Research: How to make pb mainstream?

[FreakBaller12]

So I'm doing a research assignment project and I need to look at all the alternative ways to make paintball a similar sport

I'm currently exploring non-paintball sponsorships and don't know where to go from there.
What I need from AO:
personal opinions about to/not to make paintball main stream, how?
Any links to current non paintball sponsorships and professional teams
Thanks guys.

[trevorjk]

ways to make it mainstream.

get rid of cheating
get rid of over shooting
and make new players realize that when your hit, and your gun is up. no one will shoot you. so get off the field so regulars dont get mad

[FreakBaller12]

ways to make it mainstream.

get rid of cheating
get rid of over shooting
and make new players realize that when your hit, and your gun is up. no one will shoot you. so get off the field so regulars dont get mad

my only arguement to cheating is a pbstar interview Dave pegleg price says that there is not nearly as much cheating at the professional level as there is in the lower levels. I can't argue with you because I feel the same way, but I can't argue somebody who's been there

[Ruler_Mark]

get rid of electros. use softer balls

[FreakBaller12]

get rid of electros. use softer balls

there is no way the industry will backdown from making electros. No player will lay down their electronic gun, the only hopes IMO is to create a cap, similar to what psp is doing.
The sport has become to large because of electros to be taken away.

[orrangexiii]

Start a local/state/regional/national league. Somewhat like Little League baseball. You would need to attract the youth of the nation and get parents involved. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we need to look at other 'mainstream' sports and copy their system, which would mean starting young. Organization and uniformed rules and regulations(nation wide),as well as enforcing them, would be key.

just my $.02

[FreakBaller12]

Start a local/state/regional/national league. Somewhat like Little League baseball. You would need to attract the youth of the nation and get parents involved. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we need to look at other 'mainstream' sports and copy their system, which would mean starting young. Organization and uniformed rules and regulations(nation wide),as well as enforcing them, would be key.

just my $.02

so you're saying that with the NXL and the city sponsored teams is on the right track including a farm system similar to the NHL/AHL or MLB /AAA/AA/A system?

do you mind if I quote you in my paper? If you would like you can disclose you're real name or I can use you're s/n

[ajnin]

The next obivous step would be to get the sport into schools. Just like the "little league" idea, if our children are doing it as a organized sport parents will pay attention and attend games.

[DanMan]

It will never become "mainstream"as long as paint is $40-60. Seriously, the group that pb is most appealing to is high school and college guys. The very people who cant really afford the paint on a regular basis.

[Hilltop Customs]

ehhhh, paint prices wouldnt matter nearly as much if everyone wasnt dumping paint through electros. I agree paint prices limit the sport, but thats only because for an inexperienced player to have a chance, they have to have equal firepower.

Dumping paint through a marker is fun, but its simply not affordable for many people.

[snoopay700]

and make new players realize that when your hit, and your gun is up. no one will shoot you. so get off the field so regulars dont get mad

Apparently the guys at the big game didn't get that memo, or at least that's the way it seemed when i got out.

[d4m4don3]

there is no way the industry will backdown from making electros. No player will lay down their electronic gun, the only hopes IMO is to create a cap, similar to what psp is doing.
The sport has become to large because of electros to be taken away.

gee then i guess southern california is different? a lot of regulars have been dropping their semi's for pumps especially when they play on the recball fields

[FreakBaller12]

gee then i guess southern california is different? a lot of regulars have been dropping their semi's for pumps especially when they play on the recball fields

Sorry that wasn't my intention. I didn't mean "no player" I meant no professional player. I'm only concentrating the bulk of my research on the NXL, PSP, and NPPL to get paintball mainstream. I agree that many players are turning back to use pumps and mech guns. However, I feel the only way paintball will become mainstream is through professional leagues such as the NXL. I do agree that not everybody has to play the "professional" style of game. Similar to playing professional baseball or playing stickball or baseball with tennis balls or something similar. Players playing the game, regardless of what game variant, can only help the sport in my opinion.

[Hilltop Customs]

high rate of fire and affordability are mutually exclusive....lower the rate of fire and you might have a chance, but you still have to deal with the fact that its a game about shooting people.

Only way to have a mainstream league that is accessible to a wide range of people is to dramatically drop the rate of fire(or cost of paint but good luck with that). @ 15bps and $60 a case your spending about 50cents a second....people would rather buy lunch than fire a paintball gun for 10 seconds.

[SCpoloRicker]

Something about this topic sounds familiar...

/look, it's 1996
//er, it's 1998
///wait, it's 2002
etc.