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Paintball

On any given weekend, you can find a group of friends shooting each other and they call it a sport. They shoot each other with using semiautomatic markers that expel .68 caliber gelatine based rounded balls. This is the sport of paintball.
“There is no greater rush than running to your bunker and making it in with a stream of paint balls whipping past your head at about 200 mph, then it’s your turn to shoot back,” says Timothy a local tournament paintball player. Chris L also plays locally. L is the captain of the UNO Paintball club, just one of over 160 college paintball teams currently registered with the National Collegiate Paintball Association (NCPA). The NCPA is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization created by college players to promote paintball at the interscholastic level. The NCPA holds several events which leads up to the Collegiate World Cup which determines the national champion of college paintball. This year’s final events will be held at Disney’s...

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