Section 10

The first game of paintball was played on June

27, 1981 between a group of 12 guys. They used shop glasses as protective equipment and small pistols that held at most, 10 rounds. This game was published in an issue of Sports Illustrated and

Paintball is a sport in which people play in teams or individually. The goal is to Eliminate the opponents by hitting them with balls filled with paint shot from a paintball marker, or gun. Games are played either indoor or outdoor depending on which type of game

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you are playing. Different game types include capture the flag, elimination, speedball, or woodsball. Each of these games can have many variations of play.

the sport began to take off. Between 1981-1983 rival manufacturers began to make competing products. Paintball technology gradually began to develop itself as manufacturers added new things to the guns all the time. They added front-mounted pumps to make recocking easier, started replacing the 12 gram cartridges with bigger ones. Later they developed gravity fed hoppers to hold the paintballs and load them automaticaly into the chamber. Semi-automatic guns eventually became available and began to dominate the sport. Today many differnt guns are available with the dominating companies of Spider and Tipmann.