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**jeluso** · March 2nd, 02:51 PM

really, 50 threads...who woulda thought.....
i bet, cause, alot of ppl like to talk about it...and this is a message board...so....yeah, thats it

***enalsisiht*** · March 2nd, 04:05 PM

yeah im gonna wanna keep paintball undeground because a lot of kids at my skewl are posers for surfing and skatboarding cuz certain people do that. i like how it is only me and my frend that paintball.

***Barber*** · March 2nd, 04:20 PM

Again, since the X-Games and Olympics do not have hefty cash prizes, paintball will never be in either of them.

**Dudeus** · March 2nd, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Barber

Again, since the X-Games and Olympics do not have hefty cash prizes, paintball will never be in either of them.

but is the olympics not more for honor and glory rights? and it would be great for sponsers, so they would pay you more, so you get more. eh?

***Barber*** · March 2nd, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by dudeus000

but is the olympics not more for honor and glory rights? and it would be great for sponsers, so they would pay you more, so you get more. eh?

Hah, when you're making 45k a year, you need any money you can get. Why spend 2 grand staying 2 weeks in some crappy city no one has ever heard of for some pieces of metal? I'm sure they'd rather just stay here and win 40,000 every other month.

**PizzaMiLiTiA** · March 2nd, 08:30 PM

I personally don't want to see the sport go mainstream. It's already too popular as it is. I used to be literally the only person in a school of over 1400 people to play paintball. Since then, the sport has grown considerably, equipment has become more readily available *Cough*walmart*Cough*, and now all these new, self-proclaimed "paintball gods" at my school talk about is how they freeze their paintballs, and when they turn their spyder up all the way, it goes through their neighbors' lawn furniture.

As stated previously, if we get a larger influx of newcomers to the sport, we're going to see problems like this become worse and more widespread. Eventually, paintball will become something of a public nuisance, and the elderly will petition to have it banned in heavily populated areas, due to the misuse of paintball guns by a small percentage of the people who own paintball guns. And this kind of blanket punishment will be supported by the rising numbers of idiots who refuse to play with a mask and are being blinded by paintballing accidents.

In short, More publicity = more players = more idiots = decline of paintball.

**CrazyAzian** · March 2nd, 09:15 PM

As I stated in an earlier thread, cheating could be a major factor in getting paintball into either. None of the worlds most advanced leagues have a viable system for finding those who cheat, besides what a ref saw or thinks he saw. I'm sure the Olympic committee could put more security over it, like handing out pre-programmed "tamper-proof" boards, but who can totally eliminate wiping unless there are 3 refs to person?

**PizzaMiLiTiA** · March 2nd, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by CrazyAzian

As I stated in an earlier thread, cheating could be a major factor in getting paintball into either. None of the worlds most advanced leagues have a viable system for finding those who cheat, besides what a ref saw or thinks he saw. I'm sure the Olympic committee could put more security over it, like handing out pre-programmed "tamper-proof" boards, but who can totally eliminate wiping unless there are 3 refs to person?

The Olympic Committe would probably standardize the gun, similar to the way that they standardize rifles for competitive shooting, boats for sailing, paddles for ping-pong (

), so on and so forth.

And the cheating problem could be helped if there was one camera on each player, or two cameras at every bunker or something.

**jeluso** · March 2nd, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Barber

Hah, when you're making 45k a year, you need any money you can get. Why spend 2 grand staying 2 weeks in some crappy city no one has ever heard of for some pieces of metal? I'm sure they'd rather just stay here and win 40,000 every other month.

when(and i mean when) pb IS an olympic sport, the medal teams will make WAY more than any turny can produce here.
bodie miller(although he was a flop) and many other US olympians will make millions through companies using them for commercials and such...so one day, IMO pb will be an olympic sport, and if a US team takes gold, which i would imagine would be very possible, some of, if not all of the team will make alot of money through marketing themselves..

**bobide** · March 2nd, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by CrazyAzian

As I stated in an earlier thread, cheating could be a major factor in getting paintball into either. None of the worlds most advanced leagues have a viable system for finding those who cheat, besides what a ref saw or thinks he saw. I'm sure the Olympic committee could put more security over it, like handing out pre-programmed "tamper-proof" boards, but who can totally eliminate wiping unless there are 3 refs to person?

i agree. We still need time to raise our standards among the players. Most of the pros do not do the cheating. Unless they know they can pull it off. We need some time to get to a point where the sport and it's tournament scene are a little more mature.

***theCOWgoesMOO*** · March 2nd, 09:53 PM

i know ppl who talk about freezing there paint and im like ur retarted it may hurt a little more but the chances of ur balls breaking are way less

***SharpShooter76*** · March 2nd, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by theCOWgoesMOO

i know ppl who talk about freezing there paint and im like ur retarted it may hurt a little more but the chances of ur balls breaking are way less

Yeah i kno ppl like that too, they are retarded. They think they are being tough cuz they do that ,and they dont know what they are doing

**paintballer1134** · March 2nd, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Barber

Again, since the X-Games and Olympics do not have hefty cash prizes, paintball will never be in either of them.

