The number of players on each team can vary from 4 or 5 up to as many as 500 on a side, limited only by the size of the playing field. The object of the game is go out and capture the other team's flag while protecting your own. While you are trying to capture a flag, you also try to eliminate opposing players by tagging them with a paintball expelled from a C02 or air-powered paintgun . Paintball game formats are limited only by a player's imagination.
Paintball is enjoyed by people from all professions and lifestyles.
It is a sport where men and women can compete equally, and where the age is not dominated by youth. Whether homemakers or high school students, professionals or retirees, most paintball players share a common love for adventure and competition. Paintball is played in over two dozen countries by millions of men and women of all ages and lifestyles . A paintball is a round, thin-skinned gelatin capsule with colored liquid inside it. Paintballs are very similar to large round vitamin capsules or bath oil beads.