It's not winning, it's not losing, it's just the act of getting out there and playing. That's the important thing for these people. A moment ago I said that tournament players know how to tone down. Lifers do too, because they are also looking down the road at the big picture. Now their picture of the future and the tournament player picture of the future are different, but they have ideas of what Paintball will be in 10 years, and those ideas are generally positive.
Lifers are also a living record of what happened in Paintball.
It was pointed out to me that since the National Survival Game building burned down over 10 years ago that there's no official records of who won the NST championships in the 80s. It's only in living memory. Only in Paintball. Well, Ultimate Frisbee too, but that's another magazine. I include these guys as sort of wild card category.