IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Due to ongoing construction and limited space currently at the Sniperz field in Chilliwack, BCWPPL Event 2 - "Mayhem"  on May 16th will be moved to Panther's field for this year, we look forward to returning to Sniperz excellent upgraded facility in the near future.

now back to our regularly scheduled words:

Paintball has evolved in British Columbia over the past 20+ years, from the early days of Nel Spot 007 pistols, 12 gram Co2 cartridges, and oil based paintballs, to the fast cycling, compressed air machines we have today firing a wide variety of water soluble paintballs at incredible rates only dreamed of in the early days.

Over the years many people in the industry have fought a long hard battle to get the sport of Paintball accepted by the general public, by working diligently to get across the message that paintball players, where not in fact a bunch of paramilitary weirdo terrorists, hiding out in the woods training for the day the "big one" would drop and we would all have to live of the nuts and berries we where squirreling away.  

Speedball is now the "tournament norm" and some of that hard fought battle is now allowing players the freedom to play "Army/ Miltary based Scenario Games" in a world now accepting of paintball as a sport played by both sexes and all ages.  But that is not true to the beginnings of the sport, Paintball even in its first games was about being a game, not based on anything military, or "television friendly" paintball, or "The Survival Game" as it was originally called, was about sneaking through the woods, capturing your opponents flag and returning it to your base.

Many people today have no real knowledge of paintball in British Columbia prior to the start of the new millennium, those that do, although embracing today's style of play, also yearn for the fun simpler days of British Columbia's early paintball days.  Woodsball Tournaments of Capture the Flag, Attack and Defend, Annihilation etc. the days when firepower meant you shot more than 100 paintballs in a game and not in just 5 seconds, when fields where not exact inflatable mirror images, tournaments when you heard "snake" it was an actual  snake in your bunker.

The BCWPPL is an idea who's time has come.  As with many things in this day and age the "arms race" to be bigger, faster, better, more streamlined, etc, always ends up with people saying; "where did the fun go, why did I first get involved with this sport,? why I remember when......" 

Be it a player who discovered Paintball years ago or even a new player who was dragged out to play by their buddies.  Most started by playing simple Woodsball at a local field. Fogging their goggles, shooting someone on their own team, and panicking when they heard those first splats hit their tree or bunker. It was an exhilarating experience, usually accompanied by exaggerated stories in the neutral zone afterwards.

Then as you began playing week after week, your level of play advanced, and you decided to purchase your own equipment, then you started playing with regular players, and eventually you found a group who either played Speedball, or Woodsball on a semi regular basis, including "Big" Games and Scenarios and the adrenaline drug called Paintball had taken you over.
Well all that is coming into a new era in British Columbia, the BCWPPL is bringing back Woodsball Tournament play to people of all ages, levels of skill and equipment.