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That's awesome. Were you NCPA? Funny enough - when I was entering High School around 2002, paintball was in the middle of a big growth phase, and as part of it
by AVTizzle 12y ago
That's awesome. Were you NCPA?
Funny enough - when I was entering High School around 2002, paintball was in the middle of a big growth phase, and as part of it, the NCPA seemed to have enough traction that there almost seemed to be a chance that players might start to have a hope to get college scholarships to play ball.
Definitely relate to you about the arms race. Though I enjoyed the tweaks to my Autococker including the Eclipse E-Frame, by the time I got out of the sport in '04 or '05, Intimidators and the DM series really took it to the limit.
Technically they were "semi-auto" but were walkable up to 14-15 shots per second and in the X-Ball style play, people were literally going through cases of 2000 in single matches.
Insane price ramp. Crazy to think it all happened within the span of a decade.
- chrisan 12y agoSadly no, NCPA wasn't around when I was playing. Looks like I _just_ missed it, though I'm not sure if my school was one of the original schools involved, so maybe I had no chance anyways. I hear you on the tinkering/tweaks, that was extremely satisfying.
- tonyb 12y agoIt is a small world. I was the president of The Ohio State paintball team for a few years. I also helped the NCPA with a website refresh back in the day. I would have never though that topic would come up on HN. I spent more money on paintball in college than I care to think about. I has one of the first "new" shockers. It was one of the first red ones, the serial number was below #50 if I remember correctly.
- AVTizzle 12y agoHah! I actually started playing paintball when I was in middle school in New Albany, Ohio. Did you ever play at the Splatterdome in Colombus by chance? I remember seeing a shocker there for my first time...