarding etc ie it will become pretty popular and have fairlly good coverage on specialist channels but i dont think it will ever become mainstream its not as easily accessible as some things- expensive, special areas to play, time setting up fields
Am all for mainstream, if it blows then great. Am so sick of having to explain to people wot paintball actually is about not jus a bunch of numpties runnin about the woods.
Plus if it went on the up in a big way, we would all be supa stars (well sum of us)
Mak D
Plus if it went on the up in a big way, we would all be supa stars
(well sum of us) Mak D
