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Brass Eagle Paintball Manufacturing Plant to Close With less-than-spectacular news to start the new year, a Brass Eagle paintball plant in Southwest Missouri will close in mid-February. The Chicago Tribune reports that 60 people will lose their jobs as the 25,000 square foot facility closes. While it's not confirmed, the closing of this plant could also mark the end of the ubiquitous low-end Monster Balls which will raise the price to play for the super-discount crowd.Hopefully the laid-off workers will find new employment and no other paintball manufacturers suffer the same fate.Brass Eagle Paintball Manufacturing Plant to Close originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Monday, January 4th, 2010 at 14:25:25.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Paintball in 2020 Where will paintball be in a decade? It's never easy to predict the future, but that doesn't mean we can't try.My first thought is that paintball, for the most part, will be a lot like it is today. During the first two decades of paintball's existence (the 1980s and '90s) there were substantial changes in the equipment, the playing style, the manufacturers and the mentality of what the sport was supposed to be. In the past decade, though, the game really hasn't developed that much. Sure, the equipment has improved and the cost of electros and paintballs has dropped, but the basic paintball experience is much what it was ten years ago.I imagine that the lines between committed speedballers and woodsballers will be just as pronounced as they are today and I seriously doubt there will be any sort of coming-together between the two sides in terms of a common format to play. People will still be drawn to one form or the other and, for the most part, stick with that style of play.I'd like to hope that more people will play the game in general, but I'm not convinced that will be the case. It seems that for every new paintball player, an older player quits playing. I expect there to be a larger percentage of people who will have played paintball, but not more that are currently playing.I do have one, slightly odd prediction. I bet that within a decade there will be a paintball gun that doesn't require a compressed air or CO2 tank (or even a propane tank). Whether it shoots by having a built-in, battery-powered compressor (something rumored to be in the works a few years ago) or being powered by springs or by pumping I won't speculate on, but I bet something will come out. I doubt anything like that will become mainstream, but it will give some variety to the sport.I really don't know what's going to happen and my speculations surely reflect that. My general theory that it won't change might be based more on a hope that it won't rather than a true belief. There's always the possibility that government regulations will hit the sport hard or that manufacturers simply go out of business, or a new variation of the sport will become hugely popular, but I really hope it stays how it's been during this past decade. For all of its ups and downs, paintball is still about the best way to spend a summer morning with friends.Paintball in 2020 originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 20:23:26.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
Semis and CO2 There's something familiar about playing paintball with just a good old Tippmann, Spyder or similar-type gun with a CO2 tank. It probably has something to do with the way I was introduced to the game, but there's something so comforting about just screwing on a tank and pulling the trigger. Playing with dwell times and tuning output pressures and getting after-market boards can be fun, but it also can take away from the pure enjoyment of the sport of paintball.One thing I've come to realize is that a competition with the "best" guns doesn't mean the game is any more fun to play. The games I enjoy the best are when everybody is shooting a comparable gun. That way, when somebody does better, it's because that person won on their merits. I don't care if it's Egos and Angels, Tippmanns and Piranhas or plastic pumps, it's better when everybody is shooting comparable guns. But, when I play a game with semi-automatics, I find that I run more, spend less time behind bunkers and generally enjoy the game more. I like the basic blowbacks because they remind me of playing the game how I learned to play it.Semis and CO2 originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 12:32:53.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |