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RateMyPaintball Seeks to Index the World’s Paintball Teams

May 24, 2012 | Interviews

Stephane Salema, co-founder of RateMyPaintball.com sits down with Social Paintball for his first exclusive interview. The website launched to the world last week. SocialPb: How are you feeling? Stephane: Pretty good, we really didn’t expect the site to grow this...

The Girls of Destiny are Back!

May 21, 2012 | Players & Teams

The last event Destiny played was the 2008 San Diego Super 7 NPPL event. Don’t know about Destiny? Powered in 2004 by Bea Youngs and Mike Paxson, this Division 2 team, Destiny, was founded as an all-female paintball team. As time progressed, it would soon turn into a...

NPPL’s Chuck Hendsch Interview on the Hot Seat

May 18, 2012 | Interviews

We sat down for an interview with Chuck Hendsch of the NPPL today at their Chicago Open being held in conjunction with Living Legends 5 at CPX Sports in Joliet, IL. We had some questions we wanted answered, the NPPL provided them. Questions: 1. What is the...

A New Model for a Paintball Community

May 4, 2012 | The Balls

There is a growing systemic problem in the paintball community which I feel needs to be addressed: the education and retention of new players. At the present moment too many players lack the fundamental skills of playing; necessary knowledge base to be truly competent...

How Video, Not Statistics, Will Change the Game of Paintball

May 3, 2012 | Analysis

Statistics. They are great, or at least have been so far, and we have all seen a myriad of articles on how they will “change the game.” But I am not so sure they are going to provide anything more than a deeper way of fan interaction and a way to document the game in...