Paintball is a team game where players compete against each other using a kind of marker that throws paint capsules.
Paintball is usually played as a team in nature. Depending on a certain scenario, 2 team players try to eliminate each other by marking their opponents with paintball guns that shoot paintballs. These paintball balls contain food coloring and do not harm the environment. Paintball guns are used to deliver the ball a certain distance. In addition, masks should be used to protect the face.
How Did Paintball Come About?
While paintball is a popular indoor and outdoor sport played around the world, its history dates back to its beginning as a bet between two men trying to determine who is the more macho.
Hayes Noel, a stockbroker in the 1970s and
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He was intrigued when a friend of Gaines's showed him the Nelson Paint Company paintball gun. Loaded with small oil-painted balls designed for use by ranchers to mark trees and shelters that had been decided to be cut down by foresters, Gaines and Noel decided to test it in a mock duel. So they officially invented this game.
About the first Paintball Game
The two friends adapted the game of catching the flag, which they played in their childhood, to the sport of paintball. In this first game, it was the Capture the Flag" game, which is still played today as a paintball scenario, in which team members try to capture the opponent's flag without being hit by their opponents.
First team paintball game On June 27, 1981 in New Hampshire 12 Gaines' team won the game.
Later, Gaines and Noel obtained a license from the Nelson Paint Company to use this paintball gun for its current purpose and started a paintball company.
Today, paintball has become an industry with millions of dollars played as a sport; International paintball tournaments are actively organized and there are professional paintball leagues. (Source: Wikipedia)
