Paintball Game
Paintball! It's recognized as one of the world's most exciting outdoor participation sports.
It is played in over 50 countries by millions of people, of different ages and lifestyles. Whether high-school students or homemakers, professionals or retirees, all paintball players share in common a love for adventure and a strong competitive spirit.
Paintball is a combination of the childhood games "tag" and "hide & seek," but is much more challenging and sophisticated.
And it is a sport played by people from all professions and lifestyles. It is a sport where women and men compete equally, and where age is not dominated by youth. Physical size and strength are not as important as intelligence and determination.
Like a game of chess, being able to think quickly and decisively is what makes you a star.
Paintball is a character-building sport. Players learn the importance of teamwork and gain self-confidence while developing leadership abilities.
Paintball is an exciting sport, and above all paintball is fun! It's a chance to shake off your day-to-day responsibilities and rekindle your spirit of adventure.
How It's Played?
Although there are many different game formats, typically a group of players will divide into two teams to play "capture the flag."
In the two flag game,each of two teams starts from its own home base. The object of the game is to capture the other team's flag and carry it back to your home base.
In the one flag game, there is a single flag placed at an equal distance from each of two teams. The flag usually is in the center of the field. The object of the game is to capture the flag and advance, carrying the flag to the opposing team's home base.
Paintball is usually played outdoors. Indoor play sites are becoming more common, usually in more urban areas.
Paintguns
Paintguns, also known as Markers, come in a variety of shapes and styles, from simple to sophisticated.
Stock Guns are powered by small 12-gram CO2 powerlets that have to be changed after 15 to 25 shots. Nearly all stockguns are pumpguns.
With a pumpgun, each time a player wants to shoot a paintball, the player must first must cock the paintgun by using a pump and then squeeze the trigger. The pumpgun must be recocked before the player can shoot again.
Pumpguns may be powered by 12-grams, or by larger, refillable CO2 or compressed air cylinders that supply hundreds of shots per fill.
Semi-automatic paintguns are generally powered by refillable cylinders. With a semi-auto, the player first must cock the paintgun in order to shoot a paintball. Then the mechanics of the paintgun will recock the paintgun so that the next time the player squeezed the trigger, another paintball is shot.
(In contrast, with a fully-automatic system, the mechanism is cocked once; then, if the trigger is squeezed and held down without release, the mechanism will continue to shoot until the trigger is released.)
What is Speedball or Arenaball ??
Arenaball (also called speedball) is paintball played in an arena (indoors or outdoors) where spectators can enjoy the excitement.
The number of players on each team can vary from four or five per team to over 500 on a side, limited only by the size of the playing field.
For safety, paintball players always must wear approved-for-paintball goggles and head protection systems to protect the eyes and face during a game and while in other areas (such as the target range or chronograph area) where shooting is permitted.
While you are trying to capture a flag, you also try to eliminate opposing players by tagging them with a paintball expelled from a special airgun called a "paintgun" (also called a marker).
Games have time limits, varied by the number of players and the size of the field. For smaller games of up to 25 on a side, the games usually have a time limit of 15 or 20 minutes.
For games with more players, time limits may be 30 to 45 minutes per game. With teams of one to five players, games usually are from 3 to 10 minutes.
Referees on the field start and stop games, enforce the rules of fair play, and control the sport's safety. Paintball playsites have a referee staff and may run several games at the same time on different parts of their playsite.
Each playing field has a marked boundary. A player who goes out of bounds is eliminated from that game.
Between games, players take a break to check their equipment, reload paintballs and have a snack or a soda while they share stories about the thrills of victory and the usually-funny agonies of defeat.
Paintball Bullet and its full detail
A Bullet is a round capsule with colored liquid inside it. A paintball's thin outer shell is usually made of gelatin.
These are similar to large round vitamin capsules or bath oil beads. The most common paintball size is .68" in diameter.
The fill inside a paintball is non-toxic, non-caustic, water-soluble and biodegradable. It rinses out of clothing and washes off skin with mild soap and water.
Paintballs come in a rainbow of colors, such as blue, pink, white, orange, red, yellow, green, and other bright hues. The outer shell of a paintball may be a color swirl, or two-toned. The inner fill may be a different color from the color of the outer shell.
When a paintball tags a player, the thin outer layer of the paintball splits open, and the liquid fill inside leaves a bright "paint" mark. A player who is marked is eliminated from the game.
Usually the mark must be the size of a U.S. quarter to be considered big enough to eliminate the player. Smaller amounts of fill that mark a player are called splatter and usually do not eliminate the player.
Flags and Armbands
A flag as used in paintball is generally a rectangular piece of cloth about 24" x 12" in size. Players wear colored armbands to distinguish one team from another.
In tournament games where each team has a flag to protect, usually a teams armband color will match the color of the flag they are protecting. In recreational games, the two flags should be of contrasting colors, or one should be patterned or striped, so that the flags do not look alike.
Safety
Paintball's superb safety record compared with other sports is largely attributable to the attention that has been paid to safety concerns from the very beginnings of the game. High strength goggles are always a requirement at any field as well as barrel plugs and chronographs.
Barrel plugs are an internationally-accepted safety item for paintball. Barrel plugs are required in all non-shooting areas and whenever a referee requires that plugs be inserted.
Chronographs are also mandatory for paintball. These devices measure the velocity at which the paintball is leaving the barrel of the marker. The international speed limit is 300 feet per second (fps). For indoor or other close range play, the speed limits are lower. In tournaments, penalties for exceeding the speed limit have cost many teams a trip to the finals--tournament directors have no sense of humor when it comes to enforcing safety rules.Photo by Jaime Martinez
Referees enforce safety and playing rules, as well as start and stop every game. They tend to chose brightly colored outfits, and players are generally not allowed to wear uniforms that resemble ref clothing. They are also called judges or marshals.
So now you know how paintball game is played and what is it's history and it playing rules. Now you can play this game with it's rule.