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specialty
 “Gotcha!”
is a 1985 thriller in which students play an assassination game
on campus using paint guns. Anthony Edwards is the quintessential
juvenile college kid who happens to be a champ at paintball. This
skill serves him well when he goes behind the Iron Curtain during
school vacation. While in East Germany, he becomes entangled in
a real life intrigue in which he becomes romantically involved with
a female spy (Linda Fiorentino) who uses him as an unsuspecting
courier.
Though improbable and silly, the film served at the time to further
the growing popularity of the paintball game which today boasts
several organized associations including the National Collegiate
Paintball Association. The NCPA is a non-profit organization created
by college players to promote paintball at the interscholastic level.
Paintball has become so popular that even celebrities have gotten
into the game. Among celebrity paintball players are members from
the band, Linkin Park, B-Real, William Shatner, Drew Carey, Nathan
Jerrell and Josh Panek.
Most commercial games are held in paintball fields or parks that
are insured. A field or park may be a complex terrain with plenty
of places to hide. Some include abandoned buildings while others
may be a wooded area. These insured parks adhere to specific safety
rules and employ staff to make sure that all paintball players are
participating in the game properly and are adhering to safety rules.
Some players go it alone and play on private, unregulated land.
Because of the lack of regulated standards, the unsupervised paintball
situations suffer the vast number of reported injuries. Private
landowners may want to think twice before allowing paintball games
on their property since they could be held responsible for injuries
sustained on their land.
Current professional and semi-professional leagues, such as the
NXL (National X-Ball League), NPPL (National Professional Paintball
League), NCPA (National Collegiate Paintball Association), CFOA
(Carolina Field Owners Association) the NEPL (New England Paintball
League), and the SPPL (Scenario Paintball Players League), regularly
hold high-class, well-organized events. These, however, aren’t
the only leagues. Check out the Nordic Series and the Paintball
Association in the UK.
And for How to play paintball, equipment reviews,
paintball strategies, and more. For novice and advanced paint ball
players I suggest checking out - Paintball
Tips and Tricks
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