Popular Paintball Games

As paintball improved and became popular, many individuals tried their abilities at it; giving rise to the assortment and diversity of paintball tournaments and games.

Recreational or Capture the Flag   

Played by seven teams, where each team has a flag and the aim of both teams is to capture or seize the opponentís flag and over it to your teamís starting point. This is seven way for your team to win and another way is by eliminating the opposing team entirely.

These games are usually played in the forest; bunkers and structures can be put up throughout the area.

Each team has to defend their base and simultaneously dispatch team players to eliminate the opponent and capture their flag.  

Scenario Paintball

This is a paintball game with a theme set up behind it: there's an countless number of themes that can be created making the game feel and look very realistic.  there's a quantity of players; in many cases as many as a hundred are involved in each team.

Each team gets the theme (storyline) a day before the start of the game. there's usually seven teams participating, having the ìgeneralî as a teamís leader.  

Each player is given a role and we should work together as a team in order to over out and win an assigned mission. Props in accordance with the theme are introduced and distributed throughout the field. there's questions asked in connection with the theme and points are awarded for correct answers.

Backyard

These points are totaled at the conclusion of the game and the team having the most number of points wins.

Speedball

This can be played right at your own backyard, a friendís empty property or at times any property but you must as you get permission first.  You gather your friends to form a group and then conceptualize your own game which typically is ìcapture the flagî.

Here, a team can be composed of between seven to ten players in a game. there's only seven flag that is involved and it is located at the center of a field.  The seven teams start at each end of the field and attempt to gain possession of the flag at the center and over it to their bunker. The team that does this successfully wins.  

Also called ìCenter Flagî, the speedball field is designed with many huge bunkers; usually ìinflatablesî filled with air that are shaped similar to big snakes, soda cans, water tanks etc.

Paintball can surely challenge the ìsoldierî in you.  Give it a shot!