What kinda sport should pball be?

[HoppysMag]

heres the problem, i was playing... had he brought it up to a ref then that would be differant. i was playing and he starts going at me cause i shot him out, and he imagines i shot him again... he was being a bad loser.

[Rancid Milk]

Paintball is too fast paced to be a "gentleman's sport" I think, but I don't think that any sport should have offensive slogans, so I'll say middle ground

[oldsoldier]

Hoppy, glad to see you stayed.
I think that, ultimately, the sport will remain an "extreme" sport, and retain that edge. It is all the flashiness, the fact that it appeals to a (mostly) younger crowd...you have alot of extreme crossover (skateboard, BMX, motoX, etc). Because of this, you will always have generations that are willing to take it a little further. Hell, even Gen Xers now are seeming kinda tame!
Yeah, we could do without the cursing. Yeah, we could do without the intentional overshooting. Yeah, the cheating too. But, this is all indivdual choice; I mean, you ever see anyone get pulled for swearing? I havent. And probably never will. Pros in other sports swear too...you just cant hear them with 30,000 people there. Or when you are separated from them via a wall, glass partition, etc.
when I used to play hockey, we talked smack all the time. No one heard it except us. Doesnt mean it didnt happen.
The one thing I would like to see at events though would be for the teams to walk onto the field before a match, shake hands, then go to their stations. And do the same thing after. Kinda like lining up in hockey, football, etc. This is the one thing our sport really lacks. It is too bad.

[RAM3139]

I definetly agree with oldsoldier about the handshake thing. Paintball should keep its "extreme" edge, but have sportmanship too. Of course, since paintball is played in the real world and not utopia, i dont see this happening anytime soon without a lot of effort by a lot of players.

[Pvt.Opium]

I honestley think some people are really dumb when tagged. I mean Ref's can make some bad calls, but hey evreyone makes bad decision in one time or another. But if you called, just walk. I mean the only other alternative is to fight the reff about it, and the only thing that will do is make the reff even more mad. How many times have you fought the reff and won?

[DeFAuLt]

Originally posted by Remington
...the sport of paintball will never become mainstream.

yeah but do we really want that?