Phil, you could well be right, I don't know for sure but i tend to think it goes a little deeper than vanity alone.Maybe then you were playing for the sport, not the victory or recognition?
Seems like now everyone goes onto the field, looking good, caring more about the way they look, they're going out to impress, and sometimes not by the way they play.
Bejeeepers, I was a vain ass dick in those days but maybe the difference was, I tried to look good (if in fact I ever did) by the way I played.
In Paintball, just as it is in every other sport, what defines you as a player, is what you have won and then a fair way's back, what you can do.
How you look is academic in sporting terms but the joke is, we have so called pros over here who think if they call each other 'dude' and talk the talk, they think they are budding Ollies, well they ain't, nowhere frikkin near it, and they won't be till they start winning something but that ain't gonna happen I'm afraid.
Well, it can happen if we ship in other nationals to bolster the roster but we won't be getting any Brit playing squad win a damn thing for a very long time to come.