Friday April 14th marked the 20th year Mersey Road Paintball in East River, Nova Scotia has launched the Eastern Canadian paintball season, with the annual Black Friday woodsball game.
Players from across the region came together for what many consider to be the unofficial start to the paintball season. Field owner Jim Langlois is amazed the game has carried on for 20 years.
Friday, April 14, 2017
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Where Did All the Speedballers Go?
By: Kevin Curry
What happened to the game we
love? In 2007 there were ten speedball fields in Atlantic Canada. Today there
are only four. Of those four with only three fields are being used regularly.
With regards to one genre of our sport, speedball, how did over a fifty percent
of our available fields happen?
The answer is simple: player decline.
Monday, April 3, 2017
Paintball Is Dying, It's Your Fault!
The Future of Paintball?
When I started playing paintball the
choice of markers was vast for players. You could use a Splatmaster or a PPG.
No foolin' there were two choices. Both of these markers took a 10 ball tube of
paint, that if you were lucky, you could get on sale for two for $5.00. To put
that amount in perspective, $2.50 per tube in 1980's is equivalent to $1000 per
box in 2017 dollars.
I know what you are thinking, “Oh
great! Another old guys telling us how good we have it.” Well yes, and no. We
as players have never had so many options when it comes to the game we love. I
mention 'back in the day' because I have seen paintball come from nothing to
become a massive global industry and recognized sport.
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Phases of Life for a Paintballer
I remember when I first started going to the paintball field. The range of people and styles of dress made no sense. There were guys in white t-shirts playing next to guys with trees sticking out of their hats, next to guys in bright matching gear.
I can see how a newcomer to the sport can be confused, overwhelmed and intimidated by everything that goes on in the staging area during typical day at the field. With the start of a new paintball season I thought I would try to make some sense of the organized chaos.
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