Shooting Yourself Bankrupt

68 Caliber has a great article about the trickle-down effects of teams playing with basically an unlimited supply of paint. The basic premise is that sponsored teams will shoot as much as they want, which leads to non-sponsored teams spending more on paintballs and then rec and woodsball players slowly following suit, resulting in too many people shooting too much paint which will eventually leave them without enough money to play paintball at all.

I'm not sure that sponsored teams are the root cause of too many people shooting more than they can afford and ending their seasons early, but I definitely know it's a problem. I know of many players who shot themselves out of paintball because they thought they had to shoot a case or two a day to compete.

I'm not convinced that limiting paintballs in tournaments is the solution to keeping people from bankrupting themselves out of the sport, but it definitely could help. The cost of shooting countless paintballs is a big problem for many that play paintball and 68Caliber.com does a great job of bringing out some of the issues.

I highly recommend you read the whole article and share any thoughts you have.