Actually I read that you get like $25,000 if you win a gold medal from the United States Olympic Committee. So I guess there is some money behind it.

***ToyMachine*** · March 3rd, 12:23 AM

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Actually I read that you get like $25,000 if you win a gold medal from the United States Olympic Committee. So I guess there is some money behind it.

Not to mention a gazillion endorsements and hype and advertisements you'll profit off of. And even if you don't (which you will), you can go make a school for whatever sport you won and you can be a top-of-the-line coach and become richer than god. One way or another, an olympic gold medalist is going to become filthy rich.

Anyway, idk, xgames would be cool, but I myself sort of miss the days when paintballing was a somewhat little-known sport...I'm not talking about the very beginning when it was people with homemade guns in their backyard, but just in the past few years it seems like the birthday party and church group traffic at paintball fields has increased exponentially. I don't know what it is but for some reason I miss the days when people would be fascinated if you had a paintball gun at all, even if it was just some $40 POS. Nowadays it seems like everyone at my school has one, although very few of them have been more than 2 or 3 times in their life.
So now when you say to someone "I paintball" it's meaningless; you're just one of thousands. It used to be a unique thing. I don't know that's not why I play at all but I still miss the gratification from having people ask stuff like "So do you load the gun one bullet at a time?", "How bad does it hurt?", and "Do you have NOS on your gun?"

Olympics...not going to happen, sorry guys.
Xgames would be really cool to watch though...I'm just sort of afraid of the added publicity don't ask me why it's just like a gut feeling I can't get rid of.

PizzaMiLiTiA, I totally feel you and agree with you.
It seems lying is a big thing for these self-proclaimed gods as well, because when I ask them if they want to buy something from me (hey, I've got to make money. I have more paintball **** than I know what to do with) they always wind up in these elaborate stories of how they walked their Spyder 19bps and owned the guy with the Angel (that's the only high-end brand name they're familiar with; talk about a Timmy or a DM or something and you've lost them). How they knew their spyder was going exactly 19bps, they don't know. How they walked their spyder 19bps when it's capped at 14, they don't know. What kind of angel the other guy had, they don't know-- in fact they don't know anything about the markers really, they usually tend to judge them by whether or not they are shooting "Nos" or "Nitrous Oxide".
I actually had one such kid tell me about how he had to spend $40 (probably a made-up figure there) to get his Electra fixed. When I asked what had been wrong with it he described to me, without knowing it, a chop. This from the same guy who named random parts like an E-10 Z-Bolt or some horse **** like that and said he decked out his gun with them, AND who claimed that his electra owns my DM5 because he "Got nitrous for it". I barely resisted the urge to pop this kid in the face for being such a blatant liar/douchebag.

Sorry, little rant there. Seriously, these kiddies are pissing me off though and I had to get it out

***CarnageCAB*** · March 3rd, 10:32 AM

I like the way it is underground now...if paintball were to get into the olympics or x-games that would be awesome...but, then like everyone might start wanting to play and the local fields we play at will be soon filled with a bunch of noobs that think they are pro cuz they watched it on x-games or olympics

**CrazyAzian** · March 3rd, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by PizzaMiLiTiA

And the cheating problem could be helped if there was one camera on each player, or two cameras at every bunker or something.

That is a good idea. The olympics has a great number of cameras (20% of them must be located on the luge chute) so theres a good chance that that would be possible.

***jimbow*** · March 4th, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by jeluso

dbl post, cry about it

heres a better explanation of wtf i am talking about
the yellow part is the part in which we are referring, so i can see you you think when supply is up, demand is not down, where the two curves cross is the equilibreum point (spelling is way off), however, with pb being in the olympics, supply will go up, and eventually the sport will not grow as rapidlly, meaning demand would go down....

and if you disagree, every supply and demand graph EVER goes like this, so think before you post :P

Actually, this wouldn't be the same situation as every supply and demand chart you're referring to. It would be a mass exposure. Companies don't just randomly increase production - they take surveys, do research, etc. Companies aren't going to triple production because they think that maybe some more people might start to play. That would be far too risky.

Just because there are products in stores on shelves doesn't mean that a company is making too much of a product. It just means that the store's manager is doing his job and making sure that the store has all of its products in stock.

If demand goes up, supply will go up accordingly. Manufacturers aren't going to think, "Oh look! 100 people bought guns, so we better make 12,000 extra just in case! As soon as the demand goes down, companies will stop production for a time until all the backstock is reduced, and then start regular production again. They won't drop the price $100.

Think before you post. Go ask your mom if you don't believe me.