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Paintball is an equipment-intensive sport and in order to safely conduct a game, every player requires a marker with propellant to fire the paint, a mask to protect the eyes and face, paintballs, and a loader to hold them. To ensure safety off the playing field, a barrel sock or plug for the marker is also compulsory.
A speedball game in progress. Speedball is one of the three distinct game variants in the sport of paintball, along with woodsball and scenario paintball.. It is a general term for a game in which the playing field is composed of bunkers, of the same location and number on each side of the field, that provide an equal playing field for each team competing.
Paintball is played at both commercial venues, which require paid admission, and private land, both of which may include multiple fields of varying size and layout. Fields can be scattered with either natural or artificial terrain, and may also be themed to simulate a particular environment, such as a wooded or urban area, and may involve a ...
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Fields are normally much bigger than standard paintball fields and can even have a combined total of many paintball fields. Fields can range from a small 3 vs 3 square, to a few acres, to over 100 acres (0.40 km 2). Fields are generally an entire venue with every field put into use simultaneously and an out-of-bounds tape strung around it. This ...
Tournaments may be played with teams of various sizes. 20-man and 15-man tournaments were common on wooded fields in the 1980s, and professional paintball teams played 10-man for most of the 90's and into the new millennium Today, tournament paintball is dominated by 3-6 "small", 6-9 "med", and 9-12 member "large" formats.
The first game of paintball was played in Henniker, New Hampshire on 27 June 1981, with players using a "Nel-spot 007" pistol; normally used by farmers and ranchers for marking trees and livestock. [2] The term woodsball was a simple concatenation of the woods where games were originally played, and the ball from paintball.
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