need some quick industry info...

[magc68]

what was the private company that ranked paintball 3rd most popular extreme sport?

finacailly how big is the sport of paintball?

how many millions of new players played last year?

about how many total players played last year, new and old?

how many teams attended HB NPPL S7 event?

how many non paintball players visited the HB complex?

[magc68]

ok... anyone?

[AGD]

what was the private company that ranked paintball 3rd most popular extreme sport?
* American Sports Data

finacailly how big is the sport of paintball?
*probably <500 million

how many millions of new players played last year?
about 6 million players total last year most new.

about how many total players played last year, new and old?


AGD
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[SHAZAM-AGD]

direct quote from John Amodea from www.pb2x.com

"Since SGMA International started tracking paintball participation in 1998, there has been a steady upward clim-5.923 million participats in 1998: 6.364 million participants in 1999: 7.121 million in 2000: and 7.678 in 2001. This equates to a 29.6% increase in overall participation from 1998 to 2001. the number of frequent (fifeteen-plus days per year) participants also increased from 793,000 in 1998 to 1.414 million in 2001- a 78% increase"

as far as hunginton beach goes call chuck or wdp or check out some web sites that where there as we were not this year

shoot ya later...c-ya!!!

[magc68]

thank you so much.

[kenshinkandon]

There was also a warpig artical about the paintball industry the SGMA website has alot of the info your asking about.

here is a link to the warpig artical

http://www.warpig.com/paintball/articles/news/080302_SGMApb3.shtml

[BradPalooza]

take a look at www.paintball.about.com

If you poke around, you can find statistics. They had players at 11.5 million.
-Brad