A Reason to Cheer !!!!!
By Jason “foolybear” Lineberger Over the past six years the paintball media landscape has shifted. Not long ago the average player could walk into his local bookstore or even grocery store and buy 200 pages of articles, photos, and ads for the latest gear. Players in the right markets could pick from half a dozen choices on the magazine rack. Paintballers whose tournament experience culminated at three man pick-up games on pallet-and-barrel local speedball fields could immerse themselves in the national tournament scene, the teams, the standouts, the game-winners. Fast forward to the present day when any paintballer with internet access can pull down massive amounts of high quality photos, video, and text from all corners of the Web. It’s a media-rich environment, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into a new positive for paintball. For every slick clip of paintball action, there are ten poorly-written posts, five long unedited practice videos and a coupl