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    Posted: 22 August 2004 at 7:03pm
Do any of you think if would be cool if they had paintball in it. I mean they have ping pong and baddmitton and trampoline.... Like a standard speedball eliminations series.
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I think it'll be cool, but it wouldnt work out.
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It's been suggested, and usually it ends up in a debate whether we want more recognition, meaning more n00b idiots that joined the sport for all the wrong reasons, or if we want to keep it how it is.
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Maybe, but its not very spectator friendly...theres too much stuff going on at once

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It would probably end up being the most expensive event in the Olympics and that could be a problem but then theres another problem on who they should choose for the team members.
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It wouldnt work, heres why:

  1. It requires the approval of some 200 (I think) nations to become an olympic event.  Probably no more than 10 nation are active in paintball.
  2. There are no international rules for it.  Countries play it differntly then others.
  3. There are 3 types of paintball, which would be in the olympics?  If you say woodsball, how are they going to ref it?  If you say speedball, how will they standerdize the guns so play is fair and requires fast thinking rather than a fast finger?  And scenario(sp) play wouldnt work.

The only possible way it would work is if it was stock play.  That way each player has the same amount of ammo, and the setup of the guns would be more uniform, but still, it would need approval and new rules.  It wont happen anytime soon.


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Well, I hope so, and it wouldn't be anything greater to overcome than other sports being added.  I mean,  god, they have at least 20 different swimming events with more planned in the next olympics.  It's not like they'd have trouble finding room or players.

The only drawback I can see is that I don't know how many other countries could be represented.
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Yeah you have a point it sorta would be quite fair... And there probably isnt a lot of countries out there that participate.
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Originally posted by Dan db09 Dan db09 wrote:

Do any of you think if would be cool if they had paintball in it. I mean they have ping pong and baddmitton and trampoline.... Like a standard speedball eliminations series.



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well it would be an airball setup maeks most sense for me if it was xball and they'd pick teams justl ike basketball and to those who say hte gun issue isn't fair since when has that ever been a problem for a tourney before  and their are more than ten countries that play pball even iran has an indoor field
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I thought about it the other day, and I came to the conclusion that paintball would be an X Games sport.
   
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Originally posted by SeaWolf SeaWolf wrote:

I thought about it the other day, and I came to the conclusion that paintball would be an X Games sport.
yea i was thinking about htat too
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Originally posted by Dan db09 Dan db09 wrote:

Do any of you think if would be cool if they had paintball in it. I mean they have ping pong and baddmitton and trampoline.... Like a standard speedball eliminations series.
lets not forget, hand ball.
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Originally posted by PaintballWizard PaintballWizard wrote:

Originally posted by Dan db09 Dan db09 wrote:

Do any of you think if would be cool if they had paintball in it. I mean they have ping pong and baddmitton and trampoline.... Like a standard speedball eliminations series.



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Originally posted by tyranny tyranny wrote:

Originally posted by SeaWolf SeaWolf wrote:

I thought about it the other day, and I came to the conclusion that paintball would be an X Games sport.
yea i was thinking about htat too

It would be awesome for paintball to become an Olympic sport, but the drawbacks have already been discussed...

I think paintball has a much better chance of getting into the X-Games than anything else. It would have to be X-Ball or some other form of speedball where people could watch it. But paintball would probably fit in perfectly with the X-Games.
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If CURLING can be an Olympic sport, than anything can...

Unfortunately, as people have said before, it probably wno't happen for the same reason it's not a largely televised sport: it's too hard to follow all the action at once. From a distance, all you see are people kneeling down, occasionally moving, and maybe some gas plumes.
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Originally posted by ECrognale ECrognale wrote:

If CURLING can be an Olympic sport, than anything can...

Unfortunately, as people have said before, it probably wno't happen for the same reason it's not a largely televised sport: it's too hard to follow all the action at once. From a distance, all you see are people kneeling down, occasionally moving, and maybe some gas plumes.
curling is in the winter olympics...different subject.
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Originally posted by cadet_sergeant cadet_sergeant wrote:

Originally posted by Dan db09 Dan db09 wrote:

Do any of you think if would be cool if they had paintball in it. I mean they have ping pong and baddmitton and trampoline.... Like a standard speedball eliminations series.
lets not forget, hand ball.

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