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Paintball
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On any given weekend, you can find a group of friends shooting each other and they call it a sport. They shoot each other with using semiautomatic markers that expel .68 caliber gelatine based rounded balls. This is the sport of paintball. “There is no greater rush than running to your bunker and making it in with a stream of paint balls whipping past your head at about 200 mph, then it’s your turn to shoot back,” says Timothy a local tournament paintball player. Chris L also plays locally. L is the captain of the UNO Paintball club, just one of over 160 college paintball teams currently registered with the National Collegiate Paintball Association (NCPA). The NCPA is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization created by college players to promote paintball at the interscholastic level. The NCPA holds several events which leads up to the Collegiate World Cup which determines the national champion of college paintball. This year’s final events will be held at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex on October 24. Last year, LSU took home 3rd place. L hopes the UNO team will be able to play at next year’s Collegiate World Cup as successfully as the LSU team played last year. Paintball is a colorful form of a capture-the-flag game, like Stratigo. Players on one side of a field attempt to eliminate the players on the opposing side of the field by shooting them with brightly colored paint. The “paint” is not really paint. The paintball is actually a gelatin based capsule (made from the same stuff used in Jell-O) that contains vegetable oil and food coloring.
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