A new variation of the Paintball gun war games is to have teams square off in a trick shooting competition. This has also evolved into a single person event. Individuals try to complete a set course shooting targets through a gauntlet style maze, collecting points for hits and misses deduct points. Watching the start of the program notice the different paintball gun parts on different paintball guns the contestants had. Hope some of the guns were not cheap kids paintball guns.
Late one night on an offbeat sports show, it seemed odd for them to be doing this; however, there was a lot of technical ability involved in the competition. The loading of weapons and assembly the paint ball gun with paintball gun parts commenced the whole sequence of a gauntlet run as well. Contestants moving fast as possible to the first target to gain points. This would not be the time to get out the book on how to build a paintball gun.
There were 30 soda cans and beer bottles sat on a fence. The contestants start with only 10 shots total, and must knock down as many items as possible. With shooting from a range of 50 yards, then 25, and finally 5 yards away. Each knocked over item counts as 1 point and a miss deducts a point. At each station, there is an additional 10 shots to reload. Seeing some paintball gun parts being jammed and not working properly. Could of brought my Diablo paintball guns and make a statement.
Other types of events included a small mock up building with pop up "bad guys" for the contestants to fire paintball at with the paintball guns. Not a good time to think about you should of target practice when bad guys shooting rounds of about 10 paintball per second at you.
There were also "civilians" in the building and the civilian’s sure not wearing armourtech paintball amour to protect themselves from these savage players, and if a contestant shot one, there were points deducted. Wonder if the points were taking away for shooting them once or when you open up on them with a sniper automatic rifle for paintball.
With a timed event, this event put pressure on the contestants to work harder. Most the contestants did great. Did see one shoot a civilian and couple come out with paint from head to toe. Bad guys must have got them.
This TV Program seemed like a soldier or police training program, but the $5000 cash prize told me that it was indeed real, and that tomorrow I should go get a new mod for my Bob Long intimidator ecx paintball gun. With the price of the new paintball gun parts and there had better be some competition nearby me soon.
One thing I did notice they player did wear goggles. No matter if a player is on the field or playing games with paintball guns on TV they need to wear goggles.
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