Santa's Paintball Naughty & Nice Lists!

Everyone probably knows what a “nice” paintball player looks like and how they act at the field. These are the boys and girls that Santa’s really going to be nice to when it’s time to come downstairs and look under the tree! A nice paintball player is polite, sportsmanlike and is always willing to help a new player learn the game! A nice paintball player doesn’t leave a trail of garbage like empty food wrappers, torn-open paintball bags and empty cardboard paint boxes all over the place at the paintball field – they pick up after themselves - and they probably don’t hesitate to lend a hand around the local field with everything from reffing games to blowing up bunkers if the need arises! Nice paintball players come out when they’re shot if the ball breaks and when they see a new player walking around without a barrel cover, taking their goggles off, or about to spill their paintballs all over the place, they come over to lend a friendly, polite piece of advice to keep them safe and having fun! Let’s face it – Santa loves a paintball player who makes their local paintball field a better place, and helps paintball grow! Not to put too fine a point on it, but we’re pretty sure nice paintball players shoot Valken Graffiti paintballs too.

Then there’s the dark side. The other side of the paintball coin. The paintball players certain to wind up with a lump of coal in their stocking, otherwise known around the holidays as “Naughty.” We all know a Naughty paintball player or two down at the local paintball field. They show up and try to creep in without paying their field fee and you’ll definitely never see them lending a hand inflating bunkers or otherwise helping their local, hard-working field owner make their place better for everyone. The naughty paintball players are the ones you can find standing ankle deep in garbage in their staging area and you won’t see them gathering up their empty paint boxes or bags to put them in the dumpster or trash can before they leave. On the field, the naughty ones are just as bad – they’ll get rid of a hit, and we don’t mean sliding into the corner maybe it broke maybe it didn’t. They never hesitate to overshoot and bonus-ball, and when it comes to beating up the newer players, they’re all for it. You know who you are: the naughty paintball players who yell, talk smack and curse around the birthday parties and parents and think you’re too cool to use a barrel cover. That time you got in an opponent’s face and dumped your hopper out after a point? Santa saw that. *player pictured at left is in-fact on the Nice list - he just did very naughty things to the other team that game