Regardless, they'll show up at regular fields to play, occasionally. Sometimes they're just buying a case to take home, but they will show up. As I said before when most people talk of rec-ball they can mean many things. It seems that anything from weekend ball to an MXS Scenario game is clumped into rec-ball. This seems like clumping Go-kart with IRL and calling it all car racing, in my mind.
Paintball has a very loud base of player.
As it should, tournaments have progressed Paintball as a far way from the days of old. That and a lack of a better name for it. Jerry Braun runs a rec-tourney in conjunction with his Long Island Big Game. It's a tournament, but the rules fit on an 8x10 notecard if you write them with a dull crayon. When I asked at Wargames about rec days, I was told that the rec day had people with their own equipment plowing the forests with paint, and it was a lot like a tournament.