Good thinks I see happening that show paintball is maturing:
Some players are standing together as teams and developing team
styles, and grouping to rehearse these styles. Examples are :
Scenario paintball teams attending tournaments for recognition
and fun - and not for money - and the explosion of popularity of
scenario paintball.
Speedball teams grouping at tournaments and playing for cash &
prices.
Stock Class players grouping at tournaments and playing for cash
& prices -- www.stockclasspaintball.org --
Some organizations forming to help celebrate a style or ethos and
to help educate and network its practitioners
examples:
 The
Limited Paintball Players Club -- forum
-- website
-- "The LPPC is an informal club of people who subscribe to
the basic principles of using limited amounts of paint while
playing paintball. The LPPC is not about what kind of marker
you use. It is about how you use that marker. Members can use stock
class, pump, mechanical, or electronic markers. They can use any
type of ball feeding they choose, from stock class, gravity feed,
agitation feed, and even force feed. Again, it is not about how
the balls get into the marker, but how you choose to make them leave
it. The LPPC is about sportsmanship and knowing the game is more
than about how much paint you send through the air. The LPPC does
not look down on players who DO throw a lot of paint, but we choose
not to as a rule. LPPC members use what they need to get the job
done and not one ball more. LPPC members believe you shoot paint
because you have to, not because you have it."
The Scenario Brotherhood -- website
-- "Our mission is to provide a nationwide fraternal organization
of scenario paintball players, dedicated to fostering and
sharing devotion to the sport as a game played with heart, will,
honor and integrity, in the spirit of a true brotherhood, based
on mutual respect and friendship."
 The
code:
As a member of the Scenario Brotherhood my fundamental duty is to
support scenario paintball and the Brotherhood through ethical,
professional and legal play. I am to exceed all others in my playing
ethics and generosity.
I will foster new and younger players to help them mature and grow
into players that are worthy of the Brotherhood. I will support
other members of the Brotherhood with their scenario endeavors and
efforts.
I will be exemplary in obeying the rules of the game. I will never
act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, animosities
or friendships to influence any decision I make.
I recognize that my membership in the Scenario Brotherhood is a
symbol of everything that is right in scenario paintball and I am
to constantly strive for those standards.
These high standards are to be maintained on and off the field
in everything I do. I must keep these standards in order to protect
scenario paintball, the Brotherhood, our sponsors, our leadership,
and to insure that the Brotherhood remains a part of scenario paintball
through the future.
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