Watching Paintball Sucks, and is BORING.

[LoveMyMagMoreThanYou]

LOL You goober... I'd have to talk to Cedar, I'm sure he'd be cool with setting up a saturday to go play.

The downside is that it's at Mount Vernon, a helluva drive, but damn well worth it. The x-ball field rocks, the paint is cheap, and the air station is tight.

I shalt talk to him sometime this week about that...

GREAT, it's 10min from my house!! AWESOME!!

BTW, to be on topic, I've been playing for a long time, somewhere around 10 years, and I still love this game. I find watching paintball to be somewhat confusing on tv because the cameramen can't possibly know where the action is going to be and I believe that a lot of tape is wasted to get the shots you see. I don't think that it will ever be successful as a live tv event but I did like the coverage of the World Cup by OLN.

[gc82000]

I guess it depends on the style of play. Like myself, I am a tourney player and I enjoy watching the vids except Derder's to much jumping and I thought they focused to much on the aspect of cheating and *****ing. The highlight of the vid was the guy who threw up at the end, and the girlie fight. That was funny.

[azza]

Personaly I think paintball will never be very attention grabing on tv. Theres just too much happening on the feild at one time for cameras to track properly.

Also these paintball vids that have all this great action footage, how much time went into actual editing before these were released publicly? Im guessing alot of time went into making the footage as dramatic as it is.

IMO to make paintball truely tv friendly as most popular sports, you would need almost a camera for each player on the feild! Not to mention high angle cams and ones im premium locals of the feild to catch the best action.

Plus there are too many flaws in the game (including xball) that need to be overcome before paintball can be truely presented properly on a large scale. But that is a differnt topic entirely.

Cheers
Azza