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Tournament Paintball Overview
Paintball is a sport where competitors eliminate there opponents by shooting them with ink filled pellets known as paintballs. Paintballs are fired from an air powered gun commonly known as a marker, often powered by CO2 or nitrogen.
Games of paintball can be played in either indoor or outdoor arenas. Outdoor games often use higher velocity markers. There are two main types of outdoor games, “Woodsball” and “Speedball”. Woodsball is played in natural, wooded terrain hence the name, and Speedball is played on open flat ground with artificial obstacles (often inflatable) setting out the playing area.
Paintball rules vary widely; the most common form involves two opposing teams attempting to capture their opponents. Other forms of the game include eliminating all members of the opposing team or completing some form of objective other than just shooting the other team.
Organised paintball competition has been around since when the sport was first conceived. It started with regional tournaments being held at the National Survival Game locations in America in 1983. Although tournament paintball was originally played in the woods in the late 1990’s, as the game became more popular for accessibility reasons Speedball became the standard competitive format. It is also a much easier format to televise and referee as there are no large obstacles in the way. The largest tournament is the World Cup which has more than 3000 athletes competing and is held each October at Disney’s wide world of sport in Florida.