paintball is one of the best sports out there.
i played tourny for a couple of seasons. i finaly had to quit cause of the cost.
it would cost us around $500 each per tourney, plus whatever we had to spend on practice usualy $150+ per week. and that was with super cheap paint cause we all used to ref for the feild that sponsored us.
belive it or not, DH is actualy way cheaper.... try explaining that to riders.
a decent marker will cost you $2K plus, minimum, plus about that again in air system, hopper, gogs, harness, loaders, and all the rest of the shit.
if you do get to chance to see a tourny, you'll find that almost no-one wears cams anymore, and most of the games are on open "concept" fields. big open flat areas, with limited cover made out of pipes or barrels, and small barricades. game usualy lasts about 5-10 minutes each, and each player on a 5-man team will blow thru maybe a thouand rounds. totlay mad to play, and the biggest rush to play properly.
national paintball fields out at blacksoil used to do a great series evry 2 months where they would team up one pro, one am, and one novice per tem, and run 20-30 teams aginst each other. only the pro's could run their own markers, evry one else had to use feild markers, and you could only take on one hopper of paint. was great. cost you about $50 for the day, included lunch, and a stack of prizes and trophies for the top 5 teams. was really even as well. don't know if they still run it, but it was cool.
