Paintball Epiphanies

[cockerpunk]

I agree, such a joke, and the true definition of insanity.

That's another epiphany I had at some point: the people running paintball at the top level are largely incompetent. Those who are competent probably move into a different industry that can pay them properly. I'm a marketing manager and I'm pretty sure nobody in PB could afford me. The fact Kore hired John Dresser as their marketing manager proved that to me. No offense to John, nice guy, but you don't hire someone with near zero actual marketing qualification or experience to run the biggest marketing role in the sport unless you either can't afford real talent or you just don't care. I think it's probably all of the above.

For paintball to work on TV (if it's even possible) the whole thing needs to be redesigned from first principles. No chance of that unless the incumbents are liquidated. If the powers that be were actually interested in growing the sport, leagues would be streamed for free on twitch and YT. The fact they've monetized the streams proves they've given up on the long term and are just extracting what they can short term.

people used to ask me why i never got into paintball as an engineer, and i was offered a position at a still large paintball company when i finished college ...

this is why. paintball as a business is nonsensical. there is no correlation between being a good engineer and making good products and success.

i do not regret the career choice to not become involved in paintball. when 22 year old me decides this is nonsense ... its really nonsense.

[vijil]

It's a real shame.

If paintball had been in good hands it could have done well. Maybe even as well as frisbee golf or pro unicycling. Alas, such glorious heights were not to be.

[cockerpunk]

eh, paintball isnt the only thing that is run by idiots. *waves hands around generally at the world*

it turns out trying to eek every dollar from every human transaction/interaction was a bad idea to base building the entire world and all its rules and interactions on. we built the world wrong, not just paintball lol.

[vijil]

Whether or not that's true, there's no need to get political to explain paintball. Plenty of sports handle their business vastly better, because for whatever reason they aren't run by cynics. Unicycling and disc golf are two examples.

It turns out nickel and diming your players for short term gains is just bad business in the mid to long.

[Daniel Tiger]

Paintball shouldn’t be taken more serious than a snowball fight or a game of tag…. I can’t be the a** yelling at people because things didn’t go my way

[glaman5266]

-It took me a long time to realize that Phantoms just aren't my thing. They have their place, but for me they suck. Pump stroke, how they point, pretty much everything. Only thing I like about them is how modular they are.

-This year I'm realizing that it's an awesome feeling not bringing so much to the field. I began pushing through that anxiety of not bringing all that stuff to the field and to not have to deal with it at the end of the day is an amazing feeling.

-I'm liking more of the simple things. Tippmanns, for example. I've owned plenty of cockers, spoolers, poppets and pumps, but a simple in-line blowback with some DIY mods is just a straight-up good time. Funny how we sometimes go back to where we started.

[glaman5266]

Myrkul It’s there… lol

https://www.mcarterbrown.com/forum/paintball-news-aa/the-armory/tippmann/583136-pro-carbine-trigger-job

[glaman5266]

iamthelazerviking It’s pretty much factory, but with a few DIY mods. It’s got my previously-mentioned trigger job, electric tape on the side of the breech under the foregrip (takes out wobble), internal polishing and Dye sticky grips. Shoots very well even with the stock barrel.

[Myrkul]

I don't know how I missed that.

THANK YOU!!!

[SETHZILLA!]

I hate centerfeeds on any paintgun, so much that I'm actively selling off any of them that I have to stay all right feed or left feed.

I always hated cheaters, but now play on a team and I realized if we don't place well in a tournament, it's because the other team cheats and not that they're actually better. (Most of the time)

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[The Jayster]

-I'm fairly adept at teching guns but I'll never master the art of properly timing a Cocker;
-With the average paint quality these days my $200 stock A-5 shoots as well as my $1,600 LV2;
-While we live in the Golden Age of affordable, reliable and well-performing equipment, I'd still trade it all to go back to 35 years ago when we were playing on those huge wood fields and everyone had a pump and 100 paintballs.