PaintBall Playing locations

A typical speedball field, consisting of inflatable paintball bunkers, often used for tournaments.

Most players prefer to go to commercial paintball parks, which charge for admission.^{[citation needed]} These paintball parks usually feature different themed fields (e.g. woods, jungle, city, or historical battlefield), as well as a complex of speedball fields made up of inflatable paintball bunkers for speedball and tournament teams. Some commercial fields are indoors, allowing players to play when it is too hot, too wet, or too dark outside. Commercial fields also (but not always) provide such amenities as bathrooms, picnic areas, lockers, equipment rentals, air refills, and even food service. These fields adhere to specific safety and insurance standards and have a paid staff, including referees, whose job is to make sure players are instructed in proper play in a manner that ensures all participants' safety. In order to avoid liability, commercial fields strictly monitor paintball velocity with chronographs.

Players that find commercial fields to be too expensive or too crowded sometimes play on private land, often referred to as "renegade" play or "outlaw ball". Though less expensive and less structured than play at a commercial facility, the lack of safety protocols, instruction, and oversight means that the vast majority of injuries incurred by paintball players occur in these "renegade" games. Private landowners may also be liable for injuries sustained on their property, especially if they opt to charge fees for play.

Major scenario and tournament events may sometimes occur at other locations like fairgrounds, military bases, or stadiums, essentially turning them into temporary paintball parks. The same trained staff and insurance found at permanent commercial paintball parks can be found at these events.

A recently occurring trend in paintball is that of a mobile field, where a business primarily provides paintballs and paintball related services on land that they are using only temporarily. This is often done for the means of scenario gaming, to provide different tracts of land for players to play on.

From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paintball#Professional_play

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Paintball

Speedball players breaking out at the start of a game
Highest governing body	List of paintball leagues
First played	June 27, 1980, Henniker, New Hampshire
Characteristics
Contact	No physical contact between players
Team members	Varies, depending on game format. 3, 5, 7-man teams common in tournaments
Category	Extreme; Indoor or Outdoor
Ball	Paintball

A woodsball player firing at opponents from behind cover. Note the stock and sights for woodsball style play.

Paintball is a sport^[1][2][3] in which players eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint (referred to as a "paintball"), usually shot from a carbon dioxide or compressed-gas (HPA or Nitrogen) powered paintball gun (or marker).

The Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association estimates that over 5.4 million people played the game in the United States in 2007, with over 1.5 million playing at least 15 times.

Games can be played either indoors or outdoors and take various forms which are generally divided between woodsball played in natural, wooded terrain and speedball played on open, level fields with artificial obstacles.

Rules for playing paintball vary widely. The most common form involves two opposing teams seeking to capture their opponent's flag and return it to their starting position, but other objectives may include eliminating all of the other team's players or to completing some other objective, such as eliminating a specific player, defending or attacking a particular objective, or capturing objects of interest hidden in the playing area. Depending on the style of paintball played, a game can last from seconds to hours